Pump.fun changes creator payouts as platform targets healthier token markets
Pump.fun said it is changing how creators earn on the Solana-based memecoin launchpad, introducing fee sharing across multiple wallets and new administrative controls after concluding its 2025 “Dynamic Fees V1” model distorted incentives toward nonstop token launches instead of liquid markets.
NFT marketplace update enables creators and Community Takeover (CTO) administrators to apportion creator fees to as many as 10 wallets after launch, transfer coin ownership, and revoke update authority from prior maintainers. Co-founder Alon Cohen outlined the changes and acknowledged the incentive problems in a series of posts on X on January 9, 2026.
Cohen said the 2025 fee experiment – rolled out under “Project Ascend” – did lift activity for organized teams but made it too easy for casual deployers to mint low-effort tokens while traders supplied most of the liquidity and took most of the risk. The first phase of the 2026 redesign is meant to push rewards toward projects that sustain trading and deepen order flow on Pump.fun’s bonding-curve and PumpSwap venues.
The product shift comes alongside a resurgence in memecoin issuance. On-chain and industry dashboards tracked the busiest single day for new Pump.fun tokens since mid-September, underscoring why the platform is tightening how fees are allocated and who can claim them. The Block reported the latest overhaul as daily token launches reached a multi-month high.
Pump.fun’s documentation lists a baseline 0.015 SOL platform fee; under earlier iterations, creators also accrued a share of trading revenue as coins advanced from the bonding curve to PumpSwap. The new model keeps creator economics but adds post-launch configurability and the ability to remove update authority – intended to raise trust for traders who often inherit “CTO” projects from anonymous deployers.
Cohen’s thread framed the 2026 roadmap as iterative. After fee sharing and stronger admin controls, further steps will tie ongoing creator payouts more closely to market behavior so that long-lived, higher-liquidity tokens capture rewards while short-lived deployments face lower take rates over time. He did not publish a calendar but said “more updates” are in development.
External coverage echoed the scope of the change – fee splits to multiple wallets, ownership transfers, and revocation of update authority – while noting a price reaction in the PUMP token after the announcement. While token performance wasn’t cited by Pump.fun as a design goal, the reaction illustrates how fee mechanics can influence trader expectations about future issuance quality and liquidity.
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