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**Book of Meme** (ticker **BOME**) is a [[Solana]] memecoin created by the pseudonymous crypto artist Darkfarms, pitched as a permanent archive of internet memes. It was funded by an uncapped SOL presale and was listed for spot trading on Binance less than 48 hours after its creation.[^1][^2]

## Lore
Darkfarms began teasing the project on 10 March 2024 and revealed the "Book of Meme" concept on 12 March: a memecoin [[Bundling|bundled]] with a permanent meme library, an updatable e-magazine, a meme-making tool and a gallery of CC0 meme clip art.[^1]

### Presale
The presale ran for 24 hours from 13 March 2024. Buyers sent SOL to a public address with no fixed price, and tokens were allocated in proportion to each contribution. Darkfarms had expected 500–600 SOL; the presale raised 10,131 SOL. A community vote decided how the raised funds were allocated.[^1]

### Launch and listings
The first BOME/SOL pools on [[Raydium]] were created on 14 March 2024.[^3] The token rose more than 3,000% in its first 24 hours.[^1] Binance opened spot trading on 16 March 2024, a process that usually takes the exchange weeks or months; 24-hour volume reached $1.83 billion.[^2] KuCoin, Gate.io, MEXC, HTX and Crypto.com also listed it. By 18 March the price had risen about 457-fold from $0.000058 to $0.026886, a market capitalisation of about $1.46 billion.[^4]

### Presale wave
BOME's presale was followed by a run of copycat Solana [[Memecoin presale|presales]]. On-chain investigator [[ZachXBT]] counted 33 presales from 12 March 2024 that together raised more than 796,000 SOL (about $149 million); Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko replied "Stop doing this."[^5] [[Slerf]], whose developer burned the tokens owed to presale buyers, became the best-known failure of the wave.[^6]

## Timeline
- 2024-03-10: Darkfarms begins teasing the project
- 2024-03-12: "Book of Meme" concept revealed
- 2024-03-13: 24-hour presale opens; raises 10,131 SOL
- 2024-03-14: Raydium pools created; trading begins
- 2024-03-16: Binance spot listing (BOME/BTC, BOME/USDT, BOME/FDUSD, BOME/TRY)
- 2024-03-18: Binance says a large pre-listing buyer is not a Binance employee
- 2024-03-20: ZachXBT tally of 33 Solana presales raising about 796,000 SOL

## Controversies
### Binance listing
According to Lookonchain, a newly funded wallet withdrew 12,721 SOL (about $2.3 million) from Binance and bought 314 million BOME at $0.0074 within 30 minutes before the listing, prompting allegations of insider trading.[^4] Binance said its preliminary investigation found the buyer was not a member of its staff, and offered bounties of $100,000 to $5 million for reports of listing-related misconduct.[^2][^4] Decrypt asked Binance why BOME had been approved so quickly and received no immediate answer.[^2]

### Presales
The presale model BOME popularised drew criticism from Yakovenko and others after the [[Slerf]] burn and the scale of the follow-on raises.[^5][^6]

## See also
- [[cat in a dogs world]]

## References
1. [Here's How a Trader Turned 50 SOL into $123K in Just 14 Hours with BOME Token Presale](https://cryptopotato.com/heres-how-a-trader-turned-50-sol-into-123k-in-just-14-hours-with-bome-token-presale/), CryptoPotato, 2024-03-14
2. [Was Solana Meme Coin BOME's Boom Aided by a Binance Insider?](https://decrypt.co/222237/bome-solana-coin-binance-insider-trading-claims), Decrypt, 2024-03-18
3. [BOME on DEX Screener](https://dexscreener.com/solana/ukHH6c7mMyiWCf1b9pnWe25TSpkDDt3H5pQZgZ74J82), DEX Screener, 2026-10-21
4. [Binance Denies Insider Trading Allegations in BOME Meme Coin](https://forklog.com/en/binance-denies-insider-trading-allegations-in-bome-meme-coin/), ForkLog, 2024-03-18
5. [Solana Presales Raise $140 Million Across 33 Campaigns](https://forklog.com/en/?p=11808), ForkLog, 2024-03-20
6. [Solana memecoin Slerf accidentally burns $10 million worth of funds raised from presale investors](https://www.theblock.co/post/283025/solana-memecoin-slerf-burn), The Block, 2024-03-18
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