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Pump.fun token issues and graduations have been shifting in the past few days, after introducing cashback coins. Weekly graduations increased to 1.15% of all tokens, the highest level since the summer of 2025.  Pump.fun ran another attempt to boost token creation and graduations. Over the past few weeks, token graduations have been rising, leading to higher fees for Pump.Swap.  Pump.fun graduations kept rising in the past weeks, reaching a seven-month high | Source: Dune Analytics Overall, token graduations are on average 1.15% of new launches, as the metric climbed above 1% for the first time in months. Historically, the peak graduation rate has grown to around 2%, later sliding to as low as 0.5% or around 80 tokens daily.  Of all graduating tokens, very few trade for more than a month, and many end their trading arc within a day as traders take profits or remove liquidity.  Pump.fun splits incentives for token issuers The latest boost to token creation was the shift in incentives from Pump.fun. In the past week, launches could follow two separate tracks. One was the usual creator fee coins, where creators took a share of the volume.  The new type of launch was for cashback coins, in which traders earned from volumes. Choosing the type of launch is irreversible and cannot be switched. Additionally, Pump.fun bans the creation of community takeover (CTO) tokens, which use cashback, to avoid incentivized fake trading volumes.  In the first week after the launch of the two types of memes, there is still no consensus on the effect. For now, the move translated into a general increase in launches and graduations.  As Cryptopolitan reported earlier, Pump.fun launched the cashback feature to curb the extraction of creator fees, which was also abused at times.  Pump.fun still produces high fees, traders give up…

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