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The partnership

How Kimchi was promoted, and the claim that came with it.

  • ~20 Oct 2026: Pump.fun promotes trader Kimchi as a “Pill Your Friends” creative partner. R-B01
  • The pitch repeats a “$40M on TRUMP” claim. Bubblemaps traced about $6M. R-B09
Details

Protos reports that co-founder Alon Cohen called him “the first ever example of a trader becoming a celebrity”. A capture of Alon's 20 October post contains similar language. Bubblemaps' thread says the $40M claim began as an unverified 2025 rumour, that one wallet it could trace made about $6M, and that it may not see every address.

“the first ever example of a trader becoming a celebrity”

Alon Cohen (as quoted by Protos) — Protos reports that Pump Fun co-founder Alon Cohen described Kim this way. S05Context: Quoted in Protos's description of the 'Pill Your Friends' promotion. A capture of Alon's 20 October post (S09-CAP) contains a similar description.