Has anyone noticed whether memecoin Telegram groups are still alive in 2026?

[xl energy coin]

A few years ago these groups were popping up everywhere, but lately many of them seem inactive, bot-filled, or abandoned shortly after launch. I’m curious how others currently find active and genuine memecoin groups — whether through manual searching, recommendations, or tools/aggregators.

I came across a curated overview of memecoin Telegram groups here:
https://icospeaks.com/news/memecoin-telegram-groups/

Not here to spam — just genuinely interested in how people are separating real communities from dead or spammy ones in 2026.

What’s your experience? Do you think these groups are still worth following, and how do you evaluate them?

[alialireza]

I usually don’t judge by member count but by engagement quality. If there’s no real conversation, no dev presence, and no meaningful activity overall, the group is basically dead.

[xl energy coin]

I usually don’t judge by member count but by engagement quality. If there’s no real conversation, no dev presence, and no meaningful activity overall, the group is basically dead.

congrats with your first comment under my thread. do you follow any memecoin in telegram or somewhere else?

[Mrbluntzy]

Most of those meme coins telegram groups are now managed by only telegram bots which has made it become a comfortable place for scammers. The bot that is integrated in most of those groups is more than 2 and they can never replace the work of the real human moderator that will answer critical question just like before. Now, those projects owners don't even want the success of their project, all they are looking for is how to benefit from investors.

[Felicity_Tide]

A few years ago these groups were popping up everywhere, but lately many of them seem inactive, bot-filled, or abandoned shortly after launch. I’m curious how others currently find active and genuine memecoin groups — whether through manual searching, recommendations, or tools/aggregators.
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What’s your experience? Do you think these groups are still worth following, and how do you evaluate them?

It all depends if you find value in them. There have been a good number of declines as far as I know.
What do we expect, especially when majority of the memecoin community are largely filled with people with short term interest, and intentions to get what they can and move on to the next. In 2026, I would be surprised to see or hear that there are still active memecoin projects on telegram that has a decent number of community participants/followers.

[blockman]

It is easy to figure it out, if the group or channel is spammed by bots then that's almost dead. The members there are probably not even aware they're part of the group. That's because they're just added one by one whoever is in that group. I think that there are some genuine groups that are still alive but you'd see the real engagement from there. If you can't find one, it's best to leave those groups because someone from there might just be getting all of the contact details of all the members and will use it for their another group.

[Odusko]

The memecoins hypes is still very much on the rise and for that reason ypu may have not noticed them that much in this year because you have choosed to ignore them this time because of you previous experience with them and how you have paid less attention to them this year 2026.
Alot of memecoins farms activities is still ongoing on telegrams and newbies are the set of crypto user's who mostly pay too much attention to the memecoins hypes in this era and time.

[TastyChillySauce00]

Telegram groups for meme coins are dead, just scam infested dying community in there. X is the primary source of meme coin if you really want to find some alpha because the trend started from there.Clawd, Penguin, and so on. All started from X therefore just forget about telegram.

Not to mention that the second you joined telegram group, there will be some random person trying to scam you and dm-ing you, it's not a rare news to see people getting scammed by scammer impersonating people because it's hard to distinguish the real account to the fake if you're inexperienced newbie.
After Pavel Durov's arrest in france, I just feel the entire ton blockchain and telegram going downhill from there. Still a good chat app although becoming more commercialized with stickers and all.