Comedian
banWhat is Comedian?
Comedian (BAN) is a fungible Solana meme token created through Pump.fun. It uses the mint address 9PR7nCP9DpcUotnDPVLUBUZKu5WAYkwrCUx9wDnSpump and later graduated to a Raydium pool. Its creator-supplied metadata references Maurizio Cattelan’s conceptual artwork Comedian, but holding BAN has not been shown to confer ownership, licensing, revenue, or redemption rights in that artwork.
What problem does Comedian solve?
BAN does not document a technical or financial problem that it solves. The located material presents it as a tradable community meme asset built around an internet- and art-culture reference. No whitepaper, source repository, formal roadmap, legal terms, governance specification, or separate product beyond the token and its trading venues was located.
How does Comedian work?
BAN uses Solana’s standard token program and can be transferred or traded through decentralized liquidity pools. Pump.fun records creation on October 25, 2024, and Jupiter records graduation later that day to the Raydium pool DmAsjXoceoL5vTKZbYpTpXPo7MKm16FMfNMm3PJFiUha. Jupiter reports that mint and freeze authority are disabled, limiting further issuance and account freezing through those authorities; this does not establish control of metadata, websites, social accounts, liquidity positions, or concentrated holdings. The reviewed material does not document staking, governance, fee sharing, redemption, or other protocol-level utility.
Key facts
- Network: Solana. Mint address: 9PR7nCP9DpcUotnDPVLUBUZKu5WAYkwrCUx9wDnSpump.
- Pump.fun records BAN’s creation on October 25, 2024; Jupiter records graduation to a pool later that day. The graduated Raydium pool is DmAsjXoceoL5vTKZbYpTpXPo7MKm16FMfNMm3PJFiUha.
- Creator-supplied IPFS metadata names the asset Comedian, uses the symbol “Ban,” and references Maurizio Cattelan’s artwork and its November 20 Sotheby’s auction. Independent reporting confirms the artwork’s November 2024 Sotheby’s sale for $6.2 million, but does not connect the token to the artwork.
- Jupiter reports that mint authority and freeze authority are disabled. This does not establish who controls metadata, project communications, liquidity, large holdings, or off-chain branding.
- Located records support BAN as a transferable, market-traded meme token. They do not document staking, governance, protocol fees, revenue sharing, redemption, ownership in the artwork, or a product roadmap.
- No located source establishes that Maurizio Cattelan, Sotheby’s, or the purchaser of the physical artwork created, approved, licensed, endorsed, or is affiliated with BAN.
- Supply figures conflict: the supplied CoinGecko snapshot reports 999,961,859.27 BAN, while current Pump.fun and Jupiter records report roughly 962.42 million. The cause was not established and should not be inferred.
- The project website was linked by multiple token records, but its TLS certificate was expired during review, so its current content could not be relied upon.
- The public X account could not be read through automated access, and the Telegram preview offered little substantive documentation. No whitepaper, source repository, formal roadmap, legal terms, governance specification, or documented product beyond the token and trading venues was located.
- “Comedian” and “BAN” are not unique identifiers. Users should verify the full Solana mint address: 9PR7nCP9DpcUotnDPVLUBUZKu5WAYkwrCUx9wDnSpump.
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What is Comedian (BAN)?
Comedian is a Solana meme token created through Pump.fun on October 25, 2024. Its branding references Maurizio Cattelan’s conceptual banana artwork Comedian.
Is BAN officially connected to Maurizio Cattelan or Sotheby’s?
No such connection was established by the reviewed sources. Creator-supplied metadata references Cattelan and the Sotheby’s auction, but that is not evidence of authorization, endorsement, licensing, or partnership by Cattelan, Sotheby’s, or the artwork’s buyer.
Does BAN represent ownership of the Comedian artwork?
No located contract or legal document gives BAN holders ownership, licensing, revenue, or redemption rights in the artwork. BAN should be understood as a meme token rather than tokenized title to the physical work.
What is the official BAN mint address?
Pump.fun, Jupiter, GeckoTerminal, and Coinbase associate Comedian with the Solana mint 9PR7nCP9DpcUotnDPVLUBUZKu5WAYkwrCUx9wDnSpump. Verify the full address because other assets can reuse the same name or ticker.
Can more BAN be minted, and what utility does it provide?
Jupiter reports that mint and freeze authority are disabled. Located records support transfer and trading, but do not document governance, staking, protocol fees, revenue sharing, redemption, or another product utility; they also do not establish control of metadata, communications, liquidity, or large holdings.
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