Crypto · Solana Memecoin · CHILLGUY
CHILLGUY.
The Breakdown.
CHILLGUY is a Solana SPL memecoin using a character drawn by the artist Phillip Banks. The token was launched by someone other than the artist, who has since publicly objected to it and filed copyright notices against unauthorised commercial uses of his work.
CHILLGUY is a Solana SPL memecoin using a character drawn by the artist Phillip Banks. The token was launched by someone other than the artist, who has since publicly objected to it and filed copyright notices against unauthorised commercial uses of his work. Not advice.
What CHILLGUY Is
The token itself, and where it came from.
What It Is
CHILLGUY is a Solana SPL memecoin using a character drawn by the artist Phillip Banks. The token was launched by someone other than the artist, who has since publicly objected to it and filed copyright notices against unauthorised commercial uses of his work.
Origin
Launched on pump.fun on 15 November 2024 using artwork Phillip Banks posted on 4 October 2023. Banks had no involvement in the token.
Supply
Maximum supply of 1 billion tokens, with about 999.9 million in circulation. Contract .
Chain
Solana, SPL token
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
$0.6575, 27 November 2024.
All Time Low
$0.006040, 18 November 2024.
Event 1
27 November 2024, the token set its all time high, with reported peak market capitalisation figures ranging from about 500 million to 665 million dollars depending on the source.
Event 2
21 November 2024, the artist stated he had copyrighted the artwork and issued notice and take downs, and the token fell to about half its value.
The Lore
Thirteen dated events. The clearest case in the category of the person who made the image using the law against the coin, and a hack that faked the opposite.
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October 4, 2023
Phillip Banks Posts The Original Drawing
The North Carolina artist who publishes under the pseudonym Phillip Banks, or philb, posted a drawing of a brown anthropomorphic dog in a grey crew neck sweater, blue jeans and red trainers. The image circulated quietly for almost a year before it became a mass meme. Source: Wikipedia, accessed 4 September 2026.
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August 30, 2024
TikTok Picks The Meme Up
A slideshow posted by the TikTok account .blitzerzz on 30 August 2024 put the drawing in front of a large audience. A 4 September edit drew about 4.5 million views and a 5 September repost reached about 13.8 million views. Source: Wikipedia, accessed 4 September 2026.
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November 15, 2024
Token Launched On Pump.fun
An anonymous creator using the name mrowl minted CHILLGUY on the Solana launchpad pump.fun, with no involvement from the artist. Decrypt put the market capitalisation at about $10m on the day of launch. On-chain records show the main Raydium pool against SOL, address , was created on 16 November 2024. Sources: Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing, Decrypt, DexScreener.
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November 18, 2024
CoinGecko Records Its All Time Low
CoinGecko dates the token's all time low to 18 November 2024 at $0.006040, three days after launch and before the price ran up. That date sits before the all time high because CoinGecko began tracking in the first week, while the token still traded near its launch value. CoinMarketCap and Coinpaprika do not record this low at all. Source: CoinGecko, accessed 4 September 2026.
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November 19, 2024
First Centralised Exchange Listings
Gate listed CHILLGUY on its Gate Pilot venue on 19 November 2024, then opened CHILLGUY/USDT spot trading at 09:00 UTC on 21 November 2024. Decrypt reported that Crypto.com also listed the token that week, over the artist's objections. Sources: Gate.io announcement via CoinCarp, Decrypt.
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November 21, 2024
Banks Says The Artwork Is Copyrighted
Banks posted that "Chill guy has been copyrighted. Like, legally" and said he would issue takedowns on for profit uses over the following days, naming unauthorised merchandise and shitcoins while saying he did not object to casual brand use. Decrypt reported the token fell 54% to about $220m within two hours. He had set his account to private the previous day after crypto related harassment, and was later doxxed. Sources: Decrypt, Cointelegraph, Wikipedia.
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November 21, 2024
Bukele Post Lifts The Token Again
El Salvador's president Nayib Bukele posted the Chill Guy image on the same day, without naming the token. Protos reported the market capitalisation moved from roughly $300m to roughly $500m in about 90 minutes, a gain of about 65%, with more than $350m of 24 hour volume. Sources: Protos, Crypto Briefing.
