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NonKYCAyeAyeCoin Facts
AyeAyeCoin was deployed on August 20, 2015. The 2015 contract can be viewed here. The total supply is six million whole coins (no decimals), all of which were initially available to claim one at a time from a faucet built into the contract. Each time a user claims a coin, the contract returns the phrase "ayeAyeCoin love! One coin for you!" until the faucet is empty, when it then returns, "Sorry, the faucet has entirely run dry."
AyeAyeCoin remained unknown for nearly nine years until May 26, 2024 when @goatishduck posted this message on X. Over the next two days, the coin grab contract was one of the biggest gas guzzlers on Ethereum as claimants emptied all six million tokens from the faucet. The current list of holders can be found using this tool by tshoerv here.
After discovering AyeAyeCoin, @goatishduck verified its status as the first memecoin on Ethereum. He analyzed each of the 364 contracts deployed on Ethereum prior to AyeAyeCoin and confirmed that none contained coins with a name or theme. The results of his analysis can be viewed here.
Today AyeAyeCoin is generally held and traded as Wrapped AyeAyeCoin ($WAAC). The token predates the ERC-20 token standard that many dapps require, so a wrapper contract was deployed to enable compatibility across the Ethereum ecosystem. Wrapped AyeAyeCoin can be unwrapped to the original 2015 AyeAyeCoin at any time. A wrapping/unwrapping interface by tschoerv is available here.
The Creator
AyeAyeCoin was created by the early anonymous Ethereum enthusiast linagee. While linagee never publicly announced AyeAyeCoin, linagee's weakHands contract from nine days prior was deployed using the same address as the AyeAyeCoin faucet. The AyeAyeCoin creator also deployed an early unnamed coin contract, a name registrar, and even a second AyeAyeCoin modeled after Mistcoin using the Mist browser in 2016.
On January 3, 2025, the AyeAyeCoin contract was verified on Etherscan with the comment "linagee was here," likely a nod from the 2015 creator himself.
The Aye-Aye Lemur
The aye-aye is a long-fingered nocturnal lemur native to Madagascar that feeds on insects and larvae. In 2015, linagee called the setInfo function in the AyeAyeCoin contract with the text, "Thank you for using AyeAyeCoin! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aye-aye." Wikipedia remains a good source to learn more about the aye-aye.
The aye-aye is currently endangered due to deforestation, poaching, and even killings by locals that consider it to be cursed, evil, or bad luck. To help the aye-aye, some AyeAyeCoin lovers have decided to use a proportion of fees from liquidity pool positions to donate to aye-aye conservation organizations.