Pump.fun reopens livestreams to 5% of users after moderation overhaul
Solana memecoin platform Pump.fun has revived its live streaming feature, five months after pulling the plug over disturbing misuse.
According to the platform’s co-founder Alon Cohen , the feature has returned with stronger moderation tools and “transparent guidelines” in place. For now, it’s only available to 5% of users as part of a limited rollout to test the revamped system.
In its new moderation policy , Pump.fun said it’s aiming to strike a balance between creativity and safety with the goal of cultivating a social environment on the platform that “preserves creativity and freedom of expression and encourages meaningful engagement amongst users, free of illegal, harmful, and negative interactions.”
The guidelines encourage open expression but crack down on illegal, harmful, or otherwise inappropriate content. That includes bans on violence, animal abuse, pornography, and anything endangering minors. Repeat or severe violations could result in account termination.
The platform also reserves the right to make judgment calls on content when necessary, noting that some NSFW material might still appear but will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis using both automated and human moderation tools.
The livestream feature was originally pulled in November 2024 after a string of disturbing incidents shook the community .
Users had begun using livestreams to make shocking threats, including one case where a user allegedly shared a video appearing to take their own life after their token failed to hit a market cap target.
The fallout was immediate. Crypto users, influencers, and safety advocates slammed the platform for not doing enough to prevent harm after Beau, a safety product manager at Pudgy Penguins, brought attention to the aforementioned incident and criticized the platform on X.
Hey @pumpdotfun there is currently someone using your livestreams to threaten to hang themselves if the coin does not reach a set marketcap. Absolutely heinous and It needs to come down + see if you can get them help. Shut down the livestream feature. This is out of control.
In response, Pump.fun issued a community message acknowledging the damage, expressing regret, and outlining new steps to address moderation gaps. They doubled the number of human moderators, introduced smarter automated filters, and added support resources for viewers impacted by the livestreams.
Now, with a cautious relaunch and new safeguards in place, Pump.fun says it’s committed to rebuilding trust while giving creators a safe space to connect with their audience.
Many in the community praised Pump.fun’s revised approach and expressed optimism about its future role in memecoin activity. See below.
happy to see this back and strong rollout based on learnings. looking forward to see round 2!
The latest rollout comes as Pump.fun struggles to regain momentum following a sharp drop in revenue and user engagement . As previously reported by crypto.news, the platform’s daily fees recently hit a four-month low, with data showing a 94% drop since January.
Much of the slowdown has been linked to a fading memecoin frenzy that has cooled significantly since January.
Bitcoin: Satoshi Nakamoto Turns 50 — And We Still Don’t Know Who He Is
The mysterious creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, is celebrating his 50th birthday today, as his innovation revolutionizes global finance and now attracts major economic powers.
Today, April 5, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of Satoshi Nakamoto, the enigmatic creator of Bitcoin. According to information on his old profile from the P2P Foundation, Nakamoto was said to have been born on April 5, 1975, although this date may be more symbolic than factual.
This date was likely not chosen by chance. It corresponds precisely to the 42nd anniversary of the American presidential decree 6102, signed on April 5, 1933, which banned American citizens from owning gold to stabilize the dollar.
Despite fifteen years of research and speculation, Nakamoto’s identity remains the greatest mystery in the tech world. Many candidates have been proposed, from the cryptographer Adam Back to the developer Nick Szabo.
In March 2024, a British court definitively dismissed the claims of Craig Wright, calling his assertions that he is Satoshi “deliberately false.” An HBO documentary from October 2024 suggested that the Canadian developer Peter Todd might be Nakamoto , a claim he firmly denied.
What remains indisputable is the importance of this anonymity for the decentralized nature of Bitcoin. Without a central authority figure, Nakamoto’s invention has been able to grow as a truly distributed network, true to its original philosophy.
In fifteen years, Nakamoto’s creation has come an extraordinary way. From a niche experience within cypherpunk communities, Bitcoin has become an asset valued at over $1.6 trillion that is transforming the global financial landscape.
The adoption of Bitcoin as a strategic reserve by the U.S. government marks a historic turning point. Last month, President Donald Trump signed a decree establishing a strategic reserve of Bitcoin, officially integrating crypto into the financial system of the world’s leading power.
