Editing Silly Dragon

**Silly Dragon** (ticker **SILLY**) is a dragon-themed [[Solana]] memecoin launched in December 2023, inspired by Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko dressing as a dragon on Halloween 2023.[^1][^2]

## Lore
Yakovenko ("Toly") cosplayed as Silly Dragon at Solana Breakpoint 2023 in Amsterdam and on 2023-11-08 posted about the "Year of the Silly Dragon"; the team also cites the Chinese Year of the Dragon.[^1] According to the team, SILLY launched on 2023-12-05 at about 0.00002875 USDT and reached 0.15 USDT within about 20 days.[^1] On 2023-12-27 it traded at $0.147 with a market cap above $140 million, and KuCoin listed it the same day.[^2][^3] It had fallen to about 0.019 USDT by early 2024.[^1]

The team airdropped compressed NFTs to Solana Mobile users and ran Lunar New Year rewards; it says these brought holders to about 32,000.[^1]

## Timeline
- 2023-10-31: Yakovenko dresses as a dragon at Breakpoint[^1]
- 2023-12-05: token launch, per the team[^1]
- 2023-12-27: KuCoin listing; market cap above $140 million[^2][^3]

## See also
- [[Just a chill guy]]
- [[Gigachad]]
- [[Fwog]]
- [[Ponke]]
- [[Popcat]]
- [[Mumu]]
- [[Retardio]]

## References
1. [Interview with Silly Dragon (Foresight News)](https://www.chaincatcher.com/en/article/2116416), ChainCatcher, 2024-03-07
2. [Solana memecoin Silly Dragon reaches 300% weekly rise](https://crypto.news/solana-memecoin-silly-dragon-reaches-300-weekly-rise/), crypto.news, 2023-12-27
3. [Silly Dragon (SILLY) Gets Listed on KuCoin](https://www.kucoin.com/announcement/en-silly-dragon-silly-gets-listed-on-kucoin), KuCoin, 2023-12-27
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