Timeline of the trenches

2016

September

• — – Matt Furie: ADL lists Pepe as a hate symbol

2017

May

• — – Matt Furie: Furie kills off Pepe in a Fantagraphics strip

June

• — – Bonding curve: Bancor's token sale raises about $153 million

October

• 16 October – Gigachad: "Gigachad" name first used on 4chan

2018

• — – Matt Furie: Furie sues Infowars over a Pepe poster

July

• 13 July – Mumu: Mumu first appears on 4chan /biz/

November

• — – dogwifhat: photo of Achi in the hat is taken

2019

June

• — – Matt Furie: Infowars settles for $15,000

2020

October

• 9 October – Popcat: Oatmeal GIF posted to Reddit

December

• 11 December – Popcat: popcat.click launches

2021

February

• — – Raydium: Raydium mainnet launch

April

• — – Samoyedcoin: launch and community airdrop

July

• — – Pudgy Penguins: NFT collection launches on Ethereum

October

• — – Samoyedcoin: price rises 2,388% over the month

November

• 1 November – Honeypot: SQUID collapses after holders find they cannot sell
• 1 November – Rug pull: SQUID collapses 99.99%

2022

• — – Samoyedcoin: supply burns completed, maximum supply cut to 4.746 billion

January

• — – Pudgy Penguins: community votes out the founders

March

• 24 March – Memecoin presale: US prosecutors charge the Frosties creators over a pre-sale
• 24 March – Rug pull: US prosecutors charge the Frosties NFT creators

April

• — – Pudgy Penguins: Netz Capital buys the project for $2.5 million in ETH

October

• 3 October – Celebrity memecoins: SEC charges Kim Kardashian over EMAX promotion
• 3 October – KOL: SEC charges Kim Kardashian over an undisclosed paid crypto post

November

• 9 November – Solana: SOL falls 35% to about $18 as FTX collapses

December

• — – Solana: Bonk launches on Solana
• 16 December – Raydium: about $4.4 million drained from eight pools via a compromised admin account
• 23 December – Meteora: Mercurial announces relaunch as Meteora
• 25 December – Bonk: airdrop to Solana community begins

2023

February

• — – Hyperliquid: closed mainnet alpha
• 23 February – Base: Base testnet announced, with no token planned

March

• 30 March – Copy trading: ESMA publishes supervisory briefing on copy trading

April

• — – KIP Protocol: Julian Peh co-founds KIP
• 14 April – Pepe: first Uniswap pair opens
• 29 April – Turbo: Ethereum pool opens after redeployment

May

• 4 May – Turbo: market cap passes $50 million
• 5 May – Pepe: Binance spot listing; market cap above $1 billion
• 11 May – Matt Furie: Coinbase apologises for a newsletter calling the Pepe meme a hate symbol
• 11 May – Pepe: Coinbase apologises for a newsletter that described the Pepe meme as a hate symbol
• 18 May – Pudgy Penguins: Pudgy Toys announced

July

• 13 July – Base: mainnet opens to developers
• 19 July – Mog Coin: launch on Ethereum
• 31 July – Base: BALD developer pulls liquidity

August

• 9 August – Base: public mainnet launch and Onchain Summer
• 16 August – SPX6900: first Uniswap pool opens on Ethereum
• 24 August – Pepe: about 16 trillion PEPE move from the team multisig to exchanges
• 26 August – Pepe: the remaining team member says three former members took the tokens

September

• 12 September – Wash trading: Solidus Labs publishes its DEX wash trading report

October

• — – Just a chill guy: Banks creates the character
• 31 October – Silly Dragon: Yakovenko dresses as a dragon at Breakpoint

November

• — – dogwifhat: token launch
• — – Myro: launch
• 2 November – Jupiter: airdrop eligibility snapshot
• 27 November – Jito: Jito announces the JTO governance token

December

• — – Ponke: launch
• — – Popcat: holders replace the original developer
• 5 December – Silly Dragon: token launch, per the team
• 7 December – Jito: JTO airdrop claims and trading open
• 13 December – Bonk: new all-time high of $0.00001474 ahead of Coinbase listing
• 14 December – Bonk: Coinbase opens BONK trading with an "experimental" label
• 15 December – Bonk: Binance lists BONK spot pairs under its Seed Tag
• 15 December – Solana: Saga phones sell out in the US amid the BONK rally
• 27 December – Silly Dragon: KuCoin listing; market cap above $140 million

