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Pump.fun memes have the highest graduation rate since the summer of 2025. More tokens are moving to DEX trading after a general revival of the Solana meme space.  Tokens on Pump.fun are shifting their creation stories, with more projects graduating to PumpSwap or other DEXs. Pump.fun graduations have previously crashed to lows, and are used as a proxy indicator for the general mood of the crypto market.  Pump.fun graduations spiked to the highest level since the summer of 2025, following a new wave of projects and more liquidity inflows. | Source: Dune Analytics In the past few weeks, more tokens have moved their liquidity to decentralized exchanges. The shift happened after a period where teams would rug-pull new tokens while still in the “trenches,” draining the initial liquidity.  In the past day, 269 tokens graduated, or over 1% of all created tokens for the day. The graduation rate is the highest since the summer of 2025, when 0.92% of tokens graduated.  Pump.fun creator teams aim for longer-lasting meme tokens While the graduating token number depends on more daily launches, it also signals a shift for some teams, which take effort to preserve their token’s liquidity.  Putting new tokens into DEX pairs also signals hope for the Solana ecosystem, where memes are enjoying renewed inflows of liquidity and speculative trading.  Graduations are not a meaningful source of revenues for Pump.fun, as the platform takes a 1.5 SOL fee. However, trading those tokens means an additional 1% in revenues from all subsequent swaps.  The recently launched tokens are still cautiously accepted, following a period of almost daily launches of cult tokens. Some of the newly graduated assets are still heavily sniped or controlled by insiders. The market cap of newly graduating tokens also rarely rises to significant valuations. While previous graduations happened…

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