The unexpected connection between Base, Solana, and Pump.fun: an all-star "meme abstract show" ignited by $CHILLHOUSE .

Original Title: Chillhouse, which rises alone, the past and present of the “Web3 Fun Person”

Original author: Cookie

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Reprint: Daisy, Mars Finance

The long-silent Solana meme has not been this lively for a long time, and it is happening in a way we could hardly imagine — Jesse Pollak, the head of the Base protocol, well-known crypto KOL Cobie, Solana founder Toly, and pump.fun founder alon are all “abstracting” around a Solana meme coin. Especially with the addition of the Base camp, there is a feeling of “breaking the taboo gate” which, in the current competitive environment with various chains striving hard against each other, comes as a surprise to the players.

This Solana meme coin is $chillhouse. It is not a new coin; since its successful launch on pump.fun, Chillhouse has already been on a journey for half a year and has consistently been one of the important meme coins in the pump.fun ecosystem. So, what kind of coin is this? What qualifies it to be connected to this cross-camp “meme abstract show”?

Chillguy+House=Chillhouse

The original inspiration for Chillhouse comes from the title of this section, “Chillguy+House=Chillhouse.” That's right, at the very beginning, Chillhouse was only positioned as a “Frankenstein.”

Although it is a “Frankenstein”, it possesses an excellent and rare kind of “rebellious irony” in the Web3 meme space. Chillguy had an explosive performance during last year's meme bull market, but ultimately received a lawsuit warning from the original creator of the Chillguy image, Phillip Banks.

This is the first half of Chillhouse - “The creator of Chillguy is not a Chill person.”

The other half comes from the brief brilliance of the Solana meme market after Trump’s coin issuance cooled down, which is the coin $House. At the end of April, $House, which broke through with the slogan “1 $House = 1 dollar” amid the global anxiety of young people being unable to afford housing, reached a peak market value of 120 million dollars.

During the rise of $House , a new “God of Versions” appeared, and that is Fapital. Fapital has a group chat called “Fapital Club”, where the deployer of Chillhouse @VERYKOOLLUKEY said this:

“What happens if we launch Chillhouse?”

Other members in Fapital Club found this idea very interesting. In the end, @0xRacist created this “Frankenstein” pattern - the head turned into a Chillguy that is a house.

Half a year later, today, this idea has generated nearly $169,000 in creator income. An interesting thought, creating a meme coin has garnered over a million yuan, one can't help but marvel at the magic of Web3.

The creator's income has accumulated since July 20, as the current person in charge of operating Chillhouse's official Twitter is @RiccoRosas, and the creator's income was redirected to him at the end of July. Therefore, it can also be said that Chillhouse is the most successful case of the creator income reform after pump.fun, ensuring the long-term operation of meme coins.

Before I start reviewing the journey of Chillhouse, let me finally sigh that during the market's lowest times, opportunities often brew. Six months later, as I write this article, Chillhouse and neet have both become the “twin stars” of the pump.fun ecosystem. Moreover, they both have connections with Fapital—one was directly born from a group chat of Fapital, while the other was recognized by Fapital very early on.

On the pump.fun homepage's “Gemini”

Fapital's “copy trading” has never been verbose in style. If you look through his tweets, you'll find that he sometimes disappears for a while, then comes back and jokes around, sometimes even unrelated to cryptocurrency. If you are not a long-term player active in the pump.fun ecosystem, you might not even know who this person is. In a way, long-term Chinese players who persist in the pump.fun ecosystem, facing language and cultural barriers, have also gained an information advantage from their persistence.

Other recognized tokens in the pump.fun ecosystem, such as $USDUC, $tokabu , etc., have also been slowly growing since the low period of pump.fun and the entire Solana meme ecosystem 5 months ago.

Of course, the process of growth is not always smooth.

The process of growth

Chillhouse's start can be considered quite smooth. Less than a week after the token's birth, it had already surpassed a market value of 10 million USD. Now, as the Chief Content Officer of pump.fun, @json1444 mentioned Chillhouse in its first week.

