US market is closed. Solana is open, 24/7.
while the Jensen headlines dropped last night:
over $86M of spot tokenized NVDA traded on solana in 24h 📈
more than every other chain. combined.
Solana is the tokenization chain.
🚨 IS THE NEXT BILLION DOLLAR MEMECOIN EVEN POSSIBLE?
The memecoin market is facing a structural problem that most traders are still underestimating.
Over the next 12–24 months, I believe the chances of a brand-new memecoin reaching and sustaining a $1 billion market cap could be dramatically lower than they were during the 2024–2025 cycle.
This isn’t simply about Bitcoin going down, market sentiment turning bearish, or investors losing interest in crypto.
The bigger problem is that the memecoin market has become overcrowded, liquidity is fragmented, investor confidence has weakened, and the supply of new tokens has grown far faster than sustainable demand.
Here is why the next generation of billion-dollar memecoins could be much harder to find.
1. THE MEMECOIN MARKET HAS ALREADY LOST A HUGE AMOUNT OF ITS VALUE
According to CoinGecko, the total memecoin market capitalization reached an all-time high of approximately $150.6 billion in December 2024.
By November 2025, that figure had fallen to approximately $47.2 billion.
That’s a decline of roughly 68.7%.
This is significant because it shows that the market has already experienced a massive contraction in speculative valuations.
During the previous cycle, investors were willing to assign extraordinary valuations to new tokens based on viral narratives, social media attention, and community growth.
Today, that same level of enthusiasm is much harder to generate.
The market needs fresh capital to create new billion-dollar winners, but investors are now competing with thousands of existing tokens for the same liquidity.
2. MILLIONS OF NEW TOKENS ARE COMPETING FOR THE SAME MONEY
This is arguably the biggest problem facing the memecoin industry.
According to on-chain research tracking Pumpfun launches:
• August 2026: 1,173,153 tokens launched.
• September 2026: 1,000,569 tokens launched.
• October 1–15: 733,934 tokens launched.
That’s an extraordinary amount of new supply entering the market.
During September, approximately 33,400 tokens were launched every day.
In the first half of October, that number increased to approximately 48,900 per day.
Think about what that means.
Thousands of new tokens are competing for attention every single hour.
Every project wants the same thing: liquidity, holders, social media exposure, influencers, and exchange listings.
But the amount of available capital and investor attention is limited.
The result is an increasingly fragmented market where most projects struggle to build meaningful momentum.
3. THE SURVIVAL RATE OF NEW MEMECOINS IS EXTREMELY LOW
The numbers are even more concerning when we examine how many tokens survive beyond their launch.
Pumpfun data for September 2026 showed:
• 1,000,569 tokens launched.
• Only 33,783 graduated to PumpSwap.
• Graduation rate: approximately 3.38%.
• Only 8.8% of September launches recorded trading activity at least seven days after launch.
Even more concerning, only 0.43% of September launches were still trading around October 22–23, according to the same research.
Independent blockchain research from Bitquery provides another perspective.
Between November 2025 and October 7, 2026:
• Approximately 11.5 million new tokens traded on Solana.
• Pumpfun accounted for 78% of those tokens.
• Approximately 79% of Pumpfun tokens never traded beyond their launch day.
• Only 1 in 58 Pumpfun launches graduated to a full trading pool.
This is what the industry is dealing with.
Launching a token has become incredibly easy.
Building a token that people actually want to hold has become incredibly difficult.
Yes, the platform will allow listings without permission. We’re continuing to develop it. Stay tuned for announcements. Right now, you can use Percolator directly for BTC and SOL perp.
🚨MSCI FLAGS CRYPTO TREASURY FIRMS FOR DELETION AND WATCHLIST!
MSCI’s November 2026 Index Review marks Strategy (Bitcoin), Metaplanet (Bitcoin) and Upexi (Solana) as Deleted.
On the watchlist are SharpLink (Ethereum), Canton Strategic Holdings (Canton), Cypherpunk Technologies (Zcash), Sui Group (Sui), TON Strategy (TON), Capital B (Bitcoin), Solana Company (Solana), DeFi Development (Solana), AI Financial (WLFI), Enlivex (RAIN) and GD Culture (Bitcoin).
Changes take effect at the close of November 30 under the non-operating companies rules.
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IT'S FINALLY TIME. I'M LAUNCHING MY OWN MEMECOIN.
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The biggest Solana memecoin is coming.
Faces will melt.
People will retire off this launch.
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