Pump.fun’s Kimchi coin routes every creator fee to one address

A new Solana memecoin has hard-coded its entire creator fee stream to a single wallet, permanently. The token is $KIMCHI, launched on Pump.fun, and the address receiving those fees cannot be changed. Pump.fun’s own profile page labels that address “Kimchi.” That name belongs to a trader who had just been announced as a Pump.fun collaborator on creative direction. How the launch unfolded $KIMCHI went live on October 20, 2026, at approximately 23:00 UTC. The token also goes by a second name, “Aura Final Boss.” The deployer used an anonymous wallet with a track record of launching similar tokens. In the very first transaction, that wallet scooped up about 79.3% of the one billion token supply. The cost was roughly 87 SOL, worth somewhere between $9,000 and $9,300. Minutes after launch, 750 million tokens, or 75% of the supply, landed in the address labeled “Kimchi.” At the same time, the deployer named that address the fixed, unchangeable recipient of every creator fee the coin generates. Then came the rally. Promotion tied to the trader Kimchi helped push the token’s market cap to approximately $40 million within its first hour. On-chain analysis indicated the deployer sold most of i...