Did you buy the dip, anon?

There’s still time.

The Fed is cutting, the CCP is pumping tons of fresh liquidity into the asian markets, and we are so so close to the end of the election cycle here in the US.

Money printers are primed around the world, and no matter the outcome of the election we will finally have certainty for the market.

Plus, it’s a meme coin super cycle.

Memecoins are as pure as it gets in the crypto casino. There’s no better place to make a bet with reasonable odds of getting a 10, 100, or even 1000x return. New memes pop up and then pop off every week. You can’t hold every one. But you can spread your money around, play the odds, and sometimes catch one on a heater.

Today, i’ve pulled together 8 new(ish) meme coins that I think have a shot at breaking out in 2025.

(at the end of this newsletter I’ve included a table with links to buy the coins listed here (plus a 9th, bonus coin for your consideration 🫶 ). I’ve intentionally only mentioned new-ish memecoins in this with generally lower market caps, but enough liquidity and community not to be obvious scams. There are many such scams though, and in memecoin world you can never be totally sure. Therefore:

1 - do your own research and don’t just buy something because of some blog you read in a newsletter on the internet. I’m an idiot and this is not financial advice.

2 - if you’ve never bought anything using a crypto wallet like Phantom or Metamask before, feel free to reply to this email and I’ll help you get started.)

Choose your meme

Market Vibes

Crypto Reads

Murad’s Top Memecoin List: We are in the early stages of a memecoin supercycle.

US Manufacturing Declines, Again: U.S. manufacturing activity contracted again in September, marking the sixth consecutive month of decline and the 22nd month out of the past 23 months to see a drop, according to the Institute for Supply Management in its latest report

TD Bank pleads guilty: Where’s Elizabeth Warren and her anti-crypto crusaders on this? Should we ban all Canadian banks now, Liz? TD Bank admitted that it “failed to monitor a stunning $18.3 trillion in customer activity, which allowed three money laundering networks to transfer more than $670 million through accounts at the bank.”

8 meme coins for 2025

Last week, on-chain enforcer ZachXBT released 11 wallets controlled by twitter influencer Murad. The reaction from crypto twitter was wild. Influencers and meme-maxi’s jumped to Murad’s defense, appalled that Zach would dox. Others loved the transparency; the ability to see and hold influencers on CT accountable to the coins they own and promote.

Murad is an interesting character. He gave a presentation at the Token 2049 conference in Singapore last week that argued we are in a meme-coin super cycle. Meme communities, according to Murad, are like new religions, and the tokens are a financial incentive layer that coordinates and inspires the community.

Murad, to his credit, welcomed the doxxing. He hasn’t sold, and the wallets confirm it. Time will tell if he’s genuine or if this is yet another crypto-influencer-grift.

His investment approach is the find the meme communities that have been around for 6-12 months, have fervent participation and religious-like loyalty even when the token price is down bad, and then verify that there isn’t any cabal ownership ready to dump a huge percentage of the token at any time. Check the boxes, buy the token.

Not a bad approach. I don’t think his comparison to religion holds water even slightly, but I’m still happy to ride the momentum he’s creating to profits in my own meme investing (and hyper-gambling).

Murad’s Top Holdings

Given Murad is the current main-character in meme crypto world, let’s start our watchlist with his top holdings: SPX6900 and GigaChad.

SPX6900

First up, we have SPX6900. This meme is a ridiculous combination of anti-establishment chaos and weird-internet-subculture magic. It’s simultaneously an obvious joke and a serious rejection of the economic path we’ve followed since the Financial Crisis. It’s like shit coin Fight Club starring waifu anime streaming on CNBC for 72 hours straight with no blinking.

This level of internet culture is hard to forget. I bought some tokens.

GIGA

Murad’s second top holding is GIGA, a comparatively normal coin against the lunacy over at SPX6900.

Giga is a version of the Chad meme, and is another of Murad’s “next generation” memecoin picks.

His theory is that all the animals coins we’re accustomed to are a bias from prior cycles — the success of Doge and Shiba Inu still influencing both memecoin creators and investors. He predicts that non-animal memes will break through this cycle, and we should diversify to meme’s like Giga.

