Pump.fun announces a $2.5M Squads trading competition

Correction C-0002 · 28 Oct 2026

Updated source-access and image-acquisition descriptions after a direct x.com recheck. Current receipt wording now identifies the inspected original posts, while deleted originals remain uninspected and analyst/author claims retain their limits.

A signed-in normal browser made the current post views available on 28 October 2026. Earlier capture-service/embed records and their access history are preserved; this does not authenticate deleted originals or prove the posts' allegations.

R-A06.supportSummary: "Two independent news reports (different origin groups) plus the complaint itself." R-B01.summary: "Protos reports that Kimchi and Pump.fun worked together on the 'Pill Your Friends' campaign, and that Alon Cohen called Kimchi 'the first ever example of a trader becoming a celebrity'. A capture of Alon's 20 October post shows similar language and says Kimchi would help set creative direction." R-B01.eventDateNote: "The status ID decodes to 20 October 2026, 23:19 UTC. That time is derived from the ID, not displayed by an original we inspected." R-B01.supportSummary: "A third-party capture of the post (the original returned HTTP 402) and Protos's account." R-B01.limitations: ["The original post was not inspected. A capture service supplied the text."] R-B03.limitations: ["UNREPOST has not seen the deleted posts. They are not presented as inspected originals.","No capture of Kimchi's QR-code post or of Alon's repost was located, so neither is pictured. The poster image shown comes from a third party's refund demand (S15).","A repost and its removal do not by themselves show coordination, intent, wallet ownership or profit."] R-B04.limitations: ["Market cap is not cash stolen, money deposited or traders' realised losses.","The Lookonchain figures are secondary: the original post was not inspected (S17)."] R-B05.limitations: ["The Lookonchain original was not inspected (S17).","This estimate must not be combined with Bitquery's figure for the separate 20 October token (R-B02)."] R-B06.summary: "A captured post by @tontheneko asks Alon to refund people who lost money on the coin he reposted, arguing that he should have checked it first. crypto.news reports this demand as an allegation and says it found no verified refund arrangement." R-B06.eventDateNote: "The status ID decodes to 22 October 2026, 20:54 UTC. That time is derived from the ID. The capture was taken 23 October, 01:01:31 UTC." R-B06.supportSummary: "A capture of the demand and a news report that describes it." R-B07.supportSummary: "Several reports describing competing explanations, with no attributable confirmation." R-B08.supportSummary: "Two reporting origins: 99Bitcoins, with its two syndications counted once, and Protos." R-B09.eventDateNote: "The thread's status IDs decode to 22 October 2026, 10:39 UTC. That time is derived. Post 1/ was captured 23 October, 00:43:41 UTC; posts 2/ to 4/ on 26 October, 20:03:32 UTC." R-B09.supportSummary: "The analyst's own thread, posts 1/ to 4/, via captures, and two reports that cite it." R-C01.supportSummary: "One news report linking several participants' posts." R-C02.supportSummary: "A single news report." R-C03.summary: "A capture of Alon's post shows him announcing 'the BIGGEST competition we've ever hosted on the Pumpfun app': $2.5M for the top three Squads by PnL over two weeks. Per the capture, the quoted Pump.fun post set the sign-up deadline at Monday, 26 October. Protos reports that critics say the format favours large KOL groups." R-C03.supportSummary: "A third-party capture of the announcement and a news report." R-C03.supports: ["The announced prize structure and dates, as captured."] R-C03.unresolved: ["The terms as finally run. The capture notes the post was later edited."] R-C03.eventDateNote: "The status ID decodes to 23 October 2026, 15:05 UTC. That time is derived. The capture was taken 24 October, 00:36:32 UTC."