The Hottest Meme Concepts Review: AI, Artists, Zoos, and My World

Author: Nan Zhi, Odaily Planet Daily

Last week, with Binance continuously launching GOAT and MOODENG contract trading, the AI Meme concept has ushered in a new wave of excitement, and the zoo concept has also seen a revival. At the same time, the token Ban issued by Sotheby's Vice President Michael Bouhanna has started to energize the "art" related concepts. Odaily will summarize recent hot tokens and the concepts behind them in this article.

Risk Warning: The tokens involved in the table are selected by the author based on personal subjective judgment of token popularity, not for the purpose of token recommendation, but for readers to understand the current data and concepts of the tokens. If there are any omissions in concepts or definitions, please feel free to communicate and correct. The market capitalization of the tokens in the image is as of October 28, 07:00 (UTC+8).

Token and Concept Overview

ai16z, degenai

ai16z was originally a "riding on a16z" concept token issued by @pmairca on the fundraising platform daos.fun, raising a total of 420 SOL, with a market capitalization fluctuating around 4 million dollars before October 27. Yesterday morning at 8 AM, a16z partner Marc continuously posted two pieces of content related to ai16z, causing the token to rise rapidly, reaching a peak market capitalization of 80 million dollars.

degenai is an AI token purchased by the @pmairca address, which rose alongside ai16z.

According to X platform user @tocuee, the team behind @pmairca is actually the "AI Conspiracy Group" (Note: for an introduction to the conspiracy group, see this article), which has launched a large number of AI concept Meme tokens, with several popular tokens issued by them.

(Note: daos.fun has gained popularity due to the rise of ai16z; for details on the platform's mechanism, see the official documentation.)

ACT

On the surface, the concept is related to the AI project ACT I, with the project developer being @amplifiedamp. The AI project itself received investment from a16z, and it is claimed that the token will be used for the development of the AI project.

The token initially rose due to the a16z investment concept; however, on the day of the token's issuance, developer @amplifiedamp announced the issuance of another token, causing ACT's market capitalization to plummet from 40 million dollars to below 10 million dollars, before rising to a market cap of 70 million dollars with the joint efforts of domestic and foreign communities. (Note: the main force in the Chinese community is @0x cryptowizard.)

However, due to @amplifiedamp's address continuously selling tokens and the inability to unify community opinions, the token fell to around 20 million dollars in market capitalization.

Additionally, through the author's analysis of on-chain data, ACT was clearly a "conspiracy" token at the time of issuance, with multiple addresses that had never traded any tokens. After buying ACT in the internal market, they sold for tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit, and then made no further moves, such as the following addresses:

4QkkjUSvf3ZS1FWwb2cf2gwFfCpETCwtvbMStFhUXzPL

AACPFyaZRrUapKhz3C7oJ4Dz98zKkbBMpzauVYVhwkRG

DyY9MErexKC4ywHLWFbxqMG3GRtRkKBf4phbpaN2GyUG

Project 89

The token issued by AI developer @whyarethis differs from other AI Meme concept tokens in that @whyarethis has been deeply involved in the token's development, engaging in extensive external interactions and hosting multiple Spaces, resulting in relatively small price fluctuations.

Art Track and Secondary KOL Transformation: BAN, EYE

At the beginning of its issuance, BAN was similar to conventional Pump tokens, experiencing a significant drop after its external launch. Later, users discovered that the BAN dev address belonged to Sotheby's Vice President Michael Bouhanna, causing the token to surge to a market capitalization of 7 million dollars.

For unknown reasons, Michael Bouhanna deleted tweets related to his personal address (right half of the image below), causing the token to drop by 85% temporarily.

After BAN fell below 1 million dollars, many bloggers originally in the "secondary trading" track began to promote this token (such as 常为希, etc.), believing that Michael Bouhanna's deletion of the tweet was to avoid legal risks and did not change the token's endorsement relationship.

The peak market capitalization of BAN was 60 million dollars, and the current market capitalization is 26.5 million dollars (as of October 28, 8 AM Beijing time).

Yesterday, another Dutch digital artist Jesper (@Jesperish) also issued his token, with his works exhibited and auctioned at well-known auction houses like Christie's and Sotheby's, although the prices were not disclosed.

The token EYE issued by Jesperish reached a peak market capitalization of 20 million dollars and currently has a market cap of 8.4 million dollars. Jesperish stated, "The (account) has not been hacked; this is an experiment, and (the token) is the only project I created," indicating a relatively deep involvement in token promotion.