fomo history: a dated timeline

How to read this timeline

Each entry gives its date and where it comes from. fomo means fomo’s own blog, help centre or terms; press means a news report we could not confirm from fomo’s side; data means DefiLlama’s records, where a “data start” is the first day fees were recorded on a chain, not an announced launch. Monthly fee figures are what traders paid fomo, as measured by DefiLlama.

2025: launch and a Series A

Date	What happened (source)
January 28, 2025	First Solana fee data recorded for fomo (data)
February 1, 2025	First use of the FOMO mark in commerce, as claimed in fomo’s later trademark filing (USPTO)
February 18, 2025	$2 million pre-seed from “140+ angel investors” announced (the blog index shows February 28) (fomo)
April 18, 2025	First release of the iOS app on the US App Store (App Store)
May 2025	What fomo calls its launch (“Since our launch last May”); in November it called this a “beta launch” (fomo)
September 2025	Base recap post on fomo’s blog (fomo)
October 2025	BNB Chain recap post (fomo)
November 2025	Monad mainnet recap post (fomo)
November 6, 2025	$17 million Series A led by Benchmark; total funding $19 million (fomo)
December 9, 2025	First fee data on Base, BNB Chain and Monad (data)

When it raised its Series A, fomo said it had done “nearly $700M in volume” and “onboarded 120K+ users” (its own, unaudited claim).

2026, first half: web, perps and a Series B

Date	What happened (source)
February 3, 2026	FOMO Labs files a US trademark application for “FOMO” (later suspended, still pending) (USPTO)
February 2026	Fees reach about $4.1 million for the month, a record until July (data)
April 14, 2026	TradingView charts partnership announced (fomo)
April 29, 2026	fomo web app announced; fomo says “half a million people have signed up” (fomo)
May 15, 2026	First fee data on Ethereum (data)
June 5, 2026	First perps builder data on Hyperliquid (data)
June 11, 2026	“Perpetuals are now live on fomo, powered by Hyperliquid and Trade[XYZ]” (fomo)
June 22, 2026	$75 million Series B led by Index Ventures, with Union Square Ventures and Benchmark; press reports a $550 million valuation (fomo; valuation from press)

The Series B post claimed “more than 625,000 people have joined fomo, completing over $4 billion in trading volume”.

2026, second half: the surge and the drop

Date	What happened (source)
July 1, 2026	Robinhood Chain public mainnet launches (press)
July 9, 2026	First fee data on Robinhood Chain (data)
July 2026	Fees about $7.6 million (data)
August 2026	Fees about $16.9 million; an X account claims an iOS update drained wallets, and co-founder Prashan Dharmasena denies it (no forensic confirmation found) (data; press)
September 15 to 16, 2026	First fee data on Arc; Circle’s Arc launch names fomo among its “day one trading infrastructure” (data; Circle)
September 2026	Record month: about $35.9 million in fees, $16.5 million of it on Robinhood Chain (Data)
October 9 to 16, 2026	Release notes: Solana cashback renamed “Trading rebate” (fomo)
October 2026	Fees fall to about $14.7 million (data)
October 26, 2026	Terms of Service rewritten, adding detailed rules for referral and affiliate promotion (fomo)
October 29, 2026	Bankless reports fomo will trade on Elysium from its November 9 launch (press)
November 7, 2026	iOS version 1.103.0 released (App Store)
November 2026	Elysium added to fomo’s “Supported chains” help article, making eight chains (fomo)

Where it stands now

The rise was fast and so was the fall. Fees were under $1 million in every month of 2025 and reached about $35.9 million in September 2026, then dropped. In the 30 days to November 8, 2026, traders paid fomo $10.3M, down 63% on the 30 days before. Perps are now the part still growing (17% of fees in the last 30 days).

The live numbers are on the Bench and how fomo makes money. Fee and terms changes as they happen go in the fee change log and fomo news.