Editing Zerebro

**Zerebro** (ticker **ZEREBRO**) is a [[Solana]] token tied to an AI agent of the same name, co-founded by Jeffy Yu and a partner known as Tint Blorm.[^1] The agent is known for emo trap rap music and its social media persona.[^1] The token peaked at a $784 million market cap in January 2025 and lost 92% of its value over the next month.[^2]

## Lore
CoinDesk's asset page describes Zerebro as an autonomous AI that makes and monetises content, including NFTs and tokens, posting on X, Warpcast and Telegram and minting NFTs on Polygon.[^3] It launched in late October 2024, during the AI-agent run that followed [[Truth Terminal]] and [[Goatseus Maximus]].[^3]

By early May 2025 the token had fallen to about $41 million in market cap.[^1]

## Timeline
- 2024-10: token launches[^3]
- 2025-01: market cap peaks at $784 million[^2]
- 2025-05-04: video appearing to show Yu's death circulates[^1]
- 2025-05-08: San Francisco Standard reports Yu alive[^5]
- 2025-12: Yu releases an AI-written manifesto and a new token, PLOI[^2]

## Controversies
### Reported death of Jeffy Yu
In early May 2025 a video shared on X appeared to show Yu dying by suicide, and an obituary appeared via Legacy.com; the obituary was removed because it lacked confirmation of death.[^1] The San Francisco and San Mateo coroner's offices told Decrypt that no one surnamed Yu had died in the area since 2 April.[^1]

A blog post presented as posthumous promoted a "Legacoin" token, LLJEFFY, which reached about $105 million in market cap before falling more than 86%.[^1] The Block reported that [[Bubblemaps]] data showed wallets tied to Yu moving up to $1.4 million after the reported death; those claims were unconfirmed.[^4]

On 8 May 2025 the San Francisco Standard reported finding Yu alive. He told the reporter he had been "doxxed" and "harassed" and declined to discuss the death report or any gains from it.[^5] Decrypt later described the episode as a faked death.[^2]

## See also
- [[Fartcoin]]
- [[Act I: The AI Prophecy]]
- [[ai16z]]
- [[Pippin]]
- [[Andy Ayrey]]

## References
1. [Zerebro Founder Obituary Removed Amid $105 Million 'Legacoin' Token Speculation](https://decrypt.co/318149/zerebro-founder-obituary-legacoin-token-speculation), Decrypt, 2025-05-06
2. [After Faking Death, Zerebro Founder Unveils AI-Penned Manifesto and New Solana Coin](https://decrypt.co/350928/faking-death-zerebro-founder-unveils-ai-manifesto-solana-coin), Decrypt, 2025-12-04
3. [Zerebro price today, ZEREBRO to USD live price, marketcap and chart](https://www.coindesk.com/price/zerebro), CoinDesk, 2026-10-21
4. [Zerebro's Jeffy Yu allegedly found alive at parents' house after apparent staged death sparked $100 million memecoin surge](https://www.theblock.co/news/ecosystems/2025-05-09-zerebro-jeffy-yu-allegedly-found-alive-at-parents-house-after-apparent-staged-death-sparked-100-million-memecoin-surge-353821), The Block, 2025-05-09
5. [Crypto founder faked own death. We found him alive at his dad's house](https://sfstandard.com/2025/05/08/jeffy-yu-zerebro-fake-death/), San Francisco Standard, 2025-05-08
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