SongMarketCap Founder Criticizes Cardano Community Over Lack of Support for Snek.fun

SongMarketCap founder Jure Karamarko has criticized the Cardano community for failing to support meme coin creator platform Snek.fun in the same way the Solana community rallied behind Pump.fun.

According to Karamarko, this lack of collective support continues to limit Cardano’s growth, visibility, and ability to attract major partnerships.

Key Points

• SongMarketCap founder Jure Karamarko criticized the Cardano community for failing to support Snek.fun the way Solana users supported Pump.fun. 
• Karamarko said Solana’s ecosystem momentum has helped attract partnerships and integrations with companies such as Visa, PayPal, and Circle. 
• Shortly after launch, Snek.fun attracted significant traction, with more than 20,000 users joining within minutes.  
• While Snek.fun allocates up to 1% of trading fees to creators, Pump.fun offers between 0.05% and 0.95% in creator rewards. 

Community Support for Pump.fun Attracted Visa and PayPal to Solana: Karamarko 

Taking to X, Karamarko stated that the Solana community aggressively supported PumpFun by promoting, trading, and sharing the platform across social media. As a result, the ecosystem generated massive trading volume, which later translated into attention, liquidity, and broader ecosystem development.

According to Karamarko, this growth eventually helped Solana secure partnerships and integrations with major companies, including Visa, Circle, Western Union, PayPal, Worldpay, and Shopify.

Criticism Over Lack of Support for SNEK and SnekFun

In contrast, Karamarko argued that the Cardano community has failed to support ecosystem projects with the same intensity, particularly popular meme coin SNEK and its meme coin creator platform, Snek.fun.

He noted that despite the team recently introducing a creator fee model, influential figures within the Cardano ecosystem largely ignored the development. Consequently, Karamarko criticized several prominent Cardano voices for failing to publicly support the initiative despite frequently discussing ecosystem growth and adoption.

Although Karamarko acknowledged that meme coins are speculative and often fail, he argued that Solana likely would not have achieved its current level of ecosystem growth if its community had rejected meme-driven activity from the beginning.

Pump.fun Gains Significant Traction Despite Low Creator Fee Model 

For context, the team behind SNEK launched Snek.fun as a meme coin creator platform that serves a similar role on Cardano to what Pump.fun provides on Solana. Shortly after launch, Snek.fun gained significant traction, attracting more than 20,000 users within minutes.

In addition, Snek.fun offers creators a more attractive fee structure than Pump.fun. While Snek.fun allocates 1% of trading fees to creators, Pump.fun offers between 0.05% and 0.95% in creator rewards.

Despite this difference, creators continue to flock to Pump.fun, where users have already deployed more than 8 million coins through the platform.