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moonpig (MOONPIG) is a meme coin on the [[Solana]] blockchain launched through [[pump.fun]] in early May 2025. Its mascot, a cartoon pig in a spacesuit, fused the oldest joke in crypto ("to the moon") with the equally old insult that traders are pigs, and for a few weeks it was the hottest chart in [[the trenches]].

## Origin

moonpig launched as a fair launch with no presale or team allocation, a structure its community emphasized after the insider scandals of early 2025. Its art style, closer to webcomic than corporate mascot, and a relentless posting culture on X pushed it through the May 2025 attention market, when Solana onchain volumes were recovering and traders were hunting for a new flagship microcap.

## Market history

The token's market capitalization ran from about 40 million to 113 million dollars in under a month, with trackers dating the peak price to May 23, 2025 (reported all time high figures range from about 0.09 to 0.135 dollars across venues). Hours after the top it fell roughly 60 percent, prompting rug pull fears that the community disputed. The coin's most famous artifact is a trader who reportedly turned 7,600 dollars into about 1.4 million dollars over 21 days of holding. By August 2026 the market capitalization had decayed to roughly 300,000 dollars per CoinGecko, making moonpig one of the cycle's cleaner examples of full attention decay.

## Cultural impact

moonpig was the last broadly celebrated "trench classic" before the mid 2025 rotation into launchpad politics and [[Useless Coin]] style concept memes. Its arc, a fair launch, a vertical month, one legendary winner, and a long bleed to zero, is used in retrospectives as the type specimen of a post 2024 meme coin life cycle, compressed and undisguised.

## References

- https://www.fameex.com/en-US/news/moonpig-crypto-millionaire-solana-meme-coin-analysis
- https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/moonpig
- https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/moonpig/
- https://www.coinlore.com/coin/moonpig
- https://99bitcoins.com/news/presales/what-is-moonpig-crypto-and-why-it-skyrockets-solana-onchain-volume-ready-for-meme-coin/

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