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Pump.fun's Top Winners May Be Hard to Copy, Study Finds

TradingGain Newsroom·3d ago·25 Oct 2026, 15:50 UTC

A $752 million study using Bitquery's transfer-aware analysis suggests Pump.fun's biggest winners may be impossible to copy. The analysis found that a large gain at one address can hide an acquisition that a follower cannot reproduce. For traders, headline gains may overstate what copying those trades could actually earn.

Why it matters

Large gains shown for one address may hide an acquisition that others cannot repeat.
Traders who copy visible winners may not be able to match the same results.
The study points to a gap between reported wallet gains and reproducible trades.

What to watch next

Watch for further on-chain analysis of Pump.fun wallets before relying on copy-trading results.

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