GTA 6 trailer's fake 'Dacity Coin' sends Solana copycat up 2,900%

A fictional cryptocurrency that appears for about two seconds in the Grand Theft Auto VI launch trailer has set off a frenzy around an unofficial Solana meme coin of the same name. According to Decrypt, the token's market value climbed about 2,900%, from roughly $104,000 to $3.18 million, in the hour after Rockstar Games released the trailer on Thursday.

What appears in the game

The trailer shows "DacityCoin" and the brand "AudaCity" on the side of a plane while a man lights a pink flare on its wing. Footage leaked earlier reportedly shows protagonist Lucia skydiving with an AudaCity parachute whose slogan begins "Quit your job. Sell your house." Fan wikis describe the stunt as a promotion for the in-game coin, which suggests Rockstar is satirising the publicity stunts of real meme coin promoters. It is the clearest sign so far that crypto features in GTA VI at all, after years of unproven rumours about NFTs or play-to-earn mechanics.

How the copycat token moved

• Origin: the token was launched on October 11 on Solana launchpad Pump.fun, after a leak of GTA VI gameplay by a hacker known as "Cyberleek" mentioned the name.
• First spike: it peaked at about $1.14 million in market value, then sank to around $144,700 within a day and drifted sideways.
• Trailer pump: on-chain data from DEX Screener shows 24 traders made more than $10,000 each; the largest turned $1,912 into about $44,000.
• Since then: the coin has fallen back to roughly $1.5 million, around 53% below its peak.

We have seen this before

In February 2025 Fortnite added a fake coin called Dill Bits. A real Solana token named after it hit a $4.78 million market cap before crashing 96%, pumped again in April when Epic Games chief Tim Sweeney called it a scam, then dropped 82% within days. Epic said no real cryptocurrency was associated with the game.

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