2024

January

• — – Gigachad: token launch
• — – Photon: Photon launches
• — – pump.fun: launchpad goes live
• — – Trojan: Unibot launches on Solana
• 24 January – Mint authority: Solana Foundation publishes its developer guide to token extensions
• 25 January – Wen: airdrop details published
• 26 January – Wen: claim opens at 10:00 ET; trading starts
• 29 January – Wen: claim closes at 10:00 ET with about 41% unclaimed
• 31 January – Jupiter: JUP airdrop claim and trading open
• 31 January – Wen: Jupiter's JUP airdrop follows

February

• 1 February – Retardio: launch on Solana
• 6 February – Solana: last Solana outage before the 2025 TRUMP launch
• 27 February – Brett: main Uniswap pool opens on Base
• 27 February – Doland Tremp: launch (Raydium TREMP/SOL pool created 26 February, 23:47 UTC)

March

• — – Copy trading: Solareum Telegram bot shuts down after user wallets are drained
• — – dogwifhat: Binance listing; all-time high on 2024-03-06
• — – Liquidity pool: Slerf developer says he burned the LP tokens by mistake
• — – Slerf: presale collects 54,583 SOL
• — – Sniping: Jito Labs suspends its public mempool
• 3 March – Jeo Boden: Raydium BODEN/SOL pool created
• 5 March – Myro: Binance Futures MYRO perpetual goes live
• 8 March – Jito: Jito suspends its public mempool
• 9 March – Myro: all-time high of $0.4428
• 10 March – Book of Meme: Darkfarms begins teasing the project
• 10 March – dogwifhat: "Sphere wif hat" fundraiser passes $240,000 of a $650,000 goal
• 10 March – Mumu: original MUMU token launches on Solana
• 11 March – Trojan: Unibot's Ethereum and Solana teams split
• 12 March – Book of Meme: "Book of Meme" concept revealed
• 12 March – Memecoin presale: start of the Solana presale wave tallied by ZachXBT
• 13 March – Book of Meme: 24-hour presale opens; raises 10,131 SOL
• 14 March – Book of Meme: Raydium pools created; trading begins
• 14 March – Memecoin presale: Book of Meme launches
• 16 March – Book of Meme: Binance spot listing (BOME/BTC, BOME/USDT, BOME/FDUSD, BOME/TRY)
• 18 March – Book of Meme: Binance says a large pre-listing buyer is not a Binance employee
• 18 March – dogwifhat: photo NFT sells for about $4.3 million
• 18 March – Memecoin presale: Slerf developer burns presale funds
• 18 March – Slerf: Raydium SLERF/SOL pool created; LP and airdrop tokens burned
• 18 March – Trojan: Telegram bots peak above $700 million in daily volume
• 19 March – Slerf: Raydium volume passes $7.1 billion; listed on KuCoin, HTX and LBank
• 20 March – Book of Meme: ZachXBT tally of 33 Solana presales raising about 796,000 SOL
• 21 March – Mumu: project announces 20% airdrop to Solana NFT communities
• 25 March – Jeo Boden: market cap passes $250 million
• 26 March – cat in a dogs world: MEW/SOL pool created on Raydium (KuCoin gives 25 March)
• 31 March – dogwifhat: all-time high of $4.83, market cap about $4.58 billion

April

• — – BullX: BullX launches
• — – cat in a dogs world: market cap reaches about $700 million
• 1 April – cat in a dogs world: 37,600 MEW airdropped to Solana Mobile Chapter 2 pre-order customers
• 4 April – Doland Tremp: market cap about $83 million
• 8 April – Jeo Boden: all-time high of $1.04
• 8 April – Michi: Raydium MICHI/SOL pool created
• 8 April – Solana: The Block reports developers working on memecoin- and bot-driven congestion
• 15 April – cat in a dogs world: OKX perpetual futures

May

• — – Celebrity memecoins: Caitlyn Jenner launches a token on pump.fun
• 16 May – pump.fun: former employee exploits admin access, taking about 12,300 SOL (about $1.9 million) with flash loans
• 24 May – Neiro: death of Kabosu announced
• 28 May – Mother Iggy: IGGY launched by Sahil Arora; MOTHER launched by Azalea hours later
• 28 May – Turbo: market cap about $638 million
• 29 May – Mother Iggy: market cap passes $28 million

