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[[pump fun]] was launched on January 19, 2024 by three English entrepreneurs then in their early twenties: Noah Tweedale, Alon Cohen and Dylan Kerler. The trio operate through Baton Corporation Ltd, a company registered in the United Kingdom with headquarters in London, where Tweedale serves as chief executive and all three sit as directors. Court filings list Tweedale as CEO, Cohen as COO and Kerler as CTO. For most of the platform's history the founders were semi anonymous, known only by their handles; Tweedale told WIRED that this was for personal safety, to avoid the platform's large crypto holdings making them targets for blackmail or attack. All three have said they built pump.fun after being rug pulled themselves while trading meme coins, and designed its fair launch [[bonding curve]] model in response.

## Noah Tweedale

Tweedale, who posts on X as @sapijiju, is the chief executive of Baton Corporation. He is the least publicly visible of the three in day to day platform drama but has given long form interviews about pump.fun's ambition to become a social trading network, including a Delphi Digital podcast on building the future of social trading and a YouTube appearance titled around taking pump.fun to a $100 billion valuation. He has publicly argued that pump.fun is "not a casino" and made a case for transparency in meme coins, and in 2026 he questioned rival Hyperliquid's business model in a widely covered exchange. In November 2025, after onchain observers claimed the team had cashed out hundreds of millions of dollars (reports cited figures around $436 million to $465 million moved to stablecoins), Tweedale denied that the transfers were founder cash outs, describing them as internal treasury movements.

## Dylan Kerler

Kerler is the platform's technical cofounder. In 2024 a WIRED investigation reported that a person named Dylan Kerler had launched at least eight tokens in 2017, at age 16, including eBitcoinCash and EthereumCash, tokens that rose on airdrop driven promotion and then collapsed after large sales by their creator, in what investors at the time called rug pulls. Analysis cited by the report estimated the developer earned up to $75,000 in crypto at 2017 prices. These reports are allegations of past conduct and predate pump.fun; they have not been the subject of any legal finding. Kerler maintains almost no public presence.

## Alon Cohen

Cohen, known as alon (@a1lon9), is the platform's public voice and is covered in a dedicated article, [[alon]].

## Legal matters

All three founders are named defendants, alongside Baton Corporation and several Solana entities and executives, in the consolidated class action Aguilar v. Baton Corporation in the Southern District of New York, which alleges the platform sold unregistered securities and, in amended complaints, adds racketeering claims. The founders contest the allegations, and no liability has been established (see [[pump fun lawsuits]]). In 2026 the company also faced reporting that it laid off more than 40 employees shortly before their [[pump token|PUMP]] token grants vested; the company did not publicly respond to those claims.

## References

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump.fun
2. https://www.panewslab.com/en/articles/fromg1m8
3. https://protos.com/pump-fun-co-founder-dylan-kerler-linked-to-2017-ico-scams-report/
4. https://decripto.org/en/pump-fun-investigation-of-one-of-the-fouder-dylan-kerler-allegedly-linked-to-ethereumcash-and-ebitcoincash-rug-pulls/
5. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69593359/aguilar-v-baton-corporation-ltd-dba-pumpfun/
6. https://members.delphidigital.io/media/pump-funs-sapijiju-building-the-future-of-social-trading
7. https://meme-insider.com/en/article/pump-fun-not-a-casino-co-founder-makes-case-for-transparency-in-meme-coins/
8. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pump-fun-co-founder-denies-123201184.html
9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpYR9oAQWRA
10. https://cryptobriefing.com/pumpfun-layoffs-before-pump-vesting/
11. https://www.dlapiper.com/en/insights/publications/2025/02/meme-coins-alleged-to-be-securities-in-two-new-class-actions

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