Memecoins: Pure Speculation or a Permanent Part of Crypto Cycles?

[Memecoinst]

Hello everyone,

Memecoins continue to divide opinions in the crypto space. Some view them as short-lived hype with no real value, while others believe they represent something unique – the power of community, narratives, and attention economics.

What’s interesting is that memecoins tend to reappear in almost every market cycle, often when retail interest starts returning. Coins like DOGE and SHIB showed how community momentum alone can drive adoption and liquidity, even without traditional fundamentals.

At the same time, the risks are obvious. Most memecoins fail, liquidity can vanish quickly, and price movements are often driven by sentiment rather than utility. This makes them unsuitable for many long-term investors but hard to ignore during speculative phases.

Some questions worth discussing:

Do memecoins still have a place as the market matures?

Has community and attention become a form of “fundamental” in crypto?

Can any memecoin realistically evolve beyond speculation?

Not promoting anything – just interested in hearing different perspectives.

[Futurexxx]

Some questions worth discussing:

Do memecoins still have a place as the market matures?

Yes they still have their place, because at the end of the day, their are some folks that loves gambling, so we can not stop those people from not gambling with meme coin.
They knows the danger of it but they still venture into it because they wishes to gamble on it and try their luck if they might be lucky.

Has community and attention become a form of “fundamental” in crypto?

Yes, the community is very much important for the growth and survival of a coin. If the community is large and they manage to invest so much in it financially, the value of that coin will definitely rise.

Can any memecoin realistically evolve beyond speculation?

No, i don't think so, because it primary purpose is for gambling.
And the reputation it has gotten in the past few years will remains like that because it would be extremely difficult to convince and change the mind of investors towards it that it can survive the market for long.

[dzungmobile]

Some questions worth discussing:

Do memecoins still have a place as the market matures?

Has community and attention become a form of “fundamental” in crypto?

Can any memecoin realistically evolve beyond speculation?

Meme coins are parts of the cryptocurrency ecosystem and market, it's undeniable. The classic and most famous meme coin is Dogecoin. The others succeeded by inheriting good foundation from Dogecoin like without Bitcoin successs, there would be no altcoins. Some cryptocurrencies before Bitcoin actually laid good foundations even from their failures for success of Bitcoin.

Memecoins in latest years are mostly meme tokens and they were created with narratives and for scamming purposes only. Meme coins and meme tokens won't disappear from the cryptocurrency industry but if you hold them, you lose money with time, you lose bitcoin with time.

[coin-investor]

Can any memecoin realistically evolve beyond speculation?

Some do, most do not. Memes are the most abused trend in the market. It's so easy to create one; all you need is a narrative, an army of shills, and whales to manipulate the market.

They exist because investors love risk. Some investors made a profit when they sensed the right signal to buy and dump, but many lost because of FOMO.

If you're an inexperienced investor, better not touch memes, save yourself, save your money for those coins with a real usecase and value.

[el kaka22]

99% of the memecoins are just gone, doesn't even last a month, and the longest they can stand is six months, but most of them do not even stay alive after a month. Only literally one handful of memecoins still exists at a "high" level, dogecoin for example, and shiba seems ok too, and maybe one or two more, but that is it.

And even those are not really that good to invest into, it's really not a great way to move forward and we should focus on how to get a good return on these at the end of the day, it is really not the same.

[TastyChillySauce00]

Since meme coin keep appearing every cycle through many means, it's pretty obvious that meme coin is part of crypto cycle.
Honestly though, I really hope that the money getting into meme coin market should go to something else. It's better seeing billions of money going into bitcoin instead of getting into random meme coin. Therefore even though meme coin is part of crypto cycle I just don't hope it to be permanent part of it.

Can any memecoin realistically evolve beyond speculation?

Doubt that. It's sole existence is because people need a tool they can use to speculate. Meme coin fits that criteria, but guess what, it's not only meme coin that fits that criteria these days and therefore the reason of memecoin's recent massive lost in total market cap.

[MArsland]

99% of the memecoins are just gone, doesn't even last a month, and the longest they can stand is six months, but most of them do not even stay alive after a month. Only literally one handful of memecoins still exists at a "high" level, dogecoin for example, and shiba seems ok too, and maybe one or two more, but that is it.

And even those are not really that good to invest into, it's really not a great way to move forward and we should focus on how to get a good return on these at the end of the day, it is really not the same.

For Doge, I'm quite confident because until now Doge still has a large investor base behind it. As for other types of memecoin that are unclear and only survive in short trends, they cannot be used as investment alternatives. For some reason, I don't even dare to buy memecoins that have only been listed for 1 week.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

As long as there are many people that will and that are still patronizing meme coins, it will continue to coexist in the crypto cycle, many people do not completely condemn altcoins like Bitcoin maximalist does, some people are usually very lucky with altcoins which includes meme coins, that's why they are not going to give up on it. Memecoins will not cease to capture the attention of most people, it will continue to be a pump and dump tokens because they don't create them with any intention its value to continue growing like Bitcoin.

[JeromeTash]

What’s interesting is that memecoins tend to reappear in almost every market cycle, often when retail interest starts returning. Coins like DOGE and SHIB showed how community momentum alone can drive adoption and liquidity, even without traditional fundamentals.