Follow the money: Animals on Solana

The core investing principal I’ve learned after nearly a decade in crypto is to follow the money.

When a sector, narrative or ecosystem gets hot, don’t be cute about it. Follow the momentum, buy, and sail to Valhalla.

That’s why this list must focus on the Solana ecosystem and all it’s memetic glory.

The dog has been the cornerstone of memes for two cycles now, starting with DOGE and evolving to Shiba and Floki. Today’s top dogs (see what i did there) are Solana coins, BONK and WIF.

WIF, BONK, and POPCAT

As I’ve written about many times, WIF is my top choice for memes right now. The hat stays on.

Bonk kicked off the current meme supercycle last year - it was the first meme to really take off in Q4 2023 and blazed a trail for WIF to explode onto the scene a few months later.

Both coins are dogs. Check. Both have outrageous, large and vocal communities. Check. The dogs are both very cute. Check, check.

That brings us to maybe the hottest coin on all of Solana right now, Popcat, the largest and most poppin’ cat coin on the list.

Not much else to say about Popcat. It’s a cat. It pops. It’s price has erupted over the past month to a market cap well over a billion. Take my money!

MOTHER

There’s one more Solana coin I want to call out specifically, MOTHER. Mother is a celebrity coin, which I would normally avoid like a virology lab in Wuhan. But Mother seems different. Iggy seems committed.

She threw a huge Mother party at the Token 2049 conference last month. It generated massive social media coverage and exposure for the coin. Who would have guessed that strippers would draw a crowd at a crypto conference!?

Iggy is aligned with major solana ecosystem leaders like Joe McCann. So far at least, she’s done everything she’s said she’s going to do.

As far as celebrity coins go, this could be the one. She even gets the weird crypto vibes right. See for yourself: https://www.mother.fun/

Memecoins for ETH Maxi’s

We get it, you love ethereum. The future is a roll-up and architecture is modular. And just because gas fees are $50 for a swap doesn’t mean that you don’t want to hypergamble memecoins on the most decentralized chain around.

PEPE

Leading the way this cycle on ethereum is, of course, PEPE, the friendly neighborhood frog and Lord kek himself. Pepe has a market cap above $4 billion, and it’s the go-to meme for most all of crypto’s favorite jokes. It’s very hard to bet against this one.

HarryPotterObamaSonic10Ibu

I saved this one for last. It’s the most ridiculous, most hilarious, most over the top meme coin I’ve come across. It’s silly. Its nonsensical. It has a community of absolutely based, psychopathic followers.

My wife thinks it’s the stupidest thing she’s ever seen.

It’s everything you want to see in a meme investment.

It’s HarryPotterObamaSonic10Ibu and it’s ticker is $BITCOIN. There’s really nothing else to say about it.

Let the stupidity inspire you.

The meme coin supercycle is here for a good time, not a long time

Memecoins are ephemeral. If you do your own research and decide you want to invest your cold hard digital currency in any of these, remember:

These coins are going to go to zero. Take profit. Sell them. Do not hold long term. There’s hundreds of thousands of memecoins and only like 3 have maintained relevance for longer than 6 months. If you buy one and it rips — sell.

Murad and others on twitter will give you tons of reasons why “this time is different.” These tokens are not religions. They said the same things about NFTs. They were wrong. This time is not different.

Memecoins are fun. They’re a game. Pure ponzi.

Remember to take profit. Don’t get rekt.

BONUS

I know I said SPX6900 was weird. And yes, I did say that HarryPotterObamaSonic10Inu was peak internet culture.

But neither of these match the distilled insanity of The Church of the Smoking Chicken Fish. There’s really no thesis for this one other than pure madness. It's a chicken, with a fish head, smoking a cig. Tell me how this isn't a billion dollar market cap!?

It’s available on Solana for any of you looking to hyper-gamble your way to generational wealth in this memecoin supercycle.

Portfolio Update

For disclosure, I own WIF, BONK, MICHI and BILLY (the latter two are not mentioned on the list, but including for full meme coin transparency).

This week I bought Smoking Chicken Fish, SPX6900 and MOTHER as small(ish) bets on this leg of the meme coin supercycle.