2025 Meme Coin "From Popularity to Demand" Ranking

Original article | Odaily Planet Daily ( @OdailyChina )

Author｜Golem ( @web3_golem )

2025 was the year that memes exploded. The wealth effect created by Trump at the beginning of the year is still impressive. Memes surrounding CZ and He also drove the community crazy all night. However, at the same time, 2025 was also the year that the meme track gradually declined.

According to Dune data, at the beginning of the year, pump.fun launched over 600 meme tokens daily, peaking at over 1,000 per day. However, by December, pump.fun was launching fewer than 150 memes daily. A similar situation occurred on Four.meme, where BSC memes experienced multiple peaks in 2025, but none were sustained. The most recent peak was in October-November, when Four.meme saw over 47,000 memes created daily, but now only about 2,000 are created daily.

Even though the Meme market continues to decline, conservative estimates suggest that over 8 million Meme coins will still be created across the network by 2025, and among these are some impressive examples. In this article, Odaily will identify those impressive Meme coins and rank them using this year's most popular ranking format (tombstone style) – "From Hot to Low".

This sounds like finding a needle in a haystack or panning for gold in the dung, but it's possible with the right statistical methods. Odaily used one premise and several criteria to sift through over 8 million Meme coins:

• One prerequisite: New memes for 2025 with a current market value exceeding 1 million;
• Multiple criteria: historical highest market capitalization, current decline from the highest point, number of rounds of upward surge, market capitalization growth rate, influence and duration, and narrative level.

Through this system, we selected 30 Meme coins and ranked them from most popular to least popular.

Odaily will provide a brief introduction to these memes and the reasons for their ranking below. Please be understanding as these are subjective, and readers are welcome to choose their own "hot" and "popular" memes.

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TRUMP

• Creation time: January 18, 2025
• Peak market capitalization: $90 billion
• Current decline (referring to the decline from the highest point, all figures below) : 94%

If we're talking about which meme coin should be the hottest in 2025, then Trump is undoubtedly the answer. As the personal token of the US president, the narrative behind it has generated unparalleled global influence, successfully expanding the crypto community and sparking a wave of celebrity-issued tokens. Trump's market capitalization surpassed $10 billion in just one day. Its strong liquidity allowed many Chinese-speaking investors to earn over $1 million in one go, creating numerous A7 and A8 holders, and even top players with single-coin wealth exceeding $100 million. This wealth-creating effect is unique this year.

Therefore, TRUMPP is not only "hammering", but also "hammering on".

Binance Life

• Creation time: October 4, 2025
• Peak market capitalization: $520 million
• Current decline: 76%

Binance Life should be the second undisputed Meme coin to be awarded to HONG in 2025, after Trump. The "Binance Life" meme originated from the popular "Apple Life" meme on the Chinese internet, and through community dissemination, it became a popular meme specific to the cryptocurrency world, even being personally promoted by He Yi (accidentally). Most importantly, the "Binance Life" narrative has evolved from Binance to become the number one Chinese Meme coin, arguably opening up a unique niche in the Meme coin market. The community consensus remains strong, making its award to HONG unquestionable.

MUBARAK

• Creation date: March 13, 2025
• Peak market capitalization: $270 million
• Current decline: 93%

The creation of MUBARAK is closely related to Binance's $2 billion investment from Abu Dhabi's MGX in March. During this period, CZ (Cai Z) stirred up a Middle Eastern trend in the meme market. From a narrative perspective, the word MUBARAK itself carries a strong "Middle Eastern flavor." Subsequently, CZ bought MUBARAK tokens, pinned MUBARAK-related tweets, and even changed his X account's profile picture to one featuring Middle Eastern elements. This level of involvement remains unprecedented.

The reason MUBARAK became so popular, besides the favorable timing, location, and CZ's deep involvement, is that it completely changed the way memes were played in 2025, making all meme players realize the potential of BSC.

PING

• Creation time: October 22, 2025
• Peak market capitalization: $85 million
• Current decline: 94%

PING is a base meme coin. Although its peak market capitalization and current pullback may not seem impressive, its future influence and narrative level are still significant in 2025. If the overall meme market hadn't been unfavorable, PING might have performed even better.