The Chillhouse community has also shown a unique appearance. After the successful launch of the token, community members enthusiastically created related funny images. The themes of these images do not deliberately revolve around $chillguy or $House, but instead are abstract and imaginative.

The community's efforts bore their first major success at the end of May. Community members spontaneously sent Twitter DMs to various KOLs like a sticky candy, with just one sentence: “Thoughts on chillhouse? How do you view Chillhouse?”

“SMS bombing” ultimately blew Ansem out, and “Thoughts on chillhouse?” became a meme in the Solana ecosystem. Now, when I see players from both the Chinese and English comment sections occasionally jump out with a random “Thoughts?”, it's actually a simplification of that meme. The meme doesn't genuinely seek KOLs' opinions on Chillhouse; rather, it's more of a “sticky candy” way to attract attention and show off. It's like when my friend asks me how's the weather today? Instead, I just blurt out three sentences, what do you think about Chillhouse? It doesn't discriminate against the audience or the context.

In the end, this meme also blew up the founder of pump.fun, alon:

With this meme, Chillhouse quickly attracted more interaction from major KOLs. @based16z actively cued Chillhouse jokingly, “Hyperliquid cut the KOL budget, Chillhouse team, I will get in touch with you.” Chillhouse seized the opportunity well, asking, “Can you help me arrange an interview with threadguy?” This prompted a reply from threadguy, “How much?”

After this, $chillhouse started the first wave of the main upward trend, reaching a historical high of nearly 30 million dollars in market value by late June. At this point, Chillhouse had become an undeniable presence in the Solana meme ecosystem, not only with a large amount of spontaneous fun on Twitter but also appearing again and again in Mitch's Telegram channel and Rasmr's live broadcasts.

In Rasmr's livestream, Chillhouse keeps appearing, both by directly asking passersby “Thoughts on chillhouse?” and having others host different shows with Chillhouse on their heads. Chillhouse also appears in other top pump.fun livestreams, such as Based DD and others.

Chillhouse has firmly established itself, but the price of the coin cannot rise forever. After first approaching the $30 million mark, Chillhouse entered its first sharp correction, dropping about 75% within 12 days.

The subsequent rises and falls are almost not driven by obvious favorable factors like this time, so it is a “painful process” — the community has always been there, and Chillhouse's content consistently maintains high quality, but short-term emotions and attention will not always stay on a newly emerged meme coin. Just like the meme coins such as SPX/Mog/BITCOIN that have undergone long-term consensus tests on the Ethereum mainnet, Chillhouse has also entered this difficult and unavoidable trial.

During this period, Chillhouse launched an NFT series called “Lil Chillers,” whose floor price once broke 7 SOL, showcasing its influence. Currently, the floor price of this NFT series is about 1.1 SOL.

But before discussing this “Gathering of Heroes”, let's first address a question:

What is pump.fun founder Alon’s attitude towards Chillhouse? If he likes this coin, why hasn't the pump.fun token support fund Glass Full Foundation bought this token?

I think this is deliberate by alon. First of all, pump.fun has changed its Twitter profile cover image several times in the past few months, each time featuring the eco meme coins it supports, and Chillhouse has never been absent.

Secondly, looking through alon's tweets, at first glance it seems like there might be beef between Chillhouse and alon:

alon: “The organic tokens of the pump.fun ecosystem (meaning that the community grows naturally and well, without relying on KOLs and conspiracy pumps) will have big news, but Chillhouse is not organic.”

alon: “Can you move Chillhouse out of the picture?”

But in fact, Chillhouse itself has the style of a neurotic “brain-dead child.” Alon's tweet of “disdain” and GFF's refusal to buy in is actually a kind of alternative CP.

How should I put it, it really feels like Chillhouse is being treated like a little Jack Ma.

All-Star Abstract Show

The price of Chillhouse reached a historic high yesterday, briefly breaking through 30 million dollars, rising about 9 times from the bottom in just 4 days.

The reason is this thought-provoking “All-Star Abstract Show.” Why do people feel that Chillhouse is not just lucky to have ridden the wave? We need to sort out the complete timeline.

