GOHOME

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A White House 404 became a ten-million-token scarcity experiment

On 21 January 2025, visitors to the missing Spanish-language White House page briefly saw a button marked “GO HOME.” A Solana token with the same phrase gained its first known liquidity that day. Its founder, publicly identified only as Tony, turned a fleeting political-web joke into a wager about denomination: could a meme coin feel scarce enough for one unit to quote above bitcoin?

A button supplied the name, not the issuer

Associated Press documented the webpage change and said the label was later replaced with “GO TO HOME PAGE.” The report did not connect a token to the White House. GOHOME’s own site openly cites the episode as inspiration and separately disclaims any government affiliation.

The ledger supplies the project’s firmer starting point. Explorer records date the first known liquidity to 21 January, and XT’s February listing notice identifies the same Solana mint used today. The sequence explains how the meme began without inventing an official sponsor.

Tony made the denominator the product

In a July 2025 project interview, the founder gives only the name Tony and describes missing Bitcoin as the emotional premise for a second chance. A later interview explains the design choice: issue ten million tokens, vastly fewer than the quadrillions common in many meme launches, and market the possibility that one GOHOME might quote above one bitcoin.

That comparison works at the unit level. It does not make the network, liquidity or aggregate value comparable to Bitcoin. A small denominator can raise the displayed price per unit while a shallow market remains difficult to enter or exit.

The code fixed issuance; the accounts kept distribution concentrated

Solana RPC showed a six-decimal legacy SPL mint with both mint and freeze authorities removed. Supply at review was 9,999,619.425646, not exactly ten million. The missing 380.574354 units show why “never changes” is too broad: no authority can mint more, but holders can still burn tokens and reduce the total.

At slot 444418219, the largest token account held nine million GOHOME because it is the token account of Smithii vesting PDA EL4C…JNTk3. The vesting record—not the balance—establishes a single 100% release on 23 January 2029 for ATzq…AmzNL. A separate team-named account began with 500,000 over five checkpoints; a May 2025 claim withdrew 25,000 and 475,000 remained. That chain record directly conflicts with the later interview’s “no team tokens” phrase.

Games and staking widened the promise faster than the documentation

The project announced a closed beta for its Holder Game in May 2025, with weekly leaderboard rewards. That article proves an invitation and plan, not an indefinitely operating public game. In May 2026 the official account announced on-chain staking with a rate up to 36.50% a year. The current Smithii screen carries the GOHOME name but does not disclose the full contract, withdrawal rules or reward inventory in its visible server-rendered text.

With mint authority gone, a future reward cannot be printed from this mint. It must come from tokens already held or another funded arrangement. That makes the project’s next useful disclosure concrete: reconcile the team allocation, publish the vesting conditions and identify the inventory paying rewards. Those answers determine whether the scarcity story survives its own products.

How the project changed

  1. 2025-01-21
    The webpage phrase becomes a token meme

    The White House Spanish-page error screen briefly shows “GO HOME,” and explorer records date GOHOME’s first known liquidity to the same day.

  2. 2025-01-22 14:28 UTC
    Nine million enter a single-unlock vesting

    A Smithii Init transaction deposits 9,000,000 GOHOME for one 100% release on 2029-01-23.

  3. 2025-01-23 20:27 UTC
    The separate 500,000 schedule begins

    A second Smithii account receives 500,000 GOHOME under five checkpoints ending in December 2026.

  4. 2025-02-12 08:00 UTC
    XT schedules GOHOME trading

    The 2025-02-08 listing announcement names the canonical Solana mint and schedules GOHOME/USDT trading for this time. The reviewed notice is not post-opening confirmation.

  5. 2025-05-02
    The team schedule makes its first claim

    The authorized wallet claims 25,000 GOHOME, leaving 475,000 in the vesting escrow.

  6. 2025-05-15
    Holder Game enters closed beta

    The project invites email signups and proposes weekly GOHOME leaderboard rewards.

  7. 2025-07-22
    Founder Tony explains the origin

    A project interview ties the token to a missed-Bitcoin story and the goal of making scarcity visible.

  8. 2026-05-29
    The project advertises on-chain staking

    The official account announces staking at a rate advertised as high as 36.50% APY; full funding terms remain unpublished in the reviewed interface.

