Base Surges Past Solana in Daily Token Creation as Pump.fun Loses Steam
Move over, Solana—there's a new token factory in town. Base just flipped the high-speed blockchain in daily token creation, while meme coin launchpad Pump.fun keeps deflating faster than a rug-pulled shitcoin.
The Layer 2 showdown heats up
Base's sudden dominance in token generation signals a seismic shift in where degens are deploying their half-baked projects. Meanwhile, Solana's once-unstoppable momentum hits its first real speed bump since the FTX collapse.
Pump.fun's slow bleed continues
The platform that turned token launches into a casino game keeps shrinking—proving even crypto's appetite for reckless speculation has limits. Or maybe the SEC finally scared off the yield farmers.
One thing's certain: in crypto's perpetual platform wars, today's darling becomes tomorrow's abandoned testnet. Just ask any bagholder still waiting for their 'Ethereum killer' to, well, kill anything.
Zora vs Pump.fun
Zora is a very different platform to Pump.fun. Instead of creating tokens for the sake of it, Zora turns every post on the social media platform into a token on Base. Traders then buy and sell the post, essentially betting on its virality—in this sense, it is similar to Pump.fun.
While bot activity on Zora is still possible, its fans and creators argue that the platform encourages authentic posts to perform better. On Pump.fun, part of the charm is that anything silly, funny, or relevant could skyrocket.
For example, the Pump.fun created TsunamiInu coin peaked at a $16 million market cap on Wednesday as news spread of a Tsunami in Hawaii. It was launched by a wallet that has created more than 370 coins, many of which are news-relevant and are duplicates of the wallet’s own tokens.
Scrolling down the Zora feed, while there is the occasional post that seems low effort, the majority of posts are either art or seemingly genuine depictions of everyday life.
One of the most successful projects on Zora is artist Jack Butcher's series Lemonade Stand. The 10-part artwork initially showed prices ranging from $1,000 down to $0.00001, but was recently changed to slices of a pie chart. It has left spectators puzzled but engaged with the piece.
“At least jack always tries something different,” pseudonymous trader Confugen tweeted. “I believe he’s on ThreadGuy’s stream tonight, wonder if there will be any cool mechanics announced.”
