$WIF is a photo of somebody’s puppy that turned into billions of dollars 🧢
1️⃣ The dog is real and she’s called Achi
A Shiba Inu living in South Korea, photographed on November 17, 2018, 2 months after she was born, in a pink beanie her owners knitted by hand. The picture spread as a profile-picture trend through 2019, 4 years before anyone made a token out of it.
2️⃣ The name came from a random reply
A professional Fortnite streamer set the photo as his avatar in 2019, and someone replied with the words “dogwifhat”. That was the whole naming process.
3️⃣ It launched at a hundredth of a cent
@dogwifcoin went live on Solana on November 20, 2023 at $0,000013, with an anonymous creator who has never come forward. Within weeks it had crossed a billion, and at its 2024 peak it was the third-largest memecoin in the world.
4️⃣ There’s no team wallet at all
The supply was fully distributed from day one, with nothing held back for a founder or a treasury. For a coin that reached billions, that’s genuinely rare, every campaign it has ever run was funded by holders pooling their own money.
5️⃣ The original photo sold for $4,3M
In March 2024 the image was auctioned as an NFT for 1,210 ETH, bought by trader GCR. The physical hat went separately a year later for around $800K.
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