Pump.fun tops Hyperliquid in 30-day revenue as $PUMP jumps 12%

Pump.fun generated $33.73 million in 30-day revenue, surpassing Hyperliquid's $32.73 million, as the Solana memecoin launchpad overtook the derivatives exchange on trailing protocol earnings.

DefiLlama data shows Pump.fun collected $84.35 million in total fees over the 30-day window, while Hyperliquid took in $47.14 million. The gap between fees and revenue reflects divergent economic models: Pump.fun converts a larger share of fee intake into protocol revenue, while Hyperliquid redistributes more fees to liquidity providers and stakers.

The TVL comparison sharpens the contrast. Hyperliquid holds $6.041 billion in total value locked across its Layer 1 and Arbitrum deployments, versus $251.4 million for Pump.fun on Solana — meaning the launchpad generates roughly 24 times more revenue per dollar locked. Historical data shows multiple instances where Pump.fun outpaced Hyperliquid on daily and weekly revenue metrics; the monthly flip makes the pattern harder to dismiss as noise.

The milestone extends beyond a single month. Pump.fun's cumulative lifetime revenue of $1.231 billion now also surpasses Hyperliquid's $1.188 billion, and the $PUMP token responded by climbing 12 percent to trade near $0.0027 with a market capitalization of approximately $1.055 billion.

The revenue flip lands as Hyperliquid faces mounting pressure on its own economics. The perps exchange's gross protocol revenue peaked at roughly $357 million in the third quarter of 2025 and has fallen every quarter since, to about $202 million in the second quarter of 2026, DefiLlama data shows. Open interest climbed to just above $11 billion on July 13, the platform's highest in 2026, while 30-day perp volume ran to nearly $178 billion — yet the platform keeps a smaller share of the money those contracts earn.

Hyperliquid Improvement Proposal (HIP-3), live since October 2025, lets anyone staking 500,000 HYPE deploy their own perpetual futures market and keep up to half the trading fees. Builder-deployed markets were about 2 percent of Hyperliquid's perp volume at the start of 2026; they are now roughly half of it. Cost of revenue — the portion of fees handed back to builders, market makers and the liquidity vault — was under 6 percent of gross revenue in the second quarter of 2025 and 18 percent a year later.

The competitive pressure extends beyond revenue. Robinhood Chain, the brokerage's month-old network, has been clearing more than $600 million in daily decentralized-exchange volume on memecoin trading, and by some measures now draws more daily speculative activity than Hyperliquid does. ARK research put Hyperliquid and Pump.fun together at 67 percent of all crypto application revenue as of July 31.

For $PUMP, the revenue milestone supports a price-to-revenue multiple that looks attractive against many DeFi tokens trading at higher valuations on thinner earnings. The protocol's higher fee-to-revenue conversion means more value accrues directly to token holders, though its $251.4 million TVL on Solana remains a fraction of Hyperliquid's footprint.

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