Why I Reviewed Every Top 100 Meme Coin When I Don't Even Like Them
You're about to experience me review every single top 100 meme coin, right now. And this review will be insanely valuable precisely because I don't hold any of these. I actually don't like meme coins. I think they're the opposite of what we should be doing in crypto. That said, I've tried to put aside my own bias and do some research to figure out, for the people who do love meme coins, which ones are better than the others. My basic theory is that of the 100 top meme coins, probably most of them are going to be junk, waste your money, and not go anywhere. But which ones are going to go somewhere? That was the purpose of this research.
You could talk with me every week. It's the best value anyone will offer in crypto, and I'll even show you exactly how I do this research and how you can do so much better research in crypto than you're doing. So let's go. I literally am going to go through every single top 100 meme coin from CoinGecko in order of market capitalization. That way you can be sure we'll get to the ones you've heard of first, and then we'll dive down and see if there are any outliers. Supoman Crypto has been all over Pudgy Penguins in his recent coverage, and based on this research, I agree with him.
Now, most meme coins are utter failures — utterly useless and extremely dangerous. And I will throw in a random outlier here also, one with a market cap in the $30-some-thousand range that some of you may never have heard of before. Actually, it's up to $49,000 now — I hadn't looked in a little while. Out of all the meme coins, I think it could be one of the biggest outliers possible. Again, I hold zero of these myself and personally do not believe in meme coin investing, which I think makes this the best information you'll get.
The Big Names: Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, Pepe, and the Giants
So number one, let's look at Dogecoin. Yes, it is the only meme here with global, multi-cycle recognition. You've got Elon Musk having pumped it a few times, and that's pretty good. But the problem is the market cap is $11 billion and the issuance is uncapped. I did a deep dive previously saying Dogecoin is finished, and this is the executive summary: something like a million dollars a day of new Dogecoin being created, and there's essentially no cash flow — nothing that would actually make money. So to me it seems like the best times are behind it. And I'm really against large cap meme coins, because if I'm going to hold a meme coin, I want a 100X or a 1,000X. I sure as hell don't want a 2X or a 5X.
Shiba Inu is another example of something where at best I'd want a 2 or 3X, even if things go well. The value of Shiba spreading out into BONE and LEASH, Shibarium, the burns, all the side projects — to me, that's an indication the coin itself is not doing that well, or they would double down and focus on it.
MemeCore — I covered this in depth in a review as well. MemeCore is a meme-focused layer one, which is a pretty cool, unique value proposition. But the circulating market cap is a disaster. You're going to get dumped all over, and you already have much bigger and better infrastructures all over the place for meme coins.
Pepe. Now, Pepe has authentic internet culture, strong liquidity behind it, and no remaining dilution — three things most coins lack, right? But the problem is paying more than a billion dollars for a character that the token doesn't own or control. That's a huge liability. I'm going over each of these individually, and then I'll present the conclusions from this — you may see some of them emerging as I go.
Binance Life. This one is so bad, obviously. Do I even need to say anything? Borrowing off of Binance's brand and it's already at $700 million. It's crap.
Pump.fun. This is the largest meme coin launching platform as far as I know. But holding a PUMP token does not give you equity in the business, and it just doesn't have the pump potential that I see a lot of these other meme coins having.
Number 007: Pudgy Penguins. It has the strongest actual consumer brand on this list. But the token has no equity, and the team and company allocation still overhang. Supoman Crypto has been fantastic about finding these — he just presented this one in his last video as well. So this looks like one of the stronger picks here.
Official Trump. This one — I told you so. It came out massively overvalued, everybody got dumped on, and there's still a ton more dumpage in there. At this point, no matter what happens with Trump, I believe we've already seen the all-time highs for this. I told everybody they were going to lose money on this, and I was correct.
Bonk. It had a broad Solana airdrop, full circulation, and deep listings. It's one of the stronger memes, but it's another multi-billion-dollar run, and meme coins have infinite competition coming along.
