TIKTOK Coin Spawns After TikTok Updates #crypto Header Image

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• TikTok updated its header image under the "#crypto" tag, inspiring the creation of TIKTOK Coin.

• Users resurfaced a March 2024 tweet from Pump fun co-founder Alon encouraging creators to "study tiktok" as a model for simplicity and virality.

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TIKTOK Coin launched on November 29 after users noticed that TikTok changed its header image under the "#crypto" tag to a pixelated blue-themed art piece. The change inspired someone to launch a coin around the moment.

Zypheen 屮

@Zypheen_

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TikTok just upated their picture under "#crypto" to this image of a coin. $TIKTOK Coin DL6BBBQ6heTg9Zr5gFZxsCK2AZt2aVyRqUZgChqopump tiktok.com/tag/crypto

4:40 AM · Nov 29, 2025

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@gh0stee, a known trader and Twitch streamer, joined the coin's X community and said he top blasted a PvE runner, adding that we haven’t had one like it in 4 or 5 months.

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7:10 AM · Nov 29, 2025

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Others pointed out a March 12 post from Pump fun co-founder Alon, who wrote that deploying coins is already cheap and easy, with only time and effort left to lower. He ended the post with: "study tiktok."

Tyrelle Anderson-Brown

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ALON... ' STUDY TIKTOK' @a1lon9

alon

@a1lon9

it's so cheap and easy to deploy a coin on pump dot fun that the only barrier to entry that is left to lower is time and effort lowering the barrier virality is up next study tiktok

12:18 PM · Nov 29, 2025

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TIKTOK Coin reached an all-time high of $4.2M within 7 hours of launching.