💬 a1lon9 Quoted Pumpfun

One of Pump fun’s core design principles is simplicity. Pump fun initially set out to reduce all the needless complexity associated with launching and trading tokens onchain.

Why?

Reducing information asymmetries between market participants and lowering barriers to entry makes the game fairer and allows the market as a whole to grow.

As a result of this philosophy, we were able to grow the entire ecosystem by orders of magnitude.

This is why we’ve historically been very careful to make changes that make the user experience for the average retail user more complex.

In other words, there needs to be overwhelming evidence that such changes will have significant positive effects.

A few weeks ago, I laid out some of our thoughts on our ecosystem’s largest change of 2025: the introduction of creator fees. https://x.com/a1lon9/status/2009677442064024063

Today, we’re making the biggest change as part of this roadmap.

We’re highly confident this change will materially improve the incentives between the different kinds of users in our ecosystem, and ultimately lead to a more healthy and sustainable market.

Furthermore, this update represents an acknowledgement that there are two different kinds of tokens in our ecosystem: community tokens and project tokens.

They require different design considerations, incentives, and marketing. Accordingly, expect future updates to be more narrowly focused on either one of these use cases.

Like always, we will let this major update run its course through multiple market cycles to collect sufficient data so we can continue iterating in the right direction.

Your feedback is highly encouraged, myself & Pump fun affiliates are always open to hearing your insights!