Solana NFT Breakdowns · 08
Retardio Cousins.
The One The Regulator Named.
Episode eight of a series breaking down Solana NFT collections. Four thousand four hundred and forty four profile pictures, a forty one SOL floor, and a public warning from a national financial regulator six weeks later.
Retardio Cousins is a 4,444 item Solana NFT collection with a memecoin of the same name. Its floor peaked at 41.8 SOL on 7 November 2024, the same day the token peaked, per CoinGecko. The UK Financial Conduct Authority issued a public warning about Retardio on 16 December 2024.
Collection Size
Forbes and the launchpad listing, read 23 September 2026.
Peak Floor
All time high, 7 November 2024, per CoinGecko.
FCA Warning
Covered by Cointelegraph and Cryptonews, 17 December 2024.
Floor, One Read
Magic Eden API, 23 September 2026. Venues read 0.71 to 1.23.
The Rise
What actually happened, with the date attached to each of them.
Four Thousand Four Hundred And Forty Four On Solana
The launchpad listing gives the supply as 4,444, shows a public creator wallet and marks the collection immutable. No source reviewed gives a mint date, a mint price or a founder, and this page invents none of the three.
July 2024, Up Over One Hundred And Eighty Per Cent
SolanaFloor reported on 22 July 2024 that the collection had risen over 180 per cent to peak at 30 SOL through that month, and named it a significant contributor to Solana passing Ethereum on daily NFT volume. It described the project as the Solana answer to Milady and Remilio.
7 November 2024, Both Peaks Landed On One Day
CoinGecko records the floor all time high at 41.795989 SOL on 7 November 2024, and the RETARDIO token all time high of $0.2422 on the same date. The art and the token moved as one brand.
The Turn, And What It Cost
The part of the story people skip, at the same weight as the rise.
16 December 2024, A National Regulator Posted A Warning
The UK Financial Conduct Authority published a notice that Retardio may be providing or promoting financial services without its permission, said the firm is not authorised, and told consumers to avoid dealing with it and beware of scams. Cointelegraph and Cryptonews both covered it on 17 December 2024. UK consumers would have no recourse to the Financial Ombudsman Service or the compensation scheme.
The Project Answered With A Meme
Cryptonews reported on 17 December 2024 that the reply to the FCA notice was a meme post rather than a statement. Whatever you make of the regulator, that is the documented response.
About Ninety Seven Per Cent Off The Peak Floor
Against the 41.8 SOL all time high of 7 November 2024, one day of reads on 23 September 2026 gave 0.71 SOL on CoinGecko, 0.91 on Tensor, 1.00 on Magic Eden, 1.07 on OKX and 1.23 on Forbes. The token is down further, an all time low of $0.001037 on 5 February 2026 against that $0.2422 high.
The Token Link Is Named, Not Explained
Cointelegraph calls the memecoin associated with the collection and goes no further. No source documents an airdrop, a holder allocation, a revenue share or a shared treasury. The two peaked on the same day. Nobody has published the mechanism, so this page does not assert one.
What It Teaches
Three things that survive the cycle.
A Regulator Notice Is A Dated, Checkable Fact
Most cautionary material around memecoin NFTs is somebody’s opinion. A public warning from a national financial regulator, covered the next day by two named outlets, is the rare kind you can go and look up yourself.
When The Token And The Art Peak Together, They Fall Together
Two all time highs on 7 November 2024 is not a coincidence, it is one exposure wearing two tickers. Holding both is not diversification, it is the same bet twice.
An Undocumented Mint Is Its Own Signal
No mint date, no mint price and no named creator, on a collection that once carried a forty one SOL floor. That gap proves nothing on its own, and it is still the first thing worth noticing.
Supply and current floors from the live Magic Eden feed on this site, read 3 September 2026. Dated events from Hypebeast 3 October 2021 and 27 April 2022, Decrypt 17 February 2022, 13 February 2023, 20 April 2023 and 10 August 2023, CoinDesk 20 September 2022, 6 January 2023, 28 March 2023 and 10 August 2023, Cointelegraph 10 August 2023, The Block 12 May 2025, and CoinGecko for DUST token prices. Episodes 06 to 09 read 23 September 2026: Magic Eden stats API, CoinGecko, Forbes, OpenSea, OKX, Tensor and the launchpad listings, with the venue named beside every floor because they disagree. Dated events from CoinGecko Learn updated 13 June 2023, nft now 4 April 2022, Decrypt 26 August 2022 and 31 July 2024, The Block 28 August 2022, SolanaFloor 22 July 2024 and 12 November 2024, Cointelegraph 17 December 2024, Cryptonews 17 December 2024, the UK Financial Conduct Authority notice of 16 December 2024, and the Bored Ape Solana Club history document and Magic Eden blog for that collection. Peak floor prices are not published where no dated source gives one.
The Other Breakdowns
Same shape every time: what happened, what it cost, and what it teaches.
Gorillae Gang
A Solana OG collection started in Tulum, and the one I hold.
Solana Monkey Business
The One That Got Bought Back.
DeGods
Left Solana. Came Back.
y00ts
Took The Grant. Gave It Back.
Okay Bears
The Best Launch Solana Ever Had.
Cets on Creck
The Brand That Outlived The Floor.
The Pond
The FWOG Artist’s Hundred.
Bored Ape Solana Club
The Derivative That Got Its Own Badge.
Top 10 Solana NFT Collections
Ranked by thirty day volume on Magic Eden, refreshed hourly.
Common Questions
A 4,444 item Solana NFT collection trading on Magic Eden under the symbol retardio_cousins, with a memecoin of the same name.
No reliable source gives a date. Forbes says only that it was first minted in 2024. The mint price and the creator are undocumented too, and this page does not guess at any of them.
CoinGecko records an all time high floor of 41.795989 SOL on 7 November 2024, the same date the RETARDIO token hit its own all time high of $0.2422.
The UK Financial Conduct Authority posted a notice on 16 December 2024 saying the firm may be providing or promoting financial services without its permission, that it is not authorised, and that consumers should avoid dealing with it. Cointelegraph and Cryptonews covered it on 17 December 2024.
It depends which venue you read. On 23 September 2026 the five checked ranged from 0.71 SOL on CoinGecko to 1.23 SOL on Forbes. The live table on this site covers the ten busiest Solana collections by volume, and this one is not among them.
The Rise Is The Easy Half.
The Turn Is The Lesson.
Every breakdown on this site publishes what went wrong at the same weight as what went right, with a date on each of them.
Not financial advice.