PING was the first token to ignite the x402 sector, or rather, the wealth effect it generated propelled the x402 sector to success. Its unique minting method revitalized the stagnant market, resulting in an 8x surge in a single day, and more importantly, its subsequent impact. Although PING's popularity has waned, the x402 protocol and ecosystem have made significant progress and continue to develop. PING's success brought funding, development resources, and attention to the x402 ecosystem.

It has successfully completed its "historical mission," and from this perspective, it is appropriate to give it to Hang.

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B

• Creation time: April 2, 2025
• Peak market capitalization: $740 million
• Current decline: 72%

B's popularity also benefited from favorable timing and circumstances. Its project narrative wasn't particularly novel, and the token remained relatively quiet for a month after its launch. It wasn't until it seized the opportunity presented by Binance's adoption of USD1, joining the USD1 pool and becoming the first coin associated with USD1, that it experienced a surge in price. USD1 is a stablecoin launched by the Trump family, and its status as the leading coin associated with it speaks volumes about its value, thus justifying its top-tier ranking.

Moreover, not only did B provide ample time to get on board, but after its initial surge in May, it broke new highs again in August. In terms of narrative sustainability, it will be among the top performers in 2025.

Hakimi

• Creation date: October 7, 2025
• Peak market capitalization: $96 million
• Current decline: 66%

Hakimi undoubtedly deserves a top-tier ranking; if it weren't for "Binance Life" preceding it, it might even reach the very bottom. Binance Life is the leading Chinese meme coin, while Hakimi is the second-best. Furthermore, the "Hakimi" meme holds an overwhelmingly dominant position in the Chinese internet, practically a household name. Therefore, its current community consensus is second only to Binance Life, and its maximum drawdown is not exaggerated, indicating that it still has strong buying support.

GIGGLE

• Creation date: September 21, 2025
• Peak market capitalization: $260 million
• Current decline: 74%

GIGGLE is an education/charity-themed meme coin, given its top ranking primarily due to its close relationship with Binance. The GIGGLE token shares its name with Giggle Academy, a free English education institution for children invested in by CZ (Cai Wu). More directly, GIGGLE is a meme coin launched by leveraging the Giggle Academy concept. Crucially, it was successful. Not only was it listed on Binance's spot market, but Binance also donated and burned GIGGLE token trading fees—a truly unprecedented move. Furthermore, GIGGLE indirectly contributed to increasing donations to Giggle Academy, thus supporting charitable causes.

From a purely price perspective, GIGGLE has experienced two surges and dramatic fluctuations, making it extremely volatile. It's a shame it wasn't issued by Giggle Academy itself; otherwise, it could have reached a similar level of popularity.

4

• Creation date: October 1, 2025
• Highest market capitalization: $300 million
• Current decline: 92%

4 is a number closely associated with CZ. On March 3, 2023, CZ himself posted a tweet with the content "4" and a picture on the X platform for the first time. Since then, "4" has become a symbol of CZ. When people take photos with CZ, they don't make a peace sign or a thumbs up, but instead uniformly make the number "4".

However, Meme Coin "4" is not yet listed on Binance spot trading, and its explosive popularity and the birth of the original meme are too far apart, giving it a strong sense of conspiracy. Therefore, even though the narrative is unique, it can only be given a top-tier rating.

TST

• Creation time: February 6, 2025
• Highest market capitalization: $210 million
• Current decline: 91%

TST initially appeared as a test coin in BNB Chain's official video tutorial demonstrations. It was subsequently frequently mentioned by CZ, gradually increasing its popularity. Strictly speaking, TST was CZ's first interactive Meme coin of 2025, and also the first BSC Meme coin to create a collective wealth effect in 2025. However, CZ's initial interaction consisted mainly of clarifications, lacking the favorable timing, location, and support of Mubarak's later efforts. Therefore, it can only be ranked as top-tier.

