Pump.fun Co-Founder Says Reward Algorithm Will Be Overhauled to Curb Low-Quality Shilling

This is a rare admission that token-launch incentives, not just token quality, shape behavior on a platform — and that the current design rewards volume over accuracy. The affected group is the promoter layer, whose economics depend on the existing algorithm; a shift toward verifiable early calls would redistribute rewards toward fewer, better-timed participants. The unresolved problem is definitional: "worthwhile" calls and market-cap thresholds are exactly the parameters that can be gamed, so the open question is whether the published criteria are objective enough to resist the same shilling behavior in a new form.