Pump.fun GO posts hundreds of risky paid bounties

Pump.fun on Thursday launched GO, a bounty platform that lets users offer crypto rewards to anyone who completes a posted task. The site requires users to link an X account and a crypto wallet and to lock rewards in an escrow that starts at $5 while Pump.fun reviews submissions and decides payouts.

Within hours the site listed hundreds of tasks. At the time of reporting GO showed 234 live bounties, 494 submissions and about $118,000 in unclaimed rewards. Listings ranged from low-value requests to offers with six-figure ask prices, though several high-dollar listings were unclaimed or removed.

One early high-profile posting offered as much as $50,000 for someone to skydive into a World Cup match wearing a meme-coin mascot costume, with video required to be verified by a media agency and explicitly not AI-generated; that listing later disappeared from the site. The top remaining bounty at launch was about $23,525 for a two-minute unedited interview with either a relative of the person responsible for Henry Nowak’s death or the lead officer on the case, with a note that more viral coverage was preferred.

Other notable offers included roughly $15,204 to beat a running world record, $12,199 to organize a “NEET March” through New York City, $11,034 to help a token win Pump.fun’s hackathon, $9,103 to secure an interview with a billionaire about biological intelligence, and $3,989 to host a “best butt contest.” Listings also proposed permanent body tattoos in exchange for crypto and tasks that many would view as risky or illegal.

Examples of contentious requests included setting a branded car on fire, streaking an NBA Finals game, using a megaphone to disrupt a lecture, pouring milk over oneself in public, handing out jars of pineapple-flavored Kool-Aid to homeless people, seeking engagement from a high-profile social media account for a token, posting bail for someone in jail, and offering about $2,650 to tattoo a token ticker on a person’s forehead.

Some participants pursued stunts live. An entrant attempting a roughly $2,876 “Quit Your Job on Camera” task livestreamed the attempt and later reported losing a separate job during the effort.

Despite some large posted offers, actual payouts recorded since launch have been small. The highest single payout reported was $487.11; other top payouts were $346.72 and $275.49. The largest spender on the platform had paid out $1,707 across 11 bounties.

Questions about moderation and safety have followed the launch. Musheer Ahmed, founder and managing director of Finstep Asia, warned that an escrow-and-moderation design may not prevent harmful or unlawful bounties because automated systems can miss problematic content and participants can arrange payments or coordination off-platform.

GO continues a pattern at Pump.fun of combining livestreaming and token incentives. The platform removed its livestreaming feature in 2024 after an influx of streams that included animal cruelty, self-harm and a staged suicide. Livestreaming was restored in early 2025 with new moderation policies as Pump.fun expanded creator-focused markets on the Solana network.

Pump.fun did not respond to requests for comment.