Pumpfun co-founder: The creator fee mechanism needs adjustment, and in the future, its necessity will be determined by traders

According to Odaily, Pumpfun, the Solana meme coin issuance platform, has announced through its co-founder that the current creator fee mechanism needs to be adjusted, and the platform will undergo a series of structural changes in the future.

Looking back, he stated that the original intention of launching Dynamic Fees V1 a few months ago was to incentivize high-quality project teams to deploy tokens on the platform and promote project development through creator fees. After the mechanism was launched, it had an immediate effect in the short term, with a large number of creators who had never interacted with crypto applications before starting to issue tokens and livestream on the platform, which rapidly boosted on-chain activity. However, he pointed out that this growth model is unsustainable and has also exposed key internal issues within the platform.

He stated that creator fees are meaningful for "project tokens" with clear teams and goals, but have not fundamentally changed the behavior of ordinary meme coin deployers. On the contrary, they may lead to incentive misalignment, making users more inclined to low-risk token issuance behaviors rather than high-risk trading activities that are more crucial to the platform's ecosystem. Pumpfun believes that traders are the core of the platform, and successful tokens are more likely to emerge in an environment where traders actively participate, provide liquidity, and take on risk.

In addition, he pointed out that the current creator fees lack sufficient functionality and a good user experience in terms of usage, which limits their potential role in narrative expansion and community building.

Overall, Pumpfun believes that creator fees are still an important tool to incentivize high-quality projects, but need to be optimized in terms of mechanism and user experience. At the same time, not all tokens need to set creator fees. In the future, the platform will adopt a more market-driven approach, allowing traders to decide whether a particular token should have creator fees and how those fees should be used. He stated that related adjustments are still in progress, and more information about platform development and Pumpfun's future will be announced later. He also expressed anticipation for the ecosystem's evolution in 2026.