ChainCatcher reported that Velocity Capital investor DeFi Cheetah posted on X, stating that through an unconfirmed private channel, he heard the following rumors regarding pump.fun's fundraising:
- There will be no airdrop, but a whitelist will be set for the public sale;
- The fundraising target for the public sale is 800 million USD, with a valuation of 5 billion USD;
- VCs will also have a quota of 200 million USD, with the same valuation of 5 billion USD;
- The public sale will be conducted on most major centralized exchanges (CEXs), and these exchanges are preparing for it.
Previously, Blockworks reported earlier that pump.fun plans to raise 1 billion USD through a token sale, with a valuation of 4 billion USD.