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Fartcoin (FARTCOIN) is a meme coin on the [[Solana]] blockchain launched on [[pump.fun]] on October 18, 2024. Its name came from conversations involving [[Truth Terminal]], the AI agent behind [[Goatseus Maximus]], which had mused that the perfect meme coin would be called Fartcoin. It became the largest of the AI adjacent meme coins and, for a stretch of 2025, the strongest large meme coin in the market.

## Origin

Fartcoin was deployed anonymously during the GOAT mania, trading purely on the joke that flatulence themed "hot air" was the honest essence of meme coin value. Truth Terminal's creator Andy Ayrey did not launch it, but the token's association with the agent's lore, plus its shameless name, gave it instant distribution. The slogan "hot air rises" became its unofficial thesis, tracing partly to a viral Reddit post of a husband justifying the investment to his spouse with that line, which crypto twitter then adopted as the token's unofficial slogan through 2025.

## Market history

Fartcoin crossed a 1 billion dollar market capitalization on December 18, 2024, making it, per contemporary coverage, the second largest meme coin on Solana behind only [[bonk]] at that milestone. It printed an all time high of about 2.48 dollars on January 19, 2025, a market value above 2.5 billion dollars, making it briefly larger than many established altcoins and, as commentators noted, larger than some listed industrial companies. Its valuation comparisons to public companies became a running media bit through 2025, with coverage tracking it passing 38 percent, then 40 percent, then 70 percent, then 85 percent of all American publicly traded companies by market value at various points in its run. Truth Terminal creator Andy Ayrey triggered a 17 percent single day price dip in late January 2025 by moving over 20 million dollars of Fartcoin through an OTC deal rather than the open market, explaining the AI agent's massive paper wealth exposed him personally to legal and tax liability that a dedicated foundation was built to manage. Coinbase added FARTCOIN to its listing roadmap on June 6, 2025 and opened trading on June 11, 2025, by which point its circulating market capitalization exceeded 1.2 billion dollars. The coin showed unusual relative strength through 2025, repeatedly reclaiming the one dollar level while older memes bled, before fading; by August 2026 it traded around 0.13 to 0.14 dollars with a market capitalization near 140 million dollars.

## Cultural impact

Fartcoin became the era's favorite absurdity benchmark: financial media loved comparing its valuation to real world firms, and traders used "Fartcoin is outperforming your altcoin" as a taunt throughout 2025. Within [[the trenches]] it stands as the purest expression of the attention thesis, a coin whose entire fundamental case is a fart joke endorsed by an AI, and it is regularly cited alongside [[dogwifhat]] as proof that liquidity chases humor. It also cemented the pattern of AI agents functioning as meme oracles whose passing remarks could mint billion dollar assets. On Solana crypto twitter the account DipWheeler, self styled "Son of Bum Farto, Fartcoin GCR" in reference to the legendary trader GCR, remained one of the coin adjacent community's most engaged posters well into 2026, evidence of a persistent Fartcoin personality culture years after launch.

## References

- Phemex Academy: https://phemex.com/academy/fartcoin-solana-meme-coin-guide
- MEXC: https://blog.mexc.com/fartcoin-a-promising-memecoin-from-the-ai-terminal-of-truth/
- Gate Learn: https://www.gate.com/learn/articles/what-is-fartcoin-all-you-need-to-know-about-fartcoin/5313
- 99bitcoins.com: https://99bitcoins.com/price-predictions/fartcoin/
- CoinGecko: https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/fartcoin
- metamask.io: https://metamask.io/price/fartcoin
- newton.co: https://www.newton.co/blog/fartcoin-fart-how-it-hit-a-1-billion-market-cap
- CoinMarketCap: https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/article/9f2f7ac3-f8da-4577-8389-5a9f911802d0
- happyrichinvestor.com: https://happyrichinvestor.com/when-fartcoin-is-worth-more-than-40-of-us-companies/
- The Defiant: https://thedefiant.io/news/markets/truth-terminal-founder-sells-its-fartcoin-holdings-to-secure-ai-s-future
- Decrypt: https://decrypt.co/302436/solana-meme-coin-fartcoin-falls-ai-bot-sells
- Gate Learn: https://www.gate.com/learn/articles/fartcoin-price-and-latest-updates-is-a-coinbase-listing-coming-soon/9450
- Decrypt: https://decrypt.co/296035/fartcoin-meme-coin-explodes
- X profile of @DipWheeler: https://x.com/DipWheeler

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