Introducing Pump.Build — A Trustless Anti-Sniping Token Launchpad

For the legitimate builders and early supporters driving the next wave of innovation together

May 15, 2025

Hey everyone!

I know it's been a while since my last update – I've been heads down since late last year juggling work, life, and quietly cooking up some new projects.

The past couple months have been especially intense, but I'm excited to finally share one of these projects with you today.

From what I’ve observed since last year, launching a legitimate project has never been harder in the ever-chaotic world of crypto.

Scams and rugpulls are rampant. Memecoins pop up by the hundreds daily. Even “fair launches” often end up anything but — with insiders getting in early and unsuspecting users left holding the bag.

For founders trying to build something real, the noise is deafening. And for early supporters who actually care about backing the next big thing, the risk of getting rugged is always lurking.

That’s why I built Pump.Build — a new kind of token launch platform, designed from the ground up to be trustless, transparent, and aligned with both builder and users.

Zero sniping.

Real accountability.

Lower risks for both founders and users.

And a launch process that rewards both the creators and the community.

In a landscape often characterised by extractive practices, Pump.Build offers a vision of what web3 launchpads can and should be: catalysts for innovation that serve all stakeholders in the ecosystem, not just platform owners or founders themselves.

Here’s how it works:

PS: If you're curious about the full flow, check out the docs on Gitbook here.

The Problem Space

The crypto space has always been plagued by malicious actors seeking to promote their next scam and rugpull by preying on greed and the fear of missing out from the general public.
Even the term "fair launch" has been bastardised to mean "equal opportunity" for anyone to buy, when everyone knows who has gotten the most tokens at the lowest price possible.
That said, there were improvements in the space over time starting with Pump.Fun which introduced a standardised token contract that users could trust and verify that it had no shady mechanisms - think freezing, burning, admin access control and other shenanigans that were prevalent earlier.
However, that introduced another set of problems — the low barriers to entry and ease of creating a new token have led to a flood of low-quality tokens, impersonators, and outright scams
While this heralded the age of memecoins, it also inevitably made it harder for real and legitimate projects to build and flourish in this space.

Introducing a Trustless Solution

We have decided to tackle this problem from the ground-up, and to design a system with the right incentives for both legitimate builders and early adopter users wishing to support the next big thing.
This is done through a unique implementation of an ethical and fair token launch in a trustless environment, while also accounting for founder and builder incentives (after all, we believe it is only right to compensate the builders for the time, effort, and energy that they put into their projects).

How does this process work?

In a nutshell, we have combined the multiple features of vesting, commitments, and price discovery into a single integrated process.
Upon token creation, the founder may define a target commitment amount, set a duration for the commitment round, and allocate a portion of the token supply for it.
These tokens allocated for the commitment round will be divided proportionally to all users who had participated, while if the target was not reached, users will be able to receive a full refund of the amount they had committed.
The founder may also choose to set vestees (e.g. himself, his team, early investors) from zero up to a maximum vesting percentage, and specify various amounts, cliffs, and vesting durations for each vestee.
With a successful commitment round, the project moves on to the price discovery phase with a customised bonding curve that is seeded with the SOL that users had committed previously.
Early supporters who had committed to the round can now claim their tokens and trade on the bonding curve; this process ensures that everyone receives tokens at essentially the same price.
When the bonding curve reaches its completion amount, it graduates to a liquidity pool, similar to how it works on Pump.Fun.
Note: This is a simple outline to help you better understand the process, we go further in-depth into each step in the subsequent sections on Gitbook.

Community-First Approach

Pump.Build adopts a Web 2.5 and email-first approach as a community platform built on top of a token launchpad — supporting projects through both their pre-launch and post-launch phases.
Social features are being designed to help founders continuously engage their supporters and communities, gather feedback on what works (and what doesn't), launch built-in marketing and growth campaigns, and access a suite of audited smart contracts — including staking, delegation, governance, and more — to deliver meaningful utility to their users.
Of course, much of this is still in development. For now, we're focused on delivering our core value proposition: building a trustless token launchpad, currently being tested on the Solana Devnet.

Behind The Name: Pump.Build

We believe that for all its flaws, Pump.fun revolutionised the memecoin meta by enabling safe and trustworthy token contracts — giving anyone the ability to launch a token without needing any technical knowledge.
Whether for better or worse, this sparked a wave across the crypto space that reshaped how tokens were created and communities were formed.
In homage to Pump.fun (and because it's insanely difficult to find a good name and domain), we decided to call ourselves Pump.Build. It’s a playful nod to Pump.fun, yet also a philosophical contrast.
Where Pump.fun leans fully into degen culture, memecoins, and short-lived hype, Pump.Build is about long-term value, sustainable growth, and high-quality projects. Still community-driven. Still exciting. Just less chaotic.
We know the name may carry some baggage — but we believe the recognition and familiarity outweigh the downsides. By building around the Pump.fun phenomenon, we give users an immediate sense of what we're doing… and where we intend to take it.
With that spirit, we also hope to spark a new wave of real, credible crypto projects launching under .build domains — just as .fun became iconic in the memecoin space.

Fun Fact About Our Logo

Our logo features a blue brick — a specific type of engineering brick known for its exceptional durability. These bricks are produced by firing clay at extremely high temperatures in low-oxygen environments, resulting in a dense, non-porous structure and a distinct deep blue colour.
It’s more than just aesthetic. The blue brick symbolises structure, resilience, and a deliberate approach — qualities we aim to embody at every level of Pump.Build.
We also chose blue intentionally — as a calm, stable contrast to Pump.fun’s green-and-white pill icon. While their branding evokes fast-paced launches and meme-fuelled energy, ours reflects a more deliberate, grounded approach.

Thanks for reading — and if you’ve made it this far, I appreciate you.

Pump.Build is still in active development, and we’re just getting started.

If this resonates with you — whether you’re a founder, builder, or early supporter — I’d love to hear your thoughts.

You can check out the full docs here or just reply to this post.

Cheers,

0xBlockBard