Memecoins in 2025–2026: Speculation, Community Power, or Something More?

[Memecoinst]

Hey everyone,

Memecoins always seem to spark strong opinions in this space. Some see them as nothing more than hype-driven gambling, while others argue they represent a unique mix of community power, attention economics, and internet culture.

What’s interesting is that almost every market cycle brings back memecoins in some form - even when fundamentals-driven projects dominate the discussion. DOGE, SHIB, PEPE, and others have shown that strong communities and narratives can sometimes move price faster than traditional metrics.

That said, memecoins are clearly high-risk assets. Most don’t survive long-term, liquidity can disappear quickly, and sentiment changes fast. But ignoring them completely hasn’t worked either, especially during phases when retail interest returns to the market.

Some points I’m curious about:

Do memecoins still have room in future cycles, or is the market maturing past them?

Is community + attention now a real “fundamental” in crypto?

Can any memecoin realistically transition from hype to sustainability?

Not promoting anything here - just interested in hearing different perspectives from the community.

Looking forward to your thoughts.

[Dickiy]

Do memecoins still have room in future cycles, or is the market maturing past them?

Is community + attention now a real “fundamental” in crypto?

Can any memecoin realistically transition from hype to sustainability?

Now what about Shiba Inu and PEPE? They seem to have been forgotten and that is the fact. If it's useless, lost its pump, where are the investors and traders willing to buy?
Let alone memecoins, even altseasons that are fundamentally stronger than this cycle have nowhere to show. So you have to realize that people are no longer willing to take risks on shitcoins.

[Juse14]

Memecoin is slowly fading, but to pursue a few percent increase up to 50% is very possible to get but thousands of percent like last year or the previous cycle seems very difficult even though the community is very large, we can see how big the Shiba Inu and Doge Coin communities are but they don't have any impact in the previous cycle and only a small increase, memecoin also has hype but is not too enthusiastic for this season in my opinion, unless big players enter memecoin but I think that is impossible for the next cycle because the memecoin hype has lost trust as a place to seek profits.