About PumpSwap Guide

Who we are

PumpSwap Guide is written by a small, rotating group of people who have been active in crypto since 2017 — through two full market cycles, a handful of exchange collapses, and more "revolutionary" launchpads than anyone can remember. Some of us come from security and smart-contract auditing. Some come from journalism. All of us have, at one point or another, lost money to a contract we did not read carefully enough. That experience is the whole point of this project.

We are not influencers, we do not run a trading group, and we do not sell signals. We write the kind of plain-English explainer we wish had existed the first time we connected a wallet to a memecoin launchpad and clicked "approve" without really knowing what we were agreeing to.

Our mission

The pump.fun ecosystem is fast, cheap and genuinely interesting from an engineering standpoint. It is also one of the most hostile environments for an unprepared newcomer that crypto has produced. Most tokens launched on it lose almost all their value, rug pulls and honeypots are routine, and there is no support desk to call when something goes wrong.

Our mission is simple: explain how each part of this ecosystem actually behaves with your money, and lead with the risks. When we cover the swap DEX, token mechanics, wallets or airdrops, we ask the same question a security reviewer asks: what happens to my funds on the worst possible day?

No hype, no profit promises, no "this token is going to the moon." If a page reads like marketing, we have failed at our job.

Independence and affiliation

To be unambiguous: we have no relationship with pump.fun or PumpSwap. We do not receive funding, equity, tokens, early access or instructions from them. We are not part of any official program. When we describe their fees or mechanics, we are summarising publicly available information from the official pump.fun site — and we say so, because those figures can and do change.

How we evaluate things

Every guide on this site follows the same review process. It is deliberately boring and repeatable, because that is what keeps it honest.

1. Start from official sources We read the official pump.fun documentation and interface first, and attribute any specific figure — fees, supply, graduation thresholds — directly to it, noting that numbers may change.
2. Test the worst case We map out what can go wrong: failed transactions, slippage, malicious token approvals, fake login pages, lost seed phrases. The downside scenario shapes the page, not the upside.
3. Translate, don't dazzle We rewrite jargon into plain English. Custodial versus non-custodial, bonding curves, SPL tokens — if we use a term, we define it.
4. Score the trade-offs Where it helps, we publish an editorial "audit score." It is our opinion, not a measurement, and we show the components so you can disagree with us.
5. Date and revisit Each page carries an "updated" date. This is a moving ecosystem; we revise pages when mechanics or fees change rather than letting them quietly go stale.

How we fund the site

Running and maintaining a multi-language knowledge base costs money, and we would rather be honest about where ours comes from than pretend the site runs on goodwill.

PumpSwap Guide is funded by affiliate links, mostly to regulated, KYC'd on-ramp exchanges where beginners can safely learn the basics of buying, selling and withdrawing crypto. If you click one of those links and sign up, we may earn a commission — at no extra cost to you.

If you would like to support the work, the simplest way is to use our links when you are going to sign up somewhere anyway. You can, for example, explore a regulated trading terminal→ and decide for yourself whether it suits you.

This is education, not financial advice

Everything on PumpSwap Guide is general educational information. It is not financial, investment, legal or tax advice, and it is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any token or to use any particular platform. We do not know your circumstances, your risk tolerance or your local regulations.

Crypto is volatile, largely unregulated, and — in the case of memecoins — frequently a vehicle for outright scams. Never invest money you cannot afford to lose entirely, never sign a transaction you do not understand, and never share your seed phrase with anyone, including anyone claiming to be "support." If you are starting out, read our wallet guide and login guide before you connect anything to anything.

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