Memecoins Down 65%: Is the Hype Finally Cooling Off?

[Memecoinst]

Hey folks, noticed how memecoins have taken a major hit this past year? According to a recent Cointelegraph piece, memecoins have dropped about 65% over the last 12 months. What started as a fun retail hype train is losing liquidity and participation, with the once hot speculative momentum cooling off big time. It’s like the Christmas cheer just faded into a cold, hard reality for these tokens. If you’ve been tracking memecoins hoping for another moon shot, it’s clear the landscape is shifting, with fewer players and less excitement driving prices. That said, the memecoin space is still evolving and some gems could bounce back if new catalysts emerge. For those wanting to keep a finger on the pulse of the latest memecoin trends and data, Memecoinist.com has been a solid resource to check out. Given how fast this sector moves, it pays to stay updated on key stats and community sentiment before jumping in. Hopefully this slowdown is just a pause before the next wave of memecoin mania hits the market again. Until then, it’s a good time to watch and learn from what’s happening.

[kisky]

Hey folks, noticed how memecoins have taken a major hit this past year? According to a recent Cointelegraph piece, memecoins have dropped about 65% over the last 12 months. What started as a fun retail hype train is losing liquidity and participation, with the once hot speculative momentum cooling off big time. It’s like the Christmas cheer just faded into a cold, hard reality for these tokens. If you’ve been tracking memecoins hoping for another moon shot, it’s clear the landscape is shifting, with fewer players and less excitement driving prices. That said, the memecoin space is still evolving and some gems could bounce back if new catalysts emerge. For those wanting to keep a finger on the pulse of the latest memecoin trends and data, Memecoinist.com has been a solid resource to check out. Given how fast this sector moves, it pays to stay updated on key stats and community sentiment before jumping in. Hopefully this slowdown is just a pause before the next wave of memecoin mania hits the market again. Until then, it’s a good time to watch and learn from what’s happening.

I agree with this take. What we’re seeing isn’t just a dip, it’s the burst of the low-liquidity memecoin bubble.
The “easy money” phase is gone: retail participation is down, liquidity is thin, and most small caps turn into exit liquidity within minutes. That makes consistent, profitable trading extremely difficult compared to previous cycles.

That said, memecoins as a sector aren’t dead — they’re evolving. Only projects with real liquidity, strong communities, or a fresh narrative seem able to survive, while random micro-memes are getting wiped out fast.

In my opinion, the next real memecoin mania won’t come from hype alone, but from a broader return of liquidity to the market. Until then, it’s more about observing sentiment and data than blindly chasing pumps.

Curious to hear others’ thoughts:
do you think this is just a pause, or are memecoins permanently shifting into a more selective, high-risk niche?

[execijutiere]

It could fall further, but purchases can be made in projects where hype is expected, albeit gradually. I believe coins like Sui and AVAX can be purchased, and these L1s will perform well in the next bull market too. We can also say that TAO has a promising outlook. Of course, the inevitable reality of this market is that altcoins will decline more than Bitcoin and Ethereum—there's nothing we can do about that. Some will diverge, but we'll see that over time.

[Dickiy]

Hey folks, noticed how memecoins have taken a major hit this past year? According to a recent Cointelegraph piece, memecoins have dropped about 65% over the last 12 months. What started as a fun retail hype train is losing liquidity and participation, with the once hot speculative momentum cooling off big time. It’s like the Christmas cheer just faded into a cold, hard reality for these tokens. If you’ve been tracking memecoins hoping for another moon shot, it’s clear the landscape is shifting, with fewer players and less excitement driving prices. That said, the memecoin space is still evolving and some gems could bounce back if new catalysts emerge. For those wanting to keep a finger on the pulse of the latest memecoin trends and data, Memecoinist.com has been a solid resource to check out. Given how fast this sector moves, it pays to stay updated on key stats and community sentiment before jumping in. Hopefully this slowdown is just a pause before the next wave of memecoin mania hits the market again. Until then, it’s a good time to watch and learn from what’s happening.

