Manifesto · by @atareh
The Library of Pump
Most of the information we've accumulated lives on the internet now. The news, the dictionary, the archives, the answer your AI gives you. And almost all of it can be changed after the fact, without you noticing.
We've watched it happen live. In September 2021, in the middle of a pandemic, the CDC rewrote its definition of vaccination.
Ask DeepSeek about Tiananmen Square and it tells you that's "beyond my current scope." Pages get edited, posts get deleted.
Before the internet, changing definitions or erasing historical events required physically burning books. Today it happens in a few clicks, and most of the time nobody notices.
A blockchain works the other way. Once something is written to it, it stays written. Nobody can quietly edit it, and nobody can take it back.
Which brings me to pump.fun.
Since January 2024, people have launched over 23,000,000 tokens on it. That's one new token every 3.7 seconds, for almost three years straight. Most of it is noise: tokens made to catch a wave of attention and flip it.
Tokens launched on pump.fun per day. Chart: @seraph1302 on Dune.
But zoom out and something else shows up. When something happens in the world, people launch tokens about it within minutes. 1,065 of them after Luigi Mangione was arrested. 336 when Jimmy Carter died. Each one carries a name, a ticker and the exact second it was made, written to the Solana blockchain for good.
While most people look at pump.fun tokens as degeneracy and gambling, I see an internet archive. A timestamped record of what the internet and crypto twitter were paying attention to, that nobody can edit.
Today this may not matter much (we have Wikipedia, X, etc.), but who can guarantee our internet archives will be around 100 years from now, or 1,000? Whole publications have come and gone in the span of a few decades, and what they wrote and documented was wiped from the internet (see: Vice). @balajis talks about this a lot.
Which brings me to TLOP.
The Library of Pump draws all 23 million tokens as stars in a galaxy. Hover over a star and you get that exact token. Most of it is noise.
But across them is the internet and crypto twitter archive: 218 notable moments. Deaths, elections, viral animals, big moments on CT (BOME, Slerf), hacks, a new pope. Click a moment to see every token launched about it. It is one of the best internet archives and historical records of what the world and crypto twitter paid attention to at the time. And it'll continue to be updated and stored for as long as the Solana blockchain exists.
History, written by the people speculating on it.
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