Issuance platforms came in second with 23%, reflecting a surge in the issuance of new meme coins on SOL.
Wallets contributed 18% of total revenue, driven by on-chain transactions and user growth.
Trading applications accounted for 14%, reflecting the high daily activity of meme coin swaps and speculation.
Derivatives, coin trackers, and other applications each accounted for 5%, indicating moderate participation outside of core meme functionality. DEXs account for only 4%, leaving some exposure to risk as many memecoin traders prefer bots and issuance platforms over traditional decentralized exchanges. Market Overview The memecoin market is increasingly becoming a hub for speculation-driven capital flows. By 2025, memecoins are projected to account for 5% to 7% of the global cryptocurrency market capitalization, with a total market capitalization of approximately $63.6 billion. 24-hour trading volume is estimated to be approximately $7.61 billion. The sector's peak market capitalization is still driven by a handful of currencies (such as DOGE, SHIB, and PEPE). Meme Coin Issuance Statistics: At the beginning of 2025, the average monthly issuance of Meme coins exceeded 800,000. Of these, 1.7 million new Meme tokens were issued in January 2025. Some issuance platforms even claim to have issued millions of Meme coins through their platforms. The best-performing Meme coins in 2025 achieved an average return on initial investment of 150%. The surge in Memecoin issuance has led to a market for its development services currently estimated to be worth over $70 million. However, the surge in issuance suggests that low barriers to entry remain a defining characteristic of Memecoins. Many issuances skip rigorous scrutiny or audits, increasing the likelihood of a scam or fraud.
Meme coin price prediction
(Data source: Cryptopolitan)
In 2025
The average market price of Meme coin is expected to be US$0.0226, with a potential high of US$0.0245. The market shows an early stabilization trend.
In 2026, the average price of Meme Coin is expected to climb to $0.0278, a 23% increase from the average price in 2025.
In 2027, the forecast shows that Meme Coin will continue to rise to an average price of $0.0379, with a high close to $0.0409.
In 2028-2029
Meme cointhe average price is expected to remain stable at US$0.0501.
In 2030
With the popularization of applications and the improvement of token utility,the average price may reach US$0.0572, and the peak may reach US$0.0613.
2031
The long-term outlook shows significant growth, with an average price expected to reach $0.0811 and a maximum of $0.0836, an increase of more than 250% from the 2025 level.
In 2024, CoinMarketCap listed a total of 2,229 meme coins. Many newly issued tokens quickly disappeared or were delisted. Therefore, the actual number of active coins fluctuates continuously. Analytical reports indicate that thousands of meme coins were active at any given time in 2025. They are actively quoted on 217 global exchanges, confirming the role of their token economics in regulating activity. New meme coins often quickly become saturated, resulting in minimal liquidity for most tokens. Furthermore, the survival rate of new coins exceeding 6-12 months is low, but exact attrition data is difficult to track publicly. Investors can use professionally screened indices and ranking mechanisms to filter out low-activity meme coins. Top Memecoins by Market Capitalization: As of October 2025, the top memecoins tracked by the MarketVector™ Memecoin Index include DOGE, SHIB, PEPE, BONK, FLOKI, and TRUMP. The top 10 memecoins account for approximately 90% of the total capitalization of the entire memecoin sector. #Dogecoin remains the most valuable memecoin, with a market capitalization exceeding $31.59 billion.
#ShibaInuCoin
ranked second with a market capitalization of $6.29 billion.
PEPE
followed closely with a market capitalization of $3.2 billion.
Floki
The market capitalization fluctuates around $705 million, and the ranking of meme coins often changes within hours due to social media popularity. In July 2025, BONK saw a single-day surge of over 15%, reaching a market capitalization of $1.6 billion, making it the fifth-largest meme coin. Within 24 hours of its launch, #TRUMP's market capitalization peaked at $27 billion before plummeting amidst significant trading volume. Approximately 80% of the total $TRUMP token supply is held by entities controlled by Trump or his affiliates. The $TRUMP issuance generated over $350 million in token sales and related platform fees. Meme Coin Volatility Indicators: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) noted in its February 2025 regulatory alert that meme coins often exhibit significant market price fluctuations and carry a higher risk level than most crypto assets. BONK is the most volatile major meme coin, while the daily price fluctuation correlations for JEETS, PEPE, and BOME are higher than 0.72–0.83. The survival rate of newly issued tokens after 60 days is less than 8%, with most losing over 97% of their peak value during rapid crash cycles. Research has found that memecoin volatility often exceeds 11.7% daily, far exceeding the average for most altcoins or Bitcoin. POPCAT and similar meme tokens have demonstrated daily price swings as high as 53%, making sudden reversals commonplace in the sector. In 2025, meme tokens frequently traded within a "squeeze zone," where socially driven rallies are often followed by breakout moves of 2–4x. Furthermore, whale or bot-driven price cascades can amplify hourly volatility by 6x. The memecoin sector achieved an average year-to-date return of +1,313% in the first half of 2025, making it the only profitable crypto sector during that period. Prior to the third quarter, the memecoin sector had an average profit/loss of +33.08%, driven by a small number of outperformers.
