Original title: "The market value exceeded US$80 million within half a day of being online. Why did Pepe Meme artist's BOME become so popular?" 》
Original author: Odaily Planet Daily
Yesterday, Pepe Meme artist Darkfarm released BOOK OF MEME ( BOME) has dominated all social platforms. It has increased 20 times in just three hours after being online, and its market value exceeds US$80 million. What makes it grow so rapidly?
Darkfarms is an artist who focuses on the creation of Pepe Meme pictures. His most famous work was previously the Pepe themed NFT  ;Series SMOWL. This work was released 2 years ago, and the issue price that year was 0.04 ETH. The floor price before BOME became popular was about 0.047 ETH, and it has now risen to 0.2 ETH.
In addition to this work, Darkfarms has also continued to create Pepe Meme pictures and NFT series over the years. The following are part of his personal website Example:
On March 10th, Darkfarms began to preview the upcoming launch project, and on the 12th it disclosed the project "BOOK OF MEME" ” and its project concept, Darkfarms stated that BOOK OF MEME is
“a shitcoin, a renewable e-zine, one for creating Meme 's multifunctional tool, a CC0 Meme drawing library with all un Mint JPEG links. Maybe even a decentralized social network, a single NFT that links everything, and a small gif on the solscan browser.
BOOK OF MEME Captures the current Meme meta(data), including most of the Meme coins on the chain, and the data is stored in Arweave/IPFS /Inscription can even be used as a social platform for cross-chain storage, but mainly it is a book that I can update and constantly add new Meme and new styles.
In short, BOOK OF MEME is a permanent storage library for Meme and will expand a series of Meme ; Creation function.
Darkfarms shown  ;BOOK OF MEME Some features, such as converting images to glitchy pixel style:
Permanently store Meme created content in Arweave/inscriptions/ipfs and other places.
On March 13th, Darkfarms started the pre-sale. You can participate by sending SOL to the designated Solana address. There is no fixed price for the pre-sale, and all participants in the pre-sale will be allocated tokens in proportion to their donated SOL. The progress of the pre-sale has also far exceeded Darkfarms' expectations. The original fundraising expectation was only 500-600 SOL, so he opened a community vote and let the participants decide how to allocate the pre-sale funds. As of 8:00 this morning, according to data disclosed by Darkfarms, a total of 10,131 SOLs have been raised.
At present, BOME is still continuing to rise and has reached the second-tier market value of Solana Meme. Whether it can become the next billion-dollar Meme remains to be seen. Market game.
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