Shaw is disassembling and rebuilding pumpfun’s on-chain program—not to create a functionally equivalent token-launching tool, but to reproduce it byte-for-byte identical to the original. Even bugs present in the original must not be casually fixed—this may sound counterintuitive, but such meticulousness is essential to audit the original program for vulnerabilities. pumpfun is a meme coin issuance platform on Solana, where token issuance rules are enforced by an on-chain program. @shawmakesmagic believes such programs shouldn’t be closed-source and is inviting the community to collaborate using AI for reverse engineering, with progress submitted to pumpfun-source. He isn’t verifying that the rebuilt version “works similarly”—he requires the compiled output to match the original byte-for-byte; altering even a single byte means he’s no longer verifying the original. He also mentioned that someone created related meme coins, and after collecting fees from them, he plans to buy back those tokens and distribute them to contributors who help complete the reconstruction. It’s unclear how many people this incentive will attract, but I deeply admire the most counterintuitive aspect of this goal: knowing full well that flaws may exist, one must still resist fixing them—first, understand the original exactly as it is.