2025 Meme Coin "From Boom to Silence" Ranking Summary

2025 is a year of miracles and disillusionment in the Meme coin market. The wealth legend created by the TRUMP phenomenon at the beginning of the year is still circulating, and creative Meme ideas around core figures in the crypto circle are emerging endlessly; but by the end of the year, the entire track has noticeably cooled down.

According to Dune analysis data, the launch frequency of Meme coins on pump.fun platform has sharply declined, from an average of over 600 per day at the beginning of the year, peaking at over 1000, to below 150 in December. Four.meme also experienced a decline, with the number of Meme coins created on BSC chain dropping from an average of 47,000 per day in October-November to about 2,000 currently.

Despite the ongoing market sluggishness, over 8 million Meme coins were born throughout the year. Among them, there are indeed eye-catching projects worth recording. This article attempts to rank these projects using the current popular sorting dimension “From Boom to Silence”—a needle in a haystack task that requires a methodology.

We select a key premise: Newly issued Meme coins in 2025 with a circulating market cap exceeding $1 million. Based on this, considering multiple dimensions such as historical peak value, relative decline, surge frequency, market cap growth rate, community enthusiasm, duration, and storytelling, we have screened out 30 representative projects.

Boom Camp

TRUMP - Breakout masterpiece

  • Release date: January 18, 2025
  • Historical peak: $90 billion
  • Relative decline: 94%

TRUMP is undoubtedly the most groundbreaking project of the year. As a personal token of the US President, its narrative is unique worldwide. It broke the hundred-billion-dollar mark in a single day, with ample liquidity enabling early Chinese community participants to realize million-dollar gains, and even multiple top winners with tens of millions and single coins worth over a hundred million. Such wealth creation scale remains unmatched.

TRUMP is not only a boom but a pioneering boom.

Binance Life - Leading Chinese Meme

  • Release date: October 4, 2025
  • Historical peak: $52 million
  • Relative decline: 76%

Following TRUMP, Binance Life is the second undisputed boom project. The meme originated from the evolution of the domestic internet “Apple Life,” spreading through the community to become a unique cultural symbol in the crypto world, further ignited by an accidental repost by a core figure. Importantly, this story has transcended the platform itself, upgrading to the status of “First Chinese Meme Coin,” opening a new track dimension. Community consensus remains solid.

MUBARAK - On-chain Arab wave

  • Release date: March 13, 2025
  • Historical peak: $270 million
  • Relative decline: 93%

MUBARAK’s birth is closely linked to the era of Middle Eastern capital entering the scene. The term itself carries strong regional features, with key figures deeply involved—from holdings to pinning to avatar updates—showing unprecedented interaction intensity. MUBARAK truly changed the gameplay logic of the entire track, making all participants realize the potential of new public chains.

PING - Pioneer of x402 track

  • Release date: October 22, 2025
  • Historical peak: $8.5 million
  • Relative decline: 94%

Although PING’s absolute performance is not outstanding, its subsequent influence is profound. As the first token of the x402 ecosystem explosion, PING ignited market enthusiasm with a unique minting mechanism, creating a single-day 8x increase. More importantly, it brought funds, development resources, and attention to the entire x402 protocol and its ecosystem, completing its enlightenment mission.

Top Tier

B - USD1 Concept Leader

  • Release date: April 2, 2025
  • Historical peak: $740 million
  • Relative decline: 72%

Project B’s narrative itself is mediocre, with no signs of growth in the first month after launch until seizing the opportunity of being adopted by the official as a USD1 concept coin. Due to involvement of political figures’ families, its intrinsic value is obvious. B not only provided ample entry opportunities but also hit new highs in May and again in August, demonstrating lasting vitality.

Hakeemi - Second-tier Chinese Meme

  • Release date: October 7, 2025
  • Historical peak: $96 million
  • Relative decline: 66%

If Binance Life had not already occupied the top position, Hakeemi might even reach the next level. The cultural meme “Hakeemi” has overwhelming recognition in Chinese internet, almost universally known. Its status as a second-tier project, minimal retracement, and firm buyer support all prove that its community consensus is second only to Binance Life.

GIGGLE - Charity + Binance Tag

  • Release date: September 21, 2025
  • Historical peak: $260 million
  • Relative decline: 74%

GIGGLE shares its name with an educational institution invested by Binance, essentially a Memeification of that institution. Its success lies in: launching on Binance spot, full donation of trading fees, and actively promoting charitable fundraising. These special privileges are unparalleled. From price perspective, GIGGLE experienced multiple surges, with volatility at top levels.

4 - CZ’s Digital Symbol

  • Release date: October 1, 2025
  • Historical peak: $300 million
  • Relative decline: 92%

The number “4” has evolved into a symbol of a certain influential figure in the crypto circle, becoming a common gesture in the community after 2023. However, this Meme coin has not yet been listed on official spot markets, and its boom time is far from the symbol’s birth, plus it carries conspiracy undertones, thus placed at this level for now.

