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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?"

The positioning continued through 2026. On July 30, 2026 he posted, "I'm opening the door for 50 traders only... I don't want your money. I don't need you to pay me. I want you to buy your own bags, work for them, and get richer." Two days earlier he had publicly rewarded a copy trader on the [[fomo]] platform with 150 dollars. On August 9, 2026 he was welcomed onto the [[pump.fun mobile app]].

## The $RISE takeover

The account's 2026 arc centers on a community takeover of a coin called $RISE. On August 2, 2026 he posted: "I hate being lumped in with these so-called KOLs. We are not the same. I can actually trade, as I've proven publicly. I don't farm copy traders. I don't bundle launch tokens just to dump on people. I CTO'd a coin at a $3K market cap and helped take it to $7.5M. I haven't made a single dollar from it. I've spent tens of thousands buying dips to support the project... We will $RISE!" The figures and the clean hands framing are self reported. Fellow caller dogen corroborated the [[CTO]] framing from the outside, writing on July 29, 2026: "When he first cto'd $RISE I was afk and missed that initial leg up but have since begun accumulating."

His self reported size grew with the account. On May 5, 2026 he wrote, "I just put $50K into $UTYA over the past few hours... At this point, buying coins under a $10M market cap doesn't even move the needle for me," and his benefactor pose runs, "Sure, I could make $50K on a trade, but I'd rather see 50 people make $1K each who need it more than I do."

## 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.

## Controversies

The account's growth brought attributed accusations from named rivals, none of them adjudicated. The trader slingoorio posted wallet screenshots alleging he "found @HopiumPapi wallet where he is dumping $LOL for $LMAO to make it look like he has motion," and separately wrote that he is "often a horrible trader to follow considering how he is paid in allocation for everything in the world that he ever shares." The account thememeshunterx alleged he pays "a raid team to artificially boost his posts with fake likes." HopiumPapi has continued posting through the accusations.

## 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.

The audience side of the scoreboard is not in dispute: the account had 133,000 followers as of August 19, 2026, a roughly fourfold jump from its earlier caller era. TwitterScore records the account as joined in May 2021 with the bio "Digital trapper," running Telegram channels named HopiumPapi, HopiumSelect, and HopiumArcade, with smart followers including [[Ansem]], Andrew Kang, and [[Murad Mahmudov]].

## References

- https://x.com/HopiumPapi
- https://x.com/HopiumPapi/status/1792597887790043168
- https://x.com/HopiumPapi/status/1889928597479235676
- https://x.com/HopiumPapi/status/1989591655079362763
- https://x.com/HopiumPapi/status/1968211291300061464
- https://x.com/HopiumPapi/status/2027401335050494277
- https://x.com/HopiumPapi/status/2083784924461498677
- https://x.com/realdogen/status/2082373904644100150
- https://x.com/HopiumPapi/status/2051587281073623105
- https://x.com/HopiumPapi/status/2052691339809280159
- https://x.com/slingoorio/status/2052142866026127511
- https://x.com/slingoorio/status/2056785656244826397
- https://x.com/thememeshunterx/status/2048128980176589161
- https://x.com/HopiumPapi/status/2082886142660063743
- https://x.com/HopiumPapi/status/2082049760941211824
- https://x.com/Pumpfun/status/2086538820573425726
- https://twitterscore.io/twitter/HopiumPapi/

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