ai16z Founder Shaw Claims 90% Completion of Pump.fun Contract Reverse Engineering
Shaw, the founder of ai16z, stated that he has completed 90% of the reverse engineering work on all contracts of Pump.fun, expecting to finish everything tonight.
He also mentioned "open source everything, or it will be forced to open source," and provided a related GitHub link; the repository is labeled as deployment evidence and byte-level reconstruction research, which is still incomplete.
Previously, Shaw publicly tested reverse engineering Solana programs without source code and generating open-source versions, while pointing out that smart contracts no longer have a situation where security is achieved through opacity.
The ai16z project has previously interacted with the Pump.fun ecosystem, including related token activities; this reverse engineering targets the core contract logic of Pump.fun.
The funding and market path reflect treating closed-source platform contracts as reconstructible objects; if the open-source progress is completed, it may lower the technical barriers for other projects to replicate token issuance and trading paths.
The public post and repository confirm the 90% progress and open-source declaration, without disclosing specific contract vulnerabilities or complete reconstruction results.
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As the founder of ai16z and Eliza Labs, Shaw has previously promoted AI agent-related projects and interacted with the Pump.fun ecosystem; this time he publicly reverses all contracts of Pump.fun and sets a completion deadline for tonight.
The capital path reflects treating the platform's core contracts as replicable infrastructure, strategically lowering the barriers for other projects to access token issuance and trading functions through open-source reconstruction, while applying pressure on closed-source implementations with the term "forced open source."
This is similar to some projects that expand their functions by reverse engineering or publicly reconstructing other protocol logic, akin to historical cases of public analysis of closed-source systems to lower entry barriers; the current stage represents a period where the moat of Solana meme token platforms is publicly challenged.
Essentially, this is a technological substitution: transforming the token issuance and trading paths that rely on opaque contracts into forms that can be open-sourced and reconstructed, mechanism-wise making the implementation details of the original platform no longer constitute an exclusive barrier, while allowing other developers to build alternative or derivative products based on the reconstruction results.
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Closed-source contracts can be transformed into reconstructible infrastructure through public reverse engineering
Open-source progress declarations transform the platform's moat into replicable paths
Forced open-source statements put pressure on opaque implementations to face public alternatives