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Dated milestones, scandals, launches, and market-moving moments. 19 articles.
| AI agent token era (late 2024) | The AI agent token era of Q4 2024 saw dozens of tokens claiming connections to autonomous AI systems achieve significant valuations, beginning with GOAT and expanding to ai16z, ZEREBRO, and hundreds of derivatives. |
| Bitcoin ETF approval and memecoin effect (January 2024) | The approval of US spot Bitcoin ETFs in January 2024 marked the beginning of a major bull market that eventually brought significant capital into meme coins as traders sought higher-beta opportunities. |
| BONK Christmas airdrop (2022) | The BONK Christmas airdrop on December 25, 2022 distributed tokens to the Solana community in the immediate aftermath of the FTX collapse, marking the beginning of the Solana memecoin era. |
| BRETT launch on Base (2024) | BRETT launched on the Base blockchain as a Brett the frog character meme coin and became the dominant Base-native meme coin, demonstrating the viability of the meme coin model beyond Solana. |
| Fartcoin launch (late 2024) | Fartcoin's launch and subsequent rise to a $1B+ market cap became a cultural landmark of the 2024 meme coin season — demonstrating that absurdist humor and strong community could drive genuine valuations. |
| Firedancer impact on memecoin trading | The gradual deployment of Firedancer, Solana's new validator client, improved transaction throughput and reduced congestion-related failures that had previously frustrated meme coin traders during peak demand. |
| GOAT launch (October 2024) | The GOAT token launch catalyzed the AI agent meta of late 2024, driven by the Terminal of Truths AI agent's public endorsement and reaching a $900M market cap within days. |
| HAWK launch (December 2024) | The HAWK token launched in December 2024 with promotion from internet celebrity Haliey Welch, briefly reaching a $500M market cap before collapsing significantly amid controversy over insider allocations. |
| MELANIA coin launch (January 2025) | The MELANIA coin launched two days after TRUMP, with direct promotion from Melania Trump, initially pulling capital from TRUMP and generating controversy about the coordination of the launches. |
| MOODENG launch (September 2024) | MOODENG launched on Solana following Moo Deng the baby hippo's viral moment in September 2024, becoming one of the most successful viral animal meme coins of the cycle. |
| PNUT launch (October 2024) | The PNUT token launched in October 2024 following the viral story of Peanut the squirrel's death, reaching a $1 billion market cap within weeks and demonstrating the power of real-world viral events in memecoin markets. |
| POPCAT reaches $1B market cap (2024) | POPCAT became one of the most successful Solana cat-themed meme coins, reaching a $1 billion market cap during the 2024 bull market and establishing the viability of non-dog meme formats on Solana. |
| pump.fun adds live streaming (2024) | pump.fun added a live streaming feature allowing token creators to livestream to potential buyers, creating a new layer of social dynamics around token launches and increasing engagement. |
| pump.fun surpasses $100M in fees (2024) | pump.fun surpassed $100 million in cumulative protocol fees in 2024, becoming one of the most revenue-generating applications in Solana history and validating the bonding curve launchpad model. |
| Solana memecoin season 2024 | The 2024 Solana memecoin season was the most concentrated period of meme coin activity in blockchain history, driven by pump.fun, the broader bull market, and a series of viral token moments. |
| The LIBRA scandal | The LIBRA scandal occurred in February 2025 when Argentine President Javier Milei promoted the LIBRA meme coin on social media, which subsequently collapsed by over 90% amid accusations of insider selling. |
| Timeline of pump.fun | A dated record of every major milestone, controversy, and market-shaping moment in the history of pump.fun from its launch through 2026. |
| TRUMP coin launch (January 2025) | The launch of the Official Trump meme coin on January 17, 2025 generated over $15 billion in trading volume in 48 hours and became the most high-profile political meme coin launch in history. |
| WIF Binance listing (2024) | WIF's listing on Binance in 2024 brought the dogwifhat token to the largest crypto exchange's users and contributed to a price run that brought WIF to new all-time highs. |