On October 21, Coinbase spent $25 million to purchase the UpOnly NFT from Cobie. Subsequently, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong confirmed the authenticity of the news. Brian stated, “Those holding this ticket (NFT) can force Cobie and Ledger Status to perform like monkeys, recording 8 episodes of 'Up Only TV'. This ticket does not grant any sponsorship rights, and we reserve the right to call you 'the fool who bought this thing', or completely ignore your existence—mentioning you not at all during the entire 8-episode show. The guests will be decided by us, but if we find you interesting, we might consider your suggestions.”

UpOnly TV is a podcast hosted by Cobie, which was discontinued in December 2022, primarily due to the FTX collapse leading HBO to cancel the television version contract of the show. The show was originally sold to HBO in December 2021, but was terminated in December 2022 after the FTX incident. The final episode uploaded to YouTube was also shortly after the FTX collapse.

In May of this year, Cobie minted an NFT named “ADMISSION: 1 SEASON OF UP ONLY TV.” Faced with calls on Twitter for him to restart UpOnly TV, Cobie was resistant, stating that people just wanted the crazy bull market of 2021 in the crypto space to return, rather than genuinely wanting the return of UpOnly TV. When comments in the section suggested that Cobie underestimated his influence in the industry, Cobie shot back:

“You claim that I can create the atmosphere of 2021 by doing a cryptocurrency podcast, and that this podcast only has one-tenth the scale of The Moon Carl, Bitboy, or CryptoManRan at their peak. This statement is simply not grounded in reality. The only way to create the atmosphere of 2021 is to fix the market structure, not the market commentary. Having a good Echo would have 100 times the impact of doing a podcast for this purpose.”

Then Cobie minted this NFT and listed it on OpenSea for a price of 10,000 ETH. On October 7th, Cobie changed the price to 5,000 ETH.

On October 10th, the NFT was listed on Manifold by cobie with a starting price of 25 million $USDC.

On October 21, Coinbase really spent so much money to buy this NFT, and at the same time spent 375 million dollars to acquire what Cobie believes is much more meaningful than a podcast, his startup project Echo.

On October 22, alon retweeted a tweet from Cobie posted in 2015. Cobie's original tweet was, “In this sinful life, all I need is myself and my Pump team.” Alon's quote tweet was, “This is what I'm doing right now.”

Since Cobie's return is a hot topic in the crypto world, alon's tweet at that time was also not taken seriously by everyone, after all, alon is also a famous Twitter surfer.

On October 25, Chillhouse's official Twitter continued its usual erratic style, “Fk your Jesse Pollak, fk your Base.”

I didn't expect that this tweet really blew up Jesse, “rebound.” Then Cobie also joined the fray in the comments, “What the hell, let me teach you how to properly respond to this nonsense.” Chillhouse continued to go off, “Cobie, you're also a channel.” Cobie responded, “Little brat, you'll be in trouble once the Coinbase communication team approves me to fire back.”

What needs to be interjected here is that Jesse is not hearing about Chillhouse for the first time. In fact, in July, Chillhouse's daily antics blew up to Jesse:

Chillhouse: “Hi Jesse, give us 1 Bitcoin and we'll bridge to Base,” Jesse: “Open arms to welcome you.” As for the money? Hehe, I'm not giving it.

Back to the current timeline. After getting Jesse and Cobie out, Chillhouse “seizes the opportunity”:

Chillhouse: “Cobie, bring me and Jesse to UpOnly TV, so we can resolve this matter civilly,” Cobie: “OK, sounds good.”

On October 26, Chillhouse's wind-up, “I want to bridge to Base now.”

A few hours after this tweet was posted, Chillhouse again cued Cobie, “Cobie is too active in Chillhouse's Telegram chat.” Cobie then released a screenshot of a text message, where he was conversing with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. Brian expressed that he liked the joke “Chilled House” and suggested Cobie to say, “What’s under Chilled House? There’s a BASEment! Base belongs to everyone!” Cobie stated that he wouldn't post it, to which Brian responded to ask Jesse to take a look.