TST - Unexpected Popularity of Test Coins

  • Release date: February 6, 2025
  • Historical peak: $210 million
  • Relative decline: 91%

TST was initially just an example token in BNB Chain’s official tutorial videos, gradually gaining attention through frequent mentions by key figures. Strictly speaking, it is the first Meme coin interacted with by a core crypto figure in 2025, and the first project to trigger collective wealth effects on a new public chain. However, early interactions were mainly clarifications, not as timely as MUBARAK’s, so it is temporarily placed here.

Mainstays

MELANIA - Harvest under the aura of power

  • Release date: January 19, 2025
  • Historical peak: $18 billion
  • Relative decline: 99.4%

As a personal token of Trump’s spouse, MELANIA’s uniqueness is undeniable. But its performance is extremely poor, blatantly exposing the intent of certain families to quickly cash out through crypto, severely weakening TRUMP’s exclusivity. It opened with a high market cap, making it impossible for ordinary participants to enter, then plummeted. Besides insiders, the entire market was harvested. Giving it this ranking is a courtesy to its identity.

JellyJelly - Solana’s Golden Dog tragedy

  • Release date: January 29, 2025
  • Historical peak: $50 million
  • Relative decline: 85%

JELLYJELLY quickly gained popularity in early 2025 under favorable conditions. A systemic risk event in March—caused by a whale manipulating its price, leading to a crisis on a derivative platform—burthered its second wave of attention. The event remains a typical case discussed in the market about DEX safety, giving JELLYJELLY additional historical significance.

67 - Transplant of overseas internet culture

  • Release date: February 6, 2025
  • Historical peak: $210 million
  • Relative decline: 91%

“67” originated from a popular rap on TikTok and Instagram, evolving into a cultural symbol of international internet, later infiltrating the crypto community. Although the token experienced two surges, it is currently in the second wave. Considering the Chinese Meme scene has become the main track, but 67 lacks widespread penetration in the Chinese-speaking region, it is placed here for now.

USELESS - Irony tokenization

  • Release date: May 10, 2025
  • Historical peak: $440 million
  • Relative decline: 85%

USELESS embodies a spirit of internet irony—embracing meaninglessness. The token achieved two surges in July and October, maintaining vitality amid the market downturn in the second half of the year, which is not easy. This demonstrates a certain ongoing community consensus behind it.

SKYAI - Participant in pre-sale feast

  • Release date: April 20, 2025
  • Historical peak: $110 million
  • Relative decline: 72%

Although SKYAI is branded as AI, in the current Meme trading environment, it belongs to this type of asset. As the first pre-sale project of a Meme launch platform, it raised over $50 million and brought early participants gains of over $800 per token, creating a wave of wealth transfer.

Ugly Penguin - Long-lasting life of Chinese Meme

  • Release date: October 25, 2025
  • Historical peak: $1.5 million
  • Relative decline: 56%

This Meme coin, evolved from a popular Chinese internet meme in recent months, experienced two surges in early November and early December. Although its popularity and consensus are not as high as Binance Life and Hakeemi, its existence proves that the Chinese Meme track is not just a flash in the pan but has potential for continuous iteration.

BNB CARD - Platform community’s creative recognition

  • Release date: March 18, 2025
  • Historical peak: $210,000
  • Relative decline: 93%

BNB CARD was born from a community’s creative idea—users pin their avatars and nicknames on a specific background. On March 21, a key figure’s official interaction completely ignited this project, and community secondary creations exploded. In terms of dissemination and participation, its status is unquestioned.

VINE - Pioneer of tech founder concept

  • Release date: January 23, 2025
  • Historical peak: $540 million
  • Relative decline: 94%

VINE was issued by the co-founder of the now-defunct short video platform Vine, belonging to the founder concept category. The coin surged twice on the day of release, corresponding to pre- and post-Dev identity recognition. As the first tech founder Meme coin at the start of the year, it initiated a wave of imitation, most of which ultimately failed, but its pioneering significance remains.

TUT - Mentioned in BSC official videos

  • Release date: February 6, 2025
  • Historical peak: $150 million
  • Relative decline: 92%

TUT is an AI Meme project on BSC. It experienced an unexpected price surge after appearing in official blockchain tutorial videos and subsequent interactions with key figures. It eventually successfully launched on Binance spot. From March to September, TUT’s price maintained a long-term upward trajectory, making it rare not to be just a fleeting trend in the year’s Meme environment.

Ordinary Participants

SIREN - First mover in AI Agent craze

  • Release date: February 8, 2025
  • Historical peak: $200 million
  • Relative decline: 63%

SIREN is the first dialogue-based AI Agent Meme coin on BSC, supporting chat and market analysis. Although it gained attention as a first mover and received support in official votes, dialogue AI is no longer a new concept, and it ultimately failed to land on official spot markets.

