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Pump.fun unveils Project Ascend, a new revenue-sharing model for meme creators

￰0￱ unveiled Project Ascend, a new revenue-sharing system to further boost creators and major ￰1￱ Ascend arrived after ￰2￱ regained its spot as the top meme platform, with significant inflows from DEX ￰3￱ announced Project Ascend, an upgrade on all revenue-sharing ￰4￱ main goal of Project Ascend is to encourage launches from quality teams with more sustainable token ￰5￱ Ascend will take off where the current revenue-sharing and curated community tokens ￰6￱ itself announced the upgrade will push the ecosystem to grow 100X from its current ￰7￱ Project Ascend, a series of updates that will 100x the pump fun ecosystem by making coins more sustainable & aligned with their communities to start: – 10x more creator earnings via Dynamic Fees – 10x faster processing of CTO Creator Fee applications learn more 👇 ￰8￱ — ￰9￱ (@pumpdotfun) September 2, 2025 The reward schedule will be specifically tailored to draw in more creators with hot meme ideas, as well as quality developers who will not abandon the ￰10￱ fees will favor growing projects on ￰11￱ Creator fees levied on PumpSwap were used toward a project’s marketing, liquidity, listing fees, and other expenses.

However, the initial creator fees did not raise sufficient funds for ￰12￱ the same time, meme tokens took a step back, and most did not fare well even with special attention from ￰13￱ repair the issue, ￰14￱ will introduce Dynamic Fees, prioritizing meme projects that are just starting ￰15￱ lower the market cap of a meme token, the higher the creator ￰16￱ projects graduate to a significant market cap, the creator fees will taper ￰17￱ exact breakdown of the fee structure posts the market cap range, as measured in SOL. Roughly, new projects can expect to be rewarded 10X ￰18￱ fee schedule will apply to legacy tokens generated before Project ￰19￱ the project’s creator has abandoned the meme, the fees will go toward the ￰20￱ tokens can be applied to receive the creator ￰21￱ far, ￰22￱ has shared its platform revenues as it bought back up to 5% of the PUMP token ￰23￱ are also mostly equal to the day’s revenues, showing ￰24￱ has shifted from extraction to injecting fees back into the ￰25￱ creators, it would mean fewer attempts to win the trenches or compete with thousands of tokens, but instead work toward a sustainable ￰26￱ still buys back PUMP tokens, as a way to bring value back to the community. |

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