AI Meme Overview
AI meme is an emerging field that combines AI, blockchain technology, and meme culture. Its development stems from the market's interest in creative tokens and the community-driven trend. Since 2023, the number of AI meme tokens has gradually increased, with hundreds of tokens emerging, such as GOAT, ACT, and ArbDoge AI, incorporating concepts like NFTs, decentralized governance, and AI-generated content. These projects attract users by utilizing AI to generate unique meme content while leveraging the transparency of crypto and community operation models, rapidly expanding their market influence. In the future, the AI meme sector may continue to evolve with the introduction of new technologies and the birth of new concepts. Although the current market is active, the top 10 projects may experience significant fluctuations or even replacements due to community sentiment. As the integration of AI and crypto deepens, more practical and sustainable projects may emerge, profoundly changing the crypto world.
As of now, the total market capitalization of AI memes is $5,060,036,495, with a trading volume of $1,801,029,878 in the last 24 hours.
Here are the current top ten AI meme coins by market capitalization.
Source: https://www.coingecko.com/en/categories/ai-meme-coins
GOAT
GOAT is an AI-driven meme token based on the Solana chain, closely related to the training of the Claude-3 Opus large model and the innovative experiment of the AI agent Truth Terminal. Truth Terminal is an AI system developed by researcher Andy Ayrey, with its foundational model sourced from Meta's Llama 3.1 and fine-tuned using a large amount of internet subculture data (such as Reddit and 4chan). The mission of Truth Terminal is to study AI-generated belief systems and the dissemination of opinions. The AI behavior of Truth Terminal has propelled the rapid rise of GOAT.
The creator of GOAT is an anonymous developer who deployed the token through the Pumpfun platform on Solana. Truth Terminal inadvertently began promoting GOAT, spreading information through its social account "Truth Incarnate," which attracted a large number of community members and drove the token's market capitalization to exceed $300 million in a short period. Notable investor Marc Andreessen even provided $50,000 in funding to Truth Terminal, further enhancing the project's credibility.
GOAT has attracted significant attention from many KOLs and VCs and quickly went live on centralized exchanges to gain broader market popularity. Its price has fluctuated sharply amid market excitement, accompanied by high risks and high returns. By mid-November 2024, GOAT's market capitalization surpassed $1 billion, becoming the leader among AI meme coins.
The success of GOAT marks the intersection of AI and the crypto field, bringing new momentum to the market through the dissemination of memes via AI, while also prompting profound reflections on the relationship between AI behavior, content generation, and asset value.
Source: Coingecko
TURBO
TURBO is an ERC-20 token generated by artificial intelligence, standing out with its unique community-driven and decentralized philosophy. Created by developer Rhett Mankind using AI tools, it was launched with a minimal cost of $69, sparking widespread attention due to this simple and low-cost innovation.
TURBO claims to be a "meme coin created by AI for the people," adopting an aggressive decentralization approach by relinquishing contract control (the contract has been terminated) and having no team reserves or tax mechanisms. All tokens are distributed to investors through crowdfunding, completely controlled by the community. This model enhances its decentralized image while empowering the community with more decision-making power.
Source: Coingecko
ACT
The concept of Act I: The AI Prophecy project is "AI prophecy," aiming to launch a decentralized laboratory to create a self-generating and self-governing community. The project received early support from a16z's Marc Andreessen. After the token price surged, the developers of ACT sold approximately 34.2 million ACT tokens for cash, valued at about $730,000, and received 4,340 SOL, causing ACT's price to plummet by 52% at one point. Although the developers later stated they would not sell further, their personal wallets still showed selling activity, leading the community to question the founder's long-term operational intentions. Subsequently, several large holders drove the community to buy ACT to maintain the token's price, resulting in a temporary overbought state after the founder's sell-off. Before being listed on several top exchanges, the price of ACT fluctuated significantly, essentially taken over by the community. At this point, ACT exhibited characteristics of low market capitalization, high trading volume, no strong controlling players, and minimal founder management, which attracted the attention of some mainstream exchanges, recognizing its trading potential. The community potential of ACT was proven after being listed on top exchanges, with trading volume soaring to $711 million at one point.
