Bear Chain Meme Head-to-Head: Is THJ Incubating Henlo to Create a Traffic Entry and Core Revenue Tool?

Author: Deep Tide TechFlow

Henlo!

In the Berachain ecosystem, a simple "Henlo" carries multiple layers of meaning:

It is not only a warm greeting widely shared among the Bear family but also a concrete expression of Berachain's unique community culture, and it is also the name of a Meme project.

As one of the most unmissable public chain projects of 2025, from the overwhelming bear-themed visuals to the rallying cry of "grassroots" leading the rise of a religious-style community, we can easily capture the Meme spirit that the Berachain ecosystem showcases. Therefore, Meme has always been a key focus area for the community regarding the Berachain ecosystem.

As a Meme project incubated by Berachain's largest creative incubator and cultural leader The Honey Jar, Henlo represents a fierce collision between the most "anti-traditional" innovative public chain and the most community-rooted Meme. How will the two add vibrant colors to the Meme track?

On February 5, Henlo announced the completion of a $3 million seed round financing, attracting investment from a number of institutions including Framework Ventures, Olympus DAO, Rubik VC, Baboon VC, Primitive Ventures, SNZ Capital, Asylum Ventures, ViaBTC Capital, Paramount Capital, and Wizards Capital.

With Berachain simultaneously conducting its TGE and mainnet launch on February 6, $HENLO also announced that its TGE will kick off on March 3. Previously, the airdrop query page has been launched, and the airdrop query page is now live.

As milestones approach, let us transition from community dissemination to ecosystem integration, exploring how Henlo grows into a blockbuster Meme of Berachain while investigating its evolution towards becoming the "main traffic entrance of the Berachain ecosystem."

$HENLO Launching Soon: A Multi-Dimensional Display of the "Community First" Principle

As a Meme project, Henlo takes Berachain as its cultural belief, pursuing the simplest participation threshold, the broadest user engagement, the most viral social expressions, and most importantly, the distribution that respects community interests.

This respect for the community is reflected in many aspects of the upcoming $HENLO launch.

According to the official announcement, Henlo will launch a Ramen Launch community sale on Ramen Finance, priced at $0.000069, with an FDV of $6.9 million, less than the seed round valuation of $15 million, fully embodying Henlo's commitment to the "community first" philosophy.

The registration date for this community sale will open at 10 PM Beijing time on March 1 and end at 10 AM on March 3. The Gacha points round will start at 11 PM on March 3, and the Overflow round will begin at 5:00 AM on March 4.

Gacha point holders can participate in this Ramen Launch community sale. Gacha has been distributed to over 12,200 wallets, including holders of Ramen's Hungrybera NFT and community users: participants can enter the lottery by destroying Gacha during registration, and after registration ends, the system will randomly select winners, who can claim their allocation in the Gacha points round. If there are any unused allocations at the end of the Gacha points round, the Overflow round will be initiated, allowing any registrant to participate.

After the Ramen presale ends, $HENLO will open for trading on Kodiak at the same price.

If you did not receive the Henlo airdrop or win the presale qualification for Ramen Launch, you still have the opportunity to purchase Henlo on Kodiak at the $6.9 million FDV price.

On the other hand, we note that the Henlo airdrop query page has been launched to encourage broader community member participation in Henlo's airdrop. Previously, Henlo has conducted team and Henlo points activities, Meme creation incentives, and other activities, where winners can earn points rewards and accumulate airdrop chips.

In the $HENLO token allocation, 32% of the token supply is allocated to the community, with 31% designated for community airdrops, which also demonstrates Henlo's emphasis on the community. With the arrival of the airdrop and the official launch of the $HENLO token, we believe the ecosystem will develop a deeper understanding of Henlo's "community first" philosophy.

Henlo: The "Bear Language" Meme Only Bear Family Members Understand

Before delving into "why Henlo is worth participating in," let’s formally introduce the basic concept of Henlo.

This seemingly perplexing word is actually a personalized expression of "Hello" within the Berachain community, which has now developed into a unique greeting method exclusive to the Berachain ecosystem and has become a mainstream term frequently used even by Berachain officials.

