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 \u2014 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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ANSEM takes its name from trader Ansem \u2014 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 \u2014 it’s a credibility card with a track record, and that distinction is the whole reason this coin isn’t just another anonymous launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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 \u2014 about 65% of the total supply \u2014 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\u201328, 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 \u2014 a line that lit up the meme community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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 \u2192 volume \u2192 fees \u2192 airdrop \u2192 new addresses \u2192 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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 \u2014 which is exactly why I’m singling it out for a prediction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Looking ahead, four drivers support that possibility:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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 \u2014 when a signal lights up I add; when it goes dark I cut or exit. No holding on faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is a scenario map, not a guarantee. I’ve written the trigger for each path so you can track it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One more thing worth stating plainly: about 65% of the supply sits in a single wallet \u2014 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My approach: a small position as a “meme-retention experiment” to watch \u2014 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 \u2014 and more meaningful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
| Item<\/td> | Detail<\/td><\/tr> |
| Token \/ ticker<\/td> | The Black Bull \/ ANSEM<\/td><\/tr> |
| Chain<\/td> | Solana (SPL token, launched via pump.fun)<\/td><\/tr> |
| Official contract (Solana)<\/td> | 9cRCn9rGT8V2imeM2BaKs13yhMEais3ruM3rPvTGpump<\/td><\/tr> |
| Launch<\/td> | Deployed on-chain around June 16, 2026; KCEX spot listing June 28, 2026<\/td><\/tr> |
| Launch cost<\/td> | Anonymous developer put in ~6,300; walked away with ~5,500 profit<\/td><\/tr> |
| Supply \/ holdings<\/td> | Total 1 billion; Ansem’s public wallet holds ~650M (\u224865%); remaining ~350M across liquidity pools, community airdrops, and secondary holders<\/td><\/tr> |
| Current snapshot (mid\u2013late Sept 2026)<\/td> | Price ~0.12\u20130.17; market cap ~58M\u2013$72M (aggregators differ by ~20%)<\/td><\/tr> |
| ATH<\/td> | ~$0.44 (July 6, 2026, CoinGecko \/ CoinLaunch); Bitrue exchange figure $0.3823; peak market cap ~$450M, briefly Solana’s #1 meme<\/td><\/tr> |
| ATL<\/td> | ~$0.00003\u20130.0001 at launch (mid-June 2026; Mobee \/ CoinLaunch differ)<\/td><\/tr> |
| Key historical spike<\/td> | +19,878% in 7 days after the fee-return announcement; market cap ~$121M on June 29<\/td><\/tr> |
| Creator fees<\/td> | ~200K in week one; ~7M ANSEM (\u22487M) airdropped to 700+ wallets cumulatively<\/td><\/tr> |
| Holders<\/td> | ~141K (Sept 18, 2026, CoinMarketCap \/ Mobee); target 1M<\/td><\/tr> |
| Liquidity<\/td> | Main pools on PumpSwap \/ Meteora; exact lock not independently verified<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n | 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\u20260880); not the official Solana coin \u2014 verify the full contract before any transfer |<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sources<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\nRisk disclaimer<\/strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n |