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November 27, 2024
All Time High, Binance Futures And KuCoin
KuCoin opened CHILLGUY/USDT at 12:00 UTC and Binance Futures launched the CHILLGUYUSDT perpetual at 14:45 UTC with up to 75x leverage. The token set its all time high the same day, and the aggregators disagree on the figure: $0.6575 on CoinGecko, $0.6651 on CoinMarketCap and $0.660527 on Coinpaprika, which timestamps it at 10:42 UTC. Reported peak market capitalisation also varies, from about $534m in Crypto Briefing to about $643m in Cointelegraph. Sources: Binance announcement, KuCoin announcement, CoinGecko, CoinMarketCap, Coinpaprika, Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing.
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December 12, 2024
Banks' Accounts Hacked And A False Licence Posted
A post from Banks' X account said he was providing licensing and IP rights to the CHILLGUY token and team, while a separate coin using his philb character appeared on pump.fun and collapsed. Banks said on Tumblr that his X and Bluesky accounts had been hacked and that the posts were not his. Crypto.news reported the token fell from $0.4793 to $0.2637, about 45%, within 30 minutes. Sources: Crypto Briefing, Crypto.news.
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December 25, 2024
Youtooz Releases An Official Plush
The collectibles company Youtooz released a nine inch Chill Guy plush with a release date of 25 December 2024, credited on the product page to philb. It is the earliest merchandise tied to the artist by name that this research could confirm, and it followed his takedown campaign against unauthorised goods. Source: Youtooz product page, accessed 4 September 2026.
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April 11, 2025
First Global Pop-Up Store Opens In Hong Kong
A Chill Guy pop-up ran from 11 April to 5 May 2025 at Festival Walk in Hong Kong, with more than 100 officially licensed products and a CASETiFY accessories line. Neither trade report names the licensing agent handling the character. No lawsuit filed by Banks against the token's creators, and no settlement or licence covering the token, was reported by any outlet reviewed here. Sources: Marketing-Interactive, Time Out Hong Kong.
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April 2, 2026
CoinMarketCap Records Its All Time Low
CoinMarketCap dates the token's all time low to 2 April 2026 at $0.006676, which is above the $0.006040 CoinGecko records for 18 November 2024. The two aggregators disagree because their price histories begin at different points, so both figures should be quoted with the source named. No press coverage of the April 2026 low was found. Sources: CoinMarketCap, CoinGecko.
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September 4, 2026
Price And Market Capitalisation Today
CHILLGUY trades at about $0.0121 with a market capitalisation of about $12.1m, roughly 98% below the November 2024 high. Circulating supply is about 999.96 million against a one billion total supply, and DexScreener shows about $1.39m of liquidity in the main Raydium pool. Sources: Coinpaprika API, CoinGecko, CoinMarketCap, DexScreener.
The Chart, And The Contract
The chart lives on DexScreener and will not render inside another page, so this links out to it rather than showing you a box that never loads. The contract sits beside it so you can check the chart is the token this page is about.
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
The artist has publicly objected to the token and issued copyright notices.
Risk 2
The image the token depends on is owned by someone with no stake in it.
Risk 3
No entity, treasury or product stands behind the token.
Supply, all time high and all time low from CoinGecko, read 2 September 2026. Launch details from the issuer's own announcements and from Solscan. Any price or market capitalisation inside the timeline is a dated snapshot, not a live figure. The live table is on the memecoins page. 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.
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Common Questions
CHILLGUY is a Solana SPL memecoin using a character drawn by the artist Phillip Banks. The token was launched by someone other than the artist, who has since publicly objected to it and filed copyright notices against unauthorised commercial uses of his work.
Launched on pump.fun on 15 November 2024 using artwork Phillip Banks posted on 4 October 2023. Banks had no involvement in the token.
Maximum supply of 1 billion tokens, with about 999.9 million in circulation. Contract .
The artist has publicly objected to the token and issued copyright notices. The image the token depends on is owned by someone with no stake in it. No entity, treasury or product stands behind the token.
No. It is a breakdown of a token, which is a different thing. Memecoins have no cash flows and can go to zero. Nothing here is financial advice and 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.