SPX6900. I'm not big on this one because it's too narrow, too niche — not big enough to easily understand. And it's at $300 million, so I'm not too bullish on that.
Grok has shown a quarter-billion-dollar valuation with, again, about $7,000 in volume. So that's not going so well.
Floki survived longer than most of the Elon-inspired tokens, but only about half of the fully diluted value circulates. And building products does not guarantee people have to buy the token — I butchered saying that, but you know what I'm saying. I keep these notes in here so I don't totally go off on a tangent and just talk about how great Internet Computer Protocol is constantly, like I used to. And this is obviously not financial advice — I'm not a financial advisor, and I'm an ICP maxi because I invest based on technology. So I am giving a unique theme to this.
The Mid Caps: Derivatives, Phantom Liquidity, and Fading Jokes
Coco combines a dog meme with an AI agent story, with $200 million in market value but $50,000 in daily volume. The narrative is sophisticated; the price discovery is not.
Apepe — the Ape and Pepe mashup. I don't know, it's at $200 million, which is an extraordinary price for a derivative joke with no original identity.
Peanut is one of the purest phantom market caps in the entire list: roughly $185 million displayed against only $2 in daily volume. Boy, would I exit that one quickly.
Dogwifhat — I've ripped on this several times. It is fully circulating, recognizable, and liquid. But at this point, how many dog memes can we handle? I think we're good.
Wait — this one is exposed to a basic data problem. CoinGecko's category table implied roughly 146 million circulating, so you should start with supply clarity. If you can't get your numbers right on CoinGecko, come on now.
Fartcoin. It does have a memorable name, an unusual AI origin story, and enough liquidity to be real. But it's shock humor — how long are people going to keep buying Fartcoin? Does this really last the test of time?
Cash Cat. And again, I'm looking for memes that have serious potential upside, which means most of the top memes are going to be garbage because there's just not enough up left. The higher it gets, the harder it is to pump, because you have to have more people throwing money into something that's basically useless. Cash Cat briefly had a nine-figure screen value, but a generic cat plus money is not a defensible cultural asset.
The Black Bull — the Ansem coin. I think Supoman is covering this one as well. It has both influencer personality risk and dilution, and to me that's a bad combination at this level of value. If anything happens with the influencer, you could go to zero, and with all that dilution — just like with the Trump coin — you can go toward zero as well.
Ribbita by Virtuals, TIBBIR. The name on this is just ugly. Branding is everything on a meme coin, and "Ribbita by Virtuals" — oh, it sounds disgusting.
BUILDon, B. BUILDon has real distribution through BNB Chain and the World Liberty Financial narrative. But an anonymous meme mascot attached to another organization is just ridiculous.
Banana Tape Wall, BTW. Banana Tape Wall is a warning about trusting rankings blindly. There's not much volume on this one — the data isn't even easy to get for it. Not looking so good.
Baby Claw appeared as a $90 million top meme, yet its individual page said trading had stopped on every exchange. Not a good sign.
Cheems — a globally recognized meme, though not one that I recognized before. No reported team reserve, which is good, so it's stronger than most copies. The problem is the fragmented tokens and thin turnover relative to a $90 million valuation. Now we're starting to get down to some smaller coins, though, and to me, you've got to find these coins before they have the serious upsides.
Smaller Caps: Branding Wins and Branding Disasters
Smilek to the Bank. Just disgusting branding — ew. Do we even need to talk about the market value and the weak trading volumes? The branding sucks.
Useless Coin. All right, this is pretty funny, actually. But just because the community laughs at it doesn't mean it's automatically going to go up. This one at least has good branding, though.
Wood showed roughly $80 million — and that's Wood, not like wood in my pants, but wood as in: would you love every Jerry Banfield video and join the Jerry Banfield Family? That kind of wood. It is a common word, easy to meme, but it's also impossible to own culturally, which is a big problem.
