Solana trader Kimchi (@kimchi1x) has added Pump.fun, the Solana memecoin launchpad, back to his X bio, three days after removing it, and the move was enough to send the KIMCHI meme coin up more than 150% in a brief spike. The bio change, made on Sunday, October 25 and visible to his more than 220,000 followers, reopens a saga that began last week with a deleted token post and a 98% crash. Neither Kimchi nor Pump.fun has publicly explained either change.

The restoration also landed just hours before Pump.fun's $2.5 million Squads trading competition opens on Monday. The PUMP token itself has not followed the meme coin's recovery: it trades at $0.0042, down 20% from last Wednesday's high. So what actually happened, and what does the bio change mean?

On-chain tracker Lookonchain flagged the sequence in a post on X on October 26, noting a purchase timed just hours before the switch:

3 days after removing @pumpfun from his bio, @kimchi1x has added it back. $Kimchi briefly surged over 150%. Coincidentally, trader ja2trader spent $28.9K buying 4.61M $Kimchi just hours before @kimchi1x added @pumpfun back to his bio, and is now up $11K.… pic.twitter.com/Wy02vID70j

— Lookonchain (@lookonchain), October 26 2026 (source post)

Recap: From a Signing to a Crash in Two Days

The episode moved from a partnership announcement to a token collapse in roughly two days.

October 20: Pump.fun signed Kimchi, a trader with more than 220,000 followers, to help set the platform's "creative direction." That night, he published his October vlog, and a token called KIMCHI ("Aura Final Boss") began trading within a minute of the post.

October 21: Kimchi withdrew 1.35 billion PUMP, then worth about $6.4 million, from Binance and OKX. Pump.fun has not disclosed the terms of his arrangement.

October 22: Kimchi posted a poster for a new token, "Project Kimchi." Pump.fun co-founder Alon reposted it, and the coin reached roughly $15 million in market value within minutes. Alon then pulled his repost, Kimchi deleted the post, and the token crashed 98% to about $284,000.

October 23: Kimchi removed @pumpfun from his bio and deleted his earlier Pump.fun posts. Some traders claimed his account had been hacked, but no one confirmed it, and Lookonchain's on-chain data showed that a group of early wallets made more than $385,000 from the crash.

What Changed This Weekend

The bio is back, with the vlog link sitting next to it — and for the market, that was enough. KIMCHI doubled in market value almost instantly, from about $6 million to $14 million, before giving back part of the move. According to DEX Screener, the token now sits near $8.8 million, up about 50% in 24 hours.

One wallet appeared to anticipate the move. The trader known as ja2trader spent $28,900 on 4.61 million $Kimchi hours before the bio change and was up $11,000 when Lookonchain flagged the position. That does not prove anyone was tipped off, but it is the second time in a week that a Kimchi-related move has been accompanied by well-timed buyers.

So what is happening? The most likely reading is that the deal is restored — or that it never truly ended. The timing points that way. Pump.fun's Squads competition, which carries $1.5 million for the winning team, opens Monday at 14:00 UTC, and Alon has spent the weekend promoting it. A trader with Kimchi's following is exactly who the launchpad would want on its leaderboard.

The deeper issue is trust. Pump.fun still has not explained the deleted repost, and Kimchi has not said whether his account was compromised. In that vacuum, each silent move now sends the token up or down within minutes, rewarding whoever acts first. Until one of them speaks, traders are effectively betting on a bio line. The open items — the alleged hack, the deleted repost, the undisclosed deal terms — are the specific developments that would give the market something more solid than a profile edit to react to.

PUMP Price: Which Levels Matter?

The renewed Kimchi partnership has not helped PUMP so far. The token climbed to $0.005224 on October 21, the day after the signing, then lost 18% over five days. It now trades below its 50-day EMA at $0.004607, a moving average many traders use as a quick gauge of medium-term trend.

The first support sits at $0.003832, the October 18 low. Below that, $0.00375 marks the floor that held in late September. On the upside, PUMP needs to reclaim the 50-day EMA first, and then $0.005224, to show that the Kimchi news is helping.

Source: 99Bitcoins