United Kingdom Bans Pump.Fun

PumpFun is now geo-blocked in the United Kingdom (UK), less than two weeks after the memecoin launchpad caught severe pushback for the content shown in its livestreams. The short-lived livestream “meta” resulted in users threatening self-harm, as well as harm to animals and family members if users of the platform didn’t buy their respective memecoins. The livestream feature also led to live videos of adult content, drug use, and other illegal activities despite PumpFun’s “large team of moderators working around the clock” to ban such users. To continue reading this as well as other DeFi and Web3 news, visit us at thedefiant.io