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Record-Breaking: PUMP Meme Coin Presale Raises $280 Million on BakerySwap
The decentralized exchange BakerySwap has achieved an unprecedented milestone in the world of meme coins. The presale of the new token Big Pump (PUMP) raised over $280 million, becoming the largest presale ever conducted for a meme coin.
According to BakerySwap’s announcement, this astronomical figure (at least for this type of token) exceeded all expectations and highlighted investors’ voracious appetite for such digital assets, considered highly risky but with potential for exponential gains.
The resounding success of the presale was supported by massive participation from holders of some of the most popular cryptocurrencies on the BNB Chain. Presale participants committed 363,000 BNB, 9 million CAKE, 24 million BAKE, 1.5 trillion 1CAT, and 73 trillion IQ50, reflecting confidence or greedy interest in the PUMP project and its ability to challenge the laws of physics in an increasingly volatile market.
🎉 $PUMP Presale Complete Successfully! 🎉
We’ve smashed records with over $280M participation, marking the biggest #memecoin presale ever! 🚀
🔥 363K $BNB, 9M $CAKE, 24M $BAKE, 1.5B #1CAT, and 73B #IQ50
🕙 Refund will be completed in 48 hours
⛽️ Let's $PUMP it up and make… pic.twitter.com/utzC1uiWy8
— BakerySwap (@bakery_swap) March 22, 2024
What Is PUMP, and What Sparks Its Immense Interest in the Crypto Community?
According to BakerySwap’s official presale statement, PUMP is a meme coin launched on the BNB chain “that represents what everyone in crypto is dreaming of: a Big Pump of their coins”.
Furthermore, as its name suggests, $PUMP is nothing more than a meme cryptocurrency, with no real utility and designed purely for fun and speculation. It doesn’t even have a development team behind the project.
“$PUMP is absolutely a meme coin, and it’s all about having fun. It doesn’t have any utility, there are no teams to back it up,” the statement cites.
But don’t be discouraged by that. Many of the largest meme coins in the market started the same way. For example, the original meme coin or at least the first one with a dog theme, Dogecoin, started as a joke towards Bitcoin, and look how far it has come. Currently, it has an astonishing market capitalization of nothing more and nothing less than $21.3 billion, occupying the 9th position among the top 10 leading cryptocurrencies in the market.
Therefore, PUMP is essentially a social phenomenon driven solely by investors’ expectations. This speculative nature has become the traders’ biggest bet in recent months, investing large sums of money in hopes of finding the gem of their dreams that will make them millionaires overnight.
Will PUMP become the next viral sensation in the crypto world, or will it go unnoticed like many others? This is another enigmatic question that only time will answer.
Record-Breaking: PUMP Meme Coin Presale Raises $280 Million on BakerySwap
