Insider earns hundreds of millions of dollars from the launch of the Memecoin in early 2025

In just the first 2 months of 2025, 6 memenoin associated with famous characters, including TRUMP, MELANIA, TST, CAR and LIBRA, BROCCOLI appeared. The common point is that the certificate is either promoted by the president, politicians, or top crypto KOLs, creating a wave of strong FOMO growth before losing much of its value.

It's worth noting that those who used to shill these tokens denied any involvement as soon as they went downhill. Argentine President Javier Milei deleted a post about LIBRA after helping it reach nearly $6 billion in capitalization, while CAR promoted by the Central African Republic's government was plagued by deepfakes. TST, the CZ-bound memenoin, is also not out of the general trend as it depreciates sharply after the first days of heavy shill.

The emergence and collapse of these memencoins raises the question of whether these are actually natural market pumps, or whether a manipulation plan has been hatched to create a FOMO effect, pushing up the price before a sell-off.

As values collapse, celebrities who once contributed to community FOMO choose to retreat silently or publicly deny responsibility, leaving retail investors with heavy losses.

TRUMP

On January 17, President Donald Trump's X and Truth Social accounts introduced MEMECOIN TRUMP on the Solana blockchain platform. In just two days, TRUMP's FDV reached ATH $73 billion, with each token traded at $73 billion.

However, after First Lady Melania Trump launched her own memencoin, the TRUMP coin plummeted, losing about 50% of its value within days. The drop is attributed to competition from the MEMECOIN MELANIA and a lack of ongoing support from President Trump. Currently, Memecoin TRUMP is down 74.93% against ATH.

MELANIA

On January 19, First Lady Melania Trump's X account launched the MELANIA memento on the Solana platform. Shortly after its launch, MELANIA reached a market value of $6.14 billion within two hours. However, token allocation is unclear and security concerns have led to a rapid drop in value.

Melania later denied any involvement with the project, leading the community to question the authenticity of the memenoin. At the time of writing, the MEMECOIN MELANIA has split 10 times from the ATH level.

TST

TST (Test Token) was created as the token illustrated in the BNB Chain video tutorial. However, the community quickly discovered this token and started FOMO when it appeared in the frame of the video. What is special is that this video was later taken down, but then reposted at the direction of Changpeng Zhao (CZ).

On February 9, Binance unexpectedly listed TST on the spot platform, although CZ had previously denied any connection to the token and insisted that TST was not the platform's official token.

Just minutes after the listing announcement, TST soared 200%, reaching $0.4095. Earlier, the token rose more than 400x from the bottom, attracting up to $177 million in trading volume.

Prior to Binance Spot, on February 8, TST appeared on Binance Alpha when the token's price reached $0.08 with a market cap of $80 million. Notably, one trader turned $35,000 into $657,000, buying TST just minutes before CZ posted. At the time of writing, the TST memenoin had split 4 times from the ATH level.

BROCCOLI

The Broccoli event exploded when CZ posted a picture of the Broccoli dog, creating a wave of tens of thousands of Broccoli tokens that appeared in just 12h. Although CZ has claimed not to release memenoin, his influence has kept the FOMO community strong, pushing the volume of memenoin transactions on BNB Chain to billions of dollars.

However, most of these tokens plummeted by 70-80% after FOMO. This raises the question of whether the above memento is also a consequence of Pump & Dump times.

CARRO

On February 10, the official X account of the Central African Republic announced the launch of the MEMEcoin CAR. This project aims to support national development and attract global attention.

In the first few hours, CAR reached a market capitalization of $1 billion. However, the community began to question the authenticity of the project, including that the promotional video could be deepfake and that the project's domain had only been registered a few days earlier.

These doubts led to a drop in the value of CAR and caused bewilderment to the community. Currently, the MEMEcoin CAR has fallen 96.4% from the ATH level.

LIBRA

On February 15, Argentine President Javier Milei posted information about the Libra memento on his X social network account. LIBRA is a project that supports the national economy. LIBRA's capitalization quickly reached $5 billion. But after just a few hours, that figure dropped to $636 million.

According to on-chain data, LIBRA shows signs of liquidity withdrawal and the team is believed to have insider trading. In the face of the negative reaction from the market, President Milei deleted the post and denied it was related to the project, causing outrage and loss of trust from the community. Currently, the LIBRA memenoin has dropped 87% from ATH.

The explosion and rapid collapse of the series of memento coins in a short time raises big questions about the transparency of this market. Tokens such as TRUMP, MELANIA, TST, CAR, LIBRA, BROCCOLI all share the same pattern:

Rapidly promoted by influential figures => attracted huge cash outflows => discharged and plummeted steeply in just a few days.

The initial shills denied involvement leaving retail investors with heavy losses. Investors need to be more wary of similar projects. Because most likely it's sophisticated profit schemes that only a small group actually benefits.