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Vitalik’s cat, Toly’s dragon, this Meme focuses on the founders’ pets...

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There is no technology, no reason, just emotion.

Original title: "Vitalik's cat, Toly's dragon, when this generation of memes targets founders' pets..."

Original source: Deep Tide TechFlow

No assets, we create assets; no narrative, we make narrative.

There is no better way to describe the frenzy around NFTs in the cryptocurrency market this year than with this sentence -- anti-VC, asset creation, consensus building, and the result is a strong FOMO.

And outside of the inscriptions, the flying Meme coins follow a similar logic. Meme coins with animal shapes such as chickens, dogs, monkeys, and frogs are emerging endlessly, and have seen astonishing growth in the recent bull market.

However, the recipe for success for this generation of memes is somewhat different.

Different from the previous animal frenzy that simply promoted the names and images of animals, this lively Meme zoo focuses on more specific targets:

They began to study the pets raised by the founders of the Web3 project.

Vitalik's cat, Toly's dragon

Scour the founders' Twitter or other social media accounts. If you find that they have shown off their pets, create a meme coin with a name and image similar to the pet. Then the market will start paying attention to this coin due to the heat associated with the founder, and it may even trigger a short-term FOMO effect.

For example, just before the publication of this article, a cat-themed meme coin called Hemule topped the trading heat map of Dexscreen, and related smart money monitoring tools showed a continuous increase in the purchasing address.

And Hemule, the name that corresponds to it, is precisely the cat that Vitalik himself raises.

Vitalik once printed this cat on his clothes to show his love; and Vitalik's mother has also shared many cute moments of this Hemule on Ins.

Meanwhile, the issuer of Hemule token also appears to be very knowledgeable, as they proactively transferred coins to Vitalik Buterin after the token was issued, actively demonstrating that "we are related to V God's cat concept".

So, Hemule went up. No technology, no reason, just emotions.

And Hemule's pet Meme effect is not an isolated case.

One week ago, a similar story was also happening in the Avalanche ecosystem --- Kevin Sekniqi, co-founder of Avalanche, had his beloved dog Bear memed.

Kevin once posted a photo of his pet dog Bear on social media, which caused a buzz around the token with the same name, BEAR, at that time.

In addition, last week's avalanche ecological project was in a recovery boom, and the Fomo sentiment continued to increase, ultimately pushing up the price of BEAR in the short term.

There is a coincidence in the Solana ecosystem that has attracted attention. Meme coin has also formed a wonderful connection with its founder.

On last Saturday, a Meme project named Silly Dragon suddenly caught the attention of Toly (aeyakovenko), the founder of Solana.

Interestingly, if you take a closer look at Toly's Twitter profile picture, you can see that it is also a dragon image similar to Silly Dragon's cartoon image.

This has been understood by the community and the market as a hint and support from Toly to Silly Dragon. The relevant screenshots have been widely circulated as "supporting evidence".

Although it is obvious that the dragon is not a pet that Toly can raise on his own, the market has long seen the connection between Toly and this dragon.

Wearing a dragon on oneself may be more effective than just keeping it as a pet.

During a public conference, Toly once cosplayed a dragon costume, wearing a green dragon coat, which is consistent with his cartoon avatar on Twitter.

Although these scattered photos do not directly reflect the connection between Solana founder and Silly Dragon, the existence of these materials brings Silly Dragon, whose symbols and shapes are the same, closer to Toly Station.

Meanwhile, due to next year being the Year of the Dragon in China, this narrative is also more likely to be welcomed in the domestic community.

After Toly followed Silly Dragon for just 1-2 hours, the Silly token experienced an exaggerated increase of nearly 10 times.

And capturing this increase may not require you to be proficient in technology, but rather may require you to closely monitor the actions of social media.

Other ecosystems have also seen the emergence of meme coins related to the project founder's pets or hobbies, such as Sui's Uni Wonder Dog, which points to its founder's pet dog. However, due to the lack of significant growth in these tokens, they have not received as much attention as the previously mentioned ones.