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ANSEM: Is the 100-Fold Surge in ANSEM Token Price Purely Hype?

Original Title: "A Group of Non-World Cup Watching On-chain Players Got Rich on ANSEM"
Original Author: Asher, Odaily Planet Daily

Yesterday, a long-lost speed pass appeared in the Solana Meme world—ANSEM. Yesterday morning, ANSEM's market cap was only about $4 million, but in less than a day, it surged past $100 million, with a current market cap of about $97 million.

The rags-to-riches story quickly spread across the internet.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a savvy investor spent 56.4 SOL coins 10 days ago to buy 25.99 million ANSEM tokens for about $4,050. As ANSEM skyrocketed, he sold all his chips yesterday, exchanging them back for 7,649 SOL coins, worth about $539,000, earning over 135 times his initial investment.

Why did ANSEM suddenly surge? What is its relationship with the well-known KOL Ansem? Can it influence other Meme coins? All of this will be explained in the following sections.

Is ANSEM Released by Ansem, and Does It Matter?

When ANSEM surged yesterday, many people's first reaction was: Did Ansem release this coin?

The answer is no.

Ansem, whose real name is Zion Thomas, is one of the most influential KOLs in the Solana Meme community. In the previous Meme craze, keywords like WIF, small Solana coins, early hype, and on-chain sentiment were closely tied to him. For many Solana players, Ansem is not just a KOL but more like the "King of Solana Memes."

However, ANSEM is not a token issued by him.

ANSEM, whose full name is The Black Bull, is a community meme in the Solana ecosystem. It is neither issued by Ansem himself nor endorsed by Ansem in any way. The token's description even explicitly states that it has no official affiliation with Ansem.

However, in the Meme market, "affiliation" is not confirmed by official statements, but rather by community consensus. With the name ANSEM out there, everyone will naturally associate it with Ansem. As long as the community is willing to create content, memes, and spread the word around this name, ANSEM will automatically be classified under Ansem-related Memes.

What's even more clever is that ANSEM's design is called The Black Bull. This name is very adept at capturing the emotions of Meme players. The Black Bull does not correspond to a specific product but rather to the market impression Ansem has always given: bullish on Solana, daring in Memes, unafraid of volatility, like a black bull standing in the trenches of the blockchain.

ANSEM did not just stop at the name. The creator sent about 65% of ANSEM's total supply to Ansem's public wallet, using on-chain holdings to forcibly link this coin with Ansem himself.

But the real reason ANSEM surged 190 times in a single day was that Ansem's tweet on X hit a sensitive nerve of the Solana Meme community—since the PUMP airdrop had not yet arrived, he decided to give some feedback to the on-chain players.

Unable to Wait for the PUMP Airdrop, the Market Pinned its Emotions on ANSEM

ANSEM truly began to attract the attention of large funds after Ansem's statement regarding the Pump.fun creator fee.

He stated on X, "I currently have no plans to issue a personal token, but I will take the creator fee earned on the Pump.fun homepage and use it for weekly random airdrops to fans." Reportedly, Ansem's income from this creator fee alone last week was about $200,000.

This statement coincidentally hit the emotional gap left by the missing PUMP airdrop.

Pump.fun made a lot of money, PUMP has already been issued, but many early users are still waiting for the airdrop. Now Ansem says he will redistribute the income he received from Pump.fun back to on-chain players, and the market easily interprets it as a simpler statement: What PUMP didn't distribute, Ansem will.

As a result, ANSEM has been thrust back into the spotlight. It is no longer just an Ansem-related Meme but has become the most direct trading target for the emotion of "Ansem rewarding on-chain players."

More importantly, yesterday Ansem continued to interact around Solana Meme, Pump.fun, and market sentiment on X, allowing this association to continue to ferment.

The Meme "Feeling" Is Back, But Remember, This Is an Emotional Plate

Ansem was able to dominate the entire network yesterday because it rose fast and hard enough. It has been a long time since a Meme coin in the Solana ecosystem was able to skyrocket from zero to over a billion dollars in market value in a single day, and it has been a long time since this kind of "from a few thousand dollars to hundreds of thousands of dollars" on-chain wealth explosion story dominated the headlines.

Of course, Ansem's rapid surge is also related to the tokenomics. The creator sent about 65% of the total ANSEM supply to the Ansem public wallet, which is equivalent to putting most of the chips in an address that the entire market is watching. With fewer actual trading chips participating from the outside, as long as there is concentrated buying pressure, the price is more easily driven up.

ANSEM caught the sentiment after the PUMP airdrop failed to materialize and also caught the excitement of Solana Meme players who had been waiting a long time for a big market move. The current rise of ANSEM is still mainly driven by emotion, consensus, and attention. Whether Ansem will continue to interact in the future, whether community enthusiasm can be maintained, and whether whale addresses will sell off are all uncertain factors. Especially in the case of a low actual circulating supply, what goes up fast also comes down faster.

As for how long this sentiment can burn, it depends on whether the community can continue to tell the story and whether the latecomers are willing to continue buying into this story.