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is back on its original pumpfun token. The CTO team reclaimed the original contract address and creator fees, moving the project home to where it started over a year ago.
Why the move: pumpfun is where the volume lives, and volume is how this project funds wildlife conservation. The team previously launched V2 on RevShare after the original project lead walked away with the creator wallet and socials.
RevShare over-promised and under-delivered with no volume and no platform support. When pumpfun opened up CTO reclaims, the team applied and got approved in 20 minutes. The decision was unanimous across all 8 team members.
The story: launched on 7/11/2025 to commemorate a baby pygmy hippo born at Tanganyika Wildlife Park in Kansas. The community used creator fees to win the naming contest and officially name the hippo Mars, making them the first meme coin to ever name a real animal.
The original developer rugged shortly after, and the community took over. They held Spaces for over 70 consecutive days petitioning pumpfun for CTO creator rewards and became the first project to ever receive them. They then onboarded Tanganyika Wildlife Park with their own Solana wallet, making it the first U.S. zoo brought on-chain.
What this team has built: Over $32,000 donated directly to Tanganyika Wildlife Park on the Solana blockchain. Multiple runs to $2M+ market cap. Billboards across America including one outside SpaceX HQ. 135K+ organic Instagram followers with Solana's official account following them.
Featured on Good Morning America, Today Show, ABC World News Tonight, National Geographic (who dubbed Mars the American Moo Deng), E! Online, and USA Today. 500M+ views across platforms. Team members attended Solana Accelerate and Solana Spaces Summer House in person, fully doxxed. All of this was accomplished during the bear market.
The team: 8 members, every single one a holder since launch day. Fully doxxed, real people across the U.S. None of them have profited from this project.
They all rode V2 down from thousands of dollars to near zero and are still holding every token. They've committed to letting any V2 holders exit before they do. This team has never sold on their community.
Creator fees: 50/50 split. Half goes directly to Tanganyika Wildlife Park for animal care, habitat, and education. Half goes to chart support, marketing, and project operations.
The team plans to initially reinvest fees into building chart support before resuming donations once the project reaches a healthy cruising altitude.
What's ahead: Celebrity collaborations coming soon. "Take Me To Mars" full documentary filmed at Tanganyika dropping next week, currently being shopped to Netflix, Peacock, and Amazon. CC will be live at Solana Spaces Summer House in LA on August 29. A 10-week Crypto Conservation Campaign with a Mars meme contest launching soon. Merch giveaways for OG holders. Weekly Spaces resuming. Regular donations to the park on a set cadence. And according to the team, some things they can't talk about yet that put them "very, very close to the top of Pump."
The bottom line: A 365+ day old project with real donations, real media coverage, real relationships, and a real animal. Built entirely through the bear market. Now positioned at a micro cap heading into what the team believes is the beginning of the next bull run. solana:Cfmo6asAsZFx6GGQvAt4Ajxn8hN6vgWGpaSrjQKRpump