If you are familiar with the Berachain community, you will find that such unique expressions, which can give members a stronger sense of identity and belonging, are not uncommon. For example, Berachain's "Bera" is actually "Bear," spelled as "Bera" to pay homage to the famous misspelling of "hodl" in the crypto world; the term "Ooga Booga," frequently appearing in Berachain's comment section, mimics bear sounds and is similar to onomatopoeia in Chinese, representing one of the important jargon of the Berachain ecosystem. These unique expressions have also become a resource pool for naming Berachain ecosystem projects.

As the largest creative incubator and cultural leader of Berachain, The Honey Jar has the most recognized community NFT Honeycomb, the widely participated Cubquest with hundreds of thousands of users, the community faucet with millions of users, and dozens of ecological blue-chip partners. It can easily capture the widespread advantage of Henlo based on strong community consensus, perfectly aligning with Meme attributes, and thus chose to name its incubated Meme project Henlo.

Ecological Traffic Entrance: Why Does Henlo Have the Potential to Be the "Berachain Meme Leader"?

Firstly, it is undeniable that we need to continue focusing on Meme narratives in 2025.

Summarizing the outlooks published by major institutions for 2025, "Meme" remains a frequently mentioned term, sending out a strong signal: the Meme cycle will continue in 2025. Therefore, finding early Meme value gaps has become a topic of endless discussion among Meme hunters.

Based on this, why is Berachain Meme worth paying attention to?

On one hand, while Solana and Base have produced many explosive Meme projects in the past, drawing significant attention, they have also inevitably become more competitive. Smart hunters have already shifted their focus to potential new public chains, with Berachain being the most anticipated innovative public chain in the current crypto landscape, becoming a main force in the search for Alpha.

On the other hand, Berachain has consistently led in mobilizing community sentiment to create viral spread.

As is well known, Berachain originated from the NFT project "Bong Bears," which is viewed as a cultural carrier of the community. This series adopted a Rebase mechanism similar to OHM, allowing users holding the original Bong Bears to gain airdrop rights for subsequent series, further enhancing community cohesion and long-term participation enthusiasm.

After the birth of Berachain, this talent for creating community culture has continued: within the Berachain ecosystem, we can easily see the visual extensions and secondary creations featuring bears as the brand image, triggering a large amount of sharing and dissemination on social media, forming a unified cultural symbol.

Even Berachain co-founder Smokey has engaged in performance art, appearing at formal events wearing a bear head, further deepening the brand image while establishing connections and resonance with the community.

It can be said that Berachain possesses the innate genes for developing Memes, and Memes have the ability to gather industry traffic. Therefore, Berachain will not miss out on Memes. Moreover, the current Berachain ecosystem also needs to give birth to a representative Meme project to meet expectations and bring traffic back.

With the mainnet approaching in 2025, Berachain Meme may usher in a more extreme bloom, and who will initiate and lead the Berachain Meme wave?

If you are in the Berachain ecosystem, you will find that both the community consensus and team background make Henlo quite promising as the Berachain Meme leader.

Open social media, and the voices of Henlo come pouring in. In the hearts of countless community members, Henlo has become a concentrated embodiment of Berachain's brand culture and community belonging. This consensus built from the community is a necessary condition for Memes to break out. A shout of Henlo followed by a knowing smile makes you a member of the Berachain community.

Based on this consensus, people spread the word spontaneously, bringing strong traffic to Berachain through Henlo, achieving high-quality community expansion and enlarging the Bear family community scale.

It is also worth noting that Henlo is incubated by The Honey Jar (THJ).

THJ positions itself as the creative incubator, cultural leader, and ecological entrance of the Berachain ecosystem, mainly responsible for creating and promoting Berachain culture, incubating creative projects, communicating and connecting the Berachain ecosystem, and educating users within the ecosystem. Users familiar with Berachain will quickly understand THJ's authority in the community. Its founder, janitooor.eth, is a seed investor in Berachain, and THJ also operates the largest validator node in the ecosystem, managing a community of tens of thousands.

Based on this, THJ has previously created a large number of articles, competitions, and podcasts on platforms like Mirror and Zora, and successfully incubated several mature and successful projects, including the highest market cap ecological NFT Honeycomb, the most widely participated task platform Cubquests, the most expensive ecological NFT Honeyjar Gen 6, and the highly anticipated fat Bera practical DAO - Apiology DAO. The Meme project Henlo is an important layout for THJ to promote Berachain's cultural construction and community development.

