Author: Nancy, PANews
Last weekend, Vitalik Buterin once again showed his ability to bring goods. After minting a new ENS domain name, the MEME of the same name skyrocketed. The market also began to explore Vitalik-related MEME projects. In this article, PANews counted 6 MEME coins with Vitalik's concept. These projects have seen hundreds or thousands of times increase in price, and the "money prospects" are attractive, but most of them have spiraled down after the heat cooled down, and the market size is only a fraction of it. Recently, due to Vitalik's expected hype, these MEMEs have rebounded to varying degrees, but the hype sentiment has limited room for market value improvement.
D/ACC
Shortly after the concept of e/acc (effective accelerationism) became popular in Silicon Valley last year, Vitalik published "My Technological Optimism" in November, discussing the development of artificial intelligence and privacy, and proposed the d/acc (defensive, decentralized, democratic, differential acceleration) philosophy in the article, saying that a defensive world is a better world, which not only directly improves security and reduces conflicts, but also makes it easier for healthy, open and freedom-respecting governance forms to flourish. Subsequently, related MEME coins with the same name appeared on chains such as Ethereum and Solana, but these projects continued to decline after experiencing a surge.
On August 18, Vitalik minted a new ENS domain name called "dacc.eth" and announced that the d/acc concept would be discussed at an event next week. Subsequently, market funds moved in response, and MEME coins such as D/ACC and E/ACC were pulled up, and many imitations appeared. However, judging from the price trend, the rebound momentum of these MEME coins is limited, and the market value has shrunk significantly from the peak.
DEX Screener data shows that D/ACC rose by more than 956.5% on August 18, but then the price fell back. As of the time of writing, it has fallen by about 67.3% from its historical high, with a market value of US$2.5 million; E/ACC also rose several times on the same day, with a maximum increase of about 960%, but the current price has fallen by more than 97.3% from its historical peak, with a market value of only US$257,000.
Zuzalu
In 2023, after discovering that previous crypto city experiments were difficult to expand in scale, Vitalik proposed a new type of urban construction experiment, Zuzalu, a two-month mini city that can accommodate 200 people. It aims to transform online culture and tribes into physical places, and explores the ideas and practices behind it.
With Vitalik's strong push, the MEME token ZUZALU in the market also performed unstoppably. DEX Screener data shows that the price of ZUZALU soared by more than 3,660 times after its launch, and its market value once exceeded 33 million US dollars. However, as of the time of writing, the price of the token has fallen by more than 95.9% from its high point, and its market value is only 1.2 million US dollars. Since August 18, ZUZALU has seen a significant increase, with a maximum increase of 124.9%.
TCATI
TCATI (Green Tea) is a cat-themed MEME, which comes from the profile signature of Vitalik's X account, and provides 33% of the token supply as financial support for Vitalik's Zuzalu experiment. DEX Screener data shows that TCATI has doubled by more than 519.4 times since its launch, and its market value once exceeded 3.8 million US dollars, but now it has fallen by about 95.6% from its high point, and its market value is only 165,000 US dollars. TCATI has also seen an upward trend since August 18, with the highest increase reaching 403.6%.
TOASTS
toasty is a domain name released by Vitalik in 2017. DEX Screener data shows that TOASTY did not see a significant increase after it went online at the beginning of this month, but it began to rise sharply from August 18, with a maximum increase of 167.7 times and a market value of over 1.9 million US dollars.
SLASHA
Slasha is an online strategy game developed by Vitalik in 2011 and uploaded to IPFS by him in May last year. DEX Screener data shows that SLASHA peaked at nearly 414 times on the day of its launch and then began to fall all the way. As of the time of writing, it has fallen by more than 98.9% from its peak. SLASHA also rose after August 18, with a maximum increase of about 188.9%.
THE
In October 2022, Vitalik tweeted that someone should issue a project called "THE Protocol" so that whenever someone mentions "The", the community can say "Look, so-and-so mentioned THE". Subsequently, THE was created on Ethereum, and 10% of the total tokens were transferred to Vitalik. The project also gained further popularity after being noticed by Vitalik. DEX Screener data shows that THE has doubled by more than 8,124 times since its launch, and its market value was once close to US$40 million. However, as of the time of posting, the price of THE has fallen by more than 99.5% from its high point, and its market value is only US$168,000. Among them, since August 18, THE has risen by as much as 71.8%.
