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Pump.fun is restructuring its creator fees so that traders are treated more favorably than token deployers. In 2026, the platform will undergo major changes to make memecoin trading more active. Pump.fun is restructuring its fee base. The fees charged to creators of the platform did not provide sustainable outcomes. As the founder of Pump.fun on X, Alon claimed that the existing system posed serious issues. Dynamic Fees V1 was introduced several months ago. The objective was straightforward: to start tokens, powerful incentives were needed by top founders. The number of success stories would increase throughout the ecosystem. The Streaming Explosion That Couldn’t Last Early findings were encouraging. The platform was flooded by creators in a week. There were a lot of people who had never used crypto apps. Backstreaming meta became prominent. Doubled across the board. The volumes of bonding curves climbed in USD terms. The platform experienced some of the best on-chain conditions of 2025. However, sustainability had eluded it. The model revealed the underlying weaknesses. Project tokens with active teams had creator fees. They did not work with average memecoin deployers. Traders Are the Real Lifeblood The motivational system changed riskily. The low-risk coin creation was preferred by users, as compared to the high-risk trading. The foundation of the platform is traders. They generate volume, liquidity, and risk. Alon said on X that traders are the blood of the platform; successful tokens demand environments in which traders are interested in participating. Coins will not thrive without incentives for the traders. Creator fees were also not useful. Numerous stories might use fees to their advantage. It was rational to pay a fee to prominent individuals associated with stories. Examples were White Whale and rainbowfish. The experience of using the platform was deficient. There were problems of trust and broken…

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