Maki 🍀

with the spread of social trading, crypto has become increasingly obsessed with KOLs and their moves. people are constantly looking for a KOL savior to tell them what to buy, when to buy and what to avoid. there’s an important distinction people are missing: KOLs can actually destroy a memecoin, even when they have good intentions. if a KOL with a massive audience starts aggressively shilling a coin too early, before its distribution has gone through the necessary cycles of shakeouts and organic accumulation, they can attract exactly the wrong type of holders. suddenly you have thousands of people looking for an exit rather than people willing to build something. but the opposite is also true. when a KOL endorses a meme that already has a strong, organic community, they can become an incredibly powerful catalyst for growth. they bring attention, distribution and new people into an ecosystem that already has something worth joining. study Murad and $SPX6900 & $GIGA. KOLs should amplify conviction, not replace it. and if your entire investment thesis is that some influencer might tweet about your coin tomorrow, you don’t have a community thesis. you have a gambling strategy.

i’ve been thinking about what actually makes a memecoin capable of reaching a much higher floor and sustaining it. look at the biggest winners. there’s a common pattern: they didn’t simply replicate an existing meme. they introduced a new cultural primitive. $DOGE was a contrarian cultural movement against the seriousness, speculation and grandiose promises of the crypto industry. it practically created the memecoin category. $WIF helped establish solana’s own meme culture. a cute dog wearing a hat became a multi-billion-dollar cultural phenomenon. countless animal coins followed, but none managed to recreate what made wif special. $PEPE brought one of the most recognizable OG internet memes into crypto. its roots in 4chan culture gave it an identity that wasn’t manufactured for a token launch. $SPX6900 is a movement coin against the establishment. basically the GME moment of crypto, challenging traditional financial benchmarks and giving people something bigger to rally around than a ticker. the lesson? if you want a memecoin to have a chance at building higher floors, it needs a genuinely unique cultural identity. copying the culture of a previous winner isn’t enough. now look at the emerging primitives: solana:Ce2gx9KGXJ6C9Mp5b5x1sn9Mg87JwEbrQby4Zqo3pump represents a generation increasingly disconnected from traditional employment, economic opportunity and the conventional 9-5 model. it’s a cultural identity with a potentially massive audience. $BATON represents something different: a new primitive built around custom pairs and the $PUMP ecosystem. PUMP = MEMECOINS. BATON is THE PEOPLE’S PUMP. the idea is to build a community-owned cultural layer around the ecosystem itself, rather than just another token competing for attention within it. the next generation of major memecoins won’t necessarily come from another cute animal or another recycled narrative. it will come from new cultures, new identities and new reasons for people to belong. stop looking for the next version of the previous winner. look for the next entirely new primitive.

i also think people underestimate the value of holding solana:Hg5Ja55T5wESq4vyFoiVCMeHXtGyVA69X2UHq8hgpump

really believe PUMP meme-pairs are going to be the trenches own infinite flywheel

as i predicted earlier, we’re going to see a bigger shift towards community-driven memes and fewer new launches. $MIHAO is a great signal of this meta change. if you’re annoyed about missing out, stop thinking in terms of scarcity and start adopting a PvE mindset. instead of coping about what you missed, look for opportunities to get involved in strong, established community memes. also, if you get offended because @blknoiz06 isn’t supporting your bags, maybe you’re not as convinced in your own thesis as you think. the cream always rises to the top. -baton corp