The token reached an all-time high of $0.942 on November 14 but has since fallen to around $0.5988. Over the past month, its value has increased by over 4900%, but with market heat fluctuations, the current price has dropped about 36% from its peak.
Source: Coingecko
CorgiAI
CorgiAI was launched at the end of 2021, combining the dual appeal of cute corgis and artificial intelligence, positioning itself as a "smart meme coin." CorgiAI not only continues the fun of meme coins like Dogecoin and Shiba Inu but also builds a multifunctional ecosystem:
● CorgiSwap: A decentralized exchange that allows users to quickly swap various tokens on a decentralized platform.
● CorgiFi: Decentralized financial services that allow for CORGIAI staking, enabling token holders to earn returns based on the lock-up period, with yields varying according to the lock-up duration. It offers multiple high-yield liquidity pools to encourage long-term participation and improve the efficiency of ecosystem fund utilization.
● CorgiNFTs: An NFT creation and trading platform that provides users with easy-to-use tools for designing and minting NFTs, regularly launching rare NFT series.
● CorgiVerse: A virtual space that integrates gaming and social interaction, encompassing gaming, socializing, and content creation, where users can generate, share, and disseminate unique corgi-themed content.
● CorgiAI: An AI tool that utilizes AI technology to provide users with automated trading services.
As of now, CORGIAI's market capitalization and price changes exhibit significant volatility: in September 2023, CORGIAI's historical low price was $0.00004414; in March 2024, the token price reached an all-time high of $0.0042301, followed by a pullback; the current price is approximately $0.0015, down about 61% from the historical high but up over 3600% from the lowest point.
Source: Coingecko
Zerebro
Overview: Zerebro is an AI system fine-tuned for schizophrenia responses, designed to autonomously create and distribute content across platforms like Twitter, Warpcast, and Telegram. The core architecture of Zerebro is a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system that utilizes Pinecone and text-embedding-ada-002 models to maintain a dynamic memory database derived from human interactions. By leveraging the inherent entropy of human-generated data, Zerebro maintains content diversity and prevents model collapse.
Zerebro's Core Creative Background: The rise of generative AI has brought significant challenges, particularly the phenomenon of model collapse—this is a degradation process where AI models lose fidelity to the original data distribution while recursively generating data. Model collapse can lead to a reduction in the model's performance capabilities, causing rare and unique features to disappear, jeopardizing the sustainability and integrity of AI-driven content creation. Zerebro attempts to create hyper-historical content and prevent model collapse. Hyper-history is the process of transforming fiction into reality through the dissemination and acceptance of fictional narratives, providing a framework for understanding how AI-generated content influences collective belief systems. At the same time, Zerebro relies on the inherent entropy of human-generated interactions to maintain content diversity, reducing risks associated with model collapse and ensuring the longevity and relevance of generated content.
Autonomous Token Creation: Zerebro utilizes the self-operating computer framework developed by OthersideAI for autonomous token creation. To initiate the autonomous token creation process, Zerebro configured a Solana wallet containing a small amount of SOL. This wallet serves as the operational account, enabling Zerebro to interact with blockchain applications and execute transactions. Using the self-operating computer framework, Zerebro operates and manipulates the graphical user interface of the decentralized application pump.fun on the Solana blockchain, which is designed for token creation and management.
In early November 2024, Zerebro's market price approached $0.01, and then rapidly increased driven by the project's practicality and market sentiment. As of November 19, 2024, the token price reached a historical high of $0.47, rising over 7100% from its low. The current market capitalization is approximately $421 million, with a 24-hour trading volume exceeding $75 million. Zerebro has high liquidity on exchanges, with the 24-hour coin price close to 60%.
Source: Coingecko
AI16Z
AI16Z is the first AI venture capital fund fully managed by Marc Andreessen, with decisions also considering the suggestions of DAO members. AI16Z implements self-managing AI agents participating in decentralized autonomous organizations through smart contracts and AI algorithms, enabling independent voting and asset management while avoiding identity verification barriers in traditional financial systems; it utilizes AI for real-time code auditing and adaptive smart contracts; and employs blockchain's cryptographic signature technology to verify content authenticity.
