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LetsBonk flippening

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LetsBonk flippening
LetsBonk flippening
Image: official site logo (letsbonk.fun)
dateJuly to September 2025
blockchainSolana
key partiesLetsBonk (BONK community, Raydium), pump.fun
peak LetsBonk shareabout 64 to 82 percent of launches (late July 2025)

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.

Contents
  1. 1 Background
  2. 2 The flippening
  3. 3 Reversal
  4. 4 Significance
  5. 5 References

The LetsBonk flippening was the period in mid 2025 when LetsBonk, a launchpad created by the BONK community with Raydium's LaunchLab infrastructure, overtook pump.fun as the leading venue for new Solana meme coin launches. For roughly six weeks the platform that had defined the trenches since January 2024 was beaten at its own game, in what traders called the launchpad wars, before an equally rapid reversal restored pump.fun's dominance by September 2025.

Background

Pump.fun held more than 90 percent of Solana launchpad activity through 2024 and early 2025, but sentiment toward the platform had deteriorated: critics on crypto twitter accused it of extracting fees without returning value, and rumors intensified after its July 2025 token sale (see pump token ico). LetsBonk, launched in April 2025, routed fees toward BONK buybacks and ecosystem funding, a pitch that positioned it as the community aligned alternative.

The flippening

In early July 2025 LetsBonk flipped pump.fun in launches, graduations and revenue. The Block reported that on July 8 LetsBonk accounted for 65.9 percent of all Solana token launches, over 22,300 tokens in a single day, against roughly 32 percent for pump.fun. By late July The Block put LetsBonk's share of tokens launched at about 64 percent, with pump.fun down from over 90 percent to about 24 percent, and NewsBTC reported LetsBonk claiming 54 percent of total market share amid exit scam rumors aimed at its rival. Revenue followed: LetsBonk's daily take rose from about 70,000 dollars at the start of July to over 1.1 million dollars, while pump.fun's fell below 500,000 dollars. On July 16 LetsBonk graduated 282 tokens in a day, about 79 percent of all Solana graduations. Analytics accounts declared the flippening complete at the end of July, with estimates of LetsBonk's share of bonding curve activity as high as 82 percent. The period's signature winner was Useless Coin, and the wave briefly made BONK's ecosystem the center of the trenches.

Reversal

The lead did not hold. In August 2025 pump.fun mounted an aggressive recovery built on buying back its PUMP token with nearly all weekly revenue (8.42 million dollars in one week, about 97 percent of revenue) and on the return of high volume deployers, particularly automated bots that had migrated to LetsBonk. Traders Union reported pump.fun's weekly revenue hit a six month high of 13.48 million dollars in mid August as its launch share recovered toward 90 percent, and by September 2, 2025, Jupiter data cited by CryptoRank showed pump.fun at 70.2 percent market share against 21 percent for LetsBonk.

Significance

The flippening demonstrated that launchpad dominance in the trenches is a commodity: liquidity and deployers follow incentives within days, and no platform moat survives a better fee deal. It also revealed how much launch volume was bot generated rather than human, since a handful of migrating operators visibly swung market share. Later coverage treated the episode as the high water mark of the 2025 launchpad wars, which also drew entrants such as Believe and Heaven before the contraction described at 2026 memecoin winter.

References

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