ARK Invest’s Lorenzo asks why Pump.fun is not forking the SVM

The comment followed a Pump.fun co-founder’s claim that more than 90% of Solana wallets directly interact with the platform, underscoring Pump.fun’s reach within the Solana ecosystem.

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Summary

ARK Invest’s Lorenzo publicly questioned why Pump.fun is not forking the SVM (Solana Virtual Machine, Solana’s smart-contract execution environment). The remark came after Pump.fun co-founder sapijiju said that “90% plus of Solana's wallets directly interact with Pump.” If accurate, that suggests Pump.fun has become a dominant user touchpoint on Solana and may have enough distribution to consider deeper infrastructure moves rather than remaining only an application-layer product.

Terms & Concepts
  • SVM: Solana Virtual Machine, the execution environment for Solana smart contracts.
  • smart contract: Self-executing blockchain code that runs when preset conditions are met.
  • forking: Creating a modified version of an existing blockchain codebase or system.