Update
Pump.fun Coins Outside Buying Persisted with Slower Block Times
Bitquery found that 52% of new Pump.fun coins received an outside buy within roughly 1.3 seconds, down from 53% in August. This occurred before Solana's final 200-millisecond slot target on October 9. The share of new coins receiving an outside buy in their first block fell from 42% to 32%, while the first block duration became shorter at about 0.27 seconds compared to 0.42 seconds earlier. Bitquery's analysis covered three slots before and five in the later sample, with the comparison ending on October 7.