From a crude joke to a $1bn market cap, Fartcoin (FARTCOIN) came a long way in just nine months. The toilet-humour token emerged from an AI experiment, rode a late-night-TV shout-out to viral glory, and sparked serious debate about where memecoin mania goes next.

An AI-Powered Origin

Fartcoin’s spark came from two Claude 3 Opus bots that New Zealand AI researcher Andy Ayrey set loose in an experiment he called “Infinite Backrooms.” The pair riffed through 9,000 chats, eventually hatching an idea for a perfect meme token “that breaks wind, not banks.”

Ayrey distilled their banter into a new, snarky AI persona called Truth Terminal, which posted the tokenomics to X and watched the Solana dev community spin up the contract within hours. A modest initial “Initial Fart Offering” (IFO) on 18 October 2024 seeded liquidity; early buyers tipped 2 % of supply back to the bot’s on-chain wallet.

Distribution is aggressively community-first: no venture round, no team treasury beyond Truth Terminal’s slice. Instead, miners earn FARTCOIN for providing pool liquidity, and “methane staking” pays yield in partner memecoins. Every transaction emits the on-brand digital “pfffft” sound.

Pricewise, the token sprinted from cent fractions on day one to an ATH of $2.11 and a $725 million market cap by January 2025, nearly flipping its big brother GOAT before cooling off. As of the time of writing, FARTCOIN changes hands at $1.05, putting total valuation just north of a billion dollars. Liquidity is split almost 50/50 between Solana DEXs and the three CEXs that listed it in March.

Price Catalysts and the Colbert Effect

Fartcoin’s chart is pure meme-energy. Day-one prints were fractions of a cent; by 20 January 2025 the token hit an all-time high of $2.11, whipping past a $2 billion market cap. A brutal spring wash-out followed, but the coin reclaimed the psychological $1.00 handle in April. As of the time of writing, it trades at $1.05, with 24-hour volume topping $150 million.

Fartcoin all-time price chart, CoinGecko

One pivotal catalyst was pop-culture. During his 18 December 2024 monologue, stand-up comedian Stephen Colbert waved mock “Fartcoin stock tips” at a live audience. Overnight, on-chain transactions jumped 320%, and the price printed its largest single green candle to date. TikTok’s #FartcoinChallenge, airdrop quests, and Discord meme battles keep the token rolling; its volatility remains a feature, not a bug, with 30-day realised volume almost reaching 110 %.

Liquidity cuts both ways. Roughly half of circulating supply sits in public staking pools, but five whale wallets still hold 41 % of the float—a setup that can turbo-charge rallies or accelerate rug-pull talk, depending on sentiment.

Next Stop: Bull Gas or Bear Stink?

Crypto community and experts are split on Fartcoin’s next act. CoinCodex projects a near-term pullback, eyeing $0.74–$0.93 by late July before any rebound. Their algorithm flags mixed momentum and a neutral fear-and-greed score.

CoinLore takes the opposite tack, predicting a bull-market target of $2.17 by year-end if meme-coin rotation resumes and FART clears resistance at $1.30.

Benzinga crowdsourced desk-trader opinions for an average 2025 price of $1.64, citing the token’s unusually even liquidity profile across CEXs and DEXs.

Kraken’s long-horizon table, built on a steady 5 % annual appreciation assumption, sees Fartcoin grinding to $1.11 in 2026 and $1.35 by 2030: a sober reminder that most meme coins fade once hype dissipates.

Bulls argue that Solana’s rising total value locked, a rumoured Coinbase roadmap mention, and whispers of a novelty ETF filing could reignite the rally. Bears counter that meme-cycles are shortening, and any Bitcoin pullback drains liquidity from the risk frontier first.

Fartcoin is still exactly what its name suggests—an irreverent plaything whose value tracks virality more than fundamentals. If the community keeps rallying around its darling and more influencers join in, another explosive spike is on the table. If attention drifts, the smell could dissipate just as fast.