With the explosion of AI Agents, I believe that in the coming year of 2025, most people enthusiastic about the primary market will choose the AI + meme track.
And how to quickly find potentially strong tokens among thousands of new memes released daily?
Many people have a misconception that they can determine whether a token can be listed on a major exchange very early on, and this kind of trading often results in severe losses (this so-called logic often comes from some supposed insider information). Because when this token cannot be listed, there is no fundamental support or validation for your viewpoint.
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Leading Token Trading Volume Sentiment
If you want to say what is most important when trading meme coins, you can list a bunch of messy standards;
For example: narrative, community genes, whether there is strong endorsement, whether the creator has successful cases.
From my personal experience of watching many videos and articles, along with my own practice, the most important things boil down to these three: leading token, trading volume, and sentiment.
Let's first talk about the leading token, which generally refers to the first coin in a protocol or the first meme on a chain, such as the previously skyrocketing token Ordi. (I won't go into much detail about Ordi here.)
However, 'leading token' is just one support point, because the meme landscape is ever-changing. For those tokens that are not tied to any protocol and purely rely on storytelling, the leading token might not have the capability to support it, and it could change hands with the arrival of new players, which everyone needs to pay attention to.
Of course, I understand that many friends, including myself, actually do not understand what those protocols mean. So there is a simpler and more straightforward indicator, which is trading volume.
Trading volume is also an important factor in deciding whether I buy. Let me put it this way: if a meme's market cap is only hundreds of thousands, but its trading volume is in the hundreds of thousands to millions and is sustainable, I would still enter even if it's not a leading token with no narrative, because I see it as a strong signal.
For example, what Da Yu Ge once said, 'Fish where the fish are plenty.'
Huge trading volume indicates either that the big players are targeting it and trading frantically, or that new users are continuously entering. Whether it's the former or the latter, it aligns with my logic for buying in; after all, only with high trading volume can large players enter.
Only when large players or big investors enter can this token have a chance to become a strong token. If the pool is too small and the trading volume is too low, it cannot attract large investors.
Another point worth noting is the number of holders; generally, the more, the better.
For instance, the Sats token, which continued for several months, had tens of thousands of holders, laying a solid mass foundation for it to become a strong token and get listed on exchanges.
Once a low-quality token gains trading volume, the number of players naturally increases, and the momentum can quickly escalate.
Of course, a larger number of users also indicates that the community of the low-quality token has good dissemination capabilities, which is extremely important for becoming a strong token.
However, whether it's the leading token or trading volume, the core is still to serve sentiment, but sentiment is the hardest to grasp.
Or you could say it’s somewhat mystical. For example, as far as I know, some teams in Shenzhen and Xi'an specialize in launching low-quality tokens and release several of them in a single day.
As for who can take off and become a strong token, they are not very clear about it either.
Also, like the previously popular Bome, it was due to the combination of an artist and the story of doing meme creation that ignited the sentiment.
Or like the Sloth Slerf, which directly blew up the liquidity pool. Many memes succeed because they have a sense of:
'The article is inherently perfect, and the clever hands just happen to discover it.'
Although everyone says having a good name or a good internet meme can make it easier to go viral.
But this does not have a unified standard; it can only be judged in conjunction with the specific situation at that time.
One more point that everyone must remember is that low-quality tokens without any story or innovation.
Their lifecycle is short, lasting only a day or two, and at most three to five days. So when playing low-quality tokens, remember the iron rule of doubling your principal.
Unless the project team has a large vision, such as significant locked holdings, otherwise, never compete with low-quality tokens; otherwise, you will definitely suffer losses.