PumpSea

A Mint Club platform to trade NFTs like meme coins: buy and sell NFTs on bonding curves, Pump.fun-style.

The bet

Combine the instant-liquidity, speculative UX of Pump.fun with the NFT focus of OpenSea: bonding curves make NFTs tradable instantly, no DEX liquidity pools needed.

What worked

Triggered explosive early trading: many NFTs hit 20 to 30 ETH each in volume in the early days. Its Pump.fun-style creator royalties were seen as a fresh, novel mechanic by the market. (Precise aggregate traction is hard to recover.)

What broke

The NFT market deteriorated, draining demand for speculative NFT trading; the product was sunset.

What it seeded

Proved Mint Club's bonding-curve engine could power NFT trading + a consumer trading UI: the "trade-like-coins," chart, and portfolio pattern echoed in later experiments (Hyped.club, MintDrop).