Melania Meme. Melania — Trump's woman — is down roughly 99%. That was predictable, I've got to say. Maybe it can make a comeback, but a price chart down 99% scares people off — even the best tech in crypto does. Melania Meme doesn't look good. And I'm interested to know how many of these you're holding — tell me how many of these you currently hold. Ideally, you want to get rid of as many of these meme coins as you can — not financial advice, but these are not things to just diversify into, because in my view almost all of them are garbage and going to go down.
Lousy — an AI-powered finance and automated yield ecosystem whose meme classification is questionable. I don't see much evidence of independent demand, and mixing a meme with trying to be something serious is also not a good idea.
Comedian, BAN. BAN turned Maurizio Cattelan's taped banana into a tradable joke. It's a clever event trade, but the event already happened, so you kind of missed that one.
Banana For Scale, BANANAS31. Wow. It uses one of the internet's oldest visual jokes, which I still don't get.
From Ordi to My Own Surprise Outlier
And nobody owns the "banana for scale" phrase — it can easily be copied. So yeah, not seeing it here.
Ordi gets historical credit as the first BRC-20 token, and that is something special. It's a protocol artifact, and Bitcoin inscriptions can persist, while Ordi itself captures no meaningful economic rights. Still, it's a little better than most with that history.
MemeHorse, MHORSE — a generic animal token competing against thousands of equally unquestionable mascots. Well, isn't that nice? You don't have anything distinctive, and it's at a $60 million valuation. Not that great.
Now, for those of you in the middle of this review, I'm going to slip this in. Here's my pick — and keep in mind, I don't hold any of this. What I'm about to show you is the Jerry Banfield meme coin: JBBJ. Did anybody see this coming? It's Jerry Banfield — JB, BJ. This, to me, is the kind of meme coin that could really have the potential to pop. I launched this meme coin, I regretted it, and I got out of it, because meme coins are dirty to me and they're distracting. But at this point, how much further down can it go? The market cap is $49,000, it's only on ICP, and it has 3,915 holders and 118,000 transactions. It has as much activity as some of these other meme coins with much higher valuations. There's a significant amount of trades — well, not that significant, but there are some trades today — and the holder chart has been remarkably stable, with big addresses holding the same. This was fair launched. I only bought 2% of the coin when it launched. If I had to do it again, honestly, I wouldn't be fair — I'd either not launch it at all, or I'd be maximum greedy, buy all of it for myself, get a huge market cap, and take my money out of it.
A little coin like this, something like this, could really pop — not financial advice, but it could easily be a 10X buy. I'm not going to buy it, though, as small as it is. It's the only official meme coin I will ever launch, and yet one I have none of, so I don't care whether it goes up or not. If y'all want to make a coin with my name on it that I launched go up, and I get nothing out of it, that's fine — you can do that if you want. I'm just throwing it in because those are the kinds of things I look for. You can only buy it on ICP — you can get it on ICPSwap — and if you want some help doing that, join the Family and I'll show you how.
The First S-Tier Outliers: Turbo and NPC
Now back to the list — and we're going to have to scroll through these faster, because I don't want this to go on forever.
DOG, the Bitcoin dog. It has a somewhat legitimate Bitcoin-native Rune identity, but the environment for it is not in favor of that going well.
Turbo, at number 36. I've just given you a couple of outliers like that JBBJ coin — that's an outlier, and it's tiny. If I hadn't just gone all in on ICP, I would chase tiny coins where you could potentially get a hundred or a thousand X in a relatively short time. Turbo — of the first 36 of these, I'd say this is an outlier. Again, I'm not buying this and I wouldn't encourage anybody to buy it, but among the top 100, it has a distinctive AI creation story, a renounced contract, no taxes, full circulation, nearly 58,000 holders on chain, and real volume. At a $57 million valuation it can absolutely still go to zero, and I negatively reviewed this in the past when it was up much higher. Still, out of the first 36 coins, if I were a degen, this might be one I would think about.