Then a few minutes later, Jesse really sent it:

On the evening of October 26, Chillhouse appeared on the news section of the pump.fun mobile app. The news was titled “Chillhouse and Base Get Together Again for a Rug”, a very abstract title, while the content reviewed the interactions between the Chillhouse and Base camps.

The official Twitter of pump.fun also tweeted, “Chillhouse, if you see this news, it's never too late to come back.”

On October 27, Chillhouse had a daily outburst, “I f*** your Toly, I f*** your Mert (Helius CEO), I f*** your Solana Foundation.”

Toly blew this up, “Refuse modernization, return to Boden, Biden will make a comeback in 2028.” Chillhouse replied, “Which era are you living in, dude?”

Then, Chillhouse released a video that was very funny. The plot is roughly that Chillhouse and alon were playing together every day, but then alon disappeared, and Jesse appeared to capture Chillhouse's heart. After that, alon tried to text to get back together, but Chillhouse was already with Jesse and Cobie.

Then alon appeared and immediately went all out, saying, “Fuck your Chillhouse.” Chillhouse replied, “Missed?”, and alon responded with a picture of “I never want to play with you again.”

By now, the timeline is almost sorted out. It can be said that Chillhouse single-handedly detonated the forces of Base, Solana, and pump.fun, completing an incredible “All-Star Abstract Show.”

Just when the x402 protocol was all the rage and everyone instinctively thought that Base would seize the opportunity to push it hard, the bosses of the Base camp surprisingly came to interact with the Solana meme coin. Coupled with Alon's tweets before the “All-Star Abstract Show,” the entire timeline gave players plenty of room for imagination—could there really be such a coincidence in the world?

Jesse's public act of purchasing a bag of Solana meme coins on October 26 further deepened this association. On that day, Jesse tweeted “I love trenches and Troll,” and when asked if he had the meme coin $troll on Solana, Jesse replied, “Now I do,” and included his Solana address.

According to on-chain data, Jesse purchased the following Solana meme coins: $chillhouse, $troll, $neet, $trencher, $house, $tokabu , and $chillguy.

So what is Jesse's true intention? If we don't rely on guessing and only look at the public tweets, Jesse seems to want to attract high-quality meme communities and developers on Solana. Looking at the tweet below, Chillhouse is getting excited, but Jesse is very serious in the comments section and even shared the Github page of the Base cross-chain bridge:

Conclusion

Whether or not there are “big news” brewing from multiple parties, Chillhouse's influence has significantly increased this time and has redirected attention back to Solana and the pump.fun meme coin.

This persistent and eccentric style makes Chillhouse's positioning increasingly clear - it is no longer the quirky “Frankenstein” positioning it had in its early days, but has instead found and solidified its identity as a “Web3 Funster” through day-to-day persistence, which aligns well with the wildness and subcultural style of Web3 memes.

Whenever something happens in Web3, people think of the Chillguy with a house on his head, trying to cue him to come over and show off his humor. The meaning of Chillhouse in Web3 has already transcended Chillguy – although it was born from “patchwork”, it has become a native meme with a certain significance in this circle. It is not just a simple IP transplant like Chillguy, created for hype, but has begun to carry the joy and emotions of this community.

Although the Solana meme market is no longer as glorious as last year, the past six months have sifted out meme coins that can compete in quality and positioning with the great meme coins on ETH, which is a progress for Solana—community and culture have begun to take shape, and truly excellent meme coins should withstand the test of time. A blockchain first needs to have meme coins that can survive long-term and prove their sustainable development, and only then will players truly have a sense of belonging, and “P Xiaojiang” will gradually transform into the new batch of “diamond hands.”

Although the excellent meme coins on Solana currently still cannot compare in market value to the star meme coins on ETH, nor can they match the established meme coins on Solana, and they haven't even reached the heights of last year's trending coins, I have never felt that these new coins are “born at the wrong time.”

Because truly excellent meme coins will create their own new era.