Author: WOO
Background
Meme coins have been constantly mentioned this cycle and are the strongest performing track. Recently, KOL Murad gave a speech on the super cycle of meme coins at the TOKEN2049 conference, where he believes there are still 8 to 14 months of meme frenzy, and he released a list of meme coins he is bullish on, and he is frantically shilling. Among them, the SPX he was most bullish on had a market cap of only about $10 million when he first bought it, and the current market cap is about $750 million, with a floating profit of up to $8.3 million, making him the new generation of meme coin god.
He also actively "preaches" on Twitter, repeatedly mentioning coins such as SPX, GIGA, PEPE, SIGMA, APU, and POPCAT.
But in fact, even before Murad actively promoted memes, many meme coin KOLs were frequently shilling. In this article, WOO X Research has compiled the performance of the coins they have shilled since October, to explore who is the king of meme shilling.
Murad @MustStopMurad
Shilling style: Loves to shill meme coins with a cult-like style, with SPX being mentioned the most, followed by GIGA and POPCAT. The market caps of the meme coins recommended by Murad are mostly between $300M and $1.5B, with fewer shills of small-cap on-chain memes. Basically, the required increase from the current price to the historical high is relatively small, indicating a smaller retracement range for the meme coins.
Ansem @blknoiz06
Introduction: The most well-known KOL on Solana, known for shilling SOL at $1.5 and later shilling BONK and WIF, which achieved 80x and 500x gains respectively.
Shilling style:
Ansem not only shills memes, but also includes "legitimate" projects such as ENA, FTM, PRIME, CROWN, HNT, XNET, and CHEX. Recently, he is very bullish on the FTM chain, believing it will be like the early SOL, and he is also actively promoting the meme coins GOGLZ and EQUAL on the FTM chain. After his shilling, the coin prices have performed well, with large upside potential and small retracement ranges.
The meme coins he shills are also mid to high market cap, with WIF being mentioned the most, followed by MEW. But his Twitter feed is quite chaotic, with retweets accounting for 80% of his posts, sometimes dozens a day. He has also retweeted Murad's posts many times, expressing his strong agreement with Murad's meme philosophy and stating that he is also a member of the Murad Team.
POW @traderpow
Introduction: On-chain Degen player, with a Telegram channel of over 80,000 followers, mainly sending timely 1.5x meme coin calls. The following statistics are based on Twitter mentions, not Telegram shilling, as the frequency on Telegram is high and the coins are mostly small-cap. CB, LABUBU, and 🧲 are projects launched after October, and the gain calculation is based on the closing price on the first day.
Shilling style: Prefers to shill small-cap meme coins, and the aforementioned CB, LABUBU, and 🧲 have already retraced more than 50% from their highs. Except for MOG, MEW, and SPX, the rest of the coins are more than 40% away from their historical highs, indicating that POW is better at short-term PVP meme and timely calls, but not so good at long-term performance.
POΞ@Poe_Ether
Introduction: Degen, with nearly 200,000 Twitter followers and over 40,000 followers on his Telegram channel. The average Twitter reach is around 15,000.
Shilling style: Shills a large number of mid to small-cap coins, and the shills are relatively timely. The chains involved include not only ETH and SOL, but also BASE and SUI, with the most shills on GIGA. Among them, SPX, GIGA, BITCOIN, GOAT, HODL, LOCKIN, and KEYCAT have smaller retracement ranges, while the time-sensitive and DOGE-themed coins perform the worst.
Summary
The four KOLs all mentioned SPX, followed by GIGA, BITCOIN, and MOG, which were mentioned by three of them. A common feature is that they all have a "cult-like attribute".
Worth mentioning is LOCKIN, a coin that also made a star out of the amateur @ctlarp, who has been holding it firmly for over 136 days, with a value of over $700,000, and his Twitter page is entirely about this coin, very much in line with the "cult-like atmosphere".
Returning to the four KOLs in this article, they are all renowned meme players, but their "dog-fighting" styles are different.
From the statistical results, Murad is the most stable, POW and POE are good at PVP, and Ansem is exploring new battlefields in FTM.
Has the meme super cycle just begun? Let's see what time will tell.