Number 37, Based Hype. It displayed roughly $57 million of market value on about $90 of daily volume. My JBBJ has about that much volume at a $50,000 market cap. The Base narrative is not going to rescue this.
Baby Doge Coin — a derivative of a derivative. Yuck.
Apes showed more than $50 million of market cap and $3 in daily volume. Ew, ew.
Memetoon attaches the token to comics and webtoons. At least it's a little bit of a product story, but that makes it category-stretched — kind of useless for a $50 million meme coin. Think about it: if JBBJ thousand-X'd, that is where the market cap of Memetoon is right now. You see why I don't like it.
Troll benefits from one of the internet's most recognizable faces, but then there's its ownership: the troll face culture exists independently of the token. So a lot of hope there that could go wrong.
Number 42 — here's my second relative outlier, so these are the S-tier coins. Turbo was the first S-tier meme coin, and Non-Playable Coin, NPC, is my second outlier. Fully circulating from launch, a renounced contract, permanently locked liquidity according to the project, and a one-to-one token-to-NFT conversion with more than 155,000 custom mints. At its current market cap, it looks like it's in a better position than a lot of the other memes to have some serious activity and community behind it. That said, to be clear again, it's not something I would buy, not something I hold, and not something I get anything from if it goes up.
Brett Through Toshi: Base, Farcaster, and HyperLiquid Memes
Brett is the leading Base-native Boy's Club meme with real turnover. But again, it's something borrowed from an existing comic universe, and Base has to stay culturally hot. I don't think the future is that great for Base, personally.
Rekt uses the universal crypto slang, which makes it understandable, but it's not scarce — anybody can say that. Decent branding, though, compared to some of these other ones.
Degen has actual Farcaster distribution and more utility, but that creates platform concentration — and memes aren't supposed to have any real utility, which creates legal issues as well. And if something happens with Farcaster, this could go down too. So it's more complicated and a little more interesting. I would say that's not an F or D tier.
Purr at least has the advantage of being native to HyperLiquid's ecosystem, but that's also its whole dependency. And HyperLiquid is already really popular, so there's probably a lot of room for that popularity to come down.
AgentFun AI combines AI agents and a launchpad narrative, but you've only got hundreds of dollars in volume. Big problem.
Osak is an extreme dilution and liquidity trap — roughly $300 million fully diluted. This is an F-tier coin.
Toshi is my third relative outlier, after I hated on it before. Compared to the other meme coins, it is still a bit of an outlier: it's already fully diluted with $7 million in daily volume. Of course, daily volume can always be faked or artificially manipulated, so you can't judge too much on that. But it has more than a billion Base addresses behind it, which is solid. Again, the coin's association with Base is cultural, not ownership or endorsement — but still, compared to some of the meme coins around it, this is a lot better than the others.
Speeding Through the Rest: Popcat to Book of Meme
All right, we're going to speed through these even faster. Popcat: legible, with strong supply and turnover and a relatively modest valuation, but the original image needs no token.
Peanut the Squirrel transformed a real viral tragedy — I did laugh at that one a little bit — into a politically charged meme with major exchange access. But the event's gone. The best days, to me, are behind it, unless some other squirrel in the same situation comes along, which could be possible.
Cash Dog in Hood: unique branding, at least, and the reported daily volume is insane right now. What's going on there? Why? There could be something interesting there.
Mog Coin has full circulation, substantial turnover, and a recognizable internet verb around dominance and self-improvement. It's one of the better things I've looked through in here, and at this valuation there could be some potential.
YZY: a celebrity option with only 13% of the value circulating. Bad. Just nope.
AIXOVA: I can't stand the branding. Yucky branding.
Clawd Crab, or Crab AI, with barely any volume. It's trying to rip off the Claude branding — Clawd Crab. Yeah, it just doesn't work for me.
Gohome may have the worst dilution profile ever. Extreme F. Very serious problems with that one.
