Crypto influencer kimchi received 1.35 billion PUMP tokens, allegedly as an endorsement fee for the platform.

According to monitoring by on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain, kimchi removed Pump.fun from their profile after two days. Over this two-day period, Pump.fun’s revenue dropped from $1.61 million to $1.35 million, a decline of approximately 16%, while the number of active addresses fell from 178,539 to 159,492, representing an approximate 11% decrease. Lookonchain noted that kimchi may have already received 1.35 billion PUMP tokens (approximately $6.25 million) in marketing fees. Data sourced from DefiLlama. It should be noted that this claim and any purported causal relationship with the platform’s data decline remain unconfirmed.