According to Dune data, Axiom has already captured 63% of the meme coin trading market in Solana (besides Telegram Trading BOT). This trading platform, supported by the well-known incubator Y Combinator, seems to be restructuring the competitive landscape of the meme coin trading market. However, developer Guangguang revealed that he initially thought Axiom's product was good and wanted to assist in development for free. But the attitude of Axiom's CEO changed from being willing to pay for his contributions to both sides becoming hostile.
(Former TikTok engineer founded Axiom to create trading bots, earning tens of millions of dollars, second only to Pump.Fun)
Developers complain about Axiom team's passivity
According to Guangguang's article, he initially felt that Axiom's product details were very well done, and since he was developing Twitter-related products, he contacted the team to indicate that he was willing to offer assistance for free. Guangguang developed pumpfunscam.com, a tool that recorded all Twitter accounts that mentioned the pumpfun token.
After some communication, Axiom's CEO expressed a strong liking for the API provided by Guangguang, and was even willing to cooperate further and pay Guangguang. The two sides communicated further regarding the API details of Truth Social (Trump's social media) and Instagram.
Later, Axiom asked Guangguang if he could provide the code, to which Guangguang replied that Axiom could open a server, and he would redeploy on it.
However, soon after, the frequency of communication decreased. On the 17th, Axiom promised to open a server, but it wasn't until the 19th that Axiom's CEO replied, and the conversation again got sidetracked to the previously mentioned Instagram risk control issues. At this point, Guangguang expressed that the slow progress of the team's development had left him with little enthusiasm, as being a developer means that having a finished product gives him a sense of achievement.
Developers accuse Axiom of not respecting the code
Later, Axiom decided not to directly use the code provided by Guangguang, but instead let its own developers mimic Guangguang's code using TypeScript. At this point, Guangguang felt dissatisfied, as it was originally agreed to directly deploy Guangguang's code. Later, the code written by Axiom's developers in TypeScript had its web scraping fingerprint intercepted by Cloudflare, and the team then asked Guangguang what to do.
At this point, Guangguang responded strongly, stating that the team did not adopt the code he wrote, but instead copied his code to write it themselves. When problems arose, he was no longer willing to assist the team in finding the reasons. Copying code is easy, but the time and effort he invested were not respected. The outcome was that both sides had a big argument before leaving the group, with Axiom's CEO even describing Guangguang's development of tools that no one used and the poor quality of the code.
This article about the dark horse trading platform Axiom, incubated by Y Combinator, was first reported by Chain News ABMedia, detailing accusations from developers of code copying and mockery of contributors.