Meanwhile, Nakamoto’s treasure remains intact. The 1.1 million bitcoins linked to his addresses, dormant since early 2010, are now worth over $90 billion. This fortune would place Nakamoto among the 20 richest people in the world, surpassing even Bill Gates.
Nakamoto’s genius lies not only in the technical design of Bitcoin, but also in his decision to remain anonymous. By disappearing from the public scene in 2011, he allowed his creation to become truly decentralized, without an authority figure.
The message inscribed in Bitcoin’s Genesis block — referring to the bailout of banks by the British government in 2009 — remains a powerful symbol of his vision for an alternative monetary system, free from central authorities.
At 50, whether an individual or a group, the legacy of Satoshi Nakamoto now transcends his own identity. He has given rise not only to a technology, but to a movement that continues to transform our understanding of money and economic sovereignty.
Bitcoin Stands Strong Amid Trump, Fed, and Chaos — $100K in Sight?
What if Bitcoin was about to rewrite history… alone? While stock markets plummet in free fall and gold takes a pause after its last glow, the first cryptocurrency proudly holds its head high. It no longer clings to the wheel of its elders. No. It gallops ahead. A phenomenon that some already describe as the great decoupling. A new era where Bitcoin no longer follows anyone, not even gold. And in the distance, like a star in the sky of financial imagination: 100,000 dollars. Analyst fantasy? Leap of faith? Or simply the logical continuation of a scenario already written…
The scenario could have looked like a remake of 2020: shocking announcement from the White House, panic in the markets , massive sell-off of risky assets. And yet… Bitcoin held strong. While American stock markets were down 10.65% and gold, despite a historic peak of $3,167, was down 4.8%, BTC climbed 4.5%, once again crossing the $84,700 mark.
On X, James Seyffart is astonished:
I am really a bit shocked by Bitcoin’s resilience. I never believed it would hold above $80,000 in such a massive sell-off of risky assets… Even gold is down?
The same sentiment is echoed by Crypto Rover, who exclaims:
American stocks are crashing. Gold is crashing. Bitcoin is rising. An incredible force!
This is where enters an old couple from the financial world: gold and Bitcoin. The famous “gold leads, Bitcoin follows“, a theory that has returned like an obsessive refrain among analysts.
What if history were to repeat itself? In 2019 already, gold rose by 15%… before the Bitcoin price exploded by +170%.
This time, some, like MacroScope, see in a return to 100K “a strong signal that a new long-term movement is underway“. A passing of the torch. A rite of passage.
The mythical barrier of $100,000 is no longer just a shiny number that dazzles in the dreams of maximalists. It’s a milestone, a signal. For some, crossing it would mark the beginning of a new long-term cycle, a cycle where Bitcoin definitively emancipates itself from its status as an alternative asset to become… an obvious choice.
But beware of the sirens. The BTC/XAU ratio, which measures Bitcoin’s strength against gold, shows a bearish fractal, identical to the one that preceded a massive drop in 2021. If the scenario repeats itself, a correction towards $65,000, even $20,000, is not excluded. Yes, even in this golden dream, the ground can shift beneath our feet.
And as if that weren’t enough, the economic horizon remains turbulent: the Fed curbs enthusiasm, pushes back hopes for rate cuts, while Donald Trump raises the threat of a global trade war.
So, dream or reality, is this threshold of $100,000? One thing is certain: Bitcoin is in the process of inventing its own grammar. It writes its score against the clock. And while indexes stumble, precious metals hesitate, it carves its path towards the unknown, altitude, audacity. For Arthur Hayes, this rising tension orchestrated by Trump could well become the very essence of a new bullish cycle: “ the tariffs will propel gold and Bitcoin to new heights.” The best may still be to come.
Dedollarization in Motion: What BRICS Nations Are Quietly Planning
In a geopolitical context undergoing significant restructuring, two notable initiatives are shaking the hegemony of the dollar. Brazil and China are making a strategic shift by favoring their national currencies for bilateral exchanges. Meanwhile, Russia and Iran announce the launch of a new common currency to circumvent Western sanctions. These distinct but converging movements illustrate a shared desire among influential BRICS members: to build a financial system less dependent on the greenback and assert monetary sovereignty in the face of external pressures.