People are superior to others

MELANIA

• Creation time: January 19, 2025
• Peak market capitalization: $18 billion
• Current decline: 99.4%

MELANIA is the personal token of Melania Trump, the current wife of Donald Trump and First Lady of the United States. While narratively unique, MELANIA's impact has been detrimental, blatantly exposing the Trump family's intention to profit from cryptocurrencies and casting doubt on the uniqueness of Trump. MELANIA opened with a high market capitalization, making early purchases virtually impossible for non-insider addresses, and subsequently plummeted, leaving MELANIA token holders collectively exploited, lacking the wealth effect seen during Trump's initial offering.

Therefore, ranking Melania as "superior" is already a lenient treatment of her status as the First Lady of the United States.

JELLYJELLY

• Creation time: January 29, 2025
• Peak market capitalization: $500 million
• Current decline: 85%

JELLYJELLY was a Gold Dog on Solana's Speedrun program earlier this year, which isn't surprising given the favorable meme environment at the beginning of 2025. The main reason for ranking it as "superior" is that in March 2025, Hyperliquid experienced an attack where a whale manipulated the price of JELLYJELLY, putting Hyperliquid's vault at risk of losing $240 million. Hyperliquid responded by "pulling the plug" and delisting the JELLY contract, sparking widespread debate within the community.

This attack unexpectedly triggered a second surge in JELLYJELLY's price, and the incident itself remains a typical case for people to consider the DEX model. As a manipulated token, JELLYJELLY has also acquired another layer of significance.

67

• Creation time: February 6, 2025
• Highest market capitalization: $210 million
• Current decline: 91%

67 was originally just a viral rap song that became popular on overseas social platforms such as TikTok and Instagram (a meaningless slogan in "Doot Doot (67)"). Later, overseas communities infiltrated "67" into various fields and it became a popular meme on the overseas Internet.

From the perspective of token price, 67 has also experienced two rounds of surges and is currently in the second round of surges. However, given that the Chinese meme community has long been a mainstay in the meme field, and 67 has not spread widely in the Chinese-speaking region, it can only be given to "superior people".

USELESS

• Creation date: May 10, 2025
• Peak market capitalization: $440 million
• Current decline: 85%

The core of the USELESS token aligns with the meaning of its name: useless, carrying a certain irony and rebellious spirit of the internet. From a token perspective, USELESS saw two surges this year, in July and October, which is quite remarkable given the sluggish state of the meme market in the second half of the year, thus deserving a "top performer" rating.

SKYAI

• Creation date: April 20, 2025
• Highest market capitalization: $110 million
• Current decline: 72%

SKYAI is an AI project on BSC, but given the current trend of using AI as a meme, SKYAI can also be considered a meme coin. SkyAI was the first pre-sale project on the Four.meme platform, ultimately raising over $50 million. Subsequent refunds and other actions resulted in pre-sale addresses earning over $800 per transaction, creating a wealth effect on BSC and truly earning the title of "superior investor."

Vulgar Penguin

• Creation date: October 25, 2025
• Peak market capitalization: $15 million
• Current decline: 56%

The "Vulgar Penguin" meme has been quite popular on the Chinese internet in recent months, and the Vulgar Penguin meme coin has also experienced two surges, in early November and early December. Although its popularity and community consensus are not as high as Binance Life and Hakimi among Chinese memes, its existence proves the sustainability of the Chinese meme sector, indicating that it's not just a one-off phenomenon. Therefore, the Vulgar Penguin meme can be considered a "high-flying" one.

BNB CARD

• Creation Date: March 18, 2025
• Peak market capitalization: $21 million
• Current decline: 93%

The "BNB CARD" meme originated in the BNB community, where users photoshopped their avatars and usernames onto an image called "BNB CARD." On March 21st, CZ's posting of his photoshopped BNB CARD image on Binance Square completely ignited the market and further fueled the community's enthusiasm for derivative works. From a dissemination perspective and community participation standpoint, awarding it to "the elite" is undoubtedly justified.