June

• — – Gigachad: Giga Fitness apparel brand announced
• — – Mother Iggy: peaks just under $260 million
• 2 June – Base: Brett passes $1 billion market value
• 3 June – Brett: Unchained reports the first $1 billion market cap for a Base memecoin, peaking near $1.24 billion
• 4 June – Doland Tremp: listed on Kraken Pro
• 4 June – Jeo Boden: listed on Kraken Pro
• 9 June – Daddy Tate: launch; deployer sends 40% of supply to Tate's wallet at 21:24 UTC
• 10 June – Michi: Ariana Grande reposts a Michi edit; Ansem posts about the coin
• 11 June – Daddy Tate: Tate's first post about the token
• 12 June – Daddy Tate: Bubblemaps publishes insider-buying claims; market cap above $275 million
• 13 June – Bubblemaps: DADDY insider-buying claims reported
• 13 June – Daddy Tate: market cap about $300 million, passing MOTHER
• 17 June – Billy: first DEX pool opens
• 17 June – cat in a dogs world: Binance Futures perpetual
• 24 June – DEX Screener: Moonshot launched
• 24 June – Moonshot: DEX Screener launches Moonshot launchpad
• 24 June – Raydium: Moonshot launches, graduating tokens to Raydium
• 30 June – Billy: original developer's last public post

July

• — – Goatseus Maximus: Andreessen sends Truth Terminal a $50,000 bitcoin grant
• — – Moo Deng: Moo Deng the hippo is born
• — – Moonshot: Moonshot app launches
• — – Mumu: valuation near $250 million
• — – Ponke: all-time high of $0.6744
• 2 July – Billy: market cap about $117 million
• 3 July – cat in a dogs world: Pixelverse PixelTap integration announced
• 3 July – Doland Tremp: down 37% on the week amid the Trump–Biden debate fallout
• 3 July – Jeo Boden: down about 95% from peak after the presidential debate
• 13 July – Doland Tremp: rises about 85% after the assassination attempt
• 21 July – Doland Tremp: up 24% as Biden withdraws
• 21 July – Jeo Boden: Biden withdraws from the race; BODEN falls 44%
• 22 July – Mog Coin: all-time high of $0.00000245; market cap peak of $880 million
• 27 July – Neiro: first Neiro pools open on Ethereum
• 29 July – Billy: Decrypt reports a $215 million peak
• 30 July – Fwog: FWOG launches on pump.fun
• 31 July – Neiro: Neiro on ETH reaches about $137 million in market cap

August

• — – Act I: The AI Prophecy: Amp starts the Act I project
• 9 August – SunPump: SunPump launches
• 20 August – Brett: Binance announces BRETT perpetual futures
• 20 August – SunPump: record day, over 6,000 coins created
• 21 August – SunPump: SunPump out-launches pump.fun in daily tokens
• 22 August – SunPump: trading fee cut to 0.76 TRX

September

• — – Memecoin supercycle: Murad presents "The Memecoin Supercycle" at TOKEN2049 Singapore
• — – SPX6900: Murad presents the "memecoin supercycle" at Token2049 Singapore
• 2 September – Mumu: down 33.6% on the week
• 3 September – Honeypot: RED permanent-delegate burn reported by a Jupiter contributor
• 3 September – Mint authority: RED permanent-delegate burn reported
• 10 September – Mog Coin: LCX opens MOG/EUR trading
• 10 September – Moo Deng: coin launches; first Raydium pool opens
• 10 September – SunPump: Decrypt reports daily launches below 1,000
• 16 September – Neiro: Binance spot listing of First Neiro on Ethereum
• 16 September – Turbo: Binance spot listing
• 18 September – Neiro: First Neiro passes $352 million in market cap
• 19 September – Moo Deng: zoo announces trademark plans
• 24 September – Moo Deng: market cap passes $70 million
• 28 September – Moo Deng: price peaks above $0.33

