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Why crypto's biggest success story continues to lose the headlines

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Jonny Fry
Jul 21, 2026
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Earlier this month, Pump.fun launched GO, a bounty platform built around the slogan: “Pay ANYONE to do ANYTHING”. Within hours, the listings included a $57,000 offer to skydive into a World Cup match dressed as a memecoin mascot, a $24,584 bounty to track down and film a convicted killer’s family and a $2,762 offer for a forehead tattoo. A man from Tamil Nadu, India, named Arivu, accepted the tattoo bounty, filmed the procedure at a local shop and submitted the video as proof. The bounty poster refused to pay him. The word on the listing had been misspelt; the tattoo Arivu now carries permanently on his face would not promote the actual memecoin. Such irony that the crypto community responded by launching a new token called BOUTYWORK, using Arivu’s selfie as its logo, which hit $373,000 in market cap within hours!

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