VINE

• Creation time: January 23, 2025
• Peak market capitalization: $540 million
• Current decline: 94%

VINE is a meme coin launched by the co-founder of the short-video platform Vine, a concept rooted in the founder's vision. Elon Musk has also long harbored plans to relaunch Vine. In terms of price performance, VINE experienced two surges on its launch day, one before and one after the co-founder assumed the Dev role. Moreover, VINE was the first tech founder-themed meme coin of the year, a move subsequently imitated by many, though ultimately ending in failure. Its groundbreaking significance, however, makes it a truly deserving "superior" coin.

TUT

• Creation time: February 6, 2025
• Highest market capitalization: $150 million
• Current decline: 92%

TUT is the AI Meme coin on BSC. In March, TUT's price surged after it appeared in an official BSC tutorial video and was listed on Binance Alpha. The frequent interactions between CZ and the founder of TUT also provided significant benefits, and it was eventually successfully listed on Binance spot.

TUT's price has been on a long-term upward curve from March to September. It is already rare that it is not a one-off phenomenon in the 2025 Meme environment, so it can be ranked as "superior".

NPC

SIREN

• Creation time: February 8, 2025
• Highest market capitalization: $200 million
• Current decline: 63%

SIREN is an AI Agent Meme coin on BSC, supporting conversational chat and encrypted market analysis. As the first conversational AI Agent on BSC, it was highly anticipated, and many community users supported SIREN during the Binance listing vote in June. However, conversational AI Agents were not a novel concept when SIREN appeared, and it ultimately failed to be listed on Binance spot, thus earning only a "non-player character" (NPC) ranking.

Customer service representative Xiao He

• Creation date: October 7, 2025
• Peak market capitalization: $89 million
• Current decline: 95%

Customer Service Xiao He is a Chinese meme that emerged around the same time as Binance Life. Because He Yi once referred to herself as Customer Service Xiao He, this meme coin was once highly sought after by the community. Unlike Binance Life, it did not break away from the Binance narrative, but remained deeply tied to He Yi. However, precisely because of this, Customer Service Xiao He lost its upward momentum after He Yi stopped interacting with it.

Therefore, it is no different from any other meme that piggybacked on He Yi's work before or after it, and can only be given an "NPC" ranking.

PALU

• Creation time: October 4, 2025
• Highest market capitalization: $130 million
• Current decline: 97%

PALU is a meme coin based on Binance's mascot concept, and Binance's official Twitter account has also posted meme images related to PALU. However, PALU seems to be just a mascot. In a December meeting, He Yi stated that PALU was selected as a mascot by a certain department and that she did not object to internal trial and error, which means that PALU can no longer be associated with He Yi and CZ.

As for the mascot concept, it was hyped up as early as 2024. In addition, PALU has been declining steadily since its peak, without a second wave of price increases, so it can only be an "NPC".

BROCCOLI (714)

• Creation date: February 13, 2025
• Highest market capitalization: US$103 million
• Current decline: 88%

BROCCOLI is the name of CZ's pet dog. In February of this year, CZ's pet dog became the most popular meme on BSC. However, due to the fragmented community consensus at the time, three different memes named BROCCOLI simultaneously had community support. This fragmentation was extremely detrimental to the meme coin. Binance even held a listing vote, further splitting the community as they lobbied for votes. In the end, only one BROCCOLI was listed on Binance's spot market. Because of these dramatic events, BROCCOLI could only remain an "NPC" (non-player character), and the fact that it wasn't completely excluded was already a favor done for CZ.

DOYR

• Creation time: December 6, 2025
• Peak market capitalization: $31 million
• Current decline: 95%

The meme coin DOYR originated from an English post by He Yi, in which she misspelled the crypto slang "DYOR" as "DOYR". DOYR quickly gained traction within the community and was briefly listed on Binance Alpha, but its lifespan was short-lived. Narratively, the misspelling meme isn't new; DOYR's only unique feature is that it was "created by He Yi," and once He Yi stopped interacting, it quickly lost its appeal. Therefore, like "Customer Service Xiao He," it can only be an "NPC" (non-player character).

