The Solana memecoin playground just rolled out a revenue-sharing program on their decentralized exchange, PumpSwap.
Token creators now get a slice of the pie, 50% of PumpSwap’s trading revenue. Half of the platform’s earnings go straight to the devs who cooked up the tokens.
Make it rain
Every trade on PumpSwap carries a tiny fee, 0.25% usually. Out of that, 0.2% goes to liquidity providers, 0.05% stays with the platform.
But now an extra 0.05% is sneaking off to the token creators’ vault. So, total fees might be bumping up to 0.3% per swap.
For creators, that means a neat 0.05% cut in Solana for every transaction involving their tokens.
Sounds like a jackpot, right? Well, is not that simple. In April 2025 alone, PumpSwap saw $11.2 billion in trading volume.
That could have meant about $5.6 million handed out to creators. Some estimates even say nearly $7.3 million if you count all Pump.Fun and PumpSwap trades combined. That’s a lot of SOL flowing into creators’ pockets.
Good move?
But the crypto crowd on X isn’t exactly throwing a party over this. Critics are calling it a horrible move. Why?
Because it might just reward the bad apples, the rug pullers and ghost project devs who launch tokens, then vanish like a bad magic trick, leaving the community holding the bag. Some even say the devs are unwelcomed in the first place.
“99% of coins are legit CTO coins. People don’t want the dev, and now we’re giving the dev money that he rugged. This is super bad.”
The fear is this 0.05% fee hands lazy or malicious creators a steady income stream without any real responsibility to maintain or improve their projects.
Plus, it could discourage community takeovers, where loyal fans rescue abandoned tokens and try to breathe life back into them.
Imagine paying the original dev while the community busts their hump to keep the token alive. Doesn’t sit well.
Development
Pump.Fun launched in last January, created by Noah Tweedale, Alon Cohen, and Dylan Kerler.
It’s basically a memecoin factory on Solana, letting anyone whip up a token for a few bucks, slap on a logo, pick a ticker, and boom, start trading.
Tokens start on a bonding curve, meaning prices rise with demand, and once they hit a market cap around $69k to $90k, they graduate to PumpSwap for wider trading.
In March, Pump.Fun rolled out PumpSwap to make token migration smoother, no more hefty 6 SOL fees, and more liquidity thanks to their own pools.
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