With the advent of AI, crypto has begun to feel like an afterthought in the story of our nascent tech dystopia, a receding whiff of last year’s bullshit. But never fear, while AI bros’ world-ruining antics occupy the spotlight in 2026, crypto bros remain more than capable of some ghastliness of their own. Take, for example, the launch of “GO”, a marketplace launched last week by memecoin sewer pump.fun. As per pump.fun’s own X account, the marketplace lets users “Pay ANYONE to do ANYTHING … create [and] complete bounties for ANY task.” The announcement came with some cursory language about empowerment and changing the world and etc, promising that the marketplace would “leverage the power of humans and money across the globe.” Instead, in news that will surprise precisely no-one, it devolved almost instantly a sort of sub-Pewdiepie race to the bottom, with users trying to outdo one another in commissioning oh-so-outrageous stunts from people to whom a few hundred dollars could make a real difference. The nadir—so far, anyway—arrived when a user going by “ayushquant” offered up a bounty promising the princely sum of 40 Solana (worth about $2,500 at the date of publication, always assuming you can find a rube to buy them.) The task at hand? For the claimant to get the name of $bountywork, a coin that Ayush launched six days ago, tattooed across their forehead. This was one of a load of similar bounties offered to promote the coin, and it’s probably fair to say that Ayush never expected anyone to actually claim it.