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Pump.fun has lost its crown as the top meme coin launchpad for the first time since January 2024, with LetsBONK overtaking it in the past 24 hours. The upstart platform surged ahead in Solana meme coin activity, taking more than 55% of launchpad market share and recording $532 million in 24-hour volume, according to data from DEX aggregator Jupiter. Pump.fun trailed with 34.7%. Dune Dashboard creator Adam_Tehc said that LetsBONK also led in meme coin launches and graduations. It hosted 18,093 token launches and 204 graduations, or nearly double the 9,535 launches and 58 graduations on Pump.fun. Battle For Meme Coin Launchpad Supremacy Is On Could the rise of LetsBONK signal a changing of the guard in the meme coin launchpad market? Its founder, who goes by the name of SolportTom on X, isn’t taking that for granted just yet. “Still a long road ahead to make sure this is a daily occurrence,” he said. “But the battle is on.” Gap is widening 🫡 ...

Attention-hungry memecoin devs are sharing nudes, suicide threats, and porn to pump.fun after the Solana-based platform introduced livestreaming. Pump.fun announced the new feature last night, telling users to “go wild.” And so far, they haven’t disappointed. Indeed, while most of the new coins flooding the platform seem harmless and are marketed with kittens or dogs, others are promoted with explicit pornographic and racist material.  For example, one user using the ticker ‘BUTTHOL’ was caught livestream ing his bare behind, along with a description that read simply, “ This a livestream of my Butthole .” insane update @pumpdotfun pic.twitter.com/m70G15aVBy — ram (@0xRamonos) May 29, 2024 This X (formerly Twitter) user kindly censored the livestream for their followers.  Another user created a coin with the ticker ‘GLOCKLIVE’ and decided to promote it topless while wearing a mask and pointing a gun to their head . This description read, “First pistol live killi...