Original | Odaily Planet Daily ( @OdailyChina )
Author: Wenser ( @wenser 2010 )
No one expected that on the first day after the holiday, the tragedy of death would become a farce of coin issuance, and this time the protagonist was no longer an unknown anonymous Dev, but Jeffy Yu, co-founder of the well-known AI Agent project Zerebro.
Previously, Jeffy Yu live-streamed suicide-related scenes after pump.fun restored the live broadcast function. At that time, the market was still skeptical about his extreme behavior. Until today , the obituary platform Legacy announced that the relevant information was widely spread. People realized that this genius boy who entered Stanford to study computer science at the age of 15 and created a project with a market value of 800 million US dollars at the age of 22 had died, which caused a sigh. Odaily Planet Daily will briefly sort out the incident in this article. May the deceased rest in peace, and the living have less ridicule and more understanding and respect.
Zerebro: Once a popular AI Agent project, the Dev address once had a floating profit of nearly 43 million US dollars
In November last year, Zerebro took advantage of the AI Agent concept and the Trump effect and became the focus of the crypto market. It was in the same track as ai16z and Virtual, and its market value soared to US$800 million in just a few dozen days.
On November 22, 2024, according to the monitoring of on-chain data analyst @ai_9684xtpa , Meme coin ZEREBRO Dev spent 5 SOL to buy 153 million ZEREBRO after creating the token on October 25, accounting for 15.32% of the total tokens, and added another 1 SOL after the token went online. Subsequently, Dev transferred 40 million ZEREBRO (worth $21.5 million) to the Truth Terminal public address. Currently, 30% of the tokens have been sold, and the remaining 79.63 million tokens are scattered among four addresses, with a floating profit of $42.96 million. At that time, the market value of ZEREBOR tokens was about $500 million.
In late December 2024, Jeffy Yu, co-founder of the Zerebro project, once again announced new product plans, saying that the team is building a consumer-oriented agency Launchpad Zentients.xyz.
At the beginning of this year, with the proliferation of AI Agent accounts, the spam generated by AI Agents once caused large-scale pollution to the content timeline of the X platform.
In response to this issue, Zerebro co-founder Jeffy Yu said at the time: Zerebro is integrating with research data aggregators. We are improving the style of social media posting and introducing data aggregation and summary layers in the pipeline. X posts will be split. 70% will be generated in the current style (focused on humor), and 30% will be generated in an information data-driven style. We will review how the information flow is curated this week and make adjustments if necessary. Changes will begin to be reflected in the timeline in the next few days. In addition, Yu also initiated a poll asking, As an audience of Zerebro X posts, do you want to see AI, blockchain, or both in the research topics discussed?
It can be seen that as a co-founder of the project, Jeffy Yu has given enough respect to the voices and opinions of community members. Perhaps due to this news and the recovery of market sentiment for AI Agent concept tokens, the market value of ZEREBRO tokens once rebounded to US$350 million . In March, AI Agent concept-related tokens generally rose , and ZEREBRO also ranked among the top with a monthly increase of nearly 40%.
However, even such a timely AI Agent concept crypto project still finds it difficult to remain unscathed in a market where all cryptocurrencies are falling. Jeffy Yus subsequent suicide may have something to do with the crypto market that has alienated everyone to an extreme degree. But judging from Zerebros previous pop-style project website , Jeffy Yu may have had the answer long ago.
Zerebro Dev’s Self-Ending and Cryptographic Experiment: Digital Heritage Tokens Legacoins
On May 4, Jeffy Yu, co-founder of Zerebro, attracted widespread attention with his suicide live broadcast on pump.fun. Prior to this, pump.funs live broadcast function had experienced a series of chaos, including Dev used spontaneous combustion as a gimmick to raise money, mother-child erotic suggestion live broadcast, womans nude porn live broadcast, etc.
According to the recollections of some members of the crypto community, Jeffy Yu behaved extremely calmly at the time. The last shot of the live broadcast was him putting a gun to his chin. With a gunshot, the picture turned black, leaving the shocked spectators at a loss as to what to do.
Just like that, the news of the well-known project Dev committing suicide during live broadcast spread like wildfire, sparking heated discussions in the crypto community. However, since Jeffy Yus associated wallet address was still operated afterwards, some people suspected that this move might be similar to the previous live broadcast scripts of entertainment to death, just to attract attention and take the opportunity to hype, so as to attract the attention and attention of market funds.
It has to be said that in an industry driven by the attention economy, many people have subconsciously judged everything as event-driven hype.
Until today, with the further disclosure of the announcement interface of the obituary platform Legacy, the news that Jeffy Yu, who was only 22 years old, died in May 2025 was finally confirmed. According to the website information, Jeffy has been a technology fan since he was a child. He entered Stanford University to study computer science at the age of 15. At the age of 19, he was already a full-time software engineer in Santa Cruz. Two years later, he co-founded a company with others and expanded the company to $800 million in less than six months.
Later, someone dug out a Mirror article published by Jeffy Yu on May 4, in which a concept called Legacoins (Odaily Planet Daily Note: literally translated as Legacy Meme Coin, and the meaning can be understood as Heritage Meme Coin) was proposed.
He noted : Legacoins function based on a voluntary commitment by the coins developers who agree to strictly acquire and never sell or trade these assets. Upon the holders death, their holdings are permanently locked into the blockchain, establishing a lasting minimum value threshold. I am the perpetual floor. With the recent administrative reorganization, the initiative now highlights tokens like ZEREBRO and OPAIUM as models that showcase this framework. Adopting this philosophy ensures that the developers of these tokens provide ongoing cultural and economic value without engaging in speculative or competitive trading dynamics. I do not trade, I only build, I only create... May we live forever, eternal through memes. The time we truly die is when we are forgotten.
The words fully reveal the style of a technical idealist and crypto social experimenter. In the obituary, Jeffy Yus words are also very touching.
Published by San Francisco Chronicle on May 5, 2025
The crypto market, which only judges heroes by liquidity, may not be able to accommodate such a pure soul, so he chose to bid farewell to the fanatical and quickly decaying market in this way.
After the news of Jeffy Yus obituary spread further, the Meme coin market continued to follow closely - the market value of ZEREBRO DEV-related token LLJEFFY, which attracted market attention due to Devs cyber paper burning operation of buying coins and destroying them, once exceeded 5 million US dollars, and is currently reported at 2.6 million US dollars.
In the crypto market where liquidity never sleeps, Jeffy Yu may not be the last martyr, just like Hulezhi will not be the last E Guard. Meme coins have thus become the spiritual symbol carrier of a person, and in a sense, have also become the negative of market memory.
But in any case, I hope that there will be fewer tokens that use this as a hype hotspot in the future, and more practical measures to pay attention to the mental health of people in the industry. Until the last person forgets a Meme, its value may face the most real test.
Recommended to watch Jeffy Yus interview with OD Labs before his death: https://x.com/mikadontlouz/status/1866957852092342678
