Author: TechFlow
After the scorching hot AI and Art MEME, the Solana MEME market welcomed a much-needed rest day yesterday. Almost the entire day passed without any new "large MC memecoin" appearing, and the previously frenetic art concepts have mostly been halved.
Although the sentiment may have subsided, the market never sleeps. Last night, just as a certain chain player (the editor) was about to clock out and go to bed, the monitoring Bot suddenly sounded the alarm, and a multi-million dollar MEME appeared in the dead of night, this time with the official Vatican mascot - Luce ($LUCE).
Within half a day of launch, the $LUCE market cap reached as high as $53 million, once again awakening the somewhat drowsy MEME market. TechFlow has compiled some information about Luce, bringing you a comprehensive understanding of Luce's background and concept target.
Is religion also doing second-generation anime to attract young people?
The little Luce, the mascot of the Holy Year
As a theocratic state of the Catholic faith, the Vatican has always given people a sense of religious sanctity and purity. However, this time the Vatican has broken with tradition, creating a second-generation anime mascot to celebrate the upcoming Holy Year. The latest mascot is called Luce, designed by Simone Legno, the co-founder of the Italian pop culture brand tokidoki. "Luce" means "light" in Italian, and Vatican Archbishop Rino Fisichella stated that Luce is part of the Vatican's effort to interact with "popular culture that young people love". Details: Understanding Today's Hottest MEME Luce: From the Temple to the Comic Con, the Vatican Introduces its "Second-Generation Anime" Girl for the Jubilee Year
Furthermore, this week Luce will also appear at the famous Lucca Comics and Games Convention in Italy, where the Vatican's Evangelization Department will set up a dedicated area for "Luce and Friends", demonstrating the Vatican's emphasis on "youth-oriented" trends.
Zero frame start, market cap surpasses $10 million overnight
After introducing the background of Luce, I'm sure readers are most interested in how this coin managed to surge to a $50 million market cap in just half a day. From the perspective of a chain player, let me talk about the situation of my full (mis)participation in the $LUCE launch.
Around 0:20 am, just as I was about to shut down my computer, I suddenly saw the contract address of $LUCE posted in the MEME group by a group member. After opening it, I found that the $LUCE market cap was around $70,000 at the time, just as the Pump.Fun internal order book was full and ready to list on Raydium's external order book. Due to the painful market conditions yesterday, most new coins were immediately dumped after listing on the external order book, so I didn't take $LUCE seriously :)
In less than ten minutes, the group was already in a frenzy, and sensing something was wrong, I took another look at the Bot and found that the $LUCE market cap had already approached $2 million, with the price already close to 30 times the external order book listing. Half an hour after listing, the price had risen about 60 times, and the market cap reached $5.2 million.
The last time I saw such a rapid pump from zero frame start was $Ban and $EYE, and as I knew I had no chance of getting in, I could only go to sleep. When I woke up, the market cap had already reached $40 million.
Luce and Friends, a review of similar concept tokens
As of the time of writing this article in the evening, $LUCE has not yet returned to zero, and the price is still hovering around $30-40 million. At the same time, some players who missed the pump have chosen coins with similar concepts, after all, Luce's second-generation anime image is a whole series, if Luce didn't pump, there are still pets and friends.
Note: MEME token prices are highly volatile and carry a high degree of risk. Investors should fully assess the risks and participate cautiously. This article is solely for the purpose of information sharing based on market hot spots, and the author and platform do not guarantee the completeness and accuracy of the content, nor does it provide any investment advice.
$LUCE - The protagonist of this article, a zero frame start to over $10 million
Contract Address:
CBdCxKo9QavR9hfShgpEBG3zekorAeD7W1jfq2o3pump
24H Trading Volume: $116 million
Current Market Cap: $42.5 million
Highest Market Cap: $54.1 million
$Santino - Luce's little dog
Contract Address:
Fof1DyVSYiQGCnT3uTbmq8kQMPdwL35x1bD82NaTs9mM
24H Trading Volume: $8.3 million
Current Market Cap: $475,800
Highest Market Cap: $1.6 million
The dog concept is the best "riding the hype" main force, and coincidentally in the official setting, Luce does have a little dog, so...
$Sky, $Xin, $Fe - Luce's three friends
Contract Addresses:
$sky GjXpowEmJecAxHaMgYrxrTsWfuPR7DyLxwe8z2v4YvKW
$xin 4AyViLduWHAIR6MhS8upSTx6A9C4dvMUa1F9Krzgpump
$FE 4AyViLduWHAIR6MhS8upSTx6A9C4dvMUa1F9Krzgpump
24H Trading Volume: $400,000 - $600,000
Current Market Cap: $200,000 - $300,000
Highest Market Cap: Around $2 million
Since the concepts of the three friends are similar, and their price performance is roughly the same, they all followed $LUCE to pump a few times, but lacked staying power, so they are introduced together.
$Holy Mary - The Virgin Mary
Contract Address:
33MD3pqkgJzD4uvtYqfxZ5V8j7fPpZeToikiXhtkpump
24H Trading Volume: $1 million
Current Market Cap: $18,000
Highest Market Cap: $366,000
In the setting of Luce, there is also an image of the Virgin Mary, which has also been used by some to launch a pump. It pumped briefly after launch, and is now close to zero.
Summary
As of the completion of this article, the market cap of $LUCE is still around $40 million, but the related concepts have not followed the leader to pump.
From the perspective of a chain player, the pumping speed of $LUCE was too fast and too rapid, the trend more like a deliberate pump by the big players, replicating the "large MC memecoin" pumping method of the recent period. For more market participants, this kind of rapid pumping may not have left the market more space to understand this concept, or people have already gotten used to such sudden hot spots, so they are not interested in imitating the pump.
In any case, although the price of $LUCE is still relatively strong, as a token that looks like a "conspiracy group", it is also possible that the $10 million market cap will go to zero in the blink of an eye. Don't get carried away, and don't FOMO, the next opportunity is always there, Over.
