Baton Corporation Ltd.✦formerly @batonfinance✦now @pumpdotfun✦831 days ago✦goerli.baton.finance✦Farm Deez Nuts✦Baton Corporation Ltd.✦formerly @batonfinance✦now @pumpdotfun✦831 days ago✦goerli.baton.finance✦Farm Deez Nuts✦
The receipts
We didn't write the lore. They did.
Four things pump.fun published about itself. Nothing here is invented, and nothing here is ours.
Press
Pump.fun Parent Baton Corporation Recruiting CLO at Up to $5M Base Salary
Baton Corporation, the development company behind pump.fun, is hiring a Chief Legal Officer at a base salary of $1M to $5M. That is a compensation band among the top-paid legal executives in crypto.
A memecoin does not hire a Chief Legal Officer. The parent does.
This is the whole thing. One account. It changed its name.
Product · 2021
pump.fun@pumpdotfun
Introducing NFT Yield Farming
NFT-Finance. @BatonFinance is changing that. Forever. So, what is yield farming? Why is it needed in NFTs? Read on for answers…
Try the NFT Yield Farming Testnet: goerli.baton.finance
They shipped a testnet three years before the launchpad.
House style · same era
pump.fun@pumpdotfun
Mafia Nuts Yield Farming is now live on baton.finance
Comment "Farm Deez Nuts" for a chance…
The tone never changed either. That is the point.
All four are quoted from publicly posted material. $BATON is a community token and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to pump.fun or Baton Corporation Ltd.
A baton isn't a logo. It's what you hand to whoever runs next.
First leg
baton.finance
2021 → 2022
NFT yield farming. A testnet on Goerli. Mafia Nuts. The account that would become pump.fun was called @batonfinance, and it was farming deez nuts in public.
Second leg
pump.fun
2024 → now
Same account, new name. The launchpad ate the cycle. Baton Corporation stayed the entity on the paperwork. It is the one hiring a Chief Legal Officer at seven figures.
Third leg
$BATON
You are here
The name they left behind, picked up by the people who noticed. No team allocation. No permission asked. Just the original name, back in circulation.