Crypto · Ethereum Memecoin · TURBO
Turbo.
A Language Model Designed It For $69.
An artist gave GPT-4 sixty nine dollars and told it to make a memecoin. It picked the name, drew the mascot, wrote the contract, and when the first launch was drained it suggested the fix.
Turbo is an Ethereum ERC-20 memecoin created in 2023 by the Australian digital artist Rhett, who goes by Mankind, on a stated budget of $69 plus about $500 in launch costs. He instructed GPT-4 to act as MemeCoinGPT and it produced the name, the mascot prompt, the contract and a 69 billion token supply.
What TURBO Is
The token itself, and where it came from.
What It Is
Turbo is an Ethereum ERC-20 memecoin whose name, mascot, supply and smart contract were generated by GPT-4 on a $69 budget. The creator, Australian digital artist Rhett Mankind, acted as the operator rather than the designer.
Origin
Created in 2023 by Rhett Mankind, a 46 year old digital artist in Australia, on a stated $69 budget plus about $500 in launch costs. Relaunched as Turbo in May 2023 after a bot drained the first attempt. Source: Fortune via Yahoo Finance.
Supply
Fixed supply of 69,000,000,000 tokens, all circulating, a figure chosen by GPT-4. The creator retained over 10 percent. Ethereum contract .
Chain
Ethereum ERC-20
Two prices, both from CoinGecko. The dashed line is a straight join between them, not the path the price took.
The Record
Documented highs, lows and events. Not a forecast.
All Time High
$0.01431669, 11 December 2024. Source: CoinGecko.
All Time Low
$0.00006518, 26 September 2023. Source: CoinGecko.
Event 1
GPT-4 produced the name candidates, a Midjourney prompt that generated the orange toad mascot, the Solidity contract and the 69 billion supply. The creator described the input as “a $20 subscription to GPT”. Source: Fortune via Yahoo Finance.
Event 2
The first launch failed when a malicious bot bought nearly all of the tokens. GPT-4 was asked what to do and proposed the crowdfunding mechanism the relaunch used. Source: Fortune via Yahoo Finance.
Event 3
It reached a $77 million market capitalisation within weeks of the relaunch and briefly entered CoinGecko’s top 300. Source: Fortune via Yahoo Finance.
The Lore, After The Experiment
Four dated events. The AI made coin outlived the stunt that made it: the creator handed it over, the largest exchange listed it, and it set its record a year and a half after launch.
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May 2023
The Split That Was Disclosed
The relaunch distributed 86.96 per cent of the supply to the crowdfund and kept 13.04 per cent for the founder. That is the “over ten per cent” in the breakdown above, stated to two decimals. Source: CoinCarp.
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September 16, 2024
Binance Lists It
Binance listed TURBO for spot trading at 10:00 UTC on 16 September 2024, sixteen months after the GPT-4 launch. Source: CoinCarp, citing Binance’s announcement.
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December 11, 2024
The Record
TURBO set its all time high of $0.01431669 three months after the Binance listing. By then the creator, Rhett Mankind, had turned control over to the community, which announced its own chain, TurboChain, that month. Sources: CoinGecko; Bitcoinist, 17 December 2024.
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September 21, 2026
92.7 Per Cent Below The High
TURBO traded at $0.00104739, about 92.7 per cent below the December 2024 record, with a market capitalisation near $72.2 million. Source: CoinGecko.
The Live Chart, And The Contract
Daily candles for the pool this token actually trades in, re-read every minute and drawn on this page rather than embedded from somebody else’s. The contract is underneath so you can check the chart is the token this page is about.
Loading the daily candles.
Daily candles from GeckoTerminal, re-read every minute while this section is on screen and drawn on this page. Not a recommendation.
Check the contract against the chart before you trust either. On both chains there is always a different token using the same name.
The Risks
Structural, and specific to this token.
Risk 1
A contract written by a language model is a contract nobody audited line by line before it held money.
Risk 2
The creator retained over ten percent of supply, which is disclosed rather than hidden and is still a concentration.
Risk 3
The premise is the marketing. If the novelty of an AI made coin stops being interesting, nothing underneath it replaces that.
Risk 4
Liquidity is thin against the other coins on this site, about $87,000 on its deepest Uniswap pair at the time of writing.
Launch details and events sourced from Wikipedia, Fortune via Yahoo Finance, Gate Learn and MEXC Crypto Pulse, with each figure carrying its publication in the row it appears in. Supply, contracts, all time highs and all time lows are from CoinGecko, and every contract was then resolved through DexScreener and checked against the symbol and name of the page it sits on. Prices are dated snapshots, not live figures. Nothing on this page is a price forecast. Every row in the timeline carries its own date and its own publication, and those are the sources. Supply, contracts, all time highs and all time lows come from CoinGecko, cross checked against CoinMarketCap and Coinpaprika. Where the aggregators disagree, both figures are printed and each is named in the row. Where a date is reported only as a month or a range it is written that way rather than narrowed. Direct quotations are reproduced from the reporting and attributed to the person who said them. Any price or market capitalisation in a row is a dated snapshot, not a live figure. Nothing on this page is a price forecast.
The Other Breakdowns
Same shape every time.
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Common Questions
An Ethereum ERC-20 memecoin whose name, mascot, supply and contract were generated by GPT-4 on a $69 budget, created by the Australian artist Rhett Mankind. Source: Fortune via Yahoo Finance.
GPT-4 produced the name, the mascot prompt, the Solidity contract and the 69 billion supply, and later proposed the crowdfunding fix after a bot drained the first launch. A person ran the process and paid for it. Source: Fortune via Yahoo Finance.
A stated $69 budget plus about $500 in blockchain launch costs. Source: Fortune via Yahoo Finance.
$0.01431669 on 11 December 2024, per CoinGecko.
No. Memecoins have no cash flows and most go to zero. Cody Wise is not a licensed advisor.
A Memecoin Is Not
A Position.
The sleeve is sized so a total loss changes nothing about the plan. That is the only condition under which it belongs at all.
Not financial advice.