Moo Deng has a real-world celebrity hippo. Why would you buy something off a celebrity hippo?
Gecko: about 30% of the fully diluted value circulating, tiny volume. Serious problem.
Notcoin is proof Telegram can distribute a token, but tap-to-earn users are often reward claimers rather than believers. Still, a little better than some of the ones near it.
BurnFi leans on the language of burns and scarcity, yet you've got $30 million of value and $27,000 in volume. Though BurnFi is, I don't know, maybe a little better branding than some.
Official FO: you've got $35 million circulating, but too much dilution sitting there. Big problem.
Zerebro — an AI agent mindshare play with real trading activity. But in my view AI agent coins are just junk; unless you're doing them fully on chain, it's pretty junky.
Memecoin, MEME: refreshingly explicit about having no promised utility or roadmap. It's at least honest with the branding, but is this something people are really going to go nuts for?
Fins: unclear fully diluted information, only modest trading activity, and a fish mascot. I don't see that popping.
TDCP. Yeah — what is that? Am I swearing in this one? Not too much today, maybe. But really, what is that?
Cat in a Dog's World, MEW. The name's too long. I get the anti-dog positioning, but are we buying coins because they're positioned against dogs? It does have full circulation and meaningful Solana liquidity, but it's one cat among thousands.
Dogelon Mars: a 2021 Elon artifact built from Doge, Elon, and Mars — three borrowed narratives. It's amazing it's still around, but I don't see that it's growing.
America Party, at 69 on the list — nice. It displayed roughly $31 million with hardly any daily volume.
Wikicat, WKC: education and community around a cat mascot. Boy, we're sure not differentiating these memes very well.
Puff the Dragon, PUFF: nearly $29 million and only a few thousand dollars of trading.
Book of Meme, BOME: decent originality on this one. It does have full circulation and usually high turnover, but the meme-storage-and-art narrative creates no cash flow or exclusive culture. So I don't know how well that's going to do.
And then ConstitutionDAO, People.
The Final Stretch: ConstitutionDAO to Little John
ConstitutionDAO, People, is one of the few historically important meme coins — it represents a failed attempt to buy the Constitution. At least this one is a little bit funny. But the DAO dissolved, the holders got no Constitution, and the nostalgia has faded. This one kind of came and went — and that's most things. Most meme coins are here and gone, yet they're still lurking up there in the rankings.
Kekius Maximus was supercharged by the Elon profile name moment. Well, the moment seems to have ended on that one.
Siren's public footprint does not establish a globally recognizable meme or a durable community strong enough for a $26 million valuation.
Giggle Fund — I do like that the branding is a little more original on this one, and the Binance-adjacent attention and big turnover are good. But then again, you don't get any claim on the charitable impact, so it's still totally personality-driven.
Neiro extends the Doge family, and look at this — it's too complicated. Even the little explanation of it is too complicated.
NYC has only 30% of the fully diluted value circulating, which is huge, and with that branding — how many NYC coins are there? You can make one on every chain.
United States Water Reserve, USWR: clever political satire, but policy jokes expire quickly.
Snek gets an honorable mention: a fair-launch Cardano meme with no founder allocation, near-full circulation, tens of thousands of holders, and real turnover. Then again, it's dependent on Cardano's ecosystem, and I already did a video saying Cardano is finished.
Lovebit, LB: the Bitcoin-love branding is understandable but generic, and the volume traded versus the market cap is significantly tiny. And if you love Bitcoin, you're probably a Bitcoin maxi — not someone buying a Bitcoin meme coin.
Myonion.fun only had about 70% of the fully diluted value circulating and barely any volume.
Utya — how do you even say it? This is a TON meme coin, but if you're not in that ecosystem, it's pretty pointless.
Asteroid Shiba: another derivative. No. Why would this survive?
