Posted 4/11/2024, 8:37:24 PM
Celebrity Deaths Fuel Rush of Speculative Meme Coins
- When celebrities die, degens rush to create speculative meme coins to capitalize on the public attention
- Trending topics like celebrity deaths offer traders an opportunity to generate buzz for new tokens
- It's now incredibly easy and cheap to launch new tokens on networks like Solana and Ethereum layer-2
- Services like Solana-based Pump allow even non-technical people to launch meme coins for under $4
- Thanks to this, there has been a flood of mostly worthless meme coins created recently, like the OJ Simpson ones