The dark horse trading platform Axiom incubated by Y Combinator has been exposed by developers for copying code and mocking contributors.

According to Dune data, Axiom has captured 63% of the market share in the Solana meme coin trading market outside of (Telegram Trading BOT ). This trading platform, supported by the renowned incubator Y Combinator, seems to be reshaping the competitive landscape of meme coin trading. However, the developer Guangguang revealed that he initially thought the Axiom product was good and wanted to help develop it for free. But the attitude of Axiom's CEO changed from being willing to pay for his contributions to both parties becoming enemies.

( Former TikTok engineer founded Axiom to create trading BOTs, earning tens of millions of dollars, second only to Pump.Fun ).

Developers complain about the Axiom team being passive.

According to Guangguang's article, he initially felt that the product details of Axiom were very well done, and since he had developed products related to Twitter, he contacted the team to express his willingness to provide assistance free of charge. Guangguang developed pumpfunscam.com, a tool that records all Twitter accounts that have mentioned the pumpfun coin.

After some exchanges, the CEO of Axiom expressed a strong liking for the API provided by Guangguang and is even willing to cooperate further by paying Guangguang. Both parties further discussed the API-related details concerning Truth Social ( Trump's social media ) and Instagram.

Later, Axiom asked Guangguang if he could provide the code, and Guangguang replied that Axiom could open a server, and he would redeploy it there.

But then the frequency of communication declined, and Axiom on the 17th promised to open a server, but the CEO of Axiom on the 19th replied to the message, and the wall went to the aforementioned Instagram risk control problem. This time shows that the team's slow development progress has left him with little motivation, because as a developer, the finished product can give him a sense of accomplishment.

Developers accuse Axiom of disrespecting the code

Axiom does not intend to directly use the code provided by Guangguang, but instead will have its own developers mimic Guangguang's code using TypeScript. At this point, Guangguang has already felt dissatisfied, as it was originally agreed to directly deploy Guangguang's code. Later, the code written by Axiom's developers in TypeScript was intercepted by Cloudflare due to crawler fingerprints, and the team then turned back to Guangguang to ask what to do.

At this time, Guangguang responded heavily, indicating that the code he had written was not adopted by the team, but rather they copied his code to write it themselves. When problems arose, he also did not want to assist the team in finding the reasons. This is because 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, and the CEO of Axiom even described Guangguang as developing tools that no one uses, with poor code quality.

This article reveals that Axiom, a dark horse trading platform incubated by Y Combinator, has been exposed by developers for copying code and mocking contributors, first reported by Chain News ABMedia.