The battle between Stonk and Pumpfun will be won by whoever builds the best culture. Every single apex predator consumer application in crypto all had one thing in common, they each had an incredible culture that users were absolutely addicted to logging on every single day to participate in.
Fomo is an incredible case study for this. Users were offered 6 figure monthly contracts to simply delete their account and move to a competitor. At face value, this seems like a no-brainer doesn't it? Free money, and a lot of it, to simply move your trading and profile to a different application. Many high level profiles took the deal, deleted their fomo profile, and moved to the competition. The public assumption was that this would, at the very least, negatively impact trading volumes on fomo. The opposite actually occurred. Since the day that Pumpfun announced social trading, and users were paid to move to their platform, 24h revenue on fomo has gone up by over 250%. The entire month of September has had daily revenue of over $1M.
A deep enthusiastic culture that can't even be swayed by materialistic motivations and actually gets stronger in the face of temptation despite promising the end-user nothing beyond an enjoyable experience is something that you simply can't put a price tag on, and any project that can capture this, especially in the landscape of launchpads, will raise the ceilings for not just themselves but the entire ecosystem of crypto.
Let the best man win.