I see this as a point of saturation of traders with meme coin, because they can always be manipulated and traders and investors are reluctant to throw their money into such projects. So I expected that the trend of meme coin will no longer be attractive, in an ecosystem where there are more innovations, of course it is much more attractive because it has a utility that can be offered.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

That said, the memecoin space is still evolving and some gems could bounce back if new catalysts emerge.

What's that catalyst going to be? There's no catalyst, the memecoins are working with a pump and dump algorithm, after creating a memecoin, the team earns their benefit from the project and leave it to die, after which they go ahead to create a new project with another name, that's how the circle is kept. Only some retail investors are able to make profits while many of them lose their money. The whales that have inside information makes more money and the team as well. If you want to get into memecoins, but with the money you can afford to lose.

[justinlamode]

Memecoins rises fastest due to hype at the peak of which is the time to sell because when the hype dies, it takes a lot of effort to stop the decline. In other words, the dump happens as fast as the rise if not even faster especially when the big capital that sustained the hype begins to take profit. The uncertainty in memecoins is the reason its best to only invest what one can afford to lose in memecoin.

[Josefjix]

I doubt to see any memecoins bouncing back to its fit after many months of downfall except for those been backed by bigger ventures and listed on top priority centralized exchange. The only memecoins that seems to be doing pretty well are the newly launched memecoins where they continue doing good for as long as the lasted on for 48 hours.

After this period, memecoins start decreasing in value untill the volume in it disappears out of the market, and that's how the movement of memecoins had been this period nowadays.

[nelson4lov]

The memecoin top was im after the TRUMP and Melania launches. Those series of events that happened in Q1 of 2025 messed up the industry and it dried up most of the liquidity there was for memecoins. There was just were too much extraction and then everything hit the fan when they tried to do it again using Argentinan president at the time as front person to maximally extract. That's what crippled the crypto memecoin market because it drove the last remaining memecoin retail moonboys away.

[TastyChillySauce00]

The memecoin top was im after the TRUMP and Melania launches. Those series of events that happened in Q1 of 2025 messed up the industry and it dried up most of the liquidity there was for memecoins. There was just were too much extraction and then everything hit the fan when they tried to do it again using Argentinan president at the time as front person to maximally extract. That's what crippled the crypto memecoin market because it drove the last remaining memecoin retail moonboys away.

Agreed, that time when $trump and $melania launches it literally sucked the liquidity out of most coin that every meme coin are dumping so hard and losing big fraction of their market cap.

After that people just gone full degen on pumpfun and getting rugged both their money and their soul.
Meme coin going down is not just because hype is cooling off but because people are also robbed of their money. When people got rugged they will never come back to memecoin again.

[JeffBrad12]

Handful of people realized meme coin is actually useless and decided to ditch it is most likely the culprit. Some of them are preparing for the next bear cycle because meme coin will become dust at that time.
Other reason is everybody trade perp these days and thus there is no need for meme coin to exist when you can trade BTC on 1000x leverage. Same volatility same opportunity minus the rug pull. Sounds like a better deal    .

[tech30338]

Hey folks, noticed how memecoins have taken a major hit this past year? According to a recent Cointelegraph piece, memecoins have dropped about 65% over the last 12 months. What started as a fun retail hype train is losing liquidity and participation, with the once hot speculative momentum cooling off big time. It’s like the Christmas cheer just faded into a cold, hard reality for these tokens. If you’ve been tracking memecoins hoping for another moon shot, it’s clear the landscape is shifting, with fewer players and less excitement driving prices. That said, the memecoin space is still evolving and some gems could bounce back if new catalysts emerge. For those wanting to keep a finger on the pulse of the latest memecoin trends and data, Memecoinist.com has been a solid resource to check out. Given how fast this sector moves, it pays to stay updated on key stats and community sentiment before jumping in. Hopefully this slowdown is just a pause before the next wave of memecoin mania hits the market again. Until then, it’s a good time to watch and learn from what’s happening.

As you can see overall market is not doing well meaning the memecoins will also go down, because the primary tokens are down, they will follow the trend especially if the memecoin has no future plans and only riding on hype or no usecase, this why people are not recommend to invest in this tokens, not only meme are more likely to be rig but also manipulated by people who have large part of the tokens, if you are looking for investment or investing don't run on memecoins.

[coin-investor]

Curious to hear others’ thoughