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The cryptocurrency market continues to pull back, with BTC falling to $76,000, while only the AI and GameFi sectors remain relatively resilient
According to SoSoValue data, the cryptocurrency market continues to correct, with Bitcoin (BTC) dropping 0.66% to above $77,000, and Ethereum (ETH) declining 0.24% to below $2,300. The AI sector performed notably, rising 0.96% in 24 hours, with Bittensor (TAO) up 4.20%, Unibase (UB) up 18.84%, and SkyAI (SKYAI) up 35.11%. Additionally, the GameFi sector gained 0.40%, with Axie Infinity (AXS) and GALA rising 2.64% and 2.45% respectively.In other sectors, the Layer 2 sector fell 0.06% in 24 hours, but Celestia (TIA) rose 4.05%; the CeFi sector declined 0.44%, with Aster (ASTER) gaining 2.55%; the Layer 1 sector dropped 0.88%, while Humanity (H) surged 26.66% intraday; the Meme sector fell 1.17%, with Pump.fun (PUMP) bucking the trend to rise 6.66%; the PayFi sector decreased 1.21%, with Safe (SAFE) remaining relatively firm, up 1.75%; and the DeFi sector fell 1.48%, with Block Street (BSB) rising sharply by 18.11%.Crypto sector indices reflecting historical sector performance show the ssiGameFi index rising 0.52%, while the ssiMeme and ssiNFT indices fell 2.38% and 2.34% respectively.
pumpfun: Approximately $370 Million PUMP Destroyed, Commits 50% of Next Year's Revenue to Buybacks and Burns
pumpfun founder alon posted on platform X, stating that over the past approximately 9 months, PUMP has allocated 100% of its revenue to buybacks. Today, PUMP tokens worth approximately $370 million have been destroyed, accounting for 36% of the circulating supply. Additionally, PUMP commits to allocating 50% of its revenue over the next year to programmatic buybacks and burns, while the other 50% will be used for business growth, product development, infrastructure construction, and ecosystem reinvestment. alon stated that this move aims to enhance community trust and ensure long-term business growth.
Pump.fun Burns ~$370M Worth of PUMP Tokens and Launches Programmatic Buyback-and-Burn Mechanism
According to an official announcement by Pump.fun, the platform has completed the burning of all previously repurchased $PUMP tokens, amounting to approximately $370 million—roughly 36% of the circulating supply. The burn was executed via two on-chain transactions at 20:52 UTC. Simultaneously, Pump.fun has launched a programmable buyback-and-burn mechanism, allocating 50% of its net revenue over the next year toward publicly purchasing $PUMP on the open market and immediately burning 100% of the acquired tokens. This mechanism is enforced via an immutable smart contract covering revenue streams from Pump.fun’s three core product lines: the bonding curve, PumpSwap, and Terminal. Its execution comprises four steps: fee collection, aggregation into an intermediate wallet, buyback, and burn—all of which can be tracked in real time at fees.pump.fun. The remaining 50% of revenue will fund operational expenses and ecosystem development, including team expansion, strategic investments, and marketing initiatives. Pump.fun stated that this move aims to address community concerns regarding the token’s long-term value and the transparency of the buyback mechanism, with the overarching goal of continuously reducing the circulating supply.
Pump.fun has repurchased over 35% of its total circulating supply, with a cumulative buyback value exceeding $360 million
According to data from fees.pump.fun, Pump.fun spent 8,754.98 SOL (approximately $812,000) yesterday to repurchase 421.5 million PUMP tokens. Since initiating the PUMP token buyback program on July 15, 2025, the cumulative number of repurchased PUMP tokens has reached 125,866,560,136, valued at approximately $367,323,928. This has reduced the total circulating supply by 35.556%.
Pump.fun purchased approximately $6.5 million worth of PUMP in the past 7 days, with cumulative purchases accounting for about 34.96% of the circulating supply.
According to Pump.fun Ecosystem, Pump.fun purchased approximately $6.5 million worth of PUMP over the past 7 days.Data shows that its cumulative purchase volume has reached approximately $363 million, corresponding to about 34.96% of the circulating supply.
Castle Labs: The crypto market is shifting from “gambling” to “investment”; revenue generation and value returns will become the core competitiveness of tokens.
Castle Labs (@castle_labs) published a post stating that the current crypto market is undergoing a profound paradigm shift—speculative models prioritizing extraction are gradually giving way to investment logic oriented toward revenue generation. The article notes that since 2026, the broader crypto market has performed poorly: most assets have seen sustained price declines, ETF funds have continued flowing out, project shutdowns have intensified, and institutional VC investments have grown increasingly conservative. The key catalysts for this shift were last October’s large-scale liquidation event and the ongoing market reflection triggered by gold consistently outperforming Bitcoin. On the revenue data front, among the roughly 5,700 protocols tracked by DeFiLlama, only 3.5% generated over $100,000 in revenue over the past 30 days—and fewer than 1% actually distributed earnings to token holders. The article focuses on top revenue-generating protocols—including Hyperliquid (HYPE), Pumpdotfun (PUMP), Tron (TRON), Sky (SKY), Jupiter (JUP), Aave (AAVE), and Aerodrome (AERO)—analyzing their price-to-sales ratios (P/S) and token holder return metrics. It argues that protocol revenue—and its capacity to feed value back to token holders—is becoming the core metric investors use to evaluate and select projects. Regarding institutionalization trends, traditional financial giants—including NYSE, Robinhood, BlackRock, and Franklin Templeton—