Pumpfun Rolls Out Creator Rewards—$7M Payout in Sight After April’s Trading Frenzy

Meme coin platform Pumpfun just flipped the script—creators now get a slice of the trading action. April’s volume suggests a $7M payday, proving even degenerate crypto plays can have a (semi) respectable revenue model.

Who said gambling can’t be monetized? The house always wins—but now, so do the meme lords.

Pump.fun needs a fee update

The program marks an update to the monetization model behind Pump.fun’s token launch framework. According to the official announcement, PumpSwap will allocate 50% of its revenue to token creators, translating to 0.05% per transaction. 

However, the platform has not formally updated the full fee structure on PumpSwap, which currently charges 0.20% to liquidity providers (LP) and 0.05% to the protocol. 

The implication that creators receive an additional 0.05% suggests the total trading fee has increased to 0.30%, with 0.25% distributed to LPs and creators, and 0.05% retained by the platform.

The program arrives amid sustained activity on Solana-based memecoin platforms. Data fromreveals a $6 billion increase in trading volume related to Pump.fun-launched memecoins between March and April.

According to Artemis, memecoins had theout of 22 crypto sectors in the past month, with an average increase of 49.3% per token.

Additionally, memecoins from the Pump.fun ecosystem had the seventh-largest price increase in the past 7 days per CoinGecko.