e/acc: from Beff Jezos’s coffee to a think-tank ambition

A funding argument changes character

At 11:13 p.m. Paris time on September 25, Beff Jezos responds to a discussion about the financial resources behind opposing camps in artificial intelligence. His argument comes down to a small, concrete detail: X revenue buys him coffee so he can keep arguing with AI pessimists. He describes e/acc as people posting around shared convictions, without the network of NGOs he attributes to his opponents. Within hours, the funding question has taken a considerably less abstract form. [1]

At 1:04 a.m. on September 26, he reports an avalanche of money arriving through X Money, comparing it to a denial-of-service attack. The joke turns payments into a public spectacle. This is the sequence behind Solana’s e/acc runner: an existing movement, a prominent voice reacting in public, and a token whose UsePaid page identifies Beff as its recipient. The peak supplied to Trenches On is $27.03 million at 5:49 a.m. Paris time. [2] [3]

An idea of progress before a ticker

The name stands for Effective Accelerationism. Its 2022 founding texts advocate technological acceleration through intelligence, experimentation and markets. They draw on thermodynamics to articulate a vision of civilisational development. That is a philosophical position, rather than scientific proof that every innovation produces a beneficial outcome. [5] [6]

The token consequently borrows an intellectual identity that already exists. This affects how its name travels: e/acc can describe a movement, an affiliation in a username, or this particular asset. A post favouring technological progress does not identify a contract by itself. Here, the connection rests on the UsePaid listing and posts reproducing the full address, rather than on the term e/acc alone. That distinction matters when political discussion and token promotion occupy the same search results. [3] [9] [10]

UsePaid explains the unexpected payments

The page for CbcyNo7m1amFWqEQm2m4PLv1UNvpcL3C1Ujm6AkzpKoU connects Effective Accelerationism to Beff Jezos’s profile. UsePaid’s published mechanism explains how someone can receive money without personally announcing a launch. A deployer configures creator fees to flow into the system and names an X account as recipient. The documentation says the recipient need not hold a wallet or have agreed in advance. Receiving a payment therefore does not, by itself, establish that someone created a token. [3] [4]

UsePaid describes an allocation of those fees: 80% is converted into dollars and paid through X Money, while 20% buys and burns its own PAID token. These are the platform’s stated rules, separate from the market capitalisation of a traded asset. Under this model, trading activity feeds the funding narrative. A $27.03 million market-cap peak is neither a donation of that size nor the treasury of a future organisation. [4]

When consulted, the listing displayed a cumulative amount sent but also reported that payment details were temporarily unavailable. We therefore do not treat that counter as an audited total. The narrative connection is more specific: Beff’s public reactions put a voice to the recipient shown by the platform. They do not reconstruct or independently verify every individual transfer behind the display. [2] [3]

The night surprise becomes intent

At 2:25 a.m., Beff describes e/acc as a culture that can accelerate civilisation towards the stars and calls for continued scaling. In the replies, Smokez asks whether the image he uses is the real e/acc logo; VenoM asks about continued funding. These exchanges reveal two simultaneous readings. Some readers seek a recognisable visual identity, while others look for an economic continuation. The discussion of ideas and the interpretation of a token now share the same thread. [7]

At 3:46 a.m., the tone moves further. Beff argues for using available capital to build an e/acc think tank and invokes a war chest. He quotes his own announcement of a future nonprofit with @mjdramstead, intended to receive revenue and donations and include research and policy work. This is more consequential than an amused reaction: it provides a declared destination for the money. The message does not, however, establish that the organisation is already operational or document expenditure. [8]

The accounts connecting the story to an address

At 3:34 a.m., Uncle Darryl, posting as @BitPits, expresses enthusiasm while quoting the civilisation post and adding the exact contract. At 4:22 a.m., @MrRightSolana circulates the address alongside the think-tank funding argument. These are verifiable points in the story’s dissemination: they explicitly connect Beff’s statements to an asset traded on Solana. They do not establish whether those accounts bought it or what any entry price might have been. [9] [10]

This is the distinctive mechanism of the night. Every new statement can be read on two levels. For followers of the movement, it concerns research, influence and organisation. For traders, it can extend the token’s narrative. Our interpretation is an attention loop: activity, payments, reactions and further circulation. The chronology is consistent with that mechanism, but it cannot assign each movement in price to a particular post. Treating a sequence as evidence is different from claiming a precise causal relationship. [2] [7] [8] [9] [10]

What the $27.03 million peak measures

The publisher’s observation places the ATH at $27.03 million on September 26 at 5:49 a.m. Paris time, after the messages and relays described here. We present it as the supplied peak for this Solana contract, rather than money received by Beff or a measure of the movement’s size. The market listing identifies Effective Accelerationism and the e/acc ticker against the specified address. [11]

These distinctions also preserve the meaning of the story. A movement can have an audience before a token borrows its identity. A recipient can welcome funding without having initiated deployment. An organisation can be announced before its governance is documented. The consulted sources establish public reactions and declared intentions. They do not establish that Beff created this contract. Nor does a stated future use of donations provide evidence that a particular research programme has already begun. [3] [4] [8]

From coffee to an institutional ambition

The contrast gives e/acc its narrative force. Early in the sequence, Beff describes modest revenue spent on coffee; during the night, he discusses an organisation and a vehicle for influence. The token inserts itself into that change of scale. It gives other accounts something straightforward to circulate: a familiar name, a contract address and a story still developing in public. [1] [8] [9] [10]

The meaningful next chapter concerns actions: establishing the organisation, publishing work and explaining where funds go. At this stage, the runner chiefly captures an encounter between a long-standing conviction and a newer payment mechanism. Its distinctive feature is the visible shift in the conversation, from surprise at receiving money to an argument about what that money could support. That shift is documented; the institutional outcome remains ahead. [2] [4] [8]

Sources

Sources consulted on 26 September 2026. Figures reflect the cited snapshots and are not updated live.

1. Beff Jezos — financement et café, 25 septembre à 23 h 13 (Paris)
2. Beff Jezos — avalanche de paiements, 26 septembre à 1 h 04 (Paris)
3. UsePaid — fiche du contrat e/acc et bénéficiaire affiché
4. UsePaid — fonctionnement des frais et des paiements
5. Beff Jezos et bayes — Notes on e/acc principles and tenets, 10 juillet 2022
6. Effective Accelerationism — republication du texte inaugural, octobre 2022
7. Beff Jezos — méta-culture et étoiles, 26 septembre à 2 h 25 (Paris)
8. Beff Jezos — financement du think tank et annonce citée d’une organisation
9. Uncle Darryl — relais avec l’adresse exacte du token
10. MrRightSolana — relais du projet de financement avec le contrat
11. DEX Screener — marché Solana du contrat étudié