According to one of Pump.fun’s co-founders, identified on X as Alon, there won’t ever be coins from him or the Pump.fun platform or any employees, not even “stealth launches.” Alon made the statement ...

Crypto scams are booming. In the first half of 2025, investors lost nearly $2.5 billion to hacks and scams—though wallet compromises and phishing led that wave, rug pulls and pump-and-dumps remain top ...

Memecoin launch tactics often involve hidden strategies like front-running, sniping and self-buying. Front-running in crypto and maximal extractable value (MEV) exploitation give bots and insiders ...

Almost a quarter (24%) of cryptocurrency tokens launched last year displayed the tell-tale signs of a pump-and-dump fraud scheme, according to Chainalysis. Pump-and-dump schemes are common in ...