Reports say Kimchi was paid $6M by Pumpfun just to join, and he holds 75% of the solana:CSocnzcRpgSCr1naKcNTieWZUxb6rABe45j844m7pump supply and made over $29M in profit in 12 hours.
[1]← Week of Oct 18Oct 18 – Oct 24 UTC Every claim links to the posts behind it01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 8 posts on X 2 weeks
Narrative / Rank 07 / Week of Oct 18 – Oct 24
Pumpfun's $6M Kimchi deal rumor and airdrop anger dominate
Peak / day14tracked accounts
Peak dayMonOct 19 · busiest day in the panel
Rest of X / peak day115distinct accounts outside the panel
Cited claims10source links retained
Market—no token attached
Attention
Who was talking, day by day
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What happened
Reports say Kimchi was paid $6M by Pumpfun just to join, and he holds 75% of the solana:CSocnzcRpgSCr1naKcNTieWZUxb6rABe45j844m7pump supply and made over $29M in profit in 12 hours. Multiple profiles verified Kimchi is a serial deployer who has enriched himself creating tokens, and his Trump Coin gains are false. Kimchi promotion is a waste of promised Pumpfun airdrop money and another reason to dislike Alon and Pumpfun.
+ 7 more in the evidence register ↓Why it matters
Pumpfun's deal-making is being discussed as if it were the platform's own activity: it is paying and promoting outside tokens and app integrations (Kimchi, Pokemon pack-ripping, Monad), and airdrop promises remain unfulfilled. If the Kimchi deal is real, a platform that positions itself as neutral is paying for a token whose supply is concentrated; if it is rumor, the market is still pricing it in. Either way, the brand is now the story.
Observed reaction
negative
Spread
Where it started and who carried it
- First seen
- Oct 18, 04:48 UTC by @dhruv_sniper
- Accounts
- 62 tracked · 55 elsewhere on X
- Communities
- memecoins solana (33), general ct (9), perps trading (6), ai crypto (3)
- Key accounts
- @pumpfun, @pumpfuneco, @denx_sol, @coldtrz, @mavericks100xs
Explainability
Evidence register
Multiple profiles verified Kimchi is a serial deployer who has enriched himself creating tokens, and his Trump Coin gains are false.
[1]Kimchi promotion is a waste of promised Pumpfun airdrop money and another reason to dislike Alon and Pumpfun.
[1]ZachXBT advises Paradigm; if Paradigm has a financial interest in Pumpfun's success, his Kimchi investigation looks like a nothingburger and every financial relationship should be disclosed.
[1]Pumpfun invested $250K into a Pokemon pack-ripping company that could be integrated into the Pumpfun app.
[1]Pumpfun is highlighting a cets-on-gold:native profile in the Apple App Store.
[1]Pumpfun opened the gates to Monad and $MONIGGA is already running distribution there.
[1]The promised Pumpfun airdrop has not happened within a year.
[1]Ansem had momentum and instead of focusing on his own runner pushed Pumpfun and random shitters, fumbling it.
[1]The baton is being passed over to Pumpfun.
[1]Angles
- Pumpfun paying for adoption instead of shipping the airdrop
- Kimchi supply concentration and side-wallet selling claims
- ZachXBT/Paradigm conflict-of-interest angle on the Kimchi investigation
- Pumpfun expanding to Monad and app-store integrations
- Unverified paid promotion across tracked accounts
Formats in use
- meme
- news
Risks
- Pumpfun reportedly paying $6M to Kimchi to join is unverified; treat as rumor until confirmed on-chain or by Pumpfun.
- Claims that Kimchi controls 75% of supply and made $29M in 12 hours come from @unvint and @degenhustla, not verified here.
- @lordsambrah's claim that ZachXBT advises Paradigm and therefore has a conflict is an allegation; Paradigm's financial interest in Pumpfun is unconfirmed.
- No market block was provided, so none of the supply/profit figures could be checked against market data; all numbers are account claims.
- Possible coordinated promotion: multiple tracked accounts pushed the same Kimchi/Pumpfun framing within hours (Oct 21-22).
Observed content
Most-engaged posts
RT @FatTony401: Nice onboarding @Pumpfun https://t.co/8sbh8WoDY6Open on X →
Ansem literally had everything going for him. A loyal community backing him day and night. Liquidity pouring into $ANSEM from other memes. A mechanism that had degens thinking they were buying a $400M coin when, in reality, it was closer to $80M at the top. Every platform was bOpen on X →
RT @AvgJoesCrypto: I imagine the Pokemon pack ripping company that @Pumpfun invested $250K into is the next likeliest candidate to be integrated into the Pumpfun app. R/R of solana:DLGRpmkMGr7J4KD1xR5x2XjaGeQH64PLFQkyxNNSpump at $3.5M seems good here https://t.co/TjPOljg55LOpen on X →
This is what the PumpFun homepage looks like... lmao If you're new to crypto, ya don't got a single clue what the fuck you're looking at. Painful. https://t.co/QFqA4UHOfyOpen on X →
RT @hdegroott: The baton is being passed over to @PumpfunOpen on X →
didn’t get Rolex but got omnitrix thank you @Pumpfun https://t.co/I2B6AC1cmmOpen on X →
Ain’t tipping a male barista, hit the Pumpfun gacha packs nigga 😭✌🏿Open on X →
Dumb. No one even knows who Kimchi is… waste of our promised airdrop money. Another reason to hate Alon and @Pumpfun even moreOpen on X →
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