Daily Memecoin Recap - August 21
Back by popular demand
Coinbase Lists Memes
$basecat -> hit $40m, leader of the recent batch of base memes
- @cobie followed ~1 week ago, speculation followed that coinbase would get involved
- People have ptsd from base memes as a whole as they've fumbled a lot of opportunities
- Today @CoinbaseMarkets announced it has been added to the roadmap (https://t.co/jfmr2K7ZUS)
The Black Bull Continues
$ansem -> hit $328m, after making a low at $150m - looking very strong
$bullshit -> hit $5.7m, first meme ansem has followed since launching his new platform
$pants -> hit $2.7m
- @blknoiz06 announced z500 which is essentially his onchain attention/marketing index
- new projects can airdrop supply to $ansem holders and/or buy + burn $ansem to climb the z500 leaderboard - ansem then highlights top ranked coins
Catecoin
$cate -> hit $62m, likely the best community in memes rn (love seeing active raiders)
- Initially ran up to $80m. Crashed to $10m, where it was sitting 3 days ago, before this current leg up
- @PoorGoat_ leading
- The cat counterpart to $doge / dogecoin
TIme To Learn Chinese
#牛来 -> hit $77m
- Terribly animated Chinese film that went viral. Translates to “Bull Comes”
- Set to release in the US this weekend
#牛屎 -> hit $1.5m, beta
#富贵 -> hit $1.5m
Pump Back Above ICO Price
$pump -> hit 0.0043
$app -> hit $1.8m, “sent from my pump fun app” - sentence alon started saying at the end of his tweets
- 4x off the lows of 0.0011
- consumer app of the cycle, as soon as market conditions got better - immediately rallied
Robinhood Meta
$ai -> hit $27m
$hookr -> hit $2.1m
#1b -> hit $1m, @vladtenev tweet (robinhood founder)
$fox -> $240k to $2.3m (9.5x)
Utility Coins
$fold -> hit $38m, founder of eth @VitalikButerin participated in their seed round
$cc -> hit $3.1m, trade social media accounts as if they were coins
$nandmine -> hit $1.2m
More Plays
$cupsey -> hit $24m, new ATH
$cez -> hit $18m, large bundle
$cyberleak -> hit $3.7m, GTA 6 leak
$catalyst -> hit $3m, @orangie tweeted about a random kid on tiktok that got rugged - ppl ran the coin back
$wsolp -> hit $1.1m, fantasy poker built on Solana. Narrative stems from wsop’s recent partnership with Solana
$lizard -> hit $1.1m
$conk -> hit $1m
$grompany -> hit $470k, someone built an entire company using grok
Comment if I missed anything important. We’re back
Overstimulation is one of the biggest reasons you keep losing money trading memecoins.
Think about the environment you trade in.
You’re constantly seeing:
• someone’s perfect entry and exit
• someone who missed an entry, bought back higher, and still made money
• someone selling at a loss and catching the next 10x
• someone aping into a coin five seconds before it runs
• someone turning a tiny position into a huge bag
Your brain processes all of this as evidence that you should be able to do it too
And this is where things start to go wrong
You start internalizing chaos
You buy coins you normally wouldn’t touch
You break your rules because you’ve seen someone else break theirs and win
You FOMO into a coin, sell low, then buy back higher because you can’t stand watching it run without you
You take too many trades because you’re constantly being exposed to opportunities.
All while your heart and body are screaming at you to stop and trade only when you’re at your best.
Eventually, you’re not trading your strategy but your environment.
And the worst part?
You may not even realize you have a problem
You can break the same rule today, promise yourself you won’t do it tomorrow, then break it again the next day.
Just like skipping the gym.
You know what you’re supposed to do.
You just keep choosing what feels good in the moment.
Maybe your problem is that:
1. You’re in too many alpha groups.
2. You’re online 24/7 but somehow still miss everything.
3. You’re buying everything Cupsey buys because you think it’ll be a “quick flip.”
4. You keep changing your thesis after you’re already in the trade.
5. You’re watching so many charts that you can no longer distinguish a good setup from noise.
6. You enter with a 2x target, see the coin move, and suddenly convince yourself it can do 10x.
10x my foot.
You won’t even see 2x because you’ve already destroyed the trade with your emotions.
And this is one of the realities of memecoin trading that people rarely talk about:
Your environment can make you a worse trader.
If your brain is constantly consuming entries, exits, PnLs, calls, rugs, runners, missed opportunities and other people’s wins, eventually everything starts looking like an opportunity.
You stop asking:
“Is this a good trade?”
And start asking:
“How much can this make me?”
Those are two completely different questions.
To win you need to create an environment where you’re clear-headed enough to think.
Do this especially when you’re extremely confident about a trade.
This should be the first thing you prepare yourself to do before you take a trade
Your body is a temple and your mind is a river. Do the rituals you know feel right…
For example, I make sure I take trades in my best attire. So every morning I take care of my skin, I wear a pretty wig and wear my best clothes.