Meme coin trading volume
In the first quarter of 2025, when the Meme coin sector reached a local peak, its trading volume accounted for 25% of the total cryptocurrency trading volume.
Between January and April 2025, the Meme coin sector lost approximately 58% of its value, and trading volume fell by approximately 63% during this period. By mid-2025, Dogecoin and PEPE maintained 24-hour trading volumes exceeding $500 million and $760 million, respectively. In early October 2025, top meme coins consistently maintained 24-hour trading volumes exceeding $9 billion, led by peak popularity. During the summer and fall of 2025, Pump.fun's daily trading volume fluctuated between $96 million and $320 million, depending on the number of meme coins issued. Pump.fun reports approximately $264 million in daily trading volume, with total historical trading volume exceeding $73 billion as of the fourth quarter of 2025. Of all issued memecoins, less than 5% maintain high trading volume within the first 72 hours. Social media virality, celebrity catalysis, and influencer-driven issuance are the core drivers of sudden surges in trading volume, often increasing by 2–5 times within hours. Most Popular Memecoin Themes: Animal-themed memecoins such as DOGE, Shiba Inu, BONK, and WIF will dominate the meme brand space with a total market capitalization exceeding $30 billion by 2025. BONK is on track to reach the milestone of destroying 1 trillion tokens this year. Frog and amphibian-themed meme coins: PEPE, for example, saw daily trading volume surge to over $1.7 billion in July 2025, with social engagement increasing by 27% month-over-month. Political satire meme coins, such as TRUMP, MAGA, and BODEN, saw SOL's meme coin trading volume reach $26 billion during major US political events.
Among them, $TRUMP was launched in 2025 and reached a record high of $14.9 billion in market capitalization, before volatility wiped out $5 billion in market capitalization within minutes of the peak.
Meme coins associated with pop culture: Daily price peaks of 300–600% can occur during surges in hashtag trends on platform X. Hyper-deflationary meme coins with burn modes accounted for approximately 21% of the year's best-performing issuances; tokens lacking real utility and promising "10x returns" accounted for approximately 17% of daily trending meme coin issuances, often experiencing surges within weeks before fading. As of April 2025, less than 10% of the top 100 meme coins by market capitalization still reflected their original themes from the first quarter, highlighting the rapid shift in trends.
Blockchain Distribution of Meme Coins
Meme coin issuance is increasingly migrating to blockchains with average transaction fees below $0.01, driving adoption on SOL, BNB, and Base, which together account for 95% of new Meme token issuance.
Ethereum's market share in Meme coins fell below 5% in the second quarter of 2025.
SOL
Issuance data
Since the platform was created in January 2024, SOL's Pump.fun has issued more than 6 million Meme coins.
In February 2025, with the cooling of the market and the waning of retail investor interest, the daily issuance of Meme coins on the pump.fun platform has fallen from a peak of 70,000 to 25,000. As of mid-2025, Pump.fun supports an average of 65,000 SOLMeme token issuances per day, and has expanded to the Base chain through the Meme coin minting API. DEX trading volume SOL Meme coin DEX trading volume peaked at $206 billion in January 2025, accounting for 79% of SOL's total trading activity that month. Less than 2.1% of SOLMeme coins were able to "upgrade" from their issuance platforms to mainstream DEXs such as Raydium, and most failed to establish sustainable liquidity.
In addition, liquidity fragmentation persists, with successful meme coins typically spread across 3–5 major chains, but many pools of capital on each chain remain shallow.
Multi-chain Meme Coin Statistics
In 2025, 21% of the top 100 meme coins implemented cross-chain minting/burning mechanisms to maintain supply balance between networks; over 13 million unique wallet addresses interacted with multi-chain meme coin bridges.