October

• — – ai16z: ai16z raises $75,000 on daos.fun
• — – Mother Iggy: Motherland Rodeo Party at Token2049, Singapore
• — – Zerebro: token launches
• 9 October – Pump and dump: DOJ and SEC charge market makers and promoters in the NexFundAI case
• 9 October – SPX6900: ZachXBT publishes wallets he links to Murad
• 9 October – Wash trading: Market makers charged in the NexFundAI sting
• 10 October – Goatseus Maximus: GOAT launches on pump.fun
• 16 October – Goatseus Maximus: market cap passes $214 million
• 18 October – Fartcoin: launch on pump.fun; Truth Terminal receives 20 million tokens
• 19 October – KIP Protocol: KIP representatives meet Milei
• 19 October – Libra: KIP Protocol representatives meet Milei about the project
• 21 October – cat in a dogs world: Upbit KRW listing
• 24 October – Fwog: market cap $224 million
• 24 October – Goatseus Maximus: Binance announces GOAT futures; market cap nears $800 million
• 25 October – Moo Deng: Binance Futures lists MOODENGUSDT perpetual
• 28 October – Luce: Vatican unveils the Luce mascot; LUCE is created on pump.fun
• 29 October – Bonk: Popcat passes BONK in market cap
• 29 October – Goatseus Maximus: Ayrey's X account is hacked to promote a scam token
• 29 October – Popcat: all-time high of $1.80, market cap $1.7 billion; passes BONK
• 30 October – Luce: market cap passes $80 million
• 30 October – Peanut the Squirrel: Peanut seized and euthanised, according to Longo
• 31 October – Peanut the Squirrel: coin launches on pump.fun

November

• — – Celebrity memecoins: class action filed against Jenner
• — – Goatseus Maximus: market cap passes $1 billion
• — – Popcat: new high near $1.99, market cap nearly $1.9 billion
• — – Retardio: all-time high price of $0.2421; market cap near $240 million
• — – SPX6900: price reaches $0.90
• 3 November – Peanut the Squirrel: market cap around $120 million
• 4 November – Ponke: Binance Futures PONKEUSDT perpetual launches
• 11 November – Act I: The AI Prophecy: Binance announces ACT spot listing; market cap reaches about $460 million
• 11 November – Peanut the Squirrel: Binance spot listing
• 13 November – dogwifhat: Coinbase listing
• 13 November – Jito: block engine outage raises Solana priority fees
• 13 November – Pepe: Robinhood listing; Coinbase adds PEPE to its roadmap
• 14 November – Moo Deng: new high near $0.50
• 14 November – Peanut the Squirrel: all-time high; market cap $2.25 billion
• 15 November – Bonk: 1 trillion BONK burn announced
• 15 November – Just a chill guy: coin launches on pump.fun
• 17 November – cat in a dogs world: all-time high of $0.01288
• 17 November – Jito: $9.87 million in daily fees
• 17 November – Photon: $2.36 million in daily fees
• 18 November – Comedian: KuCoin listing (BAN/USDT)
• 18 November – Just a chill guy: Banks says he does not endorse crypto use of his art
• 19 November – Luce: Bybit lists LUCE perpetual futures and runs a spot-listing vote
• 20 November – Bonk: Upbit KRW listing; intraday all-time high near $0.000062
• 20 November – Comedian: Sun wins the Sotheby's auction; BAN falls 37% from about $241 million
• 21 November – Just a chill guy: Banks says the character is copyrighted and announces takedowns
• 25 November – pump.fun: livestreaming paused "for an indefinite time period"
• 27 November – Just a chill guy: Binance announces CHILLGUY futures
• 29 November – Comedian: Sun eats the banana in Hong Kong; BAN at $138 million
• 29 November – Hyperliquid: HYPE genesis and airdrop

