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When Virality Becomes a Market: What the BOUTYWORK Saga Reveals About Pump.fun's Incentive Problem

The recent proliferation of permissionless bounty platforms, particularly those integrating memecoin launchpads with open-ended task markets, has exposed a critical failure in incentive alignment. The incident involving a disputed tattoo bounty—where a participant permanently marked a misspelled token ticker on their forehead for a 40 SOL reward—is not an isolated case of viral absurdity.