Memecoins are ONE CYCLE trade. You trade them, but never HODL them.
I mean
$WIF was THE MEME last cycle with Ansem putting it on the LA Sphere*
Now, the chart looks like that ↓ and mindshare-wise it is dead.
And for a meme to lose mindshare is DEATH.
$FARTCOIN? Same story despite huge success beyond CT.
$DOGE is an exception as it survived TWO cycles. But it is not really strong runner anymore.
This short lifespan makes it different from the main crypto meme - Bitcoin which manages to reinvent itself.
Anyway, whatever you think of solana:HcRLc9VDgjLeK154xDawfb1dmVJ98DoSqcwTHGqiDeJR,
$CASHCAT etc etc., just make sure to sell them.
Very simple lesson yet too many become married to their bags
One of the things I have changed my mind on this cycle is that meme coin trading is a fad or short lived phenomena.
It's not.
I thought it was a solved game, but the variance due to internet culture seems to keep the game going, alongside the addictive nature of gambling.
I am actually not a fan of gambling, and have a close family member who suffers from this addiction, but I accept that millions of people want to/need to gamble for various reasons: entertainment, desire to elevate one's station, desperation, boredom etc.
The lottery has atrocious odds, but it is the gambling game that the majority of the world have played for almost the last 100 hundred years. If you add up the combined sum a regular person has lost in their life playing the lottery is significant. It is kind of like a tax on poor people.
The internet + blockchains have enabled digital slot machines/lottery games in the form of infinite token creation. The dopamine hits that come with this form of gambling are the strongest of any gambling game imo.
No matter how much you hate this it is simply not going away.
You now have many ways to invest in the underlying infrastructure related to this form of internet gambling. Last cycle the cleanest proxy was SOL.
This time around you have launchpads with differing mechanisms that allow the game to be played in different ways.
Some are more aligned with their holders than others, but all are seeing rising interest and adoption metrics.
Other opportunities remain in the private markets like FOMO, but they possibly may airdrop one day who knows.
The activity will ebb and flow with manic peaks and big lows as the the flows are carried by speculation seen in other areas of the market, becoming more liquid as wealth trickles into onchain gambling.
Again, hating on this is futile. You are better off ignoring it if it bothers you. Gambling is big business in the real world, and there are extremely profitable businesses in that sector.
Everyone loses on slot machines in Vegas, and yet the people keep coming back to play them with the hope of hitting it big one day.
There is a lot of total bullshit happening with KOLs, and bundling etc. I am not condoning that at all. And I steer away from that completely, and encourage you to do so as well.
Redacted people are going to do redacted things even though they actually know they are being robbed and scammed. You can't stop this.
You don't have to speculate on a single individual memecoin coin, and I actually don't think it is +EV to do so.
But it's clear there are going to be giant onchain internet gambling infra winners here, and you can capture that opportunity if you want to.