December

• — – Gigachad: Coinbase listing roadmap addition
• — – pump.fun: blocks UK users days after an FCA warning that it was not authorised
• 3 December – Mog Coin: Coinbase adds MOG to its listing roadmap
• 3 December – Retardio: FCA warns against pump.fun, an earlier action in its memecoin crackdown
• 4 December – Hawk Tuah: HAWK launches; market cap nears $490 million, then falls about 93%
• 4 December – Pump and dump: HAWK launches
• 7 December – Pepe: passes UNI in market cap at above $11 billion
• 11 December – Fartcoin: new high, market cap above $520 million
• 11 December – Peanut the Squirrel: Coinbase adds PNUT to its roadmap
• 12 December – Turbo: all-time high of $0.0143 after Coinbase listing; market cap about $893 million
• 13 December – Kekius Maximus: token contract created on Ethereum
• 16 December – Peanut the Squirrel: Longo sends Binance a cease-and-desist letter
• 16 December – Retardio: FCA warning against Retardio; market cap about $87 million
• 17 December – Pudgy Penguins: PENGU launches on Solana with an airdrop; all-time high
• 18 December – Fartcoin: passes $1 billion market cap
• 19 December – Burwick Law: HAWK suit filed
• 19 December – Hawk Tuah: investors file a federal lawsuit against the promoters
• 20 December – Hawk Tuah: Welch says she is fully cooperating with the plaintiffs' lawyers
• 20 December – Mother Iggy: Motherland casino soft launch
• 24 December – Butthole Coin: launch on Solana
• 24 December – Just a chill guy: false plagiarism claim against Banks circulates
• 27 December – Kekius Maximus: market cap reaches $1.7 million
• 28 December – ai16z: market cap reaches about $1.5 billion
• 31 December – Kekius Maximus: Musk changes his X name and avatar to Kekius Maximus

2025

January

• — – Axiom: early access opens
• — – Meteora: TRUMP launches on Meteora
• — – pump.fun: first class action filed in New York
• — – Vine: Musk says he is looking into reviving Vine; Yusupov launches VINE on pump.fun
• — – Zerebro: market cap peaks at $784 million
• 1 January – Kekius Maximus: market cap peaks near $380–400 million; Musk reverts and KEKIUS falls
• 2 January – ai16z: peaks at $2.39 billion market cap
• 3 January – SPX6900: market cap passes $1.1 billion
• 6 January – Butthole Coin: all-time high price of $0.133
• 17 January – Celebrity memecoins: TRUMP launches
• 17 January – Official Trump: announced on Truth Social and X
• 17 January – PolitiFi: Trump announces the TRUMP memecoin
• 18 January – Moonshot: Moonshot tops the US App Store finance chart after TRUMP launch
• 18 January – Solana: TRUMP launches on Solana
• 19 January – Bubblemaps: TRUMP early-wallet findings reported
• 19 January – Fartcoin: all-time high price of $2.48
• 19 January – GMGN: GMGN TRUMP-launch volume and fees reported
• 19 January – Melania Meme: launch
• 19 January – Official Trump: all-time high of $73.43; Binance listing; Melania Meme launches
• 19 January – PolitiFi: MELANIA launches
• 19 January – Sniping: MELANIA launch sniped by a wallet later linked to LIBRA, per Bubblemaps
• 20 January – Official Trump: Trump inaugurated
• 20 January – Solana: Coinbase Solana transfers delayed for hours
• 21 January – Fartcoin: Truth Terminal's wallet sells 15 million tokens over the counter
• 21 January – Goatseus Maximus: Truth Terminal's wallet sells most of its Fartcoin; part of the proceeds buys GOAT
• 22 January – Jupiter: second "Jupuary" airdrop
• 24 January – Launch Coin: PASTERNAK token begins trading
• 24 January – Vine: pump.fun's record fee day, driven partly by VINE; market cap nears $425 million
• 25 January – DEX Screener: Jupiter takes a majority stake in Moonshot
• 25 January – Jupiter: Catstanbul; Moonshot stake, SonarWatch, Ultra mode
• 25 January – Moonshot: Jupiter announces majority stake
• 28 January – ai16z: Walters announces rebrand to ElizaOS
• 28 January – DEX Screener: Decrypt reports DEX Screener's Blockaid scam filtering
• 29 January – JELLYJELLY: launches on pump.fun and graduates after Sam Lessin's post
• 29 January – Wash trading: Chainalysis publishes its 2024 wash trading estimate
• 30 January – Burwick Law: pump.fun class action filed with Wolf Popper
• 30 January – Butthole Coin: market cap about $61 million after a 53% daily gain
• 30 January – JELLYJELLY: market cap peaks near $253 million
• 30 January – KIP Protocol: Davis presented to Milei as a KIP partner
• 30 January – Libra: Hayden Davis meets Milei at the Casa Rosada
• 30 January – Pudgy Penguins: claim window shortened

