MEME Tokens are warming up again!! - Should we?
Hello SPIers, over the past few days, I have been looking at meme tokens on the SOL blockchain. Dont worry, I have no plans to invest but the whole process for me as someone who creates tokens is exciting.
The lifespan of 99.9% of meme tokens on SOL
Because the bar of entry is so low to create a meme token, $2-3 and a jpeg. Thousands are created each hour.
I cherry-picked and watched in real-time over a few hours 40-50 meme tokens from the minute they launched. All but 2 of them lasted under 2 minutes. The dev would buy in, 3-4 investors would buy-in, and then the dev would sell it to lock in $1 in profit. 1 lasted for around 8 mins and 1 more is still going currently sitting at around 8x at the time of writing.
Launch > Dev buys in > Investors buy in > Dev Sells out > Meme token drops to $0
The life of an average meme token on SOL is probally under 2 minutes.
The other 0.1%
- Build social media before launch. Twitter, Telegram, Discord
- Have a 1 page site website before launch
- Build up a min of 500-1000 followers before launch
- Launch meme token on a set date so everyone can FOMO in together and moon it
- Dev burns LP keys
- Dev does not sell out
- Will pay £300-400 for validation when listed on the P2P exchange
90% of the top 0.1% are people using smart contracts to rug people. They will release the same token over and over using the same social media to promote them. They will use contracts to make lots of buys from different wallets pumping the price and when the marketcap hits $100k, $500k, and $1M, they dump the lot from all the wallets in 1 transaction. There are many ways to appear to be legit and still rug people.
If you do the above and dont rug, you have a chance to create a $1 million marketcap token on SOL because you'd basically be a unicorn. The bar to be better than 99.9% is so low and a few hours of work is all it takes to be in the top 0.1%. By the way, hitting $1M means little because it can tank 90% in a few minutes.
(Degen investors)
You would not believe how degen some people are and when they have something go 2x, 3x on them, they will shill it like their life is on it. Maybe they put their last $500 into a meme token and it mooned to $2500 after 12 hours, that person thinks they hit the jackpot, found the unicorn and their shit is going to moon to $100k by Christmas. They will feel invincible
Anyways, when people can see a meme token has a pre-build community of degens, a website, active social media and lots of early diamond hand buyers, others jump in hard because 99.9% of tokens only last a few minutes.
I've been thinking!
Yeah, I know. Here comes another bullshit meme token idea from SSUK but hear me out, the risk is very small and it could be fun.
I always like to try out new things and I'd like to release a meme token on SOL as an experiment. The reason why I've never done it is because it's not something I can do alone and would need some support to do it properly. Not financial support, more community support or at least a team of 2-3 more people.
We'd basically need to build a small community of degens before launch which might take a few weeks then launch with a few hundred waiting buyers, buy a large % for ourselves and dont sell. When the degens see we are "real ones" and not going to the rug, they will shill it to the moon.
We sit back and see what it does For a meme token to really pop, it needs to come from its community. We'd need to set it up, shill it hard pre-launch and if it gains traction, let it go and see what its community does with it.
I could go into great detail with the numbers but im not going to because im lazy to explain about liquidity, fees and things.
- Would cost $400-600 (SPI will pay)
- Need people that can run Twitter accounts to shill and build telegram & discord user numbers. (Posting 1 liner bullish things about the token with invite links)
- People who help would get % ownership share of the dev wallet
- The exit plan would be either
1/ If the community grows, we sell out a few per cent here and there as milestones are hit. Degens dont mind a dev selling a few percent of their holdings if the token is up 10x
2/ The community does not grow and we dump our position (maybe at a loss)
Our plan is to exit within the first 2-3 months. Whether thats into a growing community of active buyers are into a dead community of HODLers over others have taken profit. There always needs to be new buyers.
Why plan to exit?
If a community grows they will want control of the token, they will view the dev holding a large amount as a threat and it is good practice for the dev to exit or massively reduce their stake. When this is the case, the token will normally moon after the dev sells out. If the community does not grow, we dont wanna be operating social media for a dead project so we dump it.
Either way, it would be a 2-3 month experiment for those interested.
If you think you could add value to this and would enjoy the experience, comment below and we might make it happen.
