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Pippin (PIPPIN) is an AI agent token on the [[Solana]] blockchain centered on a minimalist stick figure unicorn. The agent was created by Yohei Nakajima, the venture capitalist who published BabyAGI in 2023 and helped name the autonomous agent software category, giving the coin unusual founder credibility within the [[AI agent meta]].

## Origin

Nakajima built Pippin as an autonomous digital being running on a BabyAGI derived framework, handling its own task planning and social posting, with a deliberately crude AI generated unicorn as its face. A token followed on Solana in January 2025, as the agent wave started by [[Goatseus Maximus]] crested, and PIPPIN quickly ranked among the larger Solana agent coins of that month before falling back with the sector.

## Market history

Unusually for the class of early 2025 agent tokens, Pippin's largest move came a year later. After surviving the 2025 [[AI agent meta]] collapse, PIPPIN rallied through February 2026, gaining more than 200 percent in a single week and reaching an all time high of about 0.90 dollars on February 26, 2026, an implied market capitalization of roughly 900 million dollars on a supply of about one billion tokens.

## Crash and insider allegations

The reversal was severe. By mid March 2026 PIPPIN had shed about 85 percent of its peak value. Onchain analytics firms alleged the rally had been manufactured: Bubblemaps flagged that a large share of supply sat with connected insiders, and analysts including ZachXBT estimated that roughly 73 percent of tokens were held across about 50 coordinated wallets, leaving a thin tradable float. Researchers using Nansen described a clean accumulation phase followed by a distribution phase executed across dozens of wallets. These characterizations remain allegations by analysts rather than legal findings, and no enforcement action had been reported as of mid 2026.

## Status

By August 2026 PIPPIN traded around 98 percent below its high with a market capitalization in the tens of millions of dollars. The episode is cited in [[the trenches]] as evidence that the AI agent trade's second wind reproduced the same supply concentration problems as its first.

## References

- https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/pippin
- https://phemex.com/academy/yohei-nakajima-babyagi-ai-agents
- https://www.mexc.com/news/708835
- https://www.cryptotimes.io/2026/03/18/meme-coin-deja-vu-pippin-sheds-85-as-hype-fades-and-exits-accelerate/
- https://zomdi.com/pippin-crashes-85-percent-from-all-time-high-the-rise-and-fall-of-solana-ai-meme-coin.html
- https://cryptopotato.com/trending-meme-coin-pippin-collapses-by-50-classic-rug-pull-or-buying-opportunity/

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