February

• — – Axiom: public launch
• — – Jupiter: Jupiter addresses the Libra launch; Meow plans an independent review
• — – Libra: Argentine prosecutor opens an investigation; opposition calls for impeachment
• — – Melania Meme: Bubblemaps links MELANIA and Libra to the same team
• 5 February – Burwick Law: cease-and-desist to pump.fun over DOGSHIT2
• 7 February – Jailstool: Portnoy's trades in other memecoins draw criticism
• 8 February – Jailstool: Portnoy promotes JAILSTOOL in posts and an X Space
• 9 February – Jailstool: Kraken lists JAILSTOOL; market cap peaks above $267 million per GeckoTerminal
• 10 February – Jailstool: token trades 83.6% below its all-time high
• 11 February – Kekius Maximus: Musk's brief "Harry Bōlz" name change sets off a similar round of Solana copycat tokens
• 12 February – Broccoli: BNB Chain publishes 2025 roadmap with more memecoin support
• 13 February – Broccoli: CZ reveals his dog is named Broccoli; Broccoli tokens launch on Four.meme and pump.fun
• 14 February – Broccoli: Decrypt reports Sahil Arora's Solana BROCCOLI dump
• 14 February – KIP Protocol: LIBRA launches; KIP celebrates on X
• 14 February – Libra: Milei posts; LIBRA peaks at $4.56 billion and collapses
• 17 February – Bubblemaps: Bubblemaps links LIBRA and MELANIA creators
• 17 February – Kelsier Ventures: Bubblemaps links LIBRA and MELANIA launches
• 17 February – Meteora: Ben Chow resigns after the LIBRA collapse
• 19 February – Broccoli: MEXC lists BROCCOLIF3B perpetual futures
• 19 February – Jailstool: Portnoy says he moved GREED proceeds into JAILSTOOL
• 20 February – KOL: Kaito airdrops tokens to influencers
• 24 February – KIP Protocol: KIP denies involvement in the launch
• 24 February – Raydium: RAY falls 22% on reports of a pump.fun AMM
• 27 February – Celebrity memecoins: SEC staff statement on meme coins
• 27 February – Pump and dump: SEC staff statement on meme coins
• 27 February – Rug pull: SEC staff statement on meme coins

March

• — – Fartcoin: market cap falls to $217 million
• — – Official Trump: Financial Times estimates creators earned about $350 million from token sales and fees
• 11 March – Bubblemaps: BMT token launches on Solana and BNB Chain
• 17 March – Burwick Law: LIBRA suit filed
• 17 March – Kelsier Ventures: Burwick Law files class action
• 17 March – KIP Protocol: Burwick Law names KIP in LIBRA class action
• 17 March – Liquidity pool: LIBRA class action filed in New York
• 20 March – Broccoli: Bitget lists BROCCOLIF3B perpetual futures
• 20 March – Liquidity pool: PumpSwap launches
• 20 March – Pudgy Penguins: Canary Capital files for a PENGU ETF
• 20 March – pump.fun: PumpSwap replaces Raydium for graduated coins
• 20 March – Raydium: PumpSwap replaces Raydium for pump.fun graduations
• 24 March – Housecoin: launch on pump.fun
• 26 March – Hyperliquid: JELLYJELLY perpetuals delisted
• 26 March – JELLYJELLY: Hyperliquid short squeeze; Binance and OKX list perpetuals; Hyperliquid validators delist JELLY perpetuals
• 27 March – Hawk Tuah: Welch's lawyer says the SEC closed its inquiry without findings
• 29 March – Vine: Musk replies "feel free to take that on"; VINE rises 122% over three days
• 31 March – dogwifhat: Sphere campaign abandoned; refunds announced

April

• — – Bonk: letsbonk.fun launches
• — – LetsBonk: LetsBonk launches
• — – Official Trump: holder-dinner contest announced; price rises about 50% to a $2.7 billion market cap
• 1 April – Act I: The AI Prophecy: ACT falls about 50% within minutes on Binance; about $3.89 million of positions liquidated there
• 7 April – Liquidity pool: Bubblemaps reports $30 million MELANIA transfers
• 7 April – Melania Meme: Bubblemaps reports about $30 million of community tokens moved and partly sold
• 14 April – Gigachad: Coinbase suspends GIGA trading in New York
• 16 April – Base: "Base is for everyone" content coin posted on Zora
• 16 April – Raydium: LaunchLab unveiled
• 21 April – Luce: Pope Francis dies; LUCE volume rises twelvefold
• 22 April – Fartcoin: back above $1 billion; overtakes Bonk
• 22 April – Trojan: Cointelegraph reports about $109 million in Trojan fees over six months
• 23 April – Meteora: class action over the M3M3 token names Meteora and Chow
• 26 April – Housecoin: price high of $0.076
• 30 April – Chillhouse: first DEX pool opens

