In transient
- Pump.enjoyable’s GO platform lets customers pay others to finish “ANY task,” and lots of of bounties appeared inside hours of launch.
- Rewards reached as excessive as $50,000, although precise payouts on the platform have thus far been far smaller.
- Some of the high-profile listings sought interviews with a assassin’s family, public stunts, and everlasting tattoos in alternate for crypto rewards.
Pump.enjoyable will now pay you to do virtually something, and individuals are already lining as much as do the strangest issues potential.
On Thursday, the Solana meme coin launchpad launched GO, a bounty platform constructed across the slogan “Pay ANYONE to do ANYTHING,” and inside hours, customers had posted lots of of duties, together with one providing roughly $2,650 for somebody to get a token’s ticker tattooed “on the forehead.”
“Humans & money are undeniably the most powerful tools on Earth,” Pump.enjoyable tweeted. “We’re combining both of them with GO: an all encompassing bounty platform where ANYONE can create or complete bounties for ANY task for UNLIMITED rewards.”
Users join an X account and pockets, publish a activity, and lock rewards in escrow beginning at $5, whereas Pump.enjoyable opinions submissions and determines payouts.
At the time of writing, GO listed 234 stay bounties, 494 submissions, and a $118,000 unclaimed pool.
Anything goes
The greatest rewards stay unclaimed on the platform.
Earlier, the highest-paying bounty provided as much as $50,000 for somebody to skydive right into a World Cup match in a meme coin mascot costume, requiring footage “verified through any media agency” and specifying that the video “cannot be AI.”
By the time of writing, nevertheless, the itemizing had disappeared, with the location stating, “This bounty has vanished. It may have been closed, removed by a moderator, or never published.”
The top remaining listing, value roughly $23,525, sought an interview with both a member of the family of the individual liable for Henry Nowak’s death or the lead police officer on the case, requesting at the very least two minutes of unedited footage and noting that “the more viral the interview the better.”
Below it sat $15,204 to beat a running world record, $12,199 to organize a “NEET March” by New York City, $11,034 to assist a token win Pump.fun’s own hackathon, $3,989 to host a “best butt contest,” and $9,103 to “Interview a Billionaire On Biological Intelligence.”
Further down the board, the duties flip stranger and, in locations, riskier.
Bounties requested individuals to set a branded car alight, streak an NBA Finals game, fart through a megaphone in a lecture, pour milk over themselves, hand out 100 jars of pineapple Kool-Aid to homeless individuals, get Elon Musk to engage a token on X, and bail someone out of jail.
One entrant within the roughly $2,876 “Quit Your Job on Camera” bounty livestreamed the try on Kick and stated he was fired from one other job within the course of, writing, “This was worth it for the sol.”
The precise cash has been skinny. Since the launch, the highest earner collected $487.11 in a single payout, adopted by wallets that took house $346.72 and $275.49.
Meanwhile, the largest spender paid out $1,707 throughout 11 bounties.
An acquisition play
Pump.enjoyable’s escrow-and-moderation setup will not be sufficient to maintain dangerous bounties off the platform, Musheer Ahmed, founder and managing director of Finstep Asia, advised Decrypt.
“While escrow systems can work, when combined with moderation, it is likely that this is an automated process,” he stated, including such programs haven’t confirmed totally efficient on platforms like Instagram and X, and that creators will pay out and coordinate with customers off-platform anyway.
“It feels like it is an attempt by pump.fun to retain users/attract non-crypto native users,” he stated, evaluating it to task-based creators like MrBeast, noting it actually would not have a lot to do with “tokens, NFTs, and crypto in general.”
We’ve been here before
GO formalizes a pay-for-stunts incentive that has repeatedly turned dangerous on Pump.fun.
The launchpad pulled its livestreaming feature in 2024 after an influx of contentious streams that included animal cruelty, self-harm, and a faked suicide.
Pump.fun revived livestreaming at the start of 2025 with new moderation, then leaned into “creator capital markets,” pairing viral stunts with tradable tokens.
Pump.enjoyable didn’t reply to a request for remark.
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