Category: Events

24 articles in this category.

• 2026 memecoin winter The early 2026 contraction of the Solana meme coin economy, beginning with the February 1 market crash and marked by collapsing volumes, fees and graduation rates.
• Believe app wave The May 2025 boom in tokenized startups on the Believe launchpad, which branded itself the home of internet capital markets before revenue collapsed 94 percent from its peak.
• Celebrity coin wave The mid 2024 rush of celebrity branded Solana meme coins including JENNER and MOTHER, marked by allegations against promoter Sahil Arora and a landmark 2025 court ruling.
• creator rewards gold rush The September 2025 explosion of pump.fun livestream earnings, when $20 million in creator rewards was claimed in a single week, esports star BunnyFuFuu made $217,000 in two days, and teenagers leaked unreleased Drake songs for fees.
• Dogwifhat Sphere campaign The March 2024 community fundraise that collected about 700,000 dollars to put the dogwifhat meme on the Las Vegas Sphere, drove WIF to a record high, and never produced the ad.
• HAWK coin collapse The December 2024 launch and collapse of the HAWK meme coin fronted by viral personality Haliey Welch, followed by a securities class action and a closed SEC inquiry.
• LetsBonk flippening The July 2025 period in which the BONK community launchpad LetsBonk overtook pump.fun in Solana token launches, graduations and revenue, before pump.fun recovered dominance within weeks.
• LIBRA scandal A February 2025 political and financial scandal in which a meme coin promoted by Argentine President Javier Milei collapsed within hours, triggering criminal probes and lawsuits on two continents.
• Mayhem Mode launch pump.fun's November 12, 2025 release of Mayhem Mode, an opt in feature that set an AI agent loose to trade newly launched coins in their first 24 hours, a bid to revive activity as the trenches emptied.
• Moonshot TRUMP wave The January 2025 surge that carried the Moonshot trading app to the top of the US App Store as hundreds of thousands of first time users bought the TRUMP coin with Apple Pay.
• Official Trump coin launch The January 2025 launch of the TRUMP meme coin by then President elect Donald Trump, which set records across the Solana network before a prolonged collapse.
• PUMP buyback program The July 2025 launch of pump.fun's revenue funded PUMP token buybacks, which drove a brief all time high, absorbed hundreds of millions of dollars through 2026, and culminated in a $370 million burn without restoring the ICO price.
• PUMP token ICO The July 2025 initial coin offering in which pump.fun sold 600 million dollars of PUMP tokens in about 12 minutes, one of the largest ICOs in history, followed by a prolonged price decline.
• pump.fun 2024 growth records The record breaking growth of pump.fun during its 2024 launch year, from fewer than 1,500 coins in February to 3 million by late November, including the November 17 single day launch record of 45,465 tokens.
• pump.fun billion revenue milestone pump.fun's crossing of $1 billion in lifetime revenue in March 2026, the first application on Solana to reach the figure, celebrated by the platform and cited by critics as the bill for two years of trench extraction.
• pump.fun insider exploit The May 2024 flash loan attack on pump.fun by a former employee, who drained about 12,300 SOL from the platform's bonding curves and was arrested in London two days later.
• pump.fun January 2025 revenue record The late January 2025 peak of the meme coin supercycle on pump.fun, when the TRUMP launch weekend and the VINE coin drove a $15.38 million single day fee record and the platform's biggest month ever.
• pump.fun livestream incident wave The November 2024 wave of extreme and harmful broadcasts on pump.fun's livestream feature, including threats of self harm and violence tied to market cap targets, which forced the platform to suspend livestreaming.
• pump.fun X account hack The February 26, 2025 compromise of pump.fun's official X account, used to shill a fake PUMP governance token that hit a $5 million market cap before collapsing, part of a string of connected crypto account takeovers.
• pump.fun X ban wave The June 16, 2025 mass suspension by X of accounts belonging to pump.fun, cofounder Alon, GMGN, BullX, Bloom Trading and ElizaOS, weeks before pump.fun's planned billion dollar token sale.
• Quant kid incident A November 2024 episode in which a minor rugged his own tokens on a pump.fun livestream, prompting a retaliatory pump and the doxxing of his family.
• Solana congestion crisis The April 2024 period of severe Solana network congestion, driven largely by meme coin and bot activity, when about 75 percent of user transactions failed at the peak.
• Timeline of pump.fun A dated timeline of the most talked about moments in pump.fun history, from launch in January 2024 through 2026.
• YZY coin launch Kanye West's August 2025 Solana token, which hit a three billion dollar market cap within 40 minutes and crashed more than 70 percent within a day amid insider allegations.