{"id":25502,"date":"2025-07-22T19:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/pump-fun-token-falls-below-ico-price\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T19:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:55:12","slug":"pump-fun-token-falls-below-ico-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/pump-fun-token-falls-below-ico-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Pump.fun Token Falls Below ICO Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The native coin of the &#8220;meme-token factory&#8221; Pump.fun has dropped below the $0.004 level at which it was sold during the token sale. At the time of writing, PUMP is trading at $0.0037.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXevqzw5-7ETUUCvwR4kOiRDKXBoqz6Eb61ZsVljmwuvniiAXbSuZ_iVJXT-9diFwi0CTMae_ubUC2Asl3JVjv4ajFe-D19NVxQyiYsIAYg0KiTqf3Fwv5YqFq-MzIfsnskqccIpIw?key=yVepmDUsYnFrzJCtJxuOkg\" alt=\"\u0422\u043e\u043a\u0435\u043d Pump.fun \u0443\u043f\u0430\u043b \u043d\u0438\u0436\u0435 \u0446\u0435\u043d\u044b ICO\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hourly chart of PUMP\/USDT on Bybit exchange. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/symbols\/PUMPUSDT\/\">TradingView<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From its peak values of around $0.0068, the token has fallen by 45%, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/pump-fun\">CoinGecko<\/a>. Its market capitalization is $1.31 billion with an FDV of $3.72 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The PUMP presale took place on July 12 and <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/kraken-to-airdrop-extra-pump-after-token%e2%80%91sale-glitches\">concluded in 12 minutes<\/a>, raising 500 million. However, a few days later, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/pump-token-presale-participants-offload-nearly-60-of-holdings\">it was revealed<\/a> that nearly 60% of ICO participants sold or transferred assets to centralized exchanges and other wallets.<\/p>\n<p>According to a dashboard on <a href=\"https:\/\/dune.com\/adam_tehc\/pumpfun-ico\">Dune<\/a>, only 13% of token sale participants are currently holding onto the coin.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXf9LfTibdKQLfbnOvZzKjCGZm0iw_iOc6yAWtIJUPbMOyfh2QJspnRYdc7ncHLbCvxq1x-S6tSYcCNeHWzjsxy94EZhWMTxh9kkmmXEQDfg3ek7cy0JPxEoe23akpgd1Yju3kbJ?key=yVepmDUsYnFrzJCtJxuOkg\" alt=\"\u0422\u043e\u043a\u0435\u043d Pump.fun \u0443\u043f\u0430\u043b \u043d\u0438\u0436\u0435 \u0446\u0435\u043d\u044b ICO\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Dune.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Amid the price decline, Lookonchain also recorded that two early investors sent PUMP worth approximately $160 million to centralized exchanges.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24PUMP&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$PUMP<\/a> price has dropped below its private\/public sale price of $0.004.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;PUMP Top Fund 1&#8221; spent 100M <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24USDC&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$USDC<\/a> to buy 25B <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24PUMP&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$PUMP<\/a> at $0.004 in the private sale. <br \/>So far, he has deposited 17B <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24PUMP&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$PUMP<\/a>($89.5M) to exchanges via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FalconX?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FalconX<\/a> and still hold 8B <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24PUMP&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$PUMP<\/a>($29.58M).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;PUMP Top Fund\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xibWUaCOxz\">pic.twitter.com\/xibWUaCOxz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lookonchain (@lookonchain) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1947591724437766548?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Despite the correction and large sales, retail purchase volumes and the number of unique wallets holding PUMP are increasing daily.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXd-vVDGEK3Sk0vP6qGYDDv5tcE66paJJ0HmthH5UEx1__0MXCXem9xaDlNLI81-9AgOG4Uyzlll1_tBGG_qjWSXbzi9nL2UMiMjZ0CqN7-RwqUEDv8BL43bknVUrHRRV0-t3wN_?key=yVepmDUsYnFrzJCtJxuOkg\" alt=\"\u0422\u043e\u043a\u0435\u043d Pump.fun \u0443\u043f\u0430\u043b \u043d\u0438\u0436\u0435 \u0446\u0435\u043d\u044b ICO\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Dune.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>PUMP Out of Trend<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The decline of Pump.fun&#8217;s coin occurs despite the overall trend in the meme-token segment. Over the past week, the capitalization of the sector <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/categories\/meme-token\">has grown<\/a> by nearly 24% to $89.2 billion.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXfDGi7HickMLOrJ4_u_OW4JH0vZ2fMcPsxwEIQxCvq8dozigabH9SoUsx9AlUDZJRD-7EG0iBUEdIDBqQVxewsXaBi5FQYCBFhCkPrX5-OdvZVXu9zDRB7FlJFd3a6Jbh_60erH?key=yVepmDUsYnFrzJCtJxuOkg\" alt=\"\u0422\u043e\u043a\u0435\u043d Pump.fun \u0443\u043f\u0430\u043b \u043d\u0438\u0436\u0435 \u0446\u0435\u043d\u044b ICO\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: CoinGecko.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Among major coins, FLOKI (+50%), DOGE (+38%), PENGU (+28%), and BONK (+23%) stood out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dog&#8221; meme-tokens continue to lead the segments. Assets based on Solana also show positive dynamics.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXd7p2t0-8LhDicDQe4u_dfAVw0wHthOGuH0cJBlEMt53v4IUUkEyeCaqvEbtLE7OtmveAciU65D9mh3mfpwMdnMTAIY9TGkIzY_0LIYAS4BKPsjxse913yxmBd6UuMRH5Zt2d-MSQ?key=yVepmDUsYnFrzJCtJxuOkg\" alt=\"\u0422\u043e\u043a\u0435\u043d Pump.fun \u0443\u043f\u0430\u043b \u043d\u0438\u0436\u0435 \u0446\u0435\u043d\u044b ICO\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: CoinGecko.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A user under the pseudonym Ralph noted that almost every blockchain had its &#8220;meme-token season,&#8221; except for XRP.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I still can&#8217;t believe that every chain had a proper meme run in the last year, except for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24XRP&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$XRP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Crazy enough, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24XRP&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$XRP<\/a> is the biggest gainer in the last year (+450%), and is the third biggest token in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure what their plans are, but I really want to wake up someday\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NwOALJshus\">pic.twitter.com\/NwOALJshus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ralph (@ralphscall) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ralphscall\/status\/1947459552284447079?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what [Ripple&#8217;s] plans are, but I really want to wake up someday and see a full-fledged meme season there. I think they still have a lot of work to do on user experience and interface to achieve any success with memes,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As reported, CryptoQuant author and on-chain analyst Timo Oinonen <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/analyst-calls-time-on-the-era-of-mass-altseasons\">pointed out<\/a> the end of the &#8220;mass alt-seasons&#8221; era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The native coin of the &#8220;meme-token factory&#8221; Pump.fun has dropped below the $0.004 level at which it was sold during the token sale. At the time of writing, PUMP is trading at $0.0037. Hourly chart of PUMP\/USDT on Bybit exchange. Source: TradingView. From its peak values of around $0.0068, the token has fallen by 45%, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1161,1715,596],"class_list":["post-25502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-memes","tag-pump-fun","tag-tokens"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"98","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}