Now you can create a shitcoin in lower than 23 seconds


As so-called “memecoins” seize the eye of the broader crypto trade in latest weeks, a viral video has emerged detailing simply how straightforward it’s for anybody with an web connection to create a model new cryptocurrency from scratch. 

A Might 6 video from digital artist Johnny Shankman — who goes by @whitelights.eth on Twitter — reveals him finishing a “speedrun” of making and deploying a wholly new token, humorously dubbed “EASY_MONEY” in simply 27 seconds. The file was then overwhelmed only a day later, clocking in at 22.45 seconds. 

The time period “velocity run” originates from the gaming neighborhood and is often utilized in reference to finishing a recreation, or degree in a recreation, as rapidly as doable. 

Within the now-viral video, Shankman reveals how any consumer can rapidly create a brand new token by using a program referred to as Contracts Wizard, created by the crypto cybersecurity agency OpenZeppelin. The Contacts Wizard instrument generates code for an ERC-20 token with just a few fast clicks of a cursor. On this system, customers can choose quite a lot of potential options for his or her token.

After the code has been created, Shankman then makes use of an software referred to as Remix, which compiles the token’s good contract and deploys it on a given blockchain community. Within the video, Shankman opts for deploying his EASY_MONEY (EZ) token on the Ethereum testnet.

He notes within the feedback part that the video was “for academic functions solely” and clarifies that by deploying EASY_MONEY on the Ethereum testnet, it’s not an actual token to be speculated on.

Notably, Shankman’s video was picked up by quite a lot of massive accounts on Crypto Twitter, being reposted by the likes of @Loopifyyy, which has now seen the video achieve greater than 3 million views throughout a collection of various accounts.

The viral reputation of Shankman’s submit comes at a time the place “shitcoins” have gained drastically in reputation all through the broader crypto ecosystem. The latest memecoin increase, has been led largely by an “totally ineffective” frog-themed token referred to as Pepe, which has seen its worth surge greater than 5000% since its inception on April 14.

In a follow-up remark, Shankman identified that somebody had really created a token with the identical title as his explainer however divulged that he “didn’t make it” and he would “not be shopping for it.”

Lower than 24 hours later, a brand new video emerged from one other account on Twitter, that confirmed the identical course of being accomplished in simply 22.45 seconds, setting a brand new unofficial file for the memecoin speedrun.

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