Brazil and China are taking a new step in their common strategy of dedollarization. Thus, their already robust trade relations are now taking a more pronounced monetary turn, with a declared intention to gradually switch to payments in local currencies. This approach has been publicly confirmed by official Brazilian representatives.
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This Sino-Brazilian rapprochement is therefore not merely a statement of intent. It signifies a concrete strategic shift towards regionalizing financial flows, driven by institutional means and strong political alignment.
In a more speculative but no less symbolic vein, Russia and Iran, two other powers aligned in an increasingly resistant opposition to Western hegemony, claim to be working on the creation of a new common currency within the BRICS bloc.
Kazem Jalali, Iran’s ambassador to Russia, has declared that:
The creation of a new unique currency within the framework of the BRICS association is what Russia and Iran are working on to free themselves from dependence on the dollar.
This announcement comes in the context of increasing economic sanctions against both countries, which are seeking alternatives to maintain the stability of their economies.
However, the details surrounding this project remain very vague. The Iranian ambassador has provided no timeline, precise mechanism, or even concrete elements regarding the progress of this initiative.
Nothing indicates whether this currency is in the active design phase or if it is merely a stated political intention. The lack of transparency fuels skepticism. Some observers do not rule out a communications operation more than a viable project in the short term. Such ambiguity contrasts with the more pragmatic progress of the Sino-Brazilian couple.
Beyond the project itself, this announcement does reflect a desire to rethink the global economic order. If a common currency were to come into existence at the BRICS level, an idea repeatedly mentioned over the years, it could reshuffle the cards of global financial equilibria, provided that the political, technological, and economic obstacles surrounding its creation are overcome. For now, this prospect remains uncertain.
Ripple Talks ISO 20022—Is XRP the Future of Compliant Payments?
Since Ripple’s inception, its innovativeness in fin-tech has been centralized around augmenting global payments. In the referential talk by SMQKE , Marcus Treacher, the ex-head of the Ripple tech team, shed more light on the company’s consistent and long-standing position about ISO 20022 —a standard that could potentially be the next big thing in global financial messaging.
SMQKE has also pointed out that the ISO 20022 protocol, which enables data to be shared among financial systems without any interruptions, appeared in 2004—the year of Ripple’s establishment. This parallelism, as argued by SMQKE, is something worthy of citation. As other companies are still trying to adopt the new compliance framework, Ripple has never ceased to make everything ready for compliance from the beginning till now.
“We’ve always had a real focus on removing all that friction,” Treacher said, emphasizing the company’s intent from the beginning.
RippleNet, established in 2016 and 2017, was a direct response of Ripple to the fragmented condition of the market of cross-border transactions. It took on a logical supervision layer, which was a good fit for the ISO 20022’s call for uniform, enriched financial messaging. RippleNet was always focused on and prioritized the accuracy and complement of the data parallel to the payments it handled.
Each traditional SWIFT and TIPS network is still using old messages that they operate with. Ripple, in turn, migrated to the new standard with compatibility in mind. Despite this, the U.S. Federal Reserve is not free of the problem with the old infrastructure. ISO 20022 is a standard that addresses these issues, and Ripple has not only accepted the transformation but has also welcomed the shift.
Treacher emphasized that Ripple’s idea was more of making the process of moving across borders simple, better than anything to a certain technology. At first, XRP was used for liquidity provision between different fiat currencies, and then later, its role was taken by the Interledger Protocol , which was faster for fiat-to-fiat transactions.
Pegah Soltani, Ripple’s Head of Payments Products, echoed this focus in a separate interview shared by SMQKE. She described ISO 20022 as a global standard that boosts competition, encourages innovation, and delivers better data within each transaction. Her comments underscore Ripple’s broader ambition to not just be compliant—but influential.
After protocol integration, Ripple’s advancement didn’t come to a standstill. As an example, RLUSD, a dollar-backed stablecoin, was brought to the Ripple Payments system by the company in April 2025. The coin, which was released just the past December, has a market capitalization of $250 million.
Still, not everything has been smooth sailing. XRP, Ripple native token, is 5.25% surge amidst the President Donald Trump announced a new wave of tariffs, triggering market-wide concerns.