PUMP Is The Most Mispriced Business In Crypto (Here's Why) with RockawayX CIO Austin Barack

PUMP Is The Most Mispriced Business In Crypto (Here's Why) with RockawayX CIO Austin Barack

August 31, 2026 · 26 min

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Austin Barack discusses the mispricing of Pump.fun and its potential in social trading infrastructure.

Austin Barack breaks down why Pump.fun isn't really a meme coin platform. Rather, it's building social trading infrastructure that's about to expand across chains and asset types and explains why the market is mispricing one of the fastest-growing businesses in the world by treating its revenue as cyclical rather than durable. He also discusses the ongoing debate over buybacks as a value accrual mechanism, and identifies the categories he believes are best positioned heading into the next bull cycle. Austin Barack is a Partner at RockawayX, a digital assets venture capital firm. The Rollup is where the leaders of digital assets and finance converge. Live from the financial capital of the world. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 03:51 Pump Is Really Social Trading 06:43 Why Pump's Multiple Feels Too Low 09:35 Perps Trading Everything 13:27 Are Buybacks The End Game 16:00 Building Durable Revenue Businesses 19:14 The Real Winning Categories Partners: If you run concentrated liquidity positions you know the grind. Price moves, you're out of range, you're rebalancing at, like, 3am. 1inch Aqua lets you take a different approach. You can stack multiple positions on the same token balance instead…

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