TROLL

Pump.fun ties the coin to one Solana mint, but the surviving accounts of its birth do not agree. Decrypt described a May 2024 creation; Leland King Fawcette, presented in a later interview as the deployer, said he bundled TROLL on August 11 as an experiment in influencer promotion.

Fawcette said he sold within hours, and the token then drew little attention for months. That recollection explains the abandoned beginning, but it is not a public allocation ledger, so the precise launch day and early ownership remain open questions.

Decrypt traced the return of attention to April 20, 2025, the same date DexScreener records for the principal PumpSwap pair. On April 24, that market profile was claimed and began describing TROLL as a community-run token.

The claimed profile documents a change in public presentation and community operation. CoinYQ did not find a DAO charter or onchain vote in the reviewed materials establishing that a treasury passed to holders. The mint's null authorities are a separate technical fact, not proof that the people behind the new profile answer to every wallet.

Trollface predates the token. Decrypt identifies Carlos Ramirez as its creator and reports a U.S. copyright registration; CoinYQ did not independently retrieve that record. On 6 August 2025, Ramirez said crypto diminished his art and that he did not plan legal action against TROLL.

The interview establishes his stated position on that date, not a permanent waiver or license. Viral use could attract traders without settling commercial permission. The later deal was reported as an agreement between Ramirez and Troll Network Limited outside the SPL token.

According to Decrypt, pseudonymous lead Seal gathered SOL from about ten large holders after Ramirez rejected an initial $50,000 offer. The outlet says Ramirez signed a lawyer-drafted agreement on 29 August 2025. A source familiar with it described a worldwide exclusive crypto and meme-coin license with one prior-token exception; CoinYQ did not obtain the full contract, so it could not independently check the exact parties, duration, scope, termination and enforcement clauses.

Decrypt also says Ramirez would receive 11% of net revenue from future TROLL merchandise. That is a reported merchandise royalty for the artist, not 11% of token volume, protocol revenue or company profit. No reviewed document distributes it to holders, and the reported licensee is Troll Network Limited rather than each wallet. CoinYQ did not obtain the signed contract to verify the calculation of net merchandise revenue.

The review-date chain state is clear: six decimals, 998,769,550.020488 units and no mint or freeze authority. It does not reveal when those authorities were removed, so their disappearance cannot be added as an event in the 2024–2025 chronology.

Two dated changes happened elsewhere: a public profile adopted a community identity in April 2025, and Decrypt reported a company license signed in August. Neither record establishes whether treasury or corporate power was formally transferred to holders. The reviewed materials also do not establish token-holder copyright or merchandise-royalty rights. Code, channels and intellectual property therefore need to be assessed separately.