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Fomo
2026-08-13 08:34:00

How Fomo turned social trading into an onchain growth engine in a bear market

Fomo has emerged as one of crypto’s fastest-growing trading products during a weak market cycle, according to PANews. The company, backed by a team of roughly 17 people, has raised a cumulative $94 million in a little over a year and turned a social trading app into a new onchain trading gateway. Data cited from Dune shows that as of Aug. 12, Fomo had processed about 28.644 million trades, more than $4.69 billion in cumulative volume, and over $31.79 million in fees. Its growth accelerated sharply at the end of the second quarter of 2026, then expanded rapidly in July as volume climbed from the millions into the hundreds of millions of dollars on a weekly basis. In the latest trading week, weekly volume topped $550 million. PANews said Fomo benefited from two major demand centers: fresh user flow from the launch of Robinhood Chain mainnet and sustained high-frequency Meme trading activity on Solana. The report also highlighted Fomo’s product design, including wallet abstraction, gasless onboarding, fiat-denominated balances and a feed-driven social experience, as well as its community fundraising strategy that doubled as a distribution channel during cold start.

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How Fomo turned social trading into an onchain growth engine in a bear market
Pump.fun
2026-08-13 02:18:09

Pump.fun steps up fight with Fomo as both platforms chase control of crypto trading flow

Pump.fun and Fomo are now in a direct contest over one of crypto’s biggest user businesses: speculative trading around meme coins. The piece argues that Fomo’s rise came from a stronger consumer-facing product, one that made trading social, public, and easier to follow. Users can track traders, inspect positions, copy trades, or even fade them, turning the platform into a key venue for meme-coin activity on Robinhood Chain as weekly fees and trader counts climbed. At the same time, the underlying infrastructure remains heavily tied to Pump.fun, especially in the Solana ecosystem, which the article describes as the main base for speculative crypto trading. That has created an awkward arrangement: Fomo owns user attention on the front end, while Pump.fun controls much of the execution layer underneath. According to the article, Pump.fun is now trying to own both layers by adding social features, offering zero front-end fees, and reportedly using contracts worth tens of thousands of dollars per month to lure top traders away from Fomo. The analysis frames the clash as part of a broader pattern in crypto, where infrastructure platforms move up the stack to capture end users directly. It also says the real deciding factor may be trust. Social trading only works if users believe the visible trading signals are real, and both platforms may eventually be judged less by features than by how well they can protect the integrity of those signals.

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Pump.fun steps up fight with Fomo as both platforms chase control of crypto trading flow
ChainFeeds
2026-08-11 02:26:40

ChainFeeds roundup tracks Bitcoin’s BIP-110 split, Pump-FOMO rivalry, and Robinhood Chain’s meme-led launch

ChainFeeds’ Aug. 11 research roundup brought together five separate market and policy discussions that are shaping current crypto debate. The package led with the fallout from Bitcoin’s BIP-110, where nodes enforcing the proposal began rejecting blocks without bit 4 signaling even though support in the prior 2,016-block window was only 51 blocks, or 2.53%. The result was a chain split, with the higher-work main chain moving ahead while the BIP-110 branch lagged. The report also reviewed the competitive battle between Pump and FOMO over the social trading interface, arguing that the real contest is not token issuance alone but control over discovery, amplification, distribution, and execution. A separate Bitcoin market note focused on ETF flows, hash rate, node distribution, MVRV, the 200-week moving average, and three portfolio approaches ranging from dollar-cost averaging to options hedging. On Ethereum, ChainFeeds highlighted a debate around EIP-8363 and whether staking rewards should eventually rely only on execution-layer revenue once network staking surpasses 50%. The final section examined Robinhood Chain, which generated $3.6 million in REV in July and out-earned several established Layer 2 networks, though early activity was dominated by meme coin trading rather than RWA usage.

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ChainFeeds roundup tracks Bitcoin’s BIP-110 split, Pump-FOMO rivalry, and Robinhood Chain’s meme-led launch
Pump.fun
2026-08-10 00:49:00

Pump.fun’s social push faces a harder question: reinvention or a late-stage survival move?

Pump.fun rolled out an app upgrade on Aug. 7, 2026, adding Callouts, token alerts that can be pushed to all followers, zero-fee trading and seamless cross-chain transfers in USDC. In a long-form analysis, Foresight framed the move against sharply different industry choices: Base has stepped back from social features, while Binance and OKX are building social layers deeper into trading products. The article argues that Pump.fun’s shift looks less like expansion from a position of strength and more like an attempt to respond to weakening user growth, poor retention, intensifying competition and mounting legal and reputational pressure. It points to Pump.fun’s own disclosed 1.4% graduation rate, heavy token mortality, and a business model tied to constant inflows of new users. Foresight also highlights pressure from GMGN, Robinhood Chain and Uniswap’s new launchpad, alongside lawsuits in the U.S. and prior action by the U.K.’s FCA. The core problem, the piece says, is not just competition. It is that fewer newcomers are arriving, and the platform’s name has increasingly become associated with controversy rather than product momentum.

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Pump.fun’s social push faces a harder question: reinvention or a late-stage survival move?
Ansem
2026-08-10 00:22:14

Ansem says trading could become the next breakout PvP game as tokenization spreads

Crypto investor Ansem said trading may evolve into one of the most popular forms of next-generation PvP activity, as tokenization becomes as common as posting on social platforms. In his view, the early phase of the 2023 cycle offered a preview when Unibot paired a trading terminal with a token and helped expand on-chain trading in long-tail assets, with its market capitalization at one point reaching $200 million. He expects this cycle to bring several mobile-first social trading platforms. Ansem also said 24/7 perpetual trading in both stocks and crypto will likely keep drawing retail interest. He pointed to Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 stock product as evidence that the trend is already being tested in the market, and said platforms such as Lighter could also benefit. He added that Robinhood was the first platform to prove the viability of “gamified trading,” though he argued no platform has yet fully captured the social layer embedded in trading. For this cycle, Ansem said his main focus is on unresolved issues around creators and the attention economy. He said many token projects want distribution through creators with large audiences and are willing to pay significant sums, but that demand cannot be effectively handled through a standard meme coin model.

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Ansem says trading could become the next breakout PvP game as tokenization spreads