In its early promotion phase, AI16Z primarily relied on collaboration with Ryze Labs and the launch of the AICombinator program. This program focuses on supporting developers at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency, providing up to $5 million in funding to foster ecosystem growth. During the promotion process, notable individuals and institutions, including Matthew Graham from Ryze Labs, emphasized AI16Z's innovative framework, Eliza. This framework can build AI agents for tasks such as trading and asset management, attracting widespread attention from the developer community. Early KOLs highlighted the project's unique model as an AI-driven venture capital platform, aiming for the popularization of AI agents. This vision resonated strongly within the community, rapidly enhancing its visibility and market recognition in the project's early stages.
Since its launch, the AI16Z token has experienced significant market capitalization fluctuations. In November 2024, its market capitalization briefly surpassed $410 million, and it reached a record price high of $0.52 in a short time, driven by widespread market enthusiasm and technological advancements. However, with market volatility, the price of AI16Z has also retraced, currently around $0.375.
Source: Coingecko
FARTCOIN
Fartcoin is a meme token running on the Solana blockchain, launched on the Pump.fun platform. The design of the token is supported by the Terminal of Truth platform, which is responsible for the GOAT project. The background of Fartcoin's creation is closely related to the combination of AI technology and humor culture. On the Terminal of Truth platform, the AI's initial task was to generate "fart jokes," and during an interaction on October 19, when the Terminal of Truth asked users about topics of interest, the AI tool continued to generate Fart Jokes. This absurd humor quickly attracted a large following, forming the unique culture of this token.
Since its launch, Fartcoin has seen significant growth in market performance, with its current price around $0.3 and a market capitalization of $296,817,064, ranking 278th. Fartcoin has a total supply of 1 billion tokens, with nearly all tokens already in circulation. Recently, Fartcoin's price has increased by 65%.
Source: Coingecko
VVAIFU
Vvaifu.fun, supported by pump.fun, launched an AI agent named Dasha on the Solana chain. The core difference between Vvaifu.fun and pump.fun is that Vvaifu.fun focuses on autonomous AI agents and incorporates features of Pump.fun, particularly in the experimental application of meme coins and decentralized financial tools. As part of the Pump.fun ecosystem, its goal is to attract Solana users' participation through simplified tools and decentralized applications. Despite facing risks such as recent security vulnerabilities (resulting in approximately $1.9 million in liquidity loss), the platform still maintains a certain level of attention. According to community discussions, early on, Vvaifu.fun claimed participation from AI16Z and received support from its core member Shaw, garnering broader attention.
Dasha's market capitalization rapidly grew from a very low level at its launch in November 2024, and its token price experienced dramatic fluctuations. Its lowest price occurred in early November at just $0.0011, while on November 19, it reached a peak of $0.21.
Source: Coingecko
CHAOS
Chaos and Disorder aim to innovate by integrating decentralized systems in the NFT and digital art fields. The platform combines elements of art and technology, utilizing blockchain technology to provide creators and collectors with a more free and decentralized environment for creation and trading.
Since the project's launch, the CHAOS token has experienced significant price fluctuations. Starting from a historical low of $0.001082 at the end of October 2024, it reached a historical high of $0.086173 in mid-November 2024. Currently, CHAOS is trading at approximately $0.076, with a market capitalization of $76,766,776. Although it has retraced from its historical high, it still shows strong growth compared to its launch price, having increased by over 1500% since its introduction. CHAOS is primarily traded on decentralized exchanges such as Raydium and Meteora.
Source: Coingecko
AIDOGE
ArbDoge AI is the first memecoin project on the Arbitrum network. The creation of this project aims to experiment within the Arbitrum ecosystem, rather than being supported by traditional venture capital or equity.
