PANews reported on May 7 that according to CoinDesk, the meme coin MOG Coin on Ethereum and Base is causing a cultural trend among the tech elite. This token based on Ethereum and Base chain combines "mogging" (online slang, meaning to become stronger and faster) with "accelerationism" to form a unique "mog/acc" cultural movement. Opinion leaders from Y Combinator founder Garry Tan to Musk have put on the iconic Pit Vipers colorful sunglasses, driving the token up 11% this week and more than 130% in the month.
Accelerationist philosophy advocates promoting technological change at all costs, and mog/acc transforms it into a spreadable visual symbol through meme-ization. Solana ecosystem projects such as Raydium and Jupiter have joined this movement, changing their official avatars to cats or mascots wearing Pit Vipers. Some developers even created robots that automatically generate mog/acc-style avatars, which went viral within hours of being online.
This is an interesting contrast to the "defensive accelerationism" (d/acc) proposed by Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin in 2023, which emphasizes that technological development must avoid greedy paths. mog/acc completely strips away the theoretical shell and uses Meme to build the Internet's native identity. Analysis points out that this practice of transforming abstract philosophy into wearable symbols is replicating the dissemination path of Dogecoin's "Shiba Inu Spirit" back then.
