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Radium has come in with its own pumpdotfun called LaunchLab. Solana's new decentralized exchange (DEX), Raydium, has entered the memecoin party with the new offering, LaunchLab, the direct rival to Pump.fun. This is a possible war for apps as the two apps vie for the attention of memecoin launchers and investors with increasingly more creative functions.

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The Battle for Supremacy

LaunchLab isn't some copycat of Pump.fun; it's an upgrade. It'll have additional features! Fo example — the ability to support multiple quote tokens + the use of Raydium's liquidity lockers. LaunchLab will also have multiple pricing models: linear, exponential, and logarithmic models, the same ones as the Fjord Foundry launchpad. This will allow the price of the token to be manipulated based on demand, and third-party users can even set their own fees.

@0xINFRA, one of the primary builders behind the creation of Raydium, clarified that LaunchLab is but one among several that the Solana AMM protocol has up its sleeve and not to be pitted against Pump.fun but as an option for teams that desire diversity. The aim, rather, is to make the Solana ecosystem available, not gate it.

Raydium, the decentralized exchange rockstar within the Solana ecosystem, has rolled out its own memecoin launchpad, called LaunchLab. And don't be waiting with bated breath and your Dogecoins and your Shiba Inu tokens, because this isn't another meme-ifying crypto launch. This is a throw-down against the wildly popular memecoin machine that is Pump.fun.

Where memecoins kept crypto comic relief, Solana has gone on to the soap operas primetime. While Pump.fun was flirting with the masses with $69,000-green-liquidity memes and titillating bonding curves, LaunchLab's all, "Hold my fees," with some game-shaking features. Linear, exponential, and logarithmic bonding curves for token prices, anyone? The ones that get all the DeFi nerds all tingly on the inside? Check. Modular, customizable fees for third-party UIs as if it's giving meme mafia a crowbar to pry "every blockchain door" wide open? Check twice

So, where does this leave Solana's meme ecosystem or the memecoins, for that matter?

No longer Laughing Alone

A new entrant, Pump.fun gained popularity by placing ridiculous memes on the blockchain and enabling creatives to mint tokens at a pace that keeps pace with Elon Musk tweeting. In February 2025, though, hearts were broken by the news that Pump.fun would be building its own Automated Market Maker (AMM), leaving the liquidity pools on Raydium behind. Raydium's response: "Game on."

Raydium's LaunchLab, conversely, isn't about vibes in opposition but about utility and vibes. Having the integrateddirect integration with its liquidity provider locker (secure, perpetual swap fee piggy banks), LaunchLab token issuers gain the added legitimacy. This might hit Pump.fun where it could sting hardest—by poaching on the users who are looking for more liquidity games with more room for maneuver.

The contest may catalyze innovation on both ends. Picture a real "meme war": Dog-ear filters being launched by Pump.fun as Raydium experiments with "frog-facts-backed curves." Ridiculous, yes, but genuine competition that may usher in more refined tools, reduced fees, and woo crypto creators in the quest for simplicity and security. Do meme makers leave Pump.fun shenanigans behind for LaunchLab "DeFi-grade silliness"? Only dog memes are intelligent enough to say.

…where Launchpads Throve

Memecoins are all too accustomed to volatility, unexpected pumps, and wide-mouthed rug-pulls. Having already witnessed a 65% market cap drop in the latter part of December 2024, survival hinges on infrastructure that marries memetic narratives with high utility—even usability. LaunchLab-platforms offers that synergy through democratization of entry to memeing crypto fantasy with real-world DeFi building blocks.

All right, some memes had their fate sealed for the park-dogs (Dogecoin set the ball rolling). LaunchLab sets the days of kung-fu-trained frogs (Pepe takes perhaps?) learning to graph logarithmically as cute pandemonium gets organized into pandemonium. Safe curves-of-bonding platforms and on-purpose liquidity enable memecoins to thrive even during bear markets, bearish Twitter moods, and even global recessions (we're looking at you, Lunar Crash memes).

Mujib B

Raydium's entrance constitutes one giant cosmic joke on protocol based on simple pictures alone. Naturally, memes deserve credit for creating billions in market cap through satirical means, but as LaunchLab opens the gates to technology, memecoins meet their block chain comeuppance. From $Pepe frogs to altcoin influencers hyping up squirrel-themed currencies (rest in peace, Peanut), this has all the hallmarks of a madcap rollercoaster.

No matter whether LaunchLab soars or becomes one of the cosmic meme joke hall-of-fame members, one thing is sure: Solana memes got upgraded big-time—at least until the upcoming JPEG-based meme war. Watch your back, competition, because the only meme that deserves a stake is the one that moonwalks on the crypto moon by being innovative…