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Quebec’s financial regulator warns Pump.fun is unregistered and unauthorized

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Quebec’s financial regulator issued an alert about Pump.fun, also identified as Baton Corporation LTD, and described it as a high-risk crypto-asset platform. The warning said Pump.fun is not registered or authorized to solicit investors, while also noting that no website or wallet-access ban was announced.

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Quebec’s financial regulator issued an alert on Pump.fun, also referred to as Baton Corporation LTD, and described it as a high-risk crypto-asset platform.
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The alert said Pump.fun is not authorized to solicit investors.
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The warning described Pump.fun as unregistered and unauthorized.

What it means

Quebec investors and people using crypto platforms are the immediate audience for this alert. It flags Pump.fun as a high-risk platform and says it is not authorized to solicit investors, so the notice is something they would see as a regulatory warning rather than a market update.

In practice, the alert leaves the platform publicly identified as high risk, but it does not add a website block or a wallet-access restriction. That means the warning changes the regulatory status in the public record without announcing a direct access cutoff. (per cryptobriefing.com)

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