And I’m so relaxed that when I scan plays I do it clear headed and see the mistakes I usually make in slow motion.
Because you know sometimes confidence isn’t conviction.
It’s overstimulation disguised as conviction.
Deep down, your brain may already know you’re about to buy rubbish.
But you’ve consumed so much information that you can no longer hear yourself think.
And memecoin trading is already difficult enough without fighting your own nervous system.
Trading is ultimately about making good decisions repeatedly.
Because choosing the wrong trade doesn’t just cost you money.
It can set you back mentally.
You lose.
You become frustrated.
You start revenge trading.
You increase your size.
You abandon your rules.
And now you’re fighting an entirely new battle.
You keep asking:
“When will my wins finally come?”
But if you keep creating the conditions that produce losses, you can’t be surprised when your PnL keeps reflecting them.
You CANNOT build a profitable trading career in an environment that constantly destroys your ability to think clearly.
Sometimes the best trade is to turn the noise off.
This week 42 coins went above 300k market cap
Let's check out the best ones:
Tuesday 19th:
Ticker ATH Reason for pump
- $embrace 599k Community known word
- $tygr 900k roaring kitty kitten
- $pgsa 780k coin based on official strait of Hormuz
- $marketcat 469k Community coin
- $tolybot 2.2M Toly Meme + x account
- $coinini 725k TikTok “promote” experiment that went viral in one try
- $zazu 364k Another day another zazu
Wednesday:
- $tbh 3.4M Cute animated cat
- $daedulus 353k Ai memory tech
Thursday:
- $omnimals 382k google based AI animals
- $soccer 2.1M it's called soccer vs football argument (World Cup meta)
- $USDP 432k first pumpfun coin paired with usdc
- $Kevin 1.6M betting on a football player stats
- $bank 2.6M like housecoin w/ an X account
- $buffdon 424k cow with blond comb-over hair that went viral
- $solangeles 3.2M adult carton tv show for Solana memecoins
Friday:
- $reelrush 510k instagram based pumpfun app
- $milhouse 340k community based meme
- $yunc 872k community based retarded coin
- $werldcup 432k retarded beta to world cup
Saturday:
- $rich 8.9M popular KOL got sent fees for his cancer post + supported and bull posted the coin
- $btcbank 635k beta to bankcoin
- $dot 3.2M it all began with a dot
- $DD 650k trump posted a video of him throwing a man inside a dumpster
- $atm 482k (acre for all the money) ponzi to buy coin and get Solana
- $capcat 411k alon shill
Sunday:
- $tralalero 1.1M regurgitated old memes
- $poor 828k comment from rich's KOL post (poor but proud)
- $gyatt 529k elon hires Nicki Minaj as Chief Gyatt officer
- $boomerang 388k a coin that rewards holders with any coin
- $OMEN 350k yes/no predictions for memecoins
- $STAKE 2.6M another beta to bank coin w/ Utility
- $belief 613k community coin
- $pp420 872k community coin
Monday:
- $paraloom 1.2M tech based coin
- $cig 449k cig community based coin
- $popus 555k faith +Ai community coin
- $frohorse 560k memecin based on Drake's hairstyle
Tuesday:
- $luce 337k newly launched Ferrari everybody hates
- $GOONC 401k porn meme
- brume 439k privacy tech to hide in plain sight
- $grail 934k beta to cards but better from Pokemon meta
secrets to take note of:
- x accounts linked to a coin with coin narrative shows it has more legs to run and is is better than a coin just linked to x comms. Surprisingly, wen you combine x account with xcomm it makes it even better
- funny coins still send but not as much since people have now gamed the utility behind a coin
predictions
- I think viral coins will slowly lose their novelty and only the craziest of narratives will send higher than 300k market cap and the market will fall back to believing and bag working meta of coins that are just likeable AKA animal and art coins
- another thing I noted is that its markedly harder to sell an idea to people because we've seen it all and we already know there's nothing to speculate
- when there's nothing to speculate the meme does badly because everybody believes its good but its community coin that rely heavily on speculation that catches bids and runs higher
- fee claimer coins are also coins I've started liking more these days
- tech based coin with very good utility
in summary, coins that keep catching bids in the last few months have to be memes with very high signals
I dont wallet track
I dont give af about who is in the coin or who’s not
I dont borrow conviction from other people
I dont take supply or money to talk about coins I like or dislike
If I ape and like it its because I truly fucked w it and market bought my damn self
I will always die on the hill of my own convictions…
PROUDLY.
I am an intuition/ gut feeling trader and I simply wait for the market to catch up
There are many times where I’ve seen a coin with a lot of potential, floored, and I’ve decided not to buy it because I think to myself
“This is a great coin, but someone will definitely launch a new one that will perform better when it regains attention”
And it sucks the amount of times that I have been right with this thought
It’s not just those who do the deploying, it’s also the fault of those who decide to scoop up all of the supply of those floored coins - with one or multiple wallets
Definitely the worst part of the trenches, because front running attention and being right was one of the best feelings