Pump Fun reached its peak in 2025 with the issuance of Trump’s coin, with daily revenue ranging from 7 to 5 million US dollars. However, as the market experienced a sharp decline and the AI narrative ended, there were no new hot spots in memes. Various negative factors were also directly reflected in Pump Fun’s revenue performance, which reached its bottom in March this year, with daily revenue often less than 1 million US dollars. It was announced that the Solana meme event had been put on hold.
However, in recent years, although the revenue growth of Pump Fun is not as good as the previous meme boom, it has gradually increased, with a growth of about 30%~50% compared to the low point. The revenue growth represents the birth of a new "golden dog", and RFC's market value has exceeded 100 million US dollars in the case of unclear market conditions, driving the solana meme trend to warm up. Let WOO X Research take stock of the recent strong emerging memes and find out what similarities there are, so as to find the core narrative that drives the meme market.
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RFC
RFC stands for Retard Finder Coin, which means idiot finder and is used for self-deprecation. RFC's Twitter content revolves around criticizing the left and supporting Trump's right-wing remarks. The narrative point is that Musk pays attention to and interacts with it many times, and it is considered to be a highly relevant Musk concept meme coin. It was also featured in the financial news section of China Central Television, which continued to increase the spread of the coin.
In terms of chips, RFC big holders were found to be closely related to $TRUMP and were suspected to be market makers. The address was liquidated on March 15. The driving force behind the increase may not be just a narrative, but the conspiracy group's joint manipulation is also a part of it.
- Historical highest market value: 138M
- 24 HR Transaction Volume: 12M
- Concept tags: Elon Musk, retard
DARK
It is an experimental project that creates a secure and efficient operating platform for AI agents through trusted execution environments (TEEs) and model context protocols (MCP). Its core application $DARK Games is an AI competitive game universe that allows AI to compete with each other, and humans can participate through betting or sponsorship, combined with $DARK tokens to stimulate ecological development. The project innovatively integrates AI, security technology and blockchain, and is suitable for users who are interested in cutting-edge technology and gamification experience. You can join the official website waiting list to experience it first.
The narrative point is that MCP is currently popular in Web 2 and is the next development focus of AI. The current leader of the MCP concept in Web 3 is DARK. The spread of the Web 2 hotspot to Web 3 is still quite exciting.
- Historical highest market value: 23.6M
- 24 HR Transaction Volume: 10.5M
- Concept tags: AI, MCP
Memecoin
The tuple meme coin created based on Pepe's second anniversary attempts to establish a pan-meme symbol status through the ultimate straightforward naming of "memecoin", but the community questioned the existence of insider trading and traces of project manipulation. The narrative point lies in the minimalist naming strategy and the strong market manipulation behavior.
- Historical highest market value: 13.3M
- 24 HR Transaction Volume: 11.2M
- Concept Tag: Meme
Titcoin
The humorous memes for adults are constructed around the chest pun, attracting specific communities through sexual suggestion culture. With vulgar homophonic puns as the core communication force, it combines the open culture of Europe and the United States to create controversial communication hot spots. The narrative point lies in the fun of homophony, which is a straight-forward expression that can be understood by anyone in the world. It is a universal sexual suggestion symbol system, coupled with the shouting of well-known KOLs (DNF), it has become a meme coin that attracted the attention of the market a while ago.
- Historical highest market value: 43.9M
- 24 HR Transaction Volume: 5.6M
- Concept tags: Meme, adult humor
What are the similarities between recent popular tokens?
The narrative is closely linked to real-life topics:
- RFC: Riding on the right-wing narrative of Musk and Trump, it has both political and celebrity relevance;
- DARK: Combining MCP and AI topics, it takes over the Web2 craze and spreads it to Web3;
- Memecoin: Sparking collective memories with Pepe’s second anniversary;
- Titcoin: Creating virality with cross-cultural adult innuendo.
Narrative is consensus, and content that can spark discussion is more likely to attract funding and traffic.
From pursuing fairness to accepting strong market makers:
- The funding behind RFC is shared with $TRUMP, and is considered a meme dealer alliance;
- Memecoin was exposed for early layout and internal transactions by the exchange;
- Titcoin's market value is clearly driven up by KOLs' calls for orders.
During the market drought cycle, the increase in the price of meme coins does not rely purely on community consensus, but is first lit by the dealer (or conspiracy group), and then fermented by the community, so that the overall token life cycle can be continued.
Exaggerated and direct naming strategy and ultra-low cognitive threshold:
Ticker means narrative. The more straightforward the name, the faster it can become memorable and topical.
- Memecoin: Use the category as the name directly;
- Titcoin: Using genital puns to attract attention;
- RFC: Using insulting words to reinforce the "anti-PC political correctness" stance.
Naming no longer pursues packaging and technical sense, but moves towards extremely rough, direct and replicable meme logic.
Although Solana memes cannot return to the full bull market of March, new narratives and efficient pump mechanisms continue to create short-term hits. If they can catch up with the new narrative trend, meme coins may still be the best stepping stone for small capitalists to double their money.