In the second quarter of 2025, during celebrity token issuance and major NFT airdrops, total cross-chain bridging volume of meme coins increased by 420%. Meme coin projects leveraging chain-agnostic token contracts achieved 2–3x wider distribution, but had wallet retention rates 17% lower than their single-chain counterparts. By Q3 2025, DOGE and SHIB each supported over four major chains, with active multi-chain bridge networks including BNB, Base, Arbitrum, Polygon, and Ethereum. Ethereum and SOL together accounted for 78% of all Meme coin cross-chain settled value, while Base's share grew to 16% by the summer of 2025. Furthermore, as of September 2025, security incidents related to multi-chain bridges had cost Meme coin holders over $190 million. Social Media Activity and Trends: Mentions of #MemeCoin# and related hashtags grew approximately 53% from January 2024 to 2025, exceeding discussions within many altcoin verticals. Viral memes, influencer posts, and coordinated campaigns can trigger price movements of over 20% within hours. Platforms such as Facebook, Reddit, Discord, and TikTok are key drivers of sentiment. However, comment bots and fake accounts inflate engagement metrics, masking genuine interest. Many memecoin communities have active Discord or Telegram groups exceeding 50,000–100,000 members.
Some projects hold "Meme Contests," AMAs, or NFT giveaways to stimulate social virality and engagement.
Investor Demographics and Profiles
A survey indicates that approximately 31% of US crypto investors first encountered crypto through meme coins. Young investors are more active in the meme coin space.
Many meme coin holders hold small positions, often accounting for <1% of their total portfolio.
Some "whales," or large holders, may control 20–50% of the circulating supply of certain tokens.
Many retail investors enter the market mid-term after observing short-term gains, exposing themselves to price reversal risks. Institutional investor interest is emerging, but the primary channels remain limited to structured thematic funds or small allocations in alternative asset classes.
In emerging markets, meme coins often overlap with speculative trading in local forex/crypto corridors.
Risk Factors and Scam Statistics
The meme coin craze requires large-scale testing for the risks of scams, backdoor liquidity extraction, and malicious token logic. Since 2025, the crypto services sector (not limited to meme coins) has lost over $2.17 billion.
Analysts estimate that up to 95% of newly issued tokens may be scams or low-probability projects, and most will quickly collapse.
60% of newly issued tokens have an active lifespan of less than 24 hours.
Security and Vulnerability Data
Less than 15% of MemeCoins issued in 2025 have undergone any form of smart contract audit.
Over 25% of audited SOLMemeCoin smart contracts have been flagged for risks of token distribution centralization.
Over 91% of new MemeCoins on the Base chain were found to have at least one security vulnerability.
Major attack modes affecting Memecoin include: issuance and destruction logic vulnerabilities, owner withdrawal vulnerabilities, and delegatecall (Ethereum's underlying call instruction) misuse issues.
Sandwich attacks and front-running exploits driven by automated bots have led to market manipulation in over 35% of low-liquidity pools.
Sniper Bots in the Memecoin Market
On Memecoin issuance platforms like Pump.fun, up to 80% of early trading volume was driven by sniper bots, especially within the first few blocks. Bots can execute trades in less than a second after a new Memecoin liquidity event, far faster than most human traders. In some launches, bots accounted for over 70% of all unique wallet interactions within the first 10 blocks of trading. Additionally, volume bots provide liquidity for over 100 new tokens daily by randomizing wallet rotation and spacing to mimic organic order flow to avoid detection. The largest bot-driven Memecoin trades can create price spikes of 100–500% in a matter of minutes, followed by rapid reversals as investors attempt to follow suit. A single sniper bot amassed over $6.8 million in profits in a single month simply through Memecoin trading on Pump.fun, with a single transaction return rate of 2,227x. (During peak activity in 2024, sniper bots achieved realized profits of over 15,000 SOL across thousands of transactions.) Complex sniper bots monitor DEX memory pools to analyze new contract deployments, anticipating thousands of issuances per month.
Historical Performance and Growth
During the 2023–2024 bear market cycle:Meme coin prices fell by as much as 85%, quickly wiping out speculative gains; over 60% of meme coins did not survive for six months, with significant volatility.
Early 2024:The top five meme coins together accounted for over 40% of all crypto speculative trading volume.
Between the first and second quarters of 2024:
Memecoin market capitalization increases by over 550%, surpassing most other crypto sectors.
May 2024:
The number of unique Memecoin wallet holders exceeds 18 million.
By the end of 2024:
Over 30% of leading Memecoins have added community governance features to enhance resilience.
In 2024, Memecoin trading volume surges to over $35 billion.
Among them, Dogecoin's market capitalization remained above $10 billion throughout 2024, remaining the most prominent meme coin by valuation. Tokens such as PEPE and FLOKI recorded returns exceeding 100x from their launch to their respective peaks. Conclusion Meme coins have evolved from a fringe sideshow in the crypto market to a key player in the speculative market. However, these returns come with disproportionate risks, scams, hacking attacks, and unrelenting volatility. For those involved in this field, rigorous due diligence, on-chain analysis, and community signals are essential tools, not optional extras.
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