Cultivation

• Creation time: October 9, 2025
• Peak market capitalization: $45 million
• Current decline: 95%

The Chinese meme coin "Cultivation" originated from He Yi's long post on Binance Square titled "Come! Let's Cultivate Immortality Together!", and eventually made it onto Binance Alpha. However, "Cultivation" suffers from the same problem as the previously mentioned "Customer Service Xiao He" and DOYR: it cannot survive without He Yi's interaction, thus "Cultivation" can only be an NPC.

NEET

• Creation date: April 27, 2025
• Peak market capitalization: $43 million
• Current decline: 85%

NEET is a Solana meme, its core being an anti-work, rebellious, and self-deprecating internet spirit. This core actually overlaps with the previously mentioned "USELESS". There are too many rebellious memes, and people will get tired of them. Although NEET has surged several times, its highest market value has never been as high as USELESS. This is also an important reason why NEET can only be an "NPC" (non-traditional market maker), while USELESS can become a "superior person".

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LIBRA

• Creation date: February 15, 2025
• Peak market capitalization: $4.6 billion
• Current decline: 99.9%

LIBRA is a personal meme coin issued by the Argentine president. If we're talking about the biggest meme coin of 2025, LIBRA is undoubtedly the most deserving choice. Its listing was a complete disaster, and aside from certain groups, no one made money. At the same time, it was a significant turning point. In the history of the meme coin boom and bust in 2025, LIBRA is considered a crucial turning point in the meme coin market's decline, and since then, the liquidity of the meme market has been significantly reduced.

Therefore, LIBRA is not only "finished", but also the most profound, the most profound, the most profound moment of the Big Bang, the most profound moment of my rambling.

PAIN

• Creation time: February 19, 2025
• Peak market capitalization: $340 million
• Current decline: 97%

PAIN is a pre-sale token on Solana. In February of this year, it raised over $37 million worth of SOL in just 48 hours, becoming the most funded meme token at the time. PAIN's meme image comes from an old man with an "awkward yet polite smile," and related memes have been popular on the internet for 14 years.

The pre-sale frenzy, coupled with the popularity of the IP, raised players' expectations for PAIN. However, after PAIN was released, its price plummeted, with pre-sale users barely breaking even. Its performance was truly disastrous.

BOOP

• Creation date: May 1, 2025
• Peak market capitalization: $500 million
• Current decline: 99.8%

BOOP is the platform token of boom.fun, a meme launch platform launched in May of this year. The platform's founder, dingaling, had the backing of Binance at the time, which gave BOOP unprecedented popularity; its value soared to $500 million within an hour of listing. However, it subsequently plummeted, and coupled with the unsatisfactory performance of boom.fun's products, BOOP entered a death spiral.

In November of this year, dingaling publicly announced his departure from the boop.fun team, transforming himself into the founder of the prediction market predict.fun, completely abandoning BOOP. Therefore, giving La a ranking is entirely justified.

YZY

• Creation date: August 21, 2025
• Peak market capitalization: $3.2 billion
• Current decline: 88%

YZY is a personal meme coin issued by the famous rapper and performance artist Kanye West. Although his personal influence is significant worldwide, the timing of his coin launch was not good. The meme market had already cooled down considerably by August of this year, and players had lost interest in celebrity coins. While Kanye's coin launch was a big deal, most people only dared to observe from the sidelines.

As everyone expected, it peaked immediately upon release and then plummeted. However, it didn't hurt many people; even in terms of how it manipulated the market, it was "completely wiped out."

BNBHOLDER

• Creation time: October 9, 2025
• Highest market capitalization: $160 million
• Current decline: 98%

BNBHOLDER was the first and, at the time, the highest-valued Meme coin launched on Binance's exclusive Meme Rush platform. Therefore, the community believed that Binance would definitely "pump up" BNBHOLDER to revitalize its own Meme Rush platform. However, contrary to expectations, Binance did not do so. BNBHOLDER's price was artificially inflated in a very short time, followed by an endless decline. Only a very small number of people were able to profit from the price increase until November 25th, when BNBHOLDER was listed on Binance Alpha, resulting in a slight price increase.

Overall, the huge discrepancy between the token's actual performance and the community's expectations is enough to make BNBHOLDER "completely fail".