Customer Service Xiao He - Single narrative tied to a figure

  • Release date: October 7, 2025
  • Historical peak: $89 million
  • Relative decline: 95%

A Chinese Meme coin born simultaneously with Binance Life. It was once popular in the community because a key Binance figure claimed to be “Customer Service Xiao He.” However, it did not break free from platform narrative like Binance Life but remained tied to a personal identity, which became a fatal weakness. Once the related figure stopped interacting, the momentum vanished.

PALU - Decline of mascot concept

  • Release date: October 4, 2025
  • Historical peak: $130 million
  • Relative decline: 97%

PALU, a Meme coin based on the mascot concept of a certain trading platform, was once retweeted by the official account. But in December, a person revealed at a meet-up that PALU was merely an internal department’s trial product. The mascot concept had been hyped in 2024, and after PALU’s launch, it continued to decline without a second wave, making its fall inevitable.

Broccoli (714) - Case of diversion and rupture

  • Release date: February 13, 2025
  • Historical peak: $103 million
  • Relative decline: 88%

This is the name of a pet of a well-known crypto figure. In February, it once became the hottest Meme on BSC. But community consensus was highly fragmented, with three projects sharing the same name and followers. Such diversion is deadly for Meme coins. Later, the platform’s voting listing mechanism further intensified community splits, and only one BROCCOLI successfully launched. This series of dramatic events caused it to become an ordinary participant.

DOYR - The fleeting moment of a typo Meme

  • Release date: December 6, 2025
  • Historical peak: $31 million
  • Relative decline: 95%

DOYR originated from a typo in an important figure’s English post—mistakenly writing a common slang with a wrong letter. The community quickly Meme-ified it and launched Alpha rapidly. But “typo Meme” is not innovative; its only support is the creator’s identity. Once that person ceases interaction, the hype evaporates.

Cultivation - Short life derived from long article

  • Release date: October 9, 2025
  • Historical peak: $45 million
  • Relative decline: 95%

The Chinese Meme coin “Cultivation” originated from an inspiring long article posted by a key figure. Although it launched Alpha, its core remains a copy of personal worship. Without interaction from that figure, it cannot persist, sharing the same fate as the projects above.

NEET - Mediocre rebellion

  • Release date: April 27, 2025
  • Historical peak: $43 million
  • Relative decline: 85%

NEET is a rebellious, self-deprecating Meme coin on Solana, highly overlapping with USELESS. Excessive such ironic projects cause aesthetic fatigue. Although NEET also surged multiple times, its peak has always been inferior to similar competitors, ranking below USELESS.

Complete Failures

LIBRA - Truly wiped out

  • Release date: February 15, 2025
  • Historical peak: $4.6 billion
  • Relative decline: 99.9%

A personal token issued by a leader of a South American country. It is undoubtedly the most failed project of 2025. It crashed immediately after launch, with no profits for most participants except a few insiders. LIBRA is not only a project failure but also marks a turning point from prosperity to decline in the entire track. Since then, market liquidity has drastically shrunk.

LIBRA is not only a complete failure but also symbolizes the rise and fall of the Meme track.

PAIN - Cliff after pre-sale prosperity

  • Release date: February 19, 2025
  • Historical peak: $340 million
  • Relative decline: 97%

PAIN is a pre-sale token on Solana, raising $37 million in 48 hours, setting a record at the time. Its Meme image comes from a popular 14-year-old internet meme. The pre-sale’s popularity and traffic IP ignited expectations, but after launch, it was heavily dumped, and pre-sale participants could only break even or suffer losses.

BOOP - Death spiral after platform’s fall from favor

  • Release date: May 1, 2025
  • Historical peak: $500 million
  • Relative decline: 99.8%

BOOP is the platform token of a Meme launch platform, initially endorsed by a major exchange. Within an hour of launch, its market cap soared to $500 million. But it then fell into a continuous decline, worsened by poor platform experience. In November, the founder publicly abandoned the project and shifted to prediction markets, leaving BOOP as a orphaned coin.

YZY - Celebrity aura cannot save failure

  • Release date: August 21, 2025
  • Historical peak: $3.2 billion
  • Relative decline: 88%

A personal token issued by a world-renowned musician and performance artist. Although its global fame is undeniable, the timing of issuance was past. In August, Meme market cooled significantly, and participants lost expectations for celebrity coins, mostly adopting a wait-and-see attitude. The result was predictable—peaking at launch and then declining steadily. No serious rug pull occurred, indicating participants had no high expectations from the start.

BNBHOLDER - Official platform’s failed debut

  • Release date: October 9, 2025
  • Historical peak: $160 million
  • Relative decline: 98%

BNBHOLDER was the first project of a certain exchange’s exclusive Meme launch platform, also the highest market cap coin of the platform. The community once expected official promotion, but the reality was different—rapid rise followed by endless decline, with few participants. It only listed on Binance Alpha in November, with a slight rebound but no hope for recovery.

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