These meme “investors” are competitive, with Forbes having published a ranking of the community’s “top investors.” There are even in-depth guides to help usher in novice meme traders.

If each token and protocol has its own brand, why should token ownership take the banal metaphor of a generic "wallet" with numbers? Could coins and cryptoassets bring their own interfaces to users' smartphones? Can coin ownership be turned into an aesthetic or a collective experience, in which the curation of one’s own cryptoassets portfolio can... See more

We contend that Pumpfun does not tokenize memes, and it does more than issue lotto tickets. Instead, for the past 18 months, Pump.fun, via permissionless listing of NNAs, exists as a crypto native game of chicken, wrapped in internet culture, with technical analysis as a core enabling feature. The supply side issues arbitrary assets, typically... See more