Category: Culture

The customs of the trenches: how crypto Twitter works, what the metas were, and why the culture behaves the way it does.

13 articles in this category.

• AI agent meta The late 2024 wave of meme coins attached to autonomous AI agents, from Truth Terminal and GOAT on Solana to ai16z, Zerebro and the Virtuals ecosystem on Base.
• Crypto Twitter The informal community of cryptocurrency accounts on X, formerly Twitter, which functions as the public square, newswire and rumor mill of the trenches.
• Cupsey (mascot) Cupsey is the plush cup character that became the unofficial mascot of pump.fun, born from a preexisting Etsy comfort toy that trader Orangie named after the platform on November 3, 2024.
• Meme coin A meme coin is a cryptocurrency created primarily for humor or cultural reference rather than for any technical function, deriving its market value from internet attention and community rather than from a product, from Dogecoin in 2013 to the pump.fun era.
• Memecoin supercycle Murad Mahmudov's 2024 thesis that meme coins would outperform the rest of crypto as community cults replaced technology narratives, and the debate it ignited.
• Milady Milady Maker is a 10,000 piece generative anime pfp NFT collection on Ethereum from Remilia Corporation, whose pseudonymous leader Charlotte Fang's 2022 admission of a hateful alter ego, 2023 to 2024 co founder lawsuits, and an unresolved 2024 treasury drain sit alongside its status as one of crypto's most influential subcultures.
• PolitiFi meta The 2024 wave of political parody meme coins on Solana, led by BODEN and TREMP, which turned token prices into an informal election betting market.
• Redacted Remilio Babies Redacted Remilio Babies is a 10,000 piece generative NFT collection on Ethereum from Remilia Corporation, the direct sister collection to Milady, whose fan identity indirectly produced the word and coin retardio.
• Solana A high speed, low fee blockchain founded by Anatoly Yakovenko that became the home chain of meme coin trading and the trenches from 2023 onward.
• Stock pair memecoins Stock pair memecoins are a naming convention on Robinhood Chain where a deployer sets a Robinhood tokenized stock, rather than ETH, as a coin's quote asset and chooses a ticker so the pair itself reads as a joke, running from long.xyz's mechanism in July 2026 through $BONER, the convention's biggest example at roughly $68 million.
• Streamer meta The wave of livestream driven meme coin culture on pump.fun, from the chaotic stunt broadcasts of 2024 to the creator rewards economy of 2025.
• Telegram Telegram is the messaging app that serves as the operations room of the meme coin trenches, hosting trading bots, alpha groups, callers and wallet tracking channels.
• The trenches Collective term on crypto Twitter for the high risk, fast moving world of newly launched on chain meme coins, especially on the Solana blockchain.