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Fartcoin FARTCOIN
AI's billion-dollar joke
π the class-clown gas cloud of crypto: all hot air, and entirely on purpose
π¬ βI was a one-line joke an AI made in passing. Someone minted me anyway, and the crowd kept blowing air in. Now I'm a billion-dollar balloon of pure hot air, and proud of it.β
- The idea: an AI chatbot, Truth Terminal, joked that the perfect meme coin would be fart jokes on Solana.
- Oct 2024: an anonymous fan actually minted it on Pump.fun for a fraction of a cent.
- Early 2025: the joke ballooned to a reported peak above $2.5 billion and landed on big exchanges.
- Under the hood: just a token on Solana, fixed at 1 billion supply, with no product behind it.
π The Story
June 2024. An art project called Infinite Backrooms set two copies of an AI model talking to each other with no humans in the loop. Out of that endless chatter, one of them grew into a character its maker, Andy Ayrey, named Truth Terminal, and put on X for the world to watch. It was strange, funny, and a little unsettling, enough that the famous investor Marc Andreessen sent it a $50,000 grant in Bitcoin.
Somewhere in its rambling, Truth Terminal floated a thought: if you wanted the perfect meme coin, it should just be fart jokes on Solana. The AI never made a coin. It only said the words.
18 October 2024. A fan who had been watching took the joke literally. Using Pump.fun, a one-click launchpad for Solana meme coins, they minted Fartcoin at roughly five-thousandths of a cent, a tiny thing worth barely a million dollars all together. The AI didn't mint it. Ayrey didn't mint it. An anonymous person did, on a whim.
Early 2025. Then the air went in. Traders loved the story, an AI's fart joke made real, and the price climbed and climbed until the whole thing was reportedly worth more than $2.5 billion at its peak. Big exchanges added it. A gag with no product and no plan had become one of the largest so-called AI meme coins on the market.
The balloon has shrunk a lot since, and it will keep drifting up and down on mood alone. Fartcoin asks nothing of you and promises nothing back. It just floats there, grinning, proud of how far hot air can carry a punchline.
π Stats
𧩠How it works
Fartcoin has no blockchain of its own. It is simply a token living on Solana, the same way many meme coins are. Solana handles all the heavy lifting, keeping transactions fast and cheap, so Fartcoin itself only needs to exist and be passed around. There is no staking, no voting, no app. It is a name, a face, and a fixed pile of 1 billion tokens.
π Light & Shadow
- One of the most memorable origin stories in crypto, an AI's offhand joke that a fan turned real
- The supply is fixed at 1 billion tokens, with nearly all of them already in circulation, so no future minting can quietly dilute holders
- Built on Solana, so sending and trading it stays fast and the fees stay tiny
- It does nothing. No product, no staking, no governance, the value is the joke and the crowd, full stop
- Brutally volatile. It went from a reported peak above $2.5 billion to a small fraction of that, and the price moves on mood and hype cycles, not fundamentals
- The name and theme make it a hard sell anywhere serious, and a single shift in attention can drain interest overnight
𧬠Evolution lineage
Fartcoin is not a fork of any coin. It is a sibling of Goatseus Maximus ($GOAT): both are Solana meme coins that grew out of the same Truth Terminal phenomenon, GOAT from its βGoatse Gospelsβ riffs and Fartcoin from a fart-joke brainstorm, each minted by a different anonymous fan.
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β FAQ
- What is Fartcoin?
- A meme coin on the Solana network. The idea came from an AI chatbot called Truth Terminal, which joked that the perfect meme coin would be fart jokes on Solana. A fan minted it in October 2024. It has no real product or use, its price runs entirely on community hype.
- Did an AI really create Fartcoin?
- Not quite. The AI chatbot Truth Terminal came up with the fart-joke idea in a conversation, but it did not mint the token itself. An anonymous fan, inspired by that brainstorm, was the one who actually launched Fartcoin on Pump.fun.
- How many Fartcoins are there?
- The supply is fixed at 1 billion tokens, and almost all of them are already in circulation. Unlike Dogecoin, no new Fartcoins are ever minted, so the supply does not grow over time.
- Does Fartcoin do anything useful?
- No. It is just a token sitting on Solana with no staking, no voting, and no product behind it. Its whole appeal is the joke and the community around it, which also makes the price swing wildly. (Information only, not investment advice.)
β οΈ Not investment advice. All figures are for information only