Solana co-founder changes profile picture to include Backpack elements, community speculates that Backpack TGE is approaching

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Odaily Planet Daily reported that on February 4th, Solana co-founder Toly changed his profile picture on X platform, adding laser eyes and Backpack elements to the original Moonbird derivative avatar, sparking community attention. Many users interpret this change as a hint that the token generation event (TGE) for Backpack is imminent.

Previously, Toly had changed his profile picture to a Moonbird series NFT derivative on January 27th, and the Moonbird project completed its TGE on January 28th.

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