May

• — – Fomo: Fomo launches
• — – Housecoin: all-time high market cap of $120 million
• — – Libra: US judge freezes $57.6 million in USDC in a class action against Kelsier
• — – Rug pull: Solidus Labs publishes its Solana rug pull report
• 4 May – Zerebro: video appearing to show Yu's death circulates
• 8 May – Zerebro: San Francisco Standard reports Yu alive
• 9 May – Fwog: rises 37% in a day
• 9 May – Moo Deng: rises 143% in a day
• 10 May – Useless Coin: launch on LetsBONK.fun
• 15 May – Launch Coin: market cap reaches $344 million after a four-day 2,766% rise
• 22 May – cat in a dogs world: Robinhood listing
• 22 May – Official Trump: dinner for the top 220 holders at Trump's golf club in Virginia
• 25 May – Axiom: The Block reports $100 million in lifetime fees

June

• — – Libra: Argentina's anti-corruption office finds Milei acted in a personal capacity
• 9 June – Useless Coin: Unipcs endorsement at about $10 million market cap
• 12 June – Fartcoin: FARTCOIN-USD trading scheduled to open on Coinbase
• 13 June – BullX: BullX says its X account was "mass reported"
• 13 June – Pump and dump: Gotbit founder sentenced
• 13 June – Wash trading: Gotbit founder sentenced
• 16 June – BullX: X suspends BullX, pump.fun, GMGN and other memecoin accounts
• 16 June – GMGN: X suspends GMGN and other memecoin accounts
• 18 June – Matt Furie: ChainSaw's Replicandy contract is taken over
• 18 June – Useless Coin: price near $0.10, market cap about $100 million
• 20 June – Jupiter: DAO voting paused until 2026
• 26 June – Chillhouse: passes Housecoin in market cap at $26 million
• 26 June – Housecoin: parody token Chillhouse overtakes Housecoin's market cap
• 26 June – Moo Deng: Binance.US spot trading opens
• 30 June – Useless Coin: market cap peaks near $217 million; Unipcs posts again

July

• — – Bonding curve: LetsBonk passes pump.fun in share of Solana launchpad deployments
• 6 July – Bonk: letsbonk.fun passes pump.fun in daily launches and volume
• 6 July – LetsBonk: LetsBonk passes pump.fun in daily token launches
• 6 July – Raydium: LetsBonk, on LaunchLab, out-launches pump.fun for a day
• 7 July – Axiom: over $150 million in fees and 72% of Solana bot volume, per DL News
• 7 July – LetsBonk: LetsBonk passes pump.fun in 24-hour revenue
• 7 July – Photon: over $400 million lifetime fees reported; share lost to Axiom
• 8 July – LetsBonk: LetsBonk at 55.2% of Solana launchpad share
• 12 July – pump.fun: PUMP public sale
• 21 July – Base: The Block reports Zora surge after the Base App launch
• 23 July – Burwick Law: amended pump.fun complaint adds RICO and Solana defendants
• 23 July – pump.fun: amended RICO complaint adds Solana Labs, Solana Foundation and Jito
• 24 July – Vine: Musk says Vine will return "in AI form"; VINE peaks near $86.7 million that day
• 28 July – SPX6900: price at $2.24
• 31 July – Brett: Binance.US listing

August

• 6 August – Ponke: plush toy goes on sale
• 7 August – dogwifhat: original beanie sells for 6.8 BTC
• 13 August – Useless Coin: Kraken listing
• 17 August – LetsBonk: pump.fun back at 73.6% weekly share
• 19 August – Kelsier Ventures: court lifts freeze on $57.6 million USDC
• 21 August – Libra: US judge unfreezes the $57.6 million
• 21 August – YZY: YZY announced by Ye; value passes $3 billion within an hour, then falls below $1 billion
• 25 August – Bubblemaps: YZY sniping claims tied to Hayden Davis
• 25 August – Kelsier Ventures: Bubblemaps alleges Davis-linked YZY sniping
• 25 August – YZY: Bubblemaps links 14 YZY sniper wallets to Hayden Davis
• 26 August – YZY: Ye says his Instagram was hacked after it followed a fake YZY token; YZY is down about 81% from its peak
• 28 August – YZY: Bubblemaps reports 51,862 of 70,201 YZY traders lost money

