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Pistacio

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Pistacio
Pistacio
Image: Pistacio token logo, character art by @Marcello_695, via DexScreener
ticker$Pistacio
blockchainSolana
launchedAugust 25, 2026 (pump.fun)
peak market capabout $6.73 million (August 25, 2026, 22:34 UTC, per the pump.fun API and DexScreener, still climbing as of publication)

Pistacio ($Pistacio) is a Solana memecoin deployed on pump.fun on August 25, 2026, 47 minutes after artist Marcello_695 named the character in a piece of original art, reaching a market cap above 6.7 million dollars within its first several hours.

Contents
  1. 1 The artist
  2. 2 The character and the launch
  3. 3 The breakout
  4. 4 Status
  5. 5 References

Pistacio ($Pistacio) is a Solana memecoin born on August 25, 2026 from a character drawn by Marcello_695, an artist known as a resident illustrator for the $wassie and $pepo communities. The character art was posted at 18:34 UTC; an unprompted deployer, unconnected to Marcello, launched the token 47 minutes 31 seconds later on pump.fun, and the coin reached a market cap of $6.73 million within its first four hours.

The artist

Marcello_695, display name "marcello," is an individually verified X account, handle @Marcello_695, that joined the platform on April 30, 2022. A direct pull of the profile today put it at 3,923 followers against 2,195 following, with 17,844 posts and 4,714 media posts logged. His bio reads, verbatim: "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. Artista for : $wassie , $pepo." The linked website on his profile, exchange.art/marcello, now returns only a platform closure notice rather than his portfolio, reading "We're closed, thank you to every artist and collector who built this community with us," so his pre 2026 drop history on that site could not be reviewed directly.

Marcello's bio names him as artist for two existing, separate memecoins. $WASSIE is an Ethereum token with a Base deployment that CoinGecko lists at roughly $369,000 in market cap; the Wassie character itself predates Marcello, tracing to a 2017 meme by a user known as wasserpest and originally drawn by an artist credited as Tukinowagamo, which makes Marcello a contributing community artist for an existing character rather than its originator. $PEPO, styled "Peepee vs. Poopoo," is a Solana token CoinGecko lists at roughly $140,000 in market cap. The credit is corroborated outside his own bio: two separate accounts inside the $WASSIE community, WassieSupporter and Sharky_Wassie, each carried "PFP by @Marcello_695" in their own bios across scrapes dated July 27, August 5, August 7 and August 19, 2026, evidence of an active commission practice inside the community that predates the Pistacio story.

Day to day, Marcello's posting is community banter inside the $WASSIE circle, much of it short replies to inversebrah, a central figure in that community. On August 25, 2026 at 04:42 UTC, hours before the Pistacio story began, he posted "GM bear market Survivors," a line that places him inside the mood of the 2026 memecoin winter the same day his character launched. No press or larger crypto Twitter coverage of Marcello_695 individually was located prior to the Pistacio launch; before that day he was known within the $WASSIE and $PEPO community rather than to wider crypto Twitter.

Marcello_695 is not Marcell (@MarcellxMarcell), the trader covered elsewhere on this wiki, despite the similar handles. The two are confirmed different people: different X account IDs (1520268528556912641 for Marcello_695 against 1585960998321770497 for Marcell), different join dates (April 30, 2022 against October 28, 2022), wildly different follower counts (3,923 against roughly 146,000), different bios ("Artista for : $wassie , $pepo" against "@UGCabal | @TrenchWarriorrs"), different avatars, and different linked sites (exchange.art/marcello against t.me/marcellcooks). No connection between the two accounts has been found.

The character and the launch

The character's name traces to one tweet. On August 25, 2026 at 18:34:31 UTC, Marcello_695 posted an original piece of artwork, a single 2048x2048 pixel image, captioned "His nickname on the street is Pistacio." The post quoted an earlier post from @bacon_wassie that same day, at 11:26:33 UTC, describing the character as "A very hairy frok." Marcello's naming post drew 232 likes, 24 retweets and 56 replies at first check, and had passed 102,000 views; it is the first documented appearance anywhere in the research corpus of "Pistacio" as a named character.

Marcello did not deploy the token himself. Forty seven minutes and thirty one seconds after his naming post, at 19:22:01 UTC, an account called @jup_enjoyoors posted: "the artist of the wassie and pepo meme just named a new character and no one devved it. genny wallet in their pinned tweet, sending fees." ("Genny" is slang for genesis.) The pump.fun token itself was created onchain one second later, at 19:22:02 UTC. @jup_enjoyoors is individually verified on X, not the organization verified tier carried by Jupiter's own flagship account, but its posting history, tagged alongside accounts such as @jup_studio and @drip_haus in named art contest submissions going back to at least 2025, ties it to Jupiter's real Enjoyoors community art platform at enjoyoors.jup.ag rather than to an account freshly created to borrow the branding for one post. It is neither Jupiter speaking officially nor an unrelated impersonator.