Evidence and primary sources

Last evidence review: 2026-09-05

What is GOHOME?

GOHOME is a six-decimal Solana SPL token at mint 2Wu1g2ft7qZHfTpfzP3wLdfPeV1is4EwQ3CXBfRYAciD. The project borrowed its name from a brief “GO HOME” button shown on the White House Spanish-language page on 21 January 2025. The government webpage supplied the meme, not an endorsement or issuer relationship.

What problem does GOHOME solve?

Founder Tony presented ten million units as a remedy for meme coins whose huge denominators make each unit look cheap. That choice enabled a provocative target—one GOHOME quoted above one bitcoin—but unit price alone says nothing about market capitalization, liquidity, distribution or the ability to sell.

How does GOHOME work?

The legacy SPL mint has no mint or freeze authority, so those native roles cannot expand supply or freeze token accounts. The separate Metaplex metadata account still names ATzq…AmzNL as update authority but marks isMutable false. Burns have reduced supply below ten million.

Distribution is enforced through two Smithii accounts. EL4C…JNTk3 holds 9,000,000 GOHOME under a zero-period schedule: the entire amount unlocks once on 23 January 2029 at 14:19 UTC for ATzq…AmzNL. Ftk41…CsaTC began with 500,000 under five checkpoints; 25,000 was claimed on 2 May 2025 and 475,000 remained at review. These are decoded contract records and transactions, not conclusions drawn from matching balances.

Key facts

  • Canonical Solana mint: 2Wu1g2ft7qZHfTpfzP3wLdfPeV1is4EwQ3CXBfRYAciD.
  • The meme traces to a “GO HOME” button that briefly appeared on the White House Spanish-page error screen on 2025-01-21.
  • First known liquidity is dated 2025-01-21. In its 2025-02-08 announcement, XT scheduled GOHOME/USDT trading to open on 2025-02-12 at 08:00 UTC; that notice does not verify the actual opening.
  • Founder-facing material identifies the founder only as Tony.
  • The original headline supply was 10,000,000; RPC showed 9,999,619.425646 on 2026-09-05 after burns.
  • The SPL mint and freeze authorities are null. The Metaplex record separately retains update authority ATzq…AmzNL but is marked isMutable=false.
  • At slot 444418219, the two largest accounts held 9,000,000 and 475,000 GOHOME.
  • A Smithii account holds all 9,000,000 until a single unlock on 2029-01-23 14:19 UTC for receiver ATzq…AmzNL; no intermediate release exists.
  • A separate 500,000 team-named vesting has five checkpoints; 25,000 was claimed and 475,000 remained. This contradicts the founder interview’s “no team tokens” wording.
  • A Holder Game closed beta was announced on 2025-05-15, and staking with an advertised rate up to 36.50% APY was announced on 2026-05-29; complete current reward terms were not published in the reviewed pages.

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Frequently asked questions

Did the White House create or endorse GOHOME?

No reviewed evidence says so. A White House error-page button briefly displayed the phrase “GO HOME”; the Solana token adopted that phrase as a meme.

Can more GOHOME be minted?

The canonical mint’s mint authority is null, so that native role cannot create additional units. Burns can still lower total supply.

Is the supply exactly ten million?

Ten million was the starting headline figure. Solana RPC returned 9,999,619.425646 GOHOME on 2026-09-05, consistent with tokens having been burned.

Is 90% of GOHOME provably locked until 2029?

Yes, as of review. The Smithii program account itself encodes 9,000,000 GOHOME, zero intermediate periods, one receiver and a single end time of 2029-01-23 14:19 UTC. Its escrow still held all nine million and no claim-state account existed.

Were there team tokens?

An on-chain account named by the project’s team certificate began with 500,000 GOHOME and has already released 25,000. That concrete record conflicts with the August 2025 interview saying there were “no team tokens”; the project has not reconciled the wording.

Where do staking rewards come from?

The project advertised staking up to 36.50% APY, but the reviewed interface did not publish the reward reserve. Because the mint authority is null, rewards denominated in GOHOME must draw on existing tokens or another funded arrangement.

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