GigaChad: a world-famous meme with full circulation and a self-improvement angle. The price chart, though, being down 98% — that's a pretty big problem at this point. Even meme coins have a hard time with a price chart like that, especially meme coins. Even ICP has a hard time with a chart like that.
Wojak owns one of the internet's deepest emotional meme libraries, which gives it some cultural durability. Then again, anyone can just make a Wojak token, and this contract doesn't own any of it. Still, the branding is better than average.
100 has about $21 million in market value and $12,000 in daily trading, so liquidity is also absent. Big problem.
Ka coin — K-Q-K-A? I'm not even sure how you say it. Similar valuation to the last one, hardly any volume, and the branding is absolute crap.
NEET — Not in Employment, Education, or Training. At least this does have very clear standalone branding, but a negativity so rooted in 4chan culture has a limited mainstream ceiling, even though it does at least sound better.
Dogs got a big Telegram distribution, but airdrop reach is not community conviction.
Tung Tung Tung Sahur — what? This belongs to the Italian brainrot wave: viral, absurd, and almost designed to expire. I'm not feeling that one.
Terminal Fun combines AI terminal language with a generic promise of entertainment. It might pop during an agent cycle, but it's hard to really vibe with otherwise.
Dung Beetle: at least this is a distinctive animal, but global recognizability and liquidity remain weak.
Moonbirds, BIRB: it inherits the Moonbirds brand, but only 29% is fully diluted. Yuck.
AIXBT is arguably an AI agent product rather than a meme, and it earned real attention by summarizing markets. But its behavior can be copied and the platform can change, so it's definitely not that special these days.
My Pac-Man Coin, MPC, appears to trade on Pac-Man-like recognition, but you don't actually own that, and the brand familiarity creates legal and cultural dependency.
Manifest — manifesting is a broad self-help concept anyone can repeat, which makes it relatable but hard to monopolize. Now, the turnover looks pretty good on this one; it lacks a niche cultural artifact, but I did react better to this one than a lot of the others. This is a decent-tier meme coin compared to a lot of the ones around it.
Hajimi had respectable turnover for its size and a genuine regional viral meme behind it, but it doesn't look like a worldwide asset.
Strategic Oil Supply, SOS: good branding and a clear political narrative on this one. I like this one a little better than average — it could pop on something. Better than some of the others around it.
Little John reported a daily volume almost ten times its entire market cap. It's recognizable, but venue quality and repeat trading matter more than the headline number. Still, there's significantly more activity on this than a lot of the higher-ranked ones.
My Conclusions: The Durable, the Outliers, and the Honorable Mentions
To conclude, the main lesson is that a meme coin doesn't need conventional utility, which means branding is super important — but culture and community can come and go really quickly with these as well.
So to summarize: Dogecoin — even though I said it's finished, it may last longer than a lot of these other ones. I just don't see that you're going to get profits, and I don't see why you'd invest without profits in something that's old technology. Compared to some of these others, though — how long are they going to last? — Dogecoin will probably outlive them. Pepe, Bonk, Pudgy Penguins, dogwifhat, and some of the others look more durable than average. But here's the problem: their size is their weakness.
My outliers are Turbo, NPC, and Toshi. Turbo has the distinctive origin, full circulation, and a renounced contract. NPC — I love NPC; the branding is really good and it's got that liquidity locked down. Toshi has Base distribution, full dilution, and real liquidity, which is great. Snek and Giga earned honorable mentions, although the volume concerned me on both. And to be clear, Pudgy Penguins gets an honorable mention here as well.
To be clear, though: this is not financial advice. These are my opinions from my own research. I don't hold any of these, I'm not interested in buying any of them, and I have no intention of buying any of them. Is any of them ever going to get you a thousand X? Even with the smaller ones, you'd need something like a $20 billion market cap to get a thousand X from here. That's why, as I said, something with a $50,000 market cap going to $50 million would be a thousand X — and it would still be down there with a bunch of crappy coins. If you want more breakdowns like this one, you'll find plenty more in my Money playlist.
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