What Is Fartcoin?

Fartcoin (ticker FARTCOIN) is a memecoin on the Solana blockchain that began trading on October 18, 2024. It launched through pump.fun, the no-code Solana memecoin launchpad, as a fair launch with the entire supply hitting the market at once. Fartcoin is an SPL token, and it became one of the best-known examples of the "AI agent" memecoin narrative that took hold in late 2024.

The token's notoriety comes from its origin story rather than any technology. The concept emerged from Truth Terminal, an AI chatbot created by researcher Andy Ayrey. In freewheeling conversations, the AI riffed on the idea that an ideal memecoin would lean into fart jokes. An anonymous developer then actually deployed Fartcoin shortly after a related, more directly AI-linked token called Goatseus Maximus (GOAT). It is important to be precise here: Truth Terminal did not create or deploy Fartcoin, and its strongest endorsement was for GOAT, not Fartcoin. Fartcoin is best understood as a community-driven memecoin inspired by, but not built by, the AI agent.

Fartcoin has a total supply of 1 billion tokens, essentially all in circulation, consistent with a pump.fun fair launch. It has no roadmap, no product, no revenue mechanism, and no claimed utility. Its value rests entirely on the strength of its meme, the AI-agent narrative, and speculative trading interest.

Despite, or perhaps because of, its absurd premise, Fartcoin grew into a multi-hundred-million-dollar token. By mid-December 2024 it crossed roughly $800 million in market capitalization, and it reached an all-time high in January 2025 with a peak market cap above $2 billion. Reported all-time-high prices vary slightly by data provider, in the range of about $2.48 to $2.61. As with any memecoin, it has since been highly volatile and trades well below that peak.

The token sits within a broader 2024 trend in which autonomous AI agents, social-media bots, and crypto wallets were combined to spawn and promote tokens. That narrative, kicked off in part by a grant from venture investor Marc Andreessen to the Truth Terminal agent, gave Fartcoin an outsized cultural footprint relative to its joke premise.

Getting Started With Fartcoin

Fartcoin is a Solana token, so getting started means setting up a Solana wallet and funding it:

  1. Step 1: Install a Solana wallet such as Phantom, Solflare, or Backpack and back up your recovery phrase.
  2. Step 2: Fund the wallet with SOL or USDC from an exchange or a fiat on-ramp.
  3. Step 3: Buy FARTCOIN on a centralized exchange, or swap for it on a Solana decentralized exchange using the official contract address.
  4. Step 4: Treat it as a high-risk, speculative asset, and always verify the contract address, since copycat "fart" tokens are common.

How to Get a Fartcoin Wallet?

FARTCOIN is held in any wallet that supports Solana SPL tokens.

Phantom

Phantom is the most popular Solana wallet, with a browser extension and mobile app, built-in swaps, and easy connection to Solana decentralized exchanges.

Solflare

Solflare is a well-established Solana wallet supporting SPL tokens across extension, mobile, and hardware setups.

Hardware Wallets

A Ledger device paired with Phantom or Solflare keeps your keys offline and is recommended for larger balances.

Fartcoin Resources

As a pump.fun memecoin, Fartcoin has no official GitHub, documentation, or whitepaper; the website is community-maintained. For tracking price and liquidity, on-chain explorers such as Solscan and chart sites like DexScreener are the most reliable references. Verify the contract address above, since several unrelated "fart" tokens exist on other chains.

How to Buy Fartcoin?

Fartcoin gained broad exchange support through 2025.

Centralized Exchanges

FARTCOIN is listed on exchanges including Coinbase, Kraken, Bybit, Bitget, MEXC, and Gate. Binance has offered Fartcoin perpetual futures and listed it on Binance Alpha; spot availability has been more limited, so check the venue before assuming a spot pair.

Decentralized Exchanges

As a Solana token, FARTCOIN trades on the Jupiter aggregator and on Raydium, where its main liquidity pools sit. Buy SOL into a Solana wallet, then swap using the official contract address.

Latest Fartcoin News

Fartcoin's biggest milestones were its rapid run to a multi-billion-dollar market cap in December 2024 and January 2025, and its subsequent listing on major centralized exchanges, including a Coinbase spot listing in June 2025 that briefly lifted the price. It remains a frequently cited symbol of the AI-agent memecoin wave.

Because Fartcoin is a pure memecoin, ongoing "news" is limited to exchange listings, narrative shifts around AI-agent tokens, and price action. Anyone considering it should understand that it has no underlying product and carries the full risk profile of a speculative memecoin.