Editing Brett

**Brett** (ticker **BRETT**), also called Based Brett, is a memecoin on [[Base]], the Coinbase-incubated Ethereum layer 2, launched in February 2024. It is named after Brett, a character in [[Matt Furie]]'s comic *Boy's Club*, and calls itself "Pepe's best friend on Base".[^1][^2] In June 2024 it became the first Base memecoin to reach a $1 billion market cap.[^1]

## Lore
Furie's *Boy's Club* is also the source of Pepe the Frog, the character behind [[Pepe]].[^2] BRETT fell to under 3 cents in late April 2024, then rose about 130% in the two weeks before 3 June 2024, when CoinGecko data put its market cap peak at about $1.24 billion. At that point its top 30 holders held just under 39% of supply, against 46% for the top 30 holders of [[Bonk]].[^1]

Binance announced a USD-margined perpetual futures contract for BRETT on 20 August 2024, and the token rose 36% in early trading that day, when [[dogwifhat]] also gained over 9%.[^3] Binance.US opened spot trading on the Base network on 31 July 2025.[^4]

## Timeline
- 2024-02-27: main Uniswap pool opens on Base[^5]
- 2024-06-03: Unchained reports the first $1 billion market cap for a Base memecoin, peaking near $1.24 billion[^1]
- 2024-08-20: Binance announces BRETT perpetual futures[^3]
- 2025-07-31: Binance.US listing[^4]

## Key wallets
- Deployer: held over 9% of supply in June 2024.[^1]

## Controversies
In April 2024 a user posting as @artibian_maxi argued that BRETT was not a fair launch, saying Etherscan data showed that "during the first hour after the launch only whitelisted addresses could buy". A day later @shady_oak1 claimed that "insiders were holding over 81% of the supply before most people could buy".[^1]

## See also
- [[Mog Coin]]
- [[Neiro]]
- [[Turbo]]
- [[SPX6900]]
- [[Kekius Maximus]]
- [[Fwog]]

## References
1. [BRETT Becomes First Memecoin on Base to Reach $1 Billion in Market Cap](https://unchainedcrypto.com/?p=25807), Unchained, 2024-06-03
2. [Pepe, BONK, Floki and Shiba Inu Post Losses—But Based Brett Is Rising](https://decrypt.co/233673), Decrypt, 2024-06-04
3. [BRETT, FLOKI, WIF lead meme coin recovery](https://www.fxstreet.com/cryptocurrencies/news/brett-floki-wif-lead-meme-coin-recovery-202408202234), FXStreet, 2024-08-20
4. [Binance.US lists BRETT | Trade now](https://support.binance.us/en/articles/11880190-binance-us-lists-brett-trade-now), Binance.US, 2025-07-31
5. [Brett on DEX Screener](https://dexscreener.com/base/0x532f27101965dd16442E59d40670FaF5eBB142E4), DEX Screener, 2026-10-21
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