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Let’s talk about how a flying pig just helped someone print over $90,000 in less than a month. No, seriously. Welcome to Pump.fun, where meme coins are born by the thousands, and a few lucky (or degen-genius) creators are laughing their way to the Phantom wallet. This said, it is important to remember that only a very small number of traders on Pump.fun actually achieve any reasonable profit.
And the top piggy in the barn? A wallet known as w3rE, the brain behind MOONPIG, a meme coin that did what pigs rarely do: fly to a $125 million market cap, before crash-landing to a still-massive $35 million.
🐷 One Pig, $93K, Three Weeks
In May, Pump.fun rolled out a new feature: creator revenue sharing. The idea is simple, every time someone trades your coin, you get 0.05% of the volume. Half of the platform’s fees go straight into your pockets. Deployer royalties, but for degens.
Fast forward three weeks, and the feature has already paid out $2.9 million in rewards. At the top of the food chain? Our pig-flipping friend w3rE, who made $93,780 purely from creator fees as people frantically traded MOONPIG.
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That trading volume? Over $19 million a day at MOONPIG’s peak. Do the math and you’ll see how even 0.05% starts to feel like a full-time income.
📉 From $125M High to $35M Reality
MOONPIG didn’t just appear out of nowhere, it rode on the wings of a James Wynn promo blitz, right in the middle of his viral (and ill-fated) $100M BTC bet on Hyperliquid. Perfect storm. Everyone aped in.
But like most meme rockets, MOONPIG eventually lost altitude, shedding 71% of its peak value. The coin still trades actively, but the creator’s cash machine has cooled off. Still, $93K isn’t bad for a meme pig.
🧪 The High-Volume Experimenters
While w3rE bet big on one coin, wallet G9FyS played the numbers game. This wallet has launched 320 tokens, most of them with names like “Moontrump,” “Solana Doge,” and “Yeezy Coin.” (Yes, really.)
Most of these tokens hover below a $7,000 market cap. But that hasn’t stopped G9FyS from raking in $73,300 in creator fees. Spam or strategy? You decide.
It’s a new kind of play-to-earn: meme-to-earn. Spam enough tokens and the crowd will ape into something.
👨🎤 Degens with a Cause
Now here’s where it gets fun.
Ever heard of NEET Coin? (Short for Not in Employment, Education, or Training, basically a meme coin for professional couch dwellers.) They used their creator fee earnings to fund a Wall Street protest.
No joke. In May, a group of token holders hit the streets shouting “nine to five, we won’t comply” and waving signs like “rage against the wage.” The stunt pumped NEET 140% to a $14.6 million market cap. Today? It’s back at $4.4 million, but the vibes were immaculate.
Pump.fun co-founder Alon Cohen says this is just the beginning: “We’re seeing new emergent behaviors… NEET using fees for a protest was a cool surprise.”
💰 The Memeconomy Is Real
Here’s the big picture: The top 25 creators on Pump.fun have all made over $12,900 each in under a month. Some are tied to blue-chip memes like Housecoin, XBT, and Gork. Others just launched everything that popped into their heads and let the crowd sort it out.
One wallet even created 500+ tokens. Because why not?
So what’s the takeaway?
Meme coin creators aren’t just clout-chasing anymore, they’re getting paid.
Pump.fun’s revenue-sharing flipped the script. Now, the deployer gets a piece of the frenzy. And in this game, being early isn’t just a flex, it’s a paycheck.
Final Thought:
Solana’s meme economy is evolving. What used to be vapour now has revenue. And if a flying pig can make someone $93K in three weeks, imagine what happens when the next meta hits.
Will it be dogs? Frogs? Bald Trump clones? Who cares, as long as it pumps.
