UXento, Pumpfun, and Gen Z turned the meme market into a fast-food narrative machine driven by speed and greed. Everything is instant, disposable, and focused only on the next flip. There’s no patience, no long-term vision, just dopamine hits and the chase for the quickest profit possible.
Since 2021 and 2024 I’ve been following the same teams that actually built memes. These were teams with real skin in the game, cultivating narratives for months and nurturing projects until they became something meaningful. They never sold early. They wanted to be part of the story with their memes and ideas.
I watched these teams succeed far more than they failed. They were narrative builders, not liquidity farmers.
Now most of them are broke, while farmers, serial launchers, and the Gen Z TikTok culture got rich by speeding everything up, putting greed above any long-term construction, and killing any project that needs time to grow.
The market changed, and it changed because of this generation that trades depth for speed and purpose for greed.
Since 2021 and 2024 I’ve been following the same teams that actually built memes. These were teams with real skin in the game, cultivating narratives for months and nurturing projects until they became something meaningful. They never sold early. They wanted to be part of the story with their memes and ideas.
I watched these teams succeed far more than they failed. They were narrative builders, not liquidity farmers.
Now most of them are broke, while farmers, serial launchers, and the Gen Z TikTok culture got rich by speeding everything up, putting greed above any long-term construction, and killing any project that needs time to grow.
The market changed, and it changed because of this generation that trades depth for speed and purpose for greed.
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Memes were born as a protest against the traditional financial system.
They were a way to escape the matrix, to create culture, narrative, and freedom.
Now… what are they?
Extraction tools.
Bots, farmers, serial launchers, and greed disguised as “innovation.”
The good guys are paying the price for the bad ones.
And the worst part is: they’re “losing”to them
They were a way to escape the matrix, to create culture, narrative, and freedom.
Now… what are they?
Extraction tools.
Bots, farmers, serial launchers, and greed disguised as “innovation.”
The good guys are paying the price for the bad ones.
And the worst part is: they’re “losing”to them
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Ben Based - Research
Memes were born as a protest against the traditional financial system. They were a way to escape the matrix, to create culture, narrative, and freedom. Now… what are they? Extraction tools. Bots, farmers, serial launchers, and greed disguised as “innovation.”…
I see Binance trying to fix this with Meme Rush, but it’s still all very complex. The market is looking for a model that’s fair, scalable, and resistant to greed… it just hasn’t found it yet.
Same with ICM on solana
Same with ICM on solana
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Stay safe.
Stay safe.
You can’t ignore what’s happening with ZEC. We’re in the worst BTC scenario in months, and this coin keeps pushing to break its ATH. At first, I thought it was just cabal bullshit and big players manipulating it. I’ll spend a few hours trying to understand all of this more deeply.
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I understand how easy the shill is. "It’s Bitcoin with privacy."
Okay, but why is privacy suddenly being pushed so strongly again?
StarkNet has now created a verification method that makes ZEC liquidity interoperable across all L1s and L2s. One of Stark’s founders helped create ZEC and is closely connected to the cypherpunks. ($STRK)
Anyway, it’s impossible to ignore what’s happening with privacy coins.
We need to understand and map ZK technologies because they are deeply connected to this movement, along with the entire ecosystem that could surge with ZEC leading the sector
Okay, but why is privacy suddenly being pushed so strongly again?
StarkNet has now created a verification method that makes ZEC liquidity interoperable across all L1s and L2s. One of Stark’s founders helped create ZEC and is closely connected to the cypherpunks. ($STRK)
Anyway, it’s impossible to ignore what’s happening with privacy coins.
We need to understand and map ZK technologies because they are deeply connected to this movement, along with the entire ecosystem that could surge with ZEC leading the sector
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"THE WHALE SHORTING $60M ZEC HAS BEEN FULLY LIQUIDATED
The whale controlling the 3 HL accounts leverage shorting a total $60M of ZEC has just been liquidated. He lost a total of $5.5M attempting to time the top of ZEC."
https://x.com/arkham/status/1991556658355662963
The whale controlling the 3 HL accounts leverage shorting a total $60M of ZEC has just been liquidated. He lost a total of $5.5M attempting to time the top of ZEC."
https://x.com/arkham/status/1991556658355662963
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$ZEC can bounce here for a quick scalp
Every day there are billions in trading volume on the ZEC/USDT pair. They want us to believe this is the new BTC, quantum-resistant and private, with a strong cypherpunk narrative building around it. Imagine having the chance to buy “BTC” again at 400 to 500. Who knows...
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Following the MSCI drama with MicroStrategy?
Quick recap:
MSCI is considering removing MSTR from its indexes because the company basically turned into a “Bitcoin ETF in disguise.”
If that happens, passive funds that follow these indexes will be forced to sell billions worth of MSTR. JPMorgan estimates around 2.8B just from MSCI, and up to 8.8B if other index providers follow the same move.
Final decision comes on January 15, 2026.
In practice, this could reduce liquidity, cut passive inflows, and put real pressure on MSTR’s price.
Impact on BTC:
If MSTR faces forced selling or the market starts pricing that risk in, it can create short-term negative pressure on Bitcoin. Not because MicroStrategy would be selling BTC directly, but because MSTR is seen as a proxy for institutional Bitcoin demand, and sentiment usually reacts fast.
Summary:
Pressure on MSTR = potential negative sentiment for BTC.
Traditional finance trying to “rebalance” the weight of Bitcoin-focused companies.
Quick recap:
MSCI is considering removing MSTR from its indexes because the company basically turned into a “Bitcoin ETF in disguise.”
If that happens, passive funds that follow these indexes will be forced to sell billions worth of MSTR. JPMorgan estimates around 2.8B just from MSCI, and up to 8.8B if other index providers follow the same move.
Final decision comes on January 15, 2026.
In practice, this could reduce liquidity, cut passive inflows, and put real pressure on MSTR’s price.
Impact on BTC:
If MSTR faces forced selling or the market starts pricing that risk in, it can create short-term negative pressure on Bitcoin. Not because MicroStrategy would be selling BTC directly, but because MSTR is seen as a proxy for institutional Bitcoin demand, and sentiment usually reacts fast.
Summary:
Pressure on MSTR = potential negative sentiment for BTC.
Traditional finance trying to “rebalance” the weight of Bitcoin-focused companies.
Ben Based - Research
Following the MSCI drama with MicroStrategy? Quick recap: MSCI is considering removing MSTR from its indexes because the company basically turned into a “Bitcoin ETF in disguise.” If that happens, passive funds that follow these indexes will be forced to…
Now the Bitcoin maxis are calling the community to boycott JPMorgan, kind of like that GME moment. It’s getting interesting.