baoskee
 Image: X profile avatar of @baoskee | |
| handle | @baoskee |
|---|---|
| role | founder of daos.fun |
| known for | daos.fun, naming ai16z, tokenized meme hedge funds |
baoskee is the pseudonymous founder of daos.fun, the Solana platform for tokenized meme funds that hosted ai16z, a project whose name baoskee personally suggested to Shaw.
baoskee is the pseudonymous founder of daos fun, the Solana platform that revived the DAO format as a vehicle for meme speculation. Launched on September 26, 2024 with backing from the accelerator Alliance DAO, daos.fun let a fund manager raise SOL from the crowd, trade meme coins and other assets on behalf of holders, and issue a token representing shares in the fund. The design turned fund management itself into a tradable meme, and for a few months in late 2024 it made daos.fun one of the fastest growing venues in the trenches.
daos.fun
baoskee framed the platform as a way for small creators to fundraise on chain without gatekeepers. Each DAO raised a fixed amount in SOL, after which its token traded on a curve, and the manager's performance was fully visible on chain. Commentators called it a potential "liquidity black hole" as capital rotated from ordinary meme coins into the fund tokens. The model's breakout moment came on October 24, 2024, when shaw launched ai16z through the platform. By baoskee's own account and Shaw's, the two met through the developer Skely, and when Shaw said over lunch that he wanted to build an AI version of the venture firm a16z, baoskee suggested simply calling it ai16z. The fund became the flagship of the AI agent era, reaching a reported multibillion dollar valuation at its peak, and its success pulled waves of imitators onto daos.fun.
Launch week produced a piece of platform lore with its own receipt: on October 27, 2024, three days after ai16z went live, baoskee posted "Marc Andreessen has crashed @daosdotfun pls be patient," after the venture capitalist's traffic to the site coincided with it going down under load, a post that drew 1,024 likes. On November 29, 2024, at the height of the wave, he teased a daos.fun by pump.fun index.
After the boom
The AI agent downturn of early 2025 hit daos.fun projects hard, and analysts writing about the "daos.fun bubble" blamed expiring fund structures and concentrated holdings for cascading sell pressure in tokens like AICC. baoskee continued shipping through the drawdown, posting regularly about new structures such as founder DAOs for projects including lootworld. In May 2025 he promised refunds to HouseDAO holders and said daos.fun would build an anti money laundering mechanism after a manipulation controversy involving that fund. In April 2026 a class action complaint over the AI16Z and ELIZAOS tokens, Doe v. Walters, named baoskee as a co defendant alongside Shaw and others, according to the filing publicized by Burwick Law. The claims are unproven allegations, and no court has ruled on them.
The litigation coincided with baoskee turning publicly on his former collaborator. In April 2026 he wrote that Shaw "is the epitome of a scammer... he proceeds to rug a billion dollar token to literally hundreds of thousands and relaunch a second rug pull as 'ElizaOS'," and in August 2026 added that "this industry is completely full of insane people, this guy rugged 10 to 20 pump funs using the ai16z brand." These are baoskee's own unproven allegations, made within an active legal dispute in which he is himself a co defendant. The same month he offered a post mortem on the platform he built: "im proud of what we built at @daosdotfun. we created a fun, conceptually interesting meta that paved the path for icm, agents, and ai meta. we stopped launching DAOs because we believed that people were interested only in speculation."
Identity
baoskee has never published a legal name and operates entirely under the handle. He is unusually public for a pseudonymous founder, posting product decisions, revenue experiments and self criticism in real time, which made him a recognizable builder personality of the 2024 to 2025 cycle. His persona range extends beyond product commentary: by 2026 his non crypto shitposts routinely outperformed his product posts, including a health meme that drew 16,172 likes in March 2026, giving him an unusually personal register for a platform founder.
References
- SolanaFloor: https://solanafloor.com/news/from-memecoins-to-meme-hedge-funds-what-is-daos-fun
- ChainCatcher: https://www.chaincatcher.com/en/article/2149146
- ChainCatcher: https://www.chaincatcher.com/en/article/2159604
- Bitget: https://www.bitget.com/news/detail/12560604493615
- burwick.law: https://www.burwick.law/active-cases/ai16z-elizaos-token-lawsuit-doe-v-walters
- X profile of @baoskee: https://x.com/baoskee
- X post by @baoskee: https://x.com/baoskee/status/1850358434425966691
- PANews: https://www.panewslab.com/en/articles/g0loihy9
- X post by @baoskee: https://x.com/baoskee/status/2045962845209448709
- X post by @baoskee: https://x.com/baoskee/status/2088803978222191015
- X post by @baoskee: https://x.com/baoskee/status/2045990113302475237
- Bitget: https://www.bitget.com/news/detail/12560604382583
- daos.fun: https://www.daos.fun/@baoskee
- X post by @baoskee: https://x.com/baoskee/status/2035988058282369531
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