Ring 04 · Memecoin Postmortems and Comebacks

After the Hype

Memecoin Postmortems and Comebacks: what happened after attention faded, communities collapsed, founders disappeared, or projects returned.

3 entries

An illustrated capybara with a toolbox and a hooded figure holding an unplugged cable, beside a black machine that has dispensed a heap of glowing speech bubbles.

What Remains

InfoFi Paid Crypto to Talk. Then X Changed the Rules.

InfoFi promised to reward useful crypto voices. Then X revoked the API underneath the whole model, and four businesses had to become something else.

SEP 8 · 14 MIN

An illustration of Trump with a raised fist behind a black and gold membership card, beside open gold gates and a velvet rope leading into a lit interior, with a crashing orange price line at his feet.

What Remains

$TRUMP 2 Years Later: Who Won, Who Paid, and What Remains

The chart collapsed. The project did not. Official Trump evolved from a launch spectacle into a holder-ranked access club, while affiliated entities remained central to supply, royalties, trading revenue and the token's next phase.

$TRUMP

AUG 28 · 17 MIN

An illustration in Squid Game colours: a pink-suited guard siphons fluid out of a coin machine into a tray, while a hopper of tokens pours down beside it under a red alarm light.

What Remains

Almost Five Years After $SQUID: The Fake Game Token Crypto Still Remembers

The unauthorised Squid Game token did not spread because its warnings were hidden. It spread because a famous name and a one-way market made them secondary.

$SQUID

AUG 28 · 11 MIN