PUMP Traders Face Wild Ride: Nearly Half Score Profits While Others Plunge Deep Into Loss Territory
PUMP's market performance splits traders into winners and losers—creating a classic crypto casino scenario where timing means everything.
Profit Takers Rejoice
Nearly half of PUMP positions sit comfortably in the green—proving once again that in crypto, being early often beats being right.
Red Zone Reality
The other half battles significant losses—a stark reminder that what pumps must eventually face gravity, or at least a brutal correction.
Market Psychology at Play
Traders ride emotional rollercoasters from euphoria to despair—welcome to digital asset speculation where fundamentals sometimes take a backseat to hype cycles.
Just another day where 'investing' looks suspiciously like gambling with better marketing materials.
On-chain Data Reveals Sharp Divide in PUMP Traders’ Profits and Losses
According to the firm, the numbers reveal how profits and losses diverge across different tiers of traders.
Bubblemaps pointed out that nearly 10,000 traders have cleared over $1,000, totaling around $332 million. Another 2,000 wallets crossed the $10,000 threshold, with cumulative profits above $311 million.
50% of $PUMP traders are now in profit
270k+ onchain traders
• 1 made $10M+ (Wintermute)
• 30 made $1M–$10M
• 400 made $100k–$1M
• 2,000 made $10k–$100k
• 10,000 made $1k–$10k
• 120,000 made — Bubblemaps (@bubblemaps) September 12, 2025
At the top, just under 400 wallets earned over $100,000, generating $264 million, while 28 wallets exceeded $1 million in returns. Meanwhile, one major trader alone has captured more than $10 million in profits.
Yet the gains tell only half the story.
According to Bubblemaps, the steepest losses came from nearly 9,000 wallets that each dropped more than $1,000, together forfeiting $332 million. Another 1,800 traders lost more than $10,000 apiece, with their combined red ink totaling $312 million.
Meanwhile, 343 traders have each lost an average of over $100,000, which amounts to more than $265 million. At the same time, 30 traders have lost more than $1 million each, and their total losses equal $177 million.
The uneven distribution of wins and losses comes as Pump.fun rolls out Project Ascend, a reform initiative launched in early September.
A key feature of the upgrade, “Dynamic Fees,” lowers project costs as their market caps expand. This mechanism is designed to deter short-term rug pulls and other exploitative launches.
By linking fees to market performance, Pump.fun is betting that stronger projects will thrive while low-quality scams become less attractive to deploy.
The program has already distributed nearly $20 million to token creators and played a pivotal role in Pump.fun’s recent market ascension.
Notably, market sentiment has reflected these changes within the project’s ecosystem.
Data from BeInCrypto shows that PUMP, the platform’s native token, climbed more than 4% over the past 24 hours, rising from $0.0058 to $0.0064.