@jup_enjoyoors's tweet claims trading fees are being routed to a wallet named in Marcello's own pinned tweet. The pinned tweet's contents were not retrievable by any method tried: a full pull of Marcello's profile through the fxtwitter API returns no pinned tweet field at all, a separate mirror returned nothing, and X's syndication timeline API returned an empty response. Two other mirror routes, Nitter and xcancel, were both already dark by the time of this research, having been served cease and desist notices dated August 24, 2026, one day before the Pistacio launch. On the chain side, the pump.fun API does identify a specific wallet as the token's onchain creator, but with the pinned tweet unreachable there is nothing to compare that wallet against, so the mechanics of the routing remain unverified.

The artist himself, however, has confirmed receiving fees. Marcello's evening unfolded in a documented arc. At 20:15:27 UTC, 53 minutes after the token's creation, he posted a second drawing of the character flying in a red superhero cape, captioned "It looks like Pistacio is on a mission" (406 likes at verification). Ten minutes later, at 20:25:16 UTC, he addressed the coin directly and in full: "Okay, for the sake of transparency. Someone made a meme based on one of my drawings and gave me a fees. If the coin doesn't crash, I'll draw memes for them. Invest at your own risk. Thank you to the community that made this happen, and good luck. 🤎" (625 likes and about 97,000 views at verification). At 22:07:50 UTC, with the coin past six million dollars, he posted again: "My phone just blew up. Thank you again to the community that created it. That little green creature is incredible." The statement acknowledges receiving fees in his own words, upgrading the deployer's routing claim from a single account's assertion to an artist confirmed arrangement, though the amounts flowing onchain remain unverified. His conditional pledge to keep drawing for the coin if it survives, delivered alongside an unprompted risk warning to buyers, is among the more careful artist responses on record to an unsolicited tokenization.

pump.fun itself published an article on the coin the same day at its coin page, titled "Pistacio Rallying After Community Tokenizes Marcello's Drawing," with no byline, recounting the naming post, the community tokenization, the fee allocation and Marcello's statements. The platform publishing editorial articles on individual coins is itself a recent layer of its content push, covered at pump.fun mobile app.

The breakout

The token's market cap started near $40,000 shortly after creation, while its bonding curve pool was still active, before accelerating fast enough that any single figure went stale within minutes. An early check put the token's all time high market cap at about $2.97 million, timestamped 22:17:42 UTC, roughly three hours after creation. A later check found the token setting a fresh all time high of $6.73 million at 22:34:45 UTC, per the pump.fun API's own ath_market_cap field, cross checked against DexScreener; the token was still climbing at the moment of that pull.

Liquidity spread across trading venues quickly. The original pump.fun bonding curve completed and migrated to a PumpSwap pool within the token's first hour; by the time of the final check for this article, nine separate pools were trading the mint, spanning PumpSwap, six pools on Meteora, and a new pool on Raydium that appeared at 22:28:49 UTC, with combined 24 hour volume across all nine of about $9.53 million and combined liquidity of about $462,000. That is an unusually fast spread of liquidity venues for a token only a few hours old, and it is reported here only as the observable timing pattern it is; whether it reflects organic third party interest, automated trading, or coordinated seeding was not established. Holder concentration could not be checked by any route attempted: pump.fun's own holder endpoints returned no data, Solscan was inaccessible, and the public Solana RPC's largest accounts call was rate limited, so the question of who actually holds the supply remains open.

Confirmed amplification of the story, as of publication, centers on the tweets above plus pump.fun's own same day article on the coin. No independent press coverage of Pistacio specifically had surfaced in research as of this article's writing, a gap very likely explained by the story being only a few hours old.

Status

As of publication, the Pistacio story is hours old and still moving. The market cap had already been overtaken twice within this article's own research window, and the coin's liquidity kept spreading to new pools. What remains unknown: the onchain fee amounts actually flowing to the artist, and who holds the supply behind its nine pools. On the spectrum the wiki's precedents define, from Nubcat's Leon Karssen pattern of an artist's work adopted without him, to Catecoin's outright denial by Atsuko Sato, Pistacio has landed somewhere neither had reached within hours: a community tokenization the artist publicly acknowledged, was paid for, and conditionally embraced, while warning buyers of the risk in the same breath.

References

See also
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  • PUNCH PUNCH is a Solana meme coin based on Punch, the abandoned baby macaque at Japan's Ichikawa
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Last updated 2026-08-25