Getting Rich Slowly from June 2019
Token Name | Main Account | Link to hive-engine |
---|---|---|
SPI token | @spinvest | SPI |
LBI token | @lbi-token | LBI |
Top XV token | @spinvest | XV |
Eddie Earners | @eddie-earner | EDS |
EDS miners | @eddie-earner | EDSM |
EDS mini miners | @eddie-earner | EDSMM |
EDS-vote | @eds-vote | n/a |
EDS DOLLAR | @eds-d | EDSD |
DAB token | @dailydab | DAB |
DBOND token | @dailydab | DBOND |
RUG token | @rugem | RUG |
It's a crazy idea that can give you a good laugh! And potentially some profit.
I launched my meme project $ZENA a week and a half ago. It got up to a 60K marketcap and then pulled back.
I have been trying to build off the premise that the investors are HOLDing and it isn't a rug but it's tough because there is such a large contingent of degenerate tweaker type investors that want to see the thing going crazy right out the gates. We are building out and ultimately there is a lot people don't see but it's going to take pushing through on a daily basis to really build this out strong.
https://zena.fun
Looked into it quickly, looks like you had a good launch and since your dip, you've been going sideways, thats better than most. Some just blow up, i have no idea how the community take a token over but when they do, they blow up hard.
The website is cool, more interesting than most cause Zena is a real dog. I never seen any link to buy ZENA on the site though.
Great stuff all the same, i'll be watching
I think it is all strategy when a lot of memes launch and the platform they are using to launch it and how many of these X accounts and Telegram pump crews are hitting them. A lot of them are orcastrated pump and dump endeavors clearly.
I started this one with a low market cap. 2K market cap and the original sniper bots / accounts got bored for the most part fairly quick. Then it has been the solid followers mainly that have bought into it and at this point people can see it isn't a pump and dump.
I would say the biggest issue has been people that sort of have never left the exchanges and even the people that have left the crypto exchanges might not specifically be on Solana or understand how to trade into it so the ones that got interested enough to inquire I had to tell them which everyone was starting from a different point so people still get confused if I say to get Solana over to a Phantom wallet.
To entice the Solana degenerate crew is going to take more time and specific marketing.
From the intestors end everyone is doing a different thing over on Solana. I have used various methods where I would try to catch stuff early before it was on CoinGecko and CoinMarketCap and I have tried the method of only investing in stuff that make it in the top 1200 on CoinGecko.
It would be interesting what would happen to something like this if the power of these blogging platforms were at their peak. My engaged following has honestly probably dwindled down to under 25 people across Steem, Blurt, and HIVE. If I was doing 2017 STEEM engagement something like this could have went crazy from that. I have more engagement on YouTube but even that crew seems to stay with the broader market and doesn't degen out too hard.
We will see. There are some big things in the work and this whole thing is going to move fast. There isn't going to be an official roadmap for obvious reasons but the next 3 months should be pretty insane.
I'm a big fan of Solana, especially when it comes to DEFI investments.
Memes can be lucrative if you know how to play with risk, but they're not for everyone.
I see memes on SOL as a gamble, like buying a lotto scratcher. I expect to lose near every one i buy into but every now and than, one will 10-20x, lol
i think you should do it
you have the knowledge and the will to do it 👌👌
and the money ofc 🤣
It would be good fun,
The hardest part is being able to build a large community very quickly. A community will take over the token, there needs to be tons of shilling pre-launch. All you have to do is spam popular posts and comments on social media. Like if Elon tweets about DOGE, we GET 50 people to comment with "BUY MEMETOKEN here, NO RUGPULL, GOING TO THE MOON". This is called a Raid and meme tokens communities will do many raids to shill the token.
Its a crazy space
I'm down and sounds like fun. !BBH !DIY !DOOK
PEPESANTA?
Done already, however PepeSanta is already on Solana with santapepe.com and on CoinGecko. Maybe with a little twist of flavor, something like Saint Nick Pepe, or something. hmm.. Maybe a French Pèpe (Père) Noël.
You can query your personal balance by
!DIYSTATS
@spinvest! @pepetoken likes your content! so I just sent 1 BBH to your account on behalf of @pepetoken. (11/100)
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Sounds fun!