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Pump.funās $2.8 billion on-chain treasury is mostly its own PUMP token
Arkham data shows the Solana memecoin launchpad holds about $2.19 billion in PUMP alongside wrapped SOL, stablecoins, and memecoin pools
Pump.fun, the Solana memecoin launchpad, holds $2.8 billion in on-chain assets. That pile includes its own PUMP token, wrapped SOL, USDC, USDT, and a scattering of memecoin pools.
What’s in the wallet
Arkham Intelligence identifies roughly $2.838 billion in on-chain assets tied to pump.fun as of October 6, 2026. The PUMP token accounts for approximately $2.19 billion of that total, representing about 341.224 billion PUMP tokens.
Pump.fun holds approximately 2.786 million wrapped SOL (WSOL), valued at around $336 million. On top of that, the platform holds 450.5K SOL in unwrapped form, worth about $54 million.
Arkham’s data shows 168.7 million USDC, worth about $169 million, and 46 million USDT, worth about $46 million. Smaller positions in various memecoins fill out the remainder.
Buybacks, burns, and unlocks
Pump.fun runs a buyback-and-burn program funded by 50% of its net revenue. The platform uses that money to buy PUMP on the open market and permanently destroy it.
By late September 2026, cumulative buybacks had passed roughly $460 million. More than 167 billion tokens have been removed from circulation since the program began.
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In July 2026, 57.28 billion PUMP tokens were distributed to 121 wallets as part of post-cliff linear vesting for team members and investors.
How pump.fun got here
PUMP launched in July 2025 through an initial coin offering that raised about $1 billion. The sale priced the token at a fully diluted valuation of around $4 billion.
Cumulative decentralized exchange volume on pump.fun exceeds $97 billion. Annualized revenue is reported in the hundreds of millions, which is what funds the buyback program in the first place.
What this means for PUMP holders and the memecoin market
The PUMP treasury stake is harder to value. A project’s holdings of its own token are worth what buyers will pay, and selling 341.224 billion tokens in size would likely test that price quickly. The stablecoin and SOL holdings represent the liquid side of the ledger that can be spent or deployed without that constraint.
The July 2026 distribution to 121 wallets marked the start of linear unlocks, meaning more insider tokens could reach the market over time. Watching on-chain flows from those wallets to exchanges is one way traders can gauge sentiment.