The Black Bull (ANSEM): Can a Solana Meme Keep Its Holders, or Just Its Hype?

In mid-June, a Solana meme coin called The Black Bull (ticker: ANSEM) showed up with an unusual origin story. It didn’t blow up the way most meme coins do — no team hyping a roadmap and pumping the chart. Instead, an anonymous developer handed more than 60% of the supply straight into the wallet of a popular trader, Ansem, who then decided to send the “creator fees” those tokens generated back to the community every week. Why should you care? Because for the past two years, almost every meme coin has died the same death spiral: pump, retail rushes in, attention fades, zero. ANSEM is trying to break that loop with a “fee-to-community” flywheel. The one question this article tries to answer: can this black bull turn a single viral moment into a meme that actually sticks around?

1. Where the Black Bull came from: an experiment in handing the coin to an influencer

1.1 An anonymous developer gave up control

ANSEM takes its name from trader Ansem — real name Zion Thomas, X handle @blknoiz06, a Georgia Tech computer-science background, currently head of research at TCG Crypto, with close to a million followers. His credibility in the space is real: he was among the first to call Solana back after the FTX collapse, and he got in early on WIF and BONK. In other words, this isn’t a name pulled from thin air — it’s a credibility card with a track record, and that distinction is the whole reason this coin isn’t just another anonymous launch.

In mid-June 2026, an anonymous developer deployed ANSEM on pump.fun, took about 792 million tokens from the bonding curve (an automated pricing curve where the price rises as more tokens are bought), and then sent roughly 650 million of them — about 65% of the total supply — together with pump.fun’s “creator” role (which lets him collect a share of trading fees) to Ansem’s public wallet, walking away with only about $5,500 in profit. Notice the move: the developer didn’t bury a trap and run. He handed over control. Ansem didn’t sell. Instead, on June 27–28, he posted two tweets committing to send the creator fees “back to the trenches” (retail traders) every week, and took a swipe at pump.fun for never issuing its own incentives — a line that lit up the meme community.

1.2 The flywheel: baking user acquisition into the cash flow

The mechanism isn’t complicated, but it writes “user acquisition” directly into the token’s cash flow: the more people talk about the coin, the more it trades; the more it trades, the more creator fees pump.fun collects; Ansem converts those fees into ANSEM and SOL and airdrops them to the community every week. In the first week alone, about $200,000 in fees were generated; between June 27 and 29, a wave of roughly 7 million ANSEM (worth about $7 million) landed in 700-plus wallets. The result is a loop: attention → volume → fees → airdrop → new addresses → more attention. It didn’t invent anything new, but it makes user acquisition self-funding through its own trading volume, instead of relying on the team to pay for marketing.

Why is this worth a second look? In a BSCN interview, Ansem put his finger on an old problem: meme coins are great at pulling retail in, but terrible at keeping them. They’re loud during the pump, and before money rotates to the next hype, no real community has formed. Ansem says his approach borrows from BONK (broad airdrops for wide distribution) and HYPE (aligning platform revenue with holders). If the flywheel can genuinely self-fund through fees, this stops being just another hype cycle and becomes an experiment in whether a meme can actually retain users — which is exactly why I’m singling it out for a prediction.

2. Why I think it has a shot

First, my bar for “making it”: by “making it” I mean ANSEM stops being a one-pump wonder and uses the creator-fee flywheel to push holder addresses steadily past 500,000, while still holding a market cap in the tens of millions after a full sentiment cycle. Otherwise, it’s just another name that pumped and faded.

Looking ahead, four drivers support that possibility:

1. A built-in growth engine. As long as ANSEM keeps trading, real ANSEM and SOL flow back to the community every week, continuously creating new addresses. That’s a self-funding capability no anonymous launch has.
2. The exchange list keeps growing. KCEX (June 28), Bitrue (July 10), MEXC (early July), and HTX have all listed spot; more venues mean lower slippage and let bigger money move in and out.
3. The ecosystem is starting to ship tools. Liquidity Pods (non-custodial liquidity), Meme Terminal, and Ansem-call Radar turn “holding the token” into “having something to use,” not just betting on a ticker.
4. Ansem stays personally present. He publishes his wallet, commits to disclosing team wallets, and puts his personal brand on the coin. Compared with a pure anonymous launch, that adds an implicit “won’t vanish overnight” constraint.

3. The signals I’ll use to check my own call

Predictions are worthless if they’re just talk, so I’ve set myself five falsifiable signals. Each has a “lights up” and a “goes dark” state — when a signal lights up I add; when it goes dark I cut or exit. No holding on faith.

1. Weekly airdrops land on time, and creator fees don’t shrink. Lights up: fees stable or growing for weeks, airdrop list keeps expanding. Goes dark: a skipped week or a clear fee drop — the first alarm that the flywheel is stalling.
2. Holder addresses climb steadily toward 500K and 1M. Lights up: tens of thousands added month over month. Goes dark: flat or falling for weeks (Ansem’s target is 1M; right now it’s only about 141K — a long way off), which basically means attention is topping out.
3. A new CEX spot or perpetual-futures listing appears. Lights up: a major exchange lists it, ideally with perps. Goes dark: none for a long stretch — liquidity hits a ceiling, and big money can’t get in or out.
4. Each market pullback holds the $0.10–0.12 zone. Lights up: it dips there and recovers. Goes dark: a clean break below that it can’t reclaim — the structure turns weak.
5. Actual usage of the Black Bull tools grows. Lights up: Liquidity Pods TVL and Meme Terminal activity rise. Goes dark: price climbs but nobody uses the tools — that’s still pure speculation, not retention.

4. Three paths: flywheel works, or attention scatters again

This is a scenario map, not a guarantee. I’ve written the trigger for each path so you can track it.