Memecoins trended in only 2 market cycles as far as I know from the time Elon Musk started shilling Doge. Before that, there was no memecoin hype. It was more to do with ICOs, POW and masternode coins.

Do memecoins still have a place as the market matures?

Perhaps only a few with the strongest communities

Can any memecoin realistically evolve beyond speculation?

Only a few like doge can evolve or survive not the ERC20, BSC or Solana shitcoins

[justinlamode]

Memecoins continue to divide opinions in the crypto space. Some view them as short-lived hype with no real value, while others believe they represent something unique – the power of community, narratives, and attention economics.

This is exactly the concept the creators of those memecoins use to promote them and convince people to invest in them. In reality, memecoins have no real utility, they are built and sustained in hypes and as soon as the hype fades, they begin to decline in price and some eventually vanish. Investing in memecoins is not something anything should do with big money unless you have accepted the risk involve and willing to lose the money because the possibility of losing the money exist.

[Stalker22]

Unfortunately, but probably yes.  While there are greedy and lazy people, they will also always want a chance at turning $100 into $100,000 (by day 2).  So memecoins are always going to be there as the “lottery ticket” section of crypto.

Real fundamentals always create value with or without tweets, whilst as soon as the hype moves to the next shiny new thing, a memecoin will begin dying off.  The “community” that is involved with memecoins is normally just a bunch of people who are holding their bags, hoping to pump their own exit liquidity.

[el kaka22]

For Doge, I'm quite confident because until now Doge still has a large investor base behind it. As for other types of memecoin that are unclear and only survive in short trends, they cannot be used as investment alternatives. For some reason, I don't even dare to buy memecoins that have only been listed for 1 week.

Yeah, like I said I can maybe let that one slide because it still gets a ton of attention in every bull period, not like other memecoins where they just crash and never return, so doge could be considered decent. I have bene here since it's first inception, I remember the early days of it, it was just a "fun" thing and not a serious investment, we used it to do marketing, like who the hell would sponsor a Jamaican bobsled team? We did all the fun we could with it, so it has a good history behind it. But no other memecoin should be trusted at all.

[Alpen]

Hello everyone,

Memecoins continue to divide opinions in the crypto space. Some view them as short-lived hype with no real value, while others believe they represent something unique – the power of community, narratives, and attention economics.

What’s interesting is that memecoins tend to reappear in almost every market cycle, often when retail interest starts returning. Coins like DOGE and SHIB showed how community momentum alone can drive adoption and liquidity, even without traditional fundamentals.

At the same time, the risks are obvious. Most memecoins fail, liquidity can vanish quickly, and price movements are often driven by sentiment rather than utility. This makes them unsuitable for many long-term investors but hard to ignore during speculative phases.

Some questions worth discussing:

Do memecoins still have a place as the market matures?

Has community and attention become a form of “fundamental” in crypto?

Can any memecoin realistically evolve beyond speculation?

Not promoting anything – just interested in hearing different perspectives.

I think memecoins represent an investment subculture, at least when we’re talking about tokens tied to global, established memes. Everything else, however, is just a speculative attempt to profit from blatant Ponzi schemes. In those cases, it’s all about who manages to get in and out on time. The popularity of such coins is driven by the exact same psychology as the allure of a casino

[o48o]

Hello everyone,

Memecoins continue to divide opinions in the crypto space. Some view them as short-lived hype with no real value, while others believe they represent something unique – the power of community, narratives, and attention economics.

What’s interesting is that memecoins tend to reappear in almost every market cycle, often when retail interest starts returning. Coins like DOGE and SHIB showed how community momentum alone can drive adoption and liquidity, even without traditional fundamentals.

At the same time, the risks are obvious. Most memecoins fail, liquidity can vanish quickly, and price movements are often driven by sentiment rather than utility. This makes them unsuitable for many long-term investors but hard to ignore during speculative phases.

Some questions worth discussing:

Do memecoins still have a place as the market matures?

Has community and attention become a form of “fundamental” in crypto?

Can any memecoin realistically evolve beyond speculation?

Not promoting anything – just interested in hearing different perspectives.

And why couldn't they be both speculative and permanent part of crypto? Just being a permanent part of crypto isn't a positive thing, even if it's opposite to "short-lived hype".

After first ICO era was over, then people said that we have learned our lesson. But only thing we learned was that people don't learn and scams are permanent part of crypto, that are only going to grow. And they grew beyond anything we could have predicted. To the point where president of USA was shilling his crypto crap.

And memecoins haven't been part of "almost every market cycle". They have been part of ALL cycles after altcoins were a thing. At first they just weren't called memecoins.

[nelson4lov]

Even though I'm not a big fan of memecoins, I'd still say that memecoins will still have a place in the crypto market when the market matures in the future. I will explain.

• Memecoins have the one of the fairest distribution and have more inclusiveness than any other form of token issuance unless the team chose to distribute 100% of its supply as airdrop. Every other launches from infrastructural or quality "utility" projects have huge allocations for teams, advisors eth and they often dump it cheaply to destroy their own charts
• Crypto market is speculative in nature and Memecoins still hold high volatility and speculation in them than any other type of project

These are just some of the reasons from the top of my head and there's even more reasons than that.