HOW THE LOSS OF TIKTOK WILL AFFECT MEMECOIN MARKETS

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Aaand here we go:

Pleasant day to be a degen! Welcome to today’s edition of Hype Train, where we will be covering our staples today:

• TOP Memecoin Performances😇

• NEW PRESIDENTIAL META??😍

• WE ARE LOSING TIKTOK?!?!?! 😱

• AND………………stories that will shake your head🙈

CRYPTO STAPLES🥇^{_{*As of 10:50 am EST on January 1st}}

HYPE INDEX🐐

NEW SCHOOL OF TRADING

LARGEST TWITTER TREND🫡

I doubt it’s just me, but my X feed is full of random influencers, companies, sports teams, etc just posting a photo with the caption “Tap and hold and Load in 4K”. College sports teams, NASCAR, RapTv, have all gone viral by posting a high quality picture with this caption. Thus, $THL was created, and its hard to argue against its marketing, as all of the big names are tweeting it, so nonchalant of them and shi. Peaking at a market cap of $7 Million yesterday, but crashing down to $696 Thousand last night, now back up to $3.6 Million, $THL could be a leveragng play especially if someone like Elon will tweet it. Lowkey tho, if this trend sticks around until the inauguration (next monday), just keep your eyes peeled.

TIKTOK GOING DOWN🗣

The Supreme Court is expected to decide soon on a law that could ban TikTok in the U.S. starting January 19. The ban would prevent ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, from updating or maintaining the app unless it sells its U.S. operations. ByteDance argues this violates users' free speech rights, but the Court appears likely to side with the government, citing national security concerns.

In response, two memecoins have gained attention with the same ticker of $TikTok. Elon’s TikTok has surged 141% to a market cap of $231 thousand, fueled by speculation that Elon Musk could acquire TikTok's U.S. business. Justice for TikTok is at a $1.1 million market cap, down 32 percent today from its $5.7 million peak. With TikTok's 170 million U.S. users and a growing influencer economy at risk, these coins highlight the uncertainty and speculation surrounding the platform's potential ban. I mean….if the rizzler is saying something…it’s going to get done.

Stack (BITCLOUT but way better) just launched + Hype Users got an airdrop

Stack is a new app for trading friends and creators, think BitClout 2.0 but with memecoins. Stack turns people into their own cryptocurrency and creates a global popularity contest. 

How Stack works: 

• Everyone automatically has their own coin/profile (as long as you have an ETH wallet address)

  • This means you default have one of yourself (check it out for yourself by pasting your wallet address here: https://www.stack.so/market?tab=search 

• It’s traded on a bonding curve (so kinda like pumpfun, but for people)

• Once your coin hits a ~10ETH market cap (~$32k) the coin graduates and can be traded on Hype/Uniswap/etc.

Stack and Hype are for the PEOPLE

Stack has partnered up with Hype & airdropped the top 100 Hype clients with $JESSE, the first token on Stack to graduate.

$JESSE represents the personal reputation and brand of Jesse Pollak, the Head of Base. Check out Jesse’s Stack profile here. 

UFD CLOSE TO HITTING AN ATH!

Unicorn Fart Dust ($UFD), the Solana based meme coin launched by old YouTuber Ronald Branstetter as a joke, has bounced back to a $223 million market cap, up from its recent low of $58 million, and ATH of $280 Million. The token, initially created to mock the hype around speculative crypto because Ron was too old to be a crypto degen, has unexpectedly become a sensation and is now the second most mentioned memecoin on X, trailing only Dogecoin.

Despite its satirical roots, $UFD’s growth has been fueled by Branstetter’s transparent approach and a community that thrives on the absurdity of the project. It’s nice to see the boomers get shut up about crypto and digital assets in general, especially when the entire community rallies around each other, wholesome af. Also, Ron has been getting a lot of questions from the media, and he even put the CA in his X bio with over 40k followers, perchance.

FIRST CRYPTO PRESIDENT

The president meta was started with $USDT (ultra sigma donald trump), and is continuing with $FCP, standing for First Crypto President. Up 5,690% to a 4.1 Million market cap today, $FCP is leveraging Trumps attention because after all, memecoins are ATTENTION MARKETS.

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That’s all for today’s edition, see you degens tomorrow!

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