HopiumPapi
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| handle | @HopiumPapi |
|---|---|
| role | trader, memecoin caller |
| known for | free Telegram calls channel, $TREMP call boast, hopium persona |
HopiumPapi is a pseudonymous Crypto Twitter trader and caller posting under the name Erik Stevens, known for a free Telegram calls channel, a much repeated $TREMP call boast, and a persona built on the trench concept of hopium.
HopiumPapi is a pseudonymous crypto trader and caller on X who posts under the display name Erik Stevens with a leopard emoji. The handle is a direct reference to the trench term cope and hopium, and the account plays the part: aggressive conviction posting, victory laps, and open contempt for anyone who faded the call. His real identity is not publicly known.
Free calls positioning
HopiumPapi's signature framing sets him against the paid KOL economy. In a May 2024 post he reminded followers that he "created a public Telegram channel solely to help brokies" by sharing low cap picks, pointing to a $TREMP call made at a 400 thousand dollar valuation that later traded at 132.4 million dollars, which he described as a 331x from his initial call, adding that anyone still poor had only themselves to blame. The claim about the call's timing and multiple is his own and has not been independently audited, but the post became his calling card: free access, loud scoreboard, no apologies. He periodically crowdsources attention itself, as in a February 2025 post that simply asked "What should I pump?"
Market commentary
Beyond microcaps the account posts opinionated takes on larger trades. In November 2025 he defended the Zcash breakout, writing that people should be wary of "people who refuse to acknowledge when they were wrong" and that the momentum behind $ZEC was real. He has posted extended takes on pump.fun and its token, arguing in September 2025 that streaming plus memecoin launches might be sustainable because streaming is easier for normal people to understand than memecoins alone, and in early 2026 made a valuation case for the AI agent business $FELIX against what he called chatbot projects with no revenue. He has also said that Coinbase restricted an account of his holding more than 2 million dollars in assets, a claim that, like his call record, rests on his own posts.
Reception
Supporters treat him as proof that a caller can run free and still hit. Skeptics respond that a large audience makes low cap calls self moving, and that scoreboard posts survive while misses scroll away, the standard critique of the entire caller genre. His self descriptions are quoted here as his own.
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