Pump.fun Buys Back $6.68M PUMP in SOL Blitz – Bid for Solana Meme Leadership?
Main Idea
Pump.fun conducted a significant buyback of its native token PUMP to stabilize its price amid large holder sell-offs and declining trading volume, while also launching the Glass Full Foundation to support liquidity for projects on its platform.
Key Points
1. Pump.fun bought back $6.68 million worth of PUMP tokens in SOL, with $5.72 million moved to a Squads Vault, to defend against price declines.
2. Large holders and presale investors have been selling PUMP, with one wallet dumping 1.11 billion tokens for a $362,000 profit, and another selling 130 million PUMP at a loss.
3. Pump.fun's daily revenue has been used to buy back PUMP, with 8,740 SOL (102% of revenue) spent on buybacks over six days.
4. PUMP's price is up 1.6% in 24 hours and 25.9% over seven days, but remains down over 50% from its all-time high, with trading volume declining by 10.9%.
5. Pump.fun launched the Glass Full Foundation to provide liquidity support for projects, following a resurgence in platform activity where it outperformed competitor letsBONK.fun in trading volume and revenue.
Description
Pump.fun, the Solana memecoin launchpad, is under pressure as it scrambles to defend its native token, PUMP , from a steep decline. In a bid to stabilize its price, the team has been aggressively buying back tokens using SOL, with one of its largest buybacks to date looking to be recorded. On August 8, on-chain tracker Arkham reported that Pump.fun had sent 33,000 SOL to the wallet it uses for strategic buybacks. Worth $5.6 million in SOL, the launchpad is looking to buy approximately 1.77 billi...
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