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Most meme coins launched on Solana-based Pump.fun fade within hours of creation, a CoinGecko analysis published June 30 shows, underscoring the speculative churn that defines the platform's economics even as outlier tokens like ANSEM generate outsized returns.
"Pump.fun has dramatically lowered the barrier to token creation, enabling anyone to mint a coin with minimal cost or technical skill," CoinGecko said in the report. The analysis reinforces how the platform's fee model — which routes a share of each trade to token creators and directs more than 90% of platform revenue into buybacks of its own PUMP token — incentivizes high-volume, low-quality launches rather than sustained projects, according to the research firm.
The data arrives as Pump.fun's activity reaches new extremes. The platform has captured roughly three-quarters of all Solana memecoin launches, according to prior estimates cited in the report. On June 29, the ANSEM token — named after Solana influencer Ansem — surged nearly 19,878% over seven days to a fully diluted valuation near $121 million, with 24-hour trading volume exceeding $80 million, per CoinGecko data. The rally followed Ansem's pledge to distribute his accumulated Pump.fun creator fees as weekly airdrops to the community.
Yet ANSEM's trajectory is the exception, not the rule. The vast majority of tokens minted on Pump.fun generate negligible trading volume and lose nearly all value shortly after launch, the CoinGecko analysis found. The platform's creator-fee system, which pays token deployers a percentage of each trade, has drawn criticism for encouraging spam: launching a coin costs near-zero in fees, and even a modest trading burst can generate meaningful fee income for the creator, creating a flood of low-quality tokens.
The tension between volume incentives and quality control is not lost on Pump.fun's operators. The platform has signaled a shift toward a market-based approach that rewards genuine trading activity and liquidity provision rather than mere coin creation, according to earlier statements from the team. No member of Pump.fun's own team accepts creator fees, the operators have said, framing the feature as being for the active traders the community calls "trenchers."
The broader Solana memecoin ecosystem has seen DEX volumes reach record highs earlier in 2026, per DefiLlama data, but single-catalyst rallies have a mixed record of sustaining momentum. ANSEM's $80 million in daily volume represents a meaningful slice of Solana's memecoin activity, though 65% of the token's supply sits in a single wallet — Ansem's — creating concentration risk that could amplify downside if large holders attempt to exit, blockchain data from Lookonchain shows.
For traders, the CoinGecko analysis reinforces a structural reality of the Pump.fun economy: the platform and its top creators earn from aggregate volume regardless of whether individual holders profit, while the overwhelming majority of launched tokens generate almost nothing. The next test for ANSEM is whether weekly airdrop distributions can sustain buyer demand beyond the initial hype cycle.
This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice.
