Jurassic Finance Tokenizes Museum-Grade Triceratops Skull on Solana in 660,000 USDC Raise

Jurassic Finance announced on July 28 that Deaton, what the project calls the first tokenized dinosaur, is coming to Solana. The offering targets a 660,000 USDC raise and opens for trading on August 17, 2026, with each token backed by a dedicated Special Purpose Vehicle holding legal and economic rights to the physical skull.

Solana logged over $10 billion in tokenized stock volume in June, a market concentrated in equities. Deaton extends that tokenized-asset category to a physical prehistoric specimen.

Deaton: The Triceratops prorsus Skull Being Tokenized on Solana

Deaton is a museum-grade Triceratops prorsus skull with 60% to 65% bone completeness by mass and all three original horns intact, according to Bitget. JurassicFi's custody model assigns the physical overhead to a museum partner that handles authentication, storage, and insurance in exchange for display rights. Economic and legal ownership of the specimen transfers to token holders under the SPV operating agreement; the fossil stays in institutional care.

How the Deaton SPV Structures Fractional Ownership

JurassicFi issues each fossil as a standalone Special Purpose Vehicle that mints tokens on Solana's SPL standard. For Deaton, the total supply is 1 million tokens, according to WEEX. Of the 660,000 USDC raise target, 600,000 USDC goes to the seller escrow and 60,000 USDC to the RAWR protocol treasury. On the token side, 95% of supply is distributed to allocators on a pro-rata basis, with 5% retained by the treasury.

RAWR Governance Token and JurassicFi's Lending Plans

RAWR, JurassicFi's native governance token, gives holders votes over platform decisions and future specimen acquisitions, according to JurassicFi. Following the Deaton announcement, the @solana account wrote: "65 million years in the making. Tokenized dinosaurs on Solana." RAWR gained more than 89% in 24 hours after the announcement, according to Bitget. JurassicFi has also described plans to introduce lending and borrowing markets against SPV tokens, though those markets are not yet live.