Pumpfun’s large-scale pre-sale for PUMP tokens, along with preparations for listing on centralized exchanges, has been on the cryptocurrency community’s agenda. However, another issue that caught the community’s attention was the statements made by one of the platform’s founders, Alon, in the past. In a post dated March 31, 2024, Alon openly questioned the purpose of pre-sales and made the following statement: “The only advantage of pre-sales is that it gives you the opportunity to pocket the money raised. Conclusion: Every pre-sale is a scam.” These statements have created conflict and trust issues in the community, especially considering that Pumpfun is currently distributing tokens via a pre-sale model. In another post he made this year, Alon criticized the listing processes of centralized exchanges and said: “Exchange listings are dead; there is no transparency in the listing process, leading to fraudulent transactions and poor quality coin selection.” PUMP, which will be launched on July 12, has also agreed with the authorities to be listed on many centralized cryptocurrency exchanges. PUMP developers often come to the fore with the transfer and sale of their platform revenues to centralized cryptocurrency exchanges as Solana in onchain metrics. *This is not investment advice.