For THJ, using Meme as a carrier, Henlo can attract more community members' attention and participation through brand building and viral dissemination.

From Henlo's perspective, backed by The Honey Jar's strong background, Henlo can not only achieve rapid dissemination and growth in the short term but also integrate more deeply with the Berachain ecosystem in the future.

With the expectation of Berachain Meme + the strong backing of THJ, many would say that a series of external objective conditions have contributed to Henlo's current potential to become the ecosystem's Meme leader. However, while Memes may lack practical utility, Henlo is widely integrated into various platforms and protocols within the Berachain ecosystem. Through its ecological layout, we can also see the ambition for $HENLO to become a core revenue tool in the Berachain ecosystem beyond just being a traffic entrance.

Deep Integration into the Berachain Ecosystem: More Than a Meme, It's a Core Revenue Tool

Beyond being a traffic entrance, $HENLO aims to become a core revenue tool of the Berachain ecosystem.

This characteristic is not unique among the many projects incubated by THJ.

Taking the NFT project Honeycomb as an example:

This series was launched in March 2023, with a total supply of 16,420, and was once seen as a welfare aggregator for the Bear Chain project. The project seeks exposure, and collaborating with THJ, which has hundreds of thousands of community members, is a very efficient choice. Honeycomb serves as the collaboration vehicle, and in return, NFT holders will gain whitelist, airdrop, and other revenue opportunities.

According to official data, Honeycomb has currently reached cooperation with multiple core projects in the Bear Chain ecosystem, providing substantial ecological revenue returns for its holders.

The series of revenue opportunities includes Steady Teddys whitelist, $hiBERAO airdrop from Beradrome, and Hungrybera whitelist from Ramen Finance, among others.

The off-chain whitelist price for Steady Teddys once reached around 3000 U, and Steady Teddys allocated 1,000 whitelist spots to The Honey Jar community, with 100 GTD whitelist spots already distributed to Honeycombs NFT holders through a lottery on Cubquests. Additionally, 10% of the total Steady Teddys has been allocated to ApiologyDAO.

Through Honeycomb, we can clearly perceive THJ's strong ability in "integrating ecological resources to empower greater product value," and Henlo, as a THJ incubated project, is also becoming a core revenue tool of the ecosystem through extensive integration with the Berachain ecosystem.

As stated on the Henlo official website, Crypto is complex, but Henlo is simple:

Users holding NFT assets / participating in creating Henlo / spreading Henlo in social media communities have the opportunity to earn rewards.

As a project in the Berachain ecosystem, Henlo is driven by the PoL consensus mechanism:

PoL is a core innovation of Berachain, requiring users to provide liquidity to specific liquidity pools to earn rewards. In other words, if you want to earn rewards in this network, you need to actively participate in ecological construction rather than simply locking tokens.

This innovative model based on real participation brings better liquidity, better value discovery, and a more sustainable development model for $HENLO, and helps more people understand Berachain PoL and participate more actively.

Currently, Henlo has been widely integrated into protocols such as Berachain's native derivatives protocol Exponents, and the leverage trading platform Gummi with currency markets, as well as extending into liquidity proof mining and other gameplay as a practical asset, guiding users to reach every corner of the Berachain ecosystem and serving as an efficient revenue tool, helping users obtain richer ecological returns through interaction.

In the foreseeable future, the innovation based on liquidity will be the core theme of the Berachain ecosystem, and as an efficient revenue tool, $HENLO will continue to shine in various innovative scenarios.

With the mainnet launch, more attention is focused on Berachain, and people are more inclined to capture early revenue opportunities within the Berachain ecosystem. Meme is a track that cannot be missed.

Under the multiple advantages of deeper community cultural heritage, stronger community consensus, deeper liquidity, and richer ecological revenue opportunities, how will Henlo, rooted in the Berachain ecosystem, lead the new paradigm of Meme development?

With the launch of $HENLO and the realization of other milestones, let us continue to pay attention to Henlo's further performance together with the community.