• Bull (low odds, but imaginable): Triggered if the flywheel is market-validated — creator fees keep rising, addresses hit 500K–1M, another exchange adds perps, and Ansem doesn’t step away. Result: a retest of the $0.44 all-time high, market cap back to $300M–$450M, and a real seat among Solana’s top memes.
• Base case (what I think is most likely): Triggered if the flywheel turns but slowly, addresses grow gradually, Ansem’s personal traffic keeps it alive, but no new breakout catalyst appears. Result: chop between $0.08 and $0.20, market cap 40M–90M, surviving without ever getting hot.
• Bear (can’t be ignored): Triggered by airdrop fatigue, Ansem’s attention moving elsewhere, plus the realization of the sell-pressure risk from one wallet holding ~65%, or a broadly bearish market. Result: market cap sliding toward 10M–20M or lower, slowly fading off the leaderboards.

5. My take: treat it as an experiment, not a belief

To be blunt: it’s an attention asset, not a value asset. The creator-fee flywheel is a real, on-chain-verifiable experiment, but there’s no product, no revenue, and no roadmap today, and the price is almost entirely tied to one person’s fame and willingness to keep showing up.

One more thing worth stating plainly: about 65% of the supply sits in a single wallet — Ansem’s. That’s a double-edged sword. The upside is he’s incentivized to grow the coin: bigger coin, more volume, more fees he collects, so his interest is aligned. The downside is just as direct: the moment he rotates out or needs to cash in, that one block can break the price. Don’t mistake “he’s airdropping fees” for a safety badge.

My approach: a small position as a “meme-retention experiment” to watch — add when signals light up, leave when they go dark. I will never treat it as a value position I can hold without losing sleep. In meme coins, surviving a full cycle is harder than 10x — and more meaningful.

About the author

I’m Louise Lee, a practitioner in the digital-asset industry and a researcher at tronsell.io. tronsell.io runs a self-operated energy pool with about 400 million TRX staked, supplying roughly 3.7 billion energy and 35 million bandwidth to clients, and already serves 10+ institutional customers.

Prediction fact card (data labeled by state)

Item	Detail
Token / ticker	The Black Bull / ANSEM
Chain	Solana (SPL token, launched via pump.fun)
Official contract (Solana)	9cRCn9rGT8V2imeM2BaKs13yhMEais3ruM3rPvTGpump
Launch	Deployed on-chain around June 16, 2026; KCEX spot listing June 28, 2026
Launch cost	Anonymous developer put in ~6,300; walked away with ~5,500 profit
Supply / holdings	Total 1 billion; Ansem’s public wallet holds ~650M (≈65%); remaining ~350M across liquidity pools, community airdrops, and secondary holders
Current snapshot (mid–late Sept 2026)	Price ~0.12–0.17; market cap ~58M–$72M (aggregators differ by ~20%)
ATH	~$0.44 (July 6, 2026, CoinGecko / CoinLaunch); Bitrue exchange figure $0.3823; peak market cap ~$450M, briefly Solana’s #1 meme
ATL	~$0.00003–0.0001 at launch (mid-June 2026; Mobee / CoinLaunch differ)
Key historical spike	+19,878% in 7 days after the fee-return announcement; market cap ~$121M on June 29
Creator fees	~200K in week one; ~7M ANSEM (≈7M) airdropped to 700+ wallets cumulatively
Holders	~141K (Sept 18, 2026, CoinMarketCap / Mobee); target 1M
Liquidity	Main pools on PumpSwap / Meteora; exact lock not independently verified

| CEX listings | KCEX (Jun 28), Bitrue (Jul 10), MEXC (early Jul), HTX (spot), Mobee (Sep 18) | | Concentration | Single wallet (Ansem’s public wallet) holds ~65% (650M), the largest single point of risk | | Impersonator warning | A same-name ANSEM exists on Robinhood Chain (contract 0x521934ea…0880); not the official Solana coin — verify the full contract before any transfer |

Sources

1. Contract & on-chain verification: KCEX listing notice, Bitrue listing notice, Gate Academy comparison, Solscan explorer — all four point to the same Solana contract.
2. Launch & airdrop mechanics: memecoin.wiki entry, Unclaimed SOL airdrop breakdown, BSCN interview — cover the creator-fee flywheel, weekly airdrop, Ansem’s ~65% holding, launch cost and exit profit.
3. Price & market cap: CoinGecko, CoinMarketCap (via Mobee extract Sept 18), MarketBeat (Sept 20), Bitrue price page (Sept 16), TradingView / BraveNewCoin flash notes.
4. ATH / ATL & historical high: CoinGecko (0.4436, Jul 6), CoinLaunch (0.444, peak market cap ~$450M), Bitrue exchange ATH (0.3823), Mobee (launch low 0.0000356, Jun 16). Two sources give ATH in the $0.38–0.44 range and ATL in the $0.00003–0.0001 range; the article uses the ranges and names the sources.
5. CEX listing dates: KCEX (Jun 28), Bitrue (Jul 10), MEXC (early Jul), Mobee (Sep 18) notices.
6. People & background: MEXC Crypto Pulse (Ansem = Zion Thomas, @blknoiz06, TCG Crypto head of research, Georgia Tech CS background), Datawallet, IQ.wiki.
7. Ecosystem tools: AInvest coverage (Liquidity Pods, Meme Terminal, Ansem-call Radar), blackbullsol.com official site.

Risk disclaimer

This article is a research note only and not investment advice. Meme coins are extremely volatile and most eventually go to zero. ANSEM has no product, no revenue, and no roadmap; its price depends heavily on the personal will of a single influencer, and it carries both the sell-pressure risk of ~65% of supply concentrated in one wallet and a large number of same-name impersonators. Only put in money you can fully afford to lose, and verify the contract address independently before any action.