Category: Meme Coin
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From a Kitten Video to a Solana Meme Coin: How CATE Caught Fire
On July 26, 2026, Atsuko Sato — the owner of Kabosu, the Shiba Inu that became the face of Dogecoin — posted a short video on X. It showed a rescued kitten meowing softly at the camera. Within a few hours, a Solana meme coin named CATE had appeared. The name is almost too neat:…
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PONS — A Stock-Trading Chain Got Hijacked by Meme Coins. Can the Token of Its Busiest Launchpad Keep Running?
I’m Louise Lee, a researcher at tronsell.io, and I’ve spent a few years in crypto. The thing I enjoy most is digging through the meme coins that just launched — the fresh ones the promo accounts haven’t written to death yet. This post isn’t a recap of which coin already blew up. Instead, I’ll walk…
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How a Silicon Valley Slogan Became a Coin That Automatically Pays a Philosopher
In late September 2026, a meme coin called e/acc appeared on Solana. Within less than nine hours of launch, its market cap briefly hit $29 million. What I found most interesting wasn’t the number — it was one of its mechanics: a slice of the creator fee from every trade is routed, through a tool…
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Tracing The Toad Pepe (TOAD): From a Single Tweet to $22M, Then Down 90%
The one I’m breaking down today isn’t some animal influencer, and it isn’t an official project on any chain — it’s a frog. More precisely, a toad from the Pepe family. The Toad Pepe, ticker TOAD, graduated from pump.fun on Solana in early August 2026, and within days a single tweet from a named, well-known…
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Lil’ Shrub (SHRUB): A Second Wind on Robinhood Chain, or a Lost Cause?
On August 30, Shivon Zilis posted a photo of a hedgehog on X with the caption “Lil’ Shrub in a shrub.” She’s not just any X user — she was the COO of Neuralink and has led Tesla’s Autopilot program. The photo itself was unremarkable, but crypto moved fast: within days, a meme coin named…
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Busan Shark Bukang-i Meme Coin Provenance: How a Real Shark Became an On-Chain Token
At the end of September, a roughly 3.5-meter shark got stuck in a narrow artificial waterway at Busan’s North Port and couldn’t find its way out. Koreans nicknamed it 부캉이 (Bukang-i) — “Bukhang” (North Port) plus a cute Korean ending sound. Some worried whether it was hungry; others took the high-speed train just to see…
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The Shiba Plush That Flew to Space — and Became a Meme Coin
I’m Louise Lee, a researcher at tronsell.io, and I’ve spent years working in the crypto industry. The asset class I follow most closely is meme coins — most of them have little to no underlying technology, and they live or die by a single story that people can actually remember. Today I want to break…
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Meme coin MarsCoin (MARSCOIN): can it become the flagship of this BNB Chain stock-meme cycle?
In 2021, Elon Musk tossed off a line that there would “definitely be a MarsCoin.” Five years passed, Starship kept test-flying, and that offhand remark was all but forgotten. Then in late July this year, a meme coin actually called MarsCoin launched on BNB Chain. It has no official connection to Musk, Tesla, or SpaceX…
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How a Golden Retriever That Went Viral Five Years Ago Ended Up as a Solana Token
Let me start with a picture. At the end of 2020, in an adoption group on Facebook in Monterrey, Mexico, someone posted photos of two puppies looking for a home. One of them — a golden retriever pup — was held up in one hand, staring straight into the camera with an unusually calm expression.…
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Meme coin ROBIN (Robin the Frog): can it become the mascot of Robinhood Chain?
On the first day of July 2026, at a London launch event called “The World is Flat,” a brokerage you have very likely held an account with — Robinhood — pressed an unassuming button: its own blockchain mainnet went live. Not many people paid attention at the time. But within a few weeks, that “unassuming”…