A nose. A wall. A caption.
Bald head, fingers gripping a ledge, nose hanging over the edge. Caption: Kilroy was here. U.S. troops chalked and scratched him on ships, latrines, tanks, and bombed-out towns across the theater.
EVIDENCE · THE FIRST MEME
KILROY
WAS HERE
WWII GIs left him on every wall in Europe.
Now he peeks over the Base chain as a B20 token.
CONTRACT
0xb200000000000000000000a1Cca7d19C22d3c801
The dossier
What investigators (and memelords) already know.
Confirmed culture
Catalogued on Know Your Meme and Wikipedia. Related to British “Mr. Chad.” Australian precursor: “Foo was here.”
$KILROY · B20
Same doodle. New wall. Native B20 on Base — live on launch.o1.exchange. 60% to Jerry (o1 owner). 1% to dev to build. Maximum presence.
Memes before the internet
Before servers, before phones — soldiers passed a joke by hand, wall to wall. Kilroy was virality with a paintbrush. $KILROY is that energy on Base.
Field timeline
From Fort Knox chalk to Base mainnet.
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Earliest chalk
Fort Knox wall doodle — the man over the wall appears in the record.
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Theater-wide tag
GIs write him everywhere. Enemy intel allegedly hunts “Kilroy the spy.”
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Potsdam bathroom
Stalin lore: VIP latrine, same nose, same joke.
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Pop culture
Songs, stamps, Asimov short story — the tag outlives the war.
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KYM entry
Internet documents what soldiers already knew: this was the OG meme.
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$KILROY on Base
B20 live on o1 — 60% Jerry, 1% dev. The wall is digital. He got here first.
Wanted: $KILROY
Live on Base. Trade on o1. Allocation is on the record.
60%
Jerry
Owner of o1.exchange — majority cut to the launchpad boss.
1%
Dev
To build — site, tools, keeping Kilroy on the wall.
39%
Market / float
The rest lives on the o1 curve for traders & the wall crew.
KILROY WAS HERE
aka $KILROY · B20 · Base
- Name
- Kilroy Was Here
- Ticker
- $KILROY
- Standard
- B20 (Base native)
- Network
- Base · chainId 8453
- Launchpad
- launch.o1.exchange
- Jerry
- 60% · o1.exchange owner
- Dev
- 1% · build fund
- Contract
- 0xb200000000000000000000a1Cca7d19C22d3c801
How to acquire the suspect
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1
Wallet
MetaMask, Rabby, Coinbase Wallet — anything that speaks Base.
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2
Base ETH
Switch network to Base (8453). Fund gas + size.
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3
o1 token page
Open the official $KILROY page on launch.o1.exchange.
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4
Buy & verify
Swap. Confirm CA ends in
…c801. Leave your mark.
Draw your Kilroy
The GIs didn’t copy-paste — they doodled. Sketch your own peeker: bald head, hands on the wall, long nose. Then download it.
Draw here — head over the wall, nose first
- Wall — horizontal ledge across the middle
- Hands — knuckles gripping the edge
- Head — bald dome peeking over
- Face — eyes + long nose hanging down
- Caption — “KILROY WAS HERE”
Signal board
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