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Apollo Crypto (APOLLO): The Archive of a Discontinued Creator DAO

Archive page · Last reviewed October 2026

Apollo Crypto was an Ethereum token and DAO launched in January 2022 to fund up-and-coming creators through weekly community-voted contests. It later pivoted to Web3 gaming, migrated to a new token called FTW in March 2024 and faded out. This site preserves what the project was, what it actually did, and why it did not last.

Jan 12, 2022APOLLO token launch
12 + 4Season 1 and Season 2 contests
Mar 13, 2024Migration to FTW (1:1000)
InactiveStatus on price trackers

The project in one paragraph

Apollo started life as Apollo Inu, a reflection-style token with a twist: 1% of every trade was meant to flow into a "Creator Prize Fund" controlled by token holders. Each week, holders voted on nominated artists, musicians and other creators, and the winner received funding. The concept attracted local press in Dallas, a sponsored sneaker-design series with the retailer Centre, and a few thousand holders. By the end of 2022 the team renamed the token Apollo Crypto DAO, in 2023 it shifted focus to a game ecosystem called Moonbase, and in March 2024 the token was migrated to FTW. The original apollocrypto.org then redirected to the new brand until the domain lapsed.

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Full historyMonth-by-month timeline from launch to migration. Why Apollo Crypto failedThe structural problems behind the decline. The APOLLO tokenContract, tokenomics, exchanges and current status. Creator ContestsHow the weekly funding contests worked. Whitepaper summaryWhat the original Apollo Inu docs promised. Moonbase & FTWThe gaming pivot and the 2024 token migration.

Short timeline

  1. Apollo Inu launches on Ethereum with a 3% reflection, 2% burn and 1% creator-fund fee.
  2. First centralized listing, on LBank (APOLLO/USDT).
  3. Season 1: twelve weekly Creator Contests and an All-Stars finale.
  4. Apollo x Centre sneaker-design series with a $40,000 prize pool; Season 2 begins.
  5. Rebrand from Apollo Inu to Apollo Crypto DAO, explicitly to step away from the meme-coin image.
  6. The last contests end early in the year; the team writes about game development and the Moonbase ecosystem.
  7. Token migrated to FTW; apollocrypto.org begins redirecting to the new Apollo FTW site.
  8. Price trackers list the original token as inactive; the domain eventually expires.

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Where Apollo Crypto was covered

Full list on the sources page.

Looking to buy APOLLO? Don't. The original contract was retired by its own team in the 2024 migration. Etherscan still lists about 4,400 holder addresses but shows no transfers on a typical day, and price trackers report zero volume. See token status.