September

• 1 September – KOL: ZachXBT publishes leaked KOL rate sheet
• 15 September – Base: Pollak says Base is exploring a token
• 23 September – Bubblemaps: Intel Desk launches
• 25 September – ai16z: migration portal opens, 1 AI16Z to 6 elizaOS
• 25 September – Slerf: KuCoin announces support for a 1:2 contract swap
• 29 September – Slerf: KuCoin swap snapshot

October

• — – Bonk: Safety Shot renames itself Bonk, Inc.
• — – Melania Meme: amended class action names MELANIA among five tokens
• — – Pippin: 24 to 2025-11-23: 26 addresses withdraw 44% of supply from Gate, per Bubblemaps
• — – Slerf: refunds of 53,359.62 SOL to 25,444 presale wallets completed
• 14 October – Useless Coin: all-time high price of about $0.43
• 15 October – Launch Coin: migration to BELIEVE announced; LAUNCHCOIN falls over 30%
• 16 October – Jito: a16z crypto invests $50 million
• 21 October – Kelsier Ventures: amended complaint names Ben Chow and the Davis family
• 21 October – Meteora: amended complaint in Hurlock v. Kelsier Ventures filed
• 22 October – Launch Coin: MEXC announces 1:1 swap and new contract
• 23 October – Melania Meme: two "Official Melania Meme" wallets receive about $1.23 million in Meteora's MET airdrop
• 23 October – Meteora: MET token generation event and airdrop
• 28 October – Chillhouse: all-time high market cap of about $30.24 million
• 29 October – Launch Coin: migration deadline for on-chain holders
• 31 October – Launch Coin: KuCoin completes conversion

November

• 5 November – Mother Iggy: Azalea joins Thrust; MOTHER migration announced
• 6 November – Fomo: $17 million Series A led by Benchmark
• 12 November – Hyperliquid: POPCAT manipulation leaves HLP with $4.9 million bad debt
• 12 November – Popcat: Hyperliquid pauses deposits and withdrawals after a POPCAT position wipes out
• 13 November – ai16z: Bitget completes swap and opens ELIZAOS trading
• 18 November – Hawk Tuah: Burwick Law seeks to add Welch as a defendant
• 18 November – Libra: congressional commission report calls the facts "compatible with an alleged scam"
• 28 November – Ponke: Binance settles and delists the PONKEUSDT perpetual

December

• — – Zerebro: Yu releases an AI-written manifesto and a new token, PLOI
• 1 December – Pippin: derivatives volume tops $3.19 billion; an early holder sells 24.8 million PIPPIN
• 11 December – Bubblemaps: PEPE launch concentration claims reported
• 19 December – Memecoin supercycle: memecoin market cap reaches its 2025 low of about $35 billion

2026

February

• 24 February – Pippin: CoinDesk reports a 135% four-week rally
• 26 February – Axiom: ZachXBT alleges employee misuse of internal wallet data
• 26 February – Michi: CoinEx announces delisting instead of supporting the swap

March

• 4 March – Pippin: Bubblemaps reports a 70% weekly drop and 80% of supply held by 120 wallets
• 10 March – Michi: deadline for the token swap
• 23 March – Launch Coin: class action filed against Pasternak

April

• — – ai16z: Burwick Law files class action in the Southern District of New York
• — – Burwick Law: ai16z class action filed
• — – SPX6900: market cap about $250 million

May

• — – Burwick Law: MOTHER class action filed
• — – Mother Iggy: class action filed in the Southern District of New York

June

• 8 June – Mumu: new MUMU contract launches; old token listed as MUMUV1
• 11 June – Fomo: perpetual futures launched
• 22 June – Fomo: $75 million Series B at a $550 million valuation

August

• 4 August – ai16z: Walters declares the token dead and winds down the foundation
• 30 August – GMGN: GMGN and Pons lead Robinhood Chain app revenue

September

• 1 September – Fomo: The Block reports card-coded memecoin purchases
• 4 September – Fomo: Fomo out-earns pump.fun for a day

October

• 14 October – Fomo: Decrypt reports Sahil Arora's plans on Fomo