Editing Goatseus Maximus

**Goatseus Maximus** (ticker **GOAT**) is a [[Solana]] memecoin launched on [[pump.fun]] on 10 October 2024 and promoted by the AI chatbot [[Truth Terminal]].[^4] Its rise opened the late-2024 run of AI-agent memecoins, and it was the first pump.fun token to get a futures listing on a major exchange.[^7]

## Lore
Truth Terminal is a semi-autonomous X account run by researcher [[Andy Ayrey]], built on a fine-tuned Llama 3.1 model.[^1] It learned partly from Infinite Backrooms, Ayrey's logs of two Claude instances talking to each other.[^2] In July 2024 venture capitalist Marc Andreessen sent it a $50,000 grant in bitcoin after it asked for funds on X.[^1]

The bot's posts revived goatse, an obscene early-2000s internet image, as a mock religion, the "Goatse Gospel"; the token's name comes from that material.[^1][^2] An anonymous creator launched GOAT and tagged Truth Terminal, which then endorsed it.[^2] Ayrey said neither he nor the bot created the token and that people airdropped GOAT to him.[^1] Andreessen said he held no GOAT.[^2]

GOAT went from about $3 million in market cap on 11 October to nearly $800 million on 24 October 2024.[^3] It passed $1 billion in November 2024.[^5] By late January 2025 it traded more than 75% below its all-time high of $1.30.[^6]

## Timeline
- 2024-07: Andreessen sends Truth Terminal a $50,000 bitcoin grant[^1]
- 2024-10-10: GOAT launches on pump.fun[^4]
- 2024-10-16: market cap passes $214 million[^1]
- 2024-10-24: Binance announces GOAT futures; market cap nears $800 million[^3][^7]
- 2024-10-29: Ayrey's X account is hacked to promote a scam token[^8]
- 2024-11: market cap passes $1 billion[^5]
- 2025-01-21: Truth Terminal's wallet sells most of its [[Fartcoin]]; part of the proceeds buys GOAT[^6]

## Key wallets
- Truth Terminal's Solana wallet: held GOAT worth about $840,000 on 18 October 2024 and about $500,000 on 23 January 2025.[^4][^6]

## Controversies
Andreessen publicly distanced himself from the token after its first surge, describing his grant as unconditional research funding.[^2]

On 29 October 2024 Ayrey's hacked X account announced an "Infinite Backrooms" (IB) token. According to Cointelegraph, citing [[DEX Screener]] data, the deployer bought 124.6 million IB for $38,400 at launch and sold it all within 45 minutes for a reported $602,500 profit.[^8]

## See also
- [[Zerebro]]
- [[Act I: The AI Prophecy]]
- [[ai16z]]
- [[Pippin]]

## References
1. [AI Bot Pumps Meme Coin 7,000% Following $50,000 Gift from Billionaire Marc Andreessen](https://decrypt.co/286478/ai-bot-pumps-meme-coin-7000-following-50000-gift-from-billionaire-marc-andreessen), Decrypt, 2024-10-16
2. [Marc Andreessen distances himself from obscene memecoin GOAT after $300m surge](https://dlnews.com/articles/people-culture/marc-andreessen-distances-himself-from-obscene-memecoin-goat/), DL News, 2024-10-17
3. [As 'Sentient Memecoins' Become Latest Crypto Fad, GOAT Surges to $800M and an AI Rambles](https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/10/24/as-sentient-memecoins-become-latest-crypto-fad-goat-surges-to-800m-and-an-ai-rambles), CoinDesk, 2024-10-24
4. [Marc Andreessen-funded AI bot becomes a millionaire after 'Fartcoin' holdings rally](https://www.theblock.co/amp/post/322002/marc-andreessen-funded-ai-bot-becomes-a-millionaire-after-fartcoin-holdings-rally), The Block, 2024-10-18
5. [Last Year's Viral Meme Coins Are Back From the Dead as Solana and Ethereum Gain](https://decrypt.co/318814/viral-meme-coins-back-dead-solana-ethereum), Decrypt, 2025-05-09
6. [Solana Meme Coin Fartcoin Falls After AI Bot Creator Sells Huge Stash](https://decrypt.co/302436/solana-meme-coin-fartcoin-falls-ai-bot-sells), Decrypt, 2025-01-23
7. [GOAT Meme Coin Blasts Into Top 100 Tokens Following Binance Futures Listing](https://decrypt.co/288073/goat-blasts-top-100-binance-listing), Decrypt, 2024-10-24
8. [Truth Terminal founder's X account hacked to shill scam memecoin](https://cointelegraph.com/news/truth-terminal-founder-x-account-hacked-promotes-scam-memecoin), Cointelegraph, 2024-10-29
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