The Year in Memecoins ($)
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- 🇺🇸 Trump Picks 'Crypto Council' Leader. Trump has selected Bo Hines, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 2022, to lead a council promoting crypto innovation.
- 😬 CoinDesk Owner Fires Top Editors. CoinDesk's corporate owners abruptly fired its top three editors, including its editor-in-chief, after the owners unceremoniously pulled a negative article about Tron founder Justin Sun.
- 🔴 MicroStrategy Buys 5K More Bitcoin. Despite a sudden dip in crypto prices, MicroStrategy continued its drive to buy more and more BTC, announcing a new purchase just as it entered the Nasdaq 100.
📸 Daily Market Snapshot: Altcoins bled out last week, with Stacks (STX) and Aptos (APT) leading the way – both losing one-third of their value in the past 7 days. The fall in the Aptos native token appears to be especially concerning as it follows the unexpected resignation of the project's leader, whose departure came just as the token was seeing one of its biggest pumps ever.
| Prices as of 1pm ET | 24hr | 7d |
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Crypto $3.27T | ↘ 2.6% | ↘ 12.9% |
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BTC $93,264 | ↘ 2.5% | ↘ 12.8% |
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ETH $3,347 | ↗ 0.7% | ↘ 16.3% |
Perhaps unsurprisingly, when we look back at the year, one token category outperformed all others — memecoins.
Fueled initially by growing critique and disillusionment with token launches that entered the market at high fully diluted valuations, memecoins shone brightly in 2024. Drawn by their simpler narratives, (often) reduced insider allocations, and low-cost trading fees, many traders gravitated toward memecoins, making them a core pillar of crypto's 2024 growth.
Let's examine how memecoins gained this momentum, explore the role of Solana and Pump.fun in accelerating their growth, discuss their evolution and implications on token value, and analyze their influence on AI agents in this evolving landscape 👇
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For Dan Morehead, the answer lies in recognizing patterns most investors overlook. As the founder and CEO of Pantera Capital, Dan is no stranger to making bold, contrarian bets. His July 2013 investment letter, titled "Very Timely: We Should Buy Bitcoin Now at $65," is the stuff of legends. Over the following two years, Pantera accumulated nearly 2% of the world’s bitcoin supply. Fast forward to today, and the fund boasts a lifetime return of over 131,000%.
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