Solana on-chain Meme coin platform Pump.fun, after launching PUMP, triggered a large-scale dumping due to private investors' "no lock-up period," causing the price to drop by 30% within seven days. (Background: Pump.fun founder Alon’s livestream faced criticism for "not daring to speak throughout," igniting a series of $PUMP price drops below the issue price.) (Background information: PUMP fell below the public sale price, with a major whale suffering a loss of $3.86 million on a 5x long position.) Solana ecosystem's Meme coin platform Pump.fun launched its native token PUMP in July, starting with a high-energy narrative, but quickly turned into a dumping scenario. Private investors exited rapidly during retail investors' price chasing due to the "no lock-up period" clause, causing PUMP to drop 48% from its peak within five days. The largest $PUMP institutional private placement address transferred the last 8 billion $PUMP ($2011 million ) to FalconX 8 hours ago, completing the entire sale of its private placement $PUMP, realizing a profit of $8.2 million. This address participated in the pump.fun institutional round private placement with 100 million USDC, receiving 25 billion PUMP ( at the same price as the public offering aimed at retail investors, and also did not lock up ), being the largest institutional private placement address. From 16… pic.twitter.com/DYx5bCp2om — Ember (@EmberCN) July 26, 2025 Private placement arbitrage hits the price. According to on-chain analyst Ember, on July 26, the largest private placement address transferred the last 8 billion PUMP to FalconX exchange, cashing out approximately $20.11 million, with a total profit of $8.2 million. The address only invested 100 million USDC to obtain 25 billion tokens, and due to the lack of lock-up, the speed of investment recovery shocked the market. According to CMC, the price of PUMP token has dropped by about 37% in the past seven days, with a quote of about $0.00275 before press time. The "no lock-up period" design is a significant incentive for early private placement funds but shifts the price risk to late buyers. The market questions that when information and chip advantages are concentrated in a few addresses, the subsequent roadmap for PUMP is bound to become just a slogan. But since they have all dumped and exited, what can be done? Related reports PUMP fell below the public sale price! The top two holding whales transferred tokens worth $16 million to exchanges Pump.fun token surged to $0.007: the end of the 48-72 hour lock-up period will face a true test ( public sale sold out in 12 minutes ) 〈The largest private placement investor of PUMP sold all tokens without lock-up, arbitraging $8.2 million〉 This article was first published in BlockTempo, the most influential blockchain news media.
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PUMP en büyük özel satiş yatırımcısı "kilitli pozisyonu" olmayan tüm tokenleri sattı, 820 milyon dolar arbitraj yaptı.
Solana on-chain Meme coin platform Pump.fun, after launching PUMP, triggered a large-scale dumping due to private investors' "no lock-up period," causing the price to drop by 30% within seven days. (Background: Pump.fun founder Alon’s livestream faced criticism for "not daring to speak throughout," igniting a series of $PUMP price drops below the issue price.) (Background information: PUMP fell below the public sale price, with a major whale suffering a loss of $3.86 million on a 5x long position.) Solana ecosystem's Meme coin platform Pump.fun launched its native token PUMP in July, starting with a high-energy narrative, but quickly turned into a dumping scenario. Private investors exited rapidly during retail investors' price chasing due to the "no lock-up period" clause, causing PUMP to drop 48% from its peak within five days. The largest $PUMP institutional private placement address transferred the last 8 billion $PUMP ($2011 million ) to FalconX 8 hours ago, completing the entire sale of its private placement $PUMP, realizing a profit of $8.2 million. This address participated in the pump.fun institutional round private placement with 100 million USDC, receiving 25 billion PUMP ( at the same price as the public offering aimed at retail investors, and also did not lock up ), being the largest institutional private placement address. From 16… pic.twitter.com/DYx5bCp2om — Ember (@EmberCN) July 26, 2025 Private placement arbitrage hits the price. According to on-chain analyst Ember, on July 26, the largest private placement address transferred the last 8 billion PUMP to FalconX exchange, cashing out approximately $20.11 million, with a total profit of $8.2 million. The address only invested 100 million USDC to obtain 25 billion tokens, and due to the lack of lock-up, the speed of investment recovery shocked the market. According to CMC, the price of PUMP token has dropped by about 37% in the past seven days, with a quote of about $0.00275 before press time. The "no lock-up period" design is a significant incentive for early private placement funds but shifts the price risk to late buyers. The market questions that when information and chip advantages are concentrated in a few addresses, the subsequent roadmap for PUMP is bound to become just a slogan. But since they have all dumped and exited, what can be done? Related reports PUMP fell below the public sale price! The top two holding whales transferred tokens worth $16 million to exchanges Pump.fun token surged to $0.007: the end of the 48-72 hour lock-up period will face a true test ( public sale sold out in 12 minutes ) 〈The largest private placement investor of PUMP sold all tokens without lock-up, arbitraging $8.2 million〉 This article was first published in BlockTempo, the most influential blockchain news media.