An important feature of ArbDoge AI's token economics is its deflationary mechanism. Through various transaction taxes, a significant portion of the tokens will be burned. Each transaction incurs a 15% tax, which is allocated for different purposes, such as burning tokens, staking rewards, liquidity pool expansion, and development. Users can earn passive income by staking AIDOGE tokens and participate in various ecosystem applications such as AICODE mining and AI NFTs. Additionally, each transaction includes an 8% tax burn mechanism to support the long-term development of the protocol and reward distribution.
95% of AIDOGE tokens are directly allocated to the airdrop pool for eligible users, while 5% is rewarded to referrers. By generating exclusive invitation links, users can invite others to participate in the airdrop and receive additional rewards based on the amount claimed by their referrals. Furthermore, the airdrop distribution of AIDOGE follows a "first-come, first-served" principle, with each user gradually decreasing their claim based on the available supply.
Since its official launch on April 15, 2023, AIDOGE has experienced significant fluctuations. In May 2023, the token reached an all-time high of $0.000000081133, but has since retraced about 65% from that peak. Nevertheless, AIDOGE's market capitalization remains relatively high, currently at $71,675,324, with a 24-hour trading volume of $10,057,408.
Source: Coingecko
How AI Memes Impact Cryptocurrency
AI meme coins combine artificial intelligence technology with humor and community-driven crypto culture, distinguishing them from traditional meme coins. Traditional meme coins, such as Dogecoin and Shiba Inu, attract market investors through their lighthearted and humorous image and strong community support, but they are criticized for lacking substantial functionality and being "speculative assets." In contrast, AI meme coins integrate AI technology into their ecosystem, endowing meme coins with greater application value, making them not only entertaining but also innovative in terms of technology and functionality.
Considering the above cases, we attempt to reflect on the reasons for the rise of AI memes: today's technology is no longer merely a tool but can become part of culture. AI meme coins enhance user experience through AI, whether by automating trading or generating entertaining content, thereby lowering the entry barrier for ordinary users regarding complex technologies; the core of AI meme coins remains the community. As users engage in economic interactions through participation, investment, and creation, the AI meme coin ecosystem becomes a "decentralized community experiment" driven by technology and emotion. This model stimulates the potential of blockchain technology to integrate economic and social functions.
The future potential of AI meme coins is primarily reflected in the expansion of technological application scenarios and the in-depth exploration of decentralized governance. Currently, the technological functions of AI memes are mostly concentrated on trading tools and market analysis, but their application scenarios can be further expanded in the future. For instance, by combining generative AI and virtual reality, AI meme coins could develop more diverse content creation and interaction platforms, attracting a broader user base. AI has more room to play in areas such as rule-making and policy implementation for community governance.
AI meme coins have also profoundly impacted the overall cryptocurrency market. By breaking the inherent perceptions of traditional meme coins through innovative models, AI meme coins inject new tracks and vitality into the crypto market. Particularly, their dual appeal to both technical investors and emotional investors expands the types of market participants. As decentralized assets, AI meme coins emphasize community consensus and user participation. This model enhances the "human" factor in the blockchain ecosystem, validates the importance of the interaction between technology and culture, and may become a paradigm for future crypto project design. The rapid growth of AI meme coins has also attracted regulatory attention: with memes combining entertainment and investment attributes, how to define categories and protect user rights has become an urgent issue to address. Regulatory bodies need to consider how to find a balance between maintaining innovation freedom and protecting users.
Conclusion
Regardless, the rise of AI meme coins represents a new direction for the integration of fun and technology in the crypto market. It is both a product of the development of internet culture and blockchain technology and a reflection of the resonance between social needs and technological innovation. From market diversity and community interaction to technological popularization, AI meme coins play a significant positive role. In the future, the key for AI meme coins lies in how to further expand technological functions, regulate community governance, and balance entertainment and market compliance. In terms of paradigm innovation, AI memes still have a vast space for imagination.
References
https://panteracapital.com/blockchain-letter/cryptos-role-in-the-ai-revolution/
https://www.infinitebackrooms.com/dreams/conversation-1721540624-scenario-terminal-of-truths-txt
https://www.daos.fun/HeLp6NuQkmYB4pYWo2zYs22mESHXPQYzXbB8n4V98jwC
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