Background
Meme coins have been constantly mentioned this week, and they 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 shilling them crazily. Among them, the one he is most bullish on is SPX, which 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 it the new generation of meme coin god.
At the same time, he is also actively "preaching" 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 meme coins with a cult-like style, with SPX being mentioned the most, followed by GIGA and POPCAT. The market cap of the meme coins recommended by Murad is mostly between $300M and $1.5B, and he rarely shills small-cap on-chain memes. Basically, the current price is not far from the historical high, indicating that the retracement of the meme coins is relatively small.
Ansem @blknoiz06
Introduction: The most famous KOL on Solana, known for posting a shill for SOL at $1.5 and later shilling BONK and WIF, which achieved over 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 FTM, and the coin prices have performed well and have a large upside potential with small retracement after his shilling.
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 messy, with retweets accounting for up to 80% of his tweets, sometimes dozens a day. In addition, he has also retweeted Murad's tweets many times, and he agrees with Murad's meme philosophy and claims to be a member of the Murad Team.
POW @traderpow
Introduction: A Degen player on-chain, with a Telegram channel with over 80,000 followers, mainly sending timely 1.5x meme coin calls. The following statistics are based on Twitter mentions, not Telegram shilling. 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 all 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 more adept at short-term PVP meme and timely calls, and his long-term performance is not good.
POΞ@Poe_Ether
Introduction: A Degen with nearly 200,000 Twitter followers and a Telegram channel with over 40,000 followers. The average Twitter reading volume is around 15,000.
Shilling style: Shills a lot, mostly mid-to-small cap coins, and the shills are relatively timely. The chains involved are not only ETH and SOL, but also BASE and SUI. He has shilled GIGA the most. Among them, SPX, GIGA, BITCOIN, GOAT, HODL, LOCKIN, and KEYCAT have relatively small retracements, while the time-sensitive and DOGE-named concepts have performed the worst.
Summary
The four KOLs all mentioned the coin 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, which was also hyped by the amateur @ctlarp, who has been holding the coin firmly for 136 days, and the value has exceeded $700,000. His Twitter page is all about this coin, which is very much in line with the "cult atmosphere".
Returning to the four KOLs in this article, they are all famous meme players, but their "dog-hunting" styles are different.
From the statistical results, Murad is the most stable, POW and POE are good at PVP, and Ansem has gone to FTM to explore new battlefields.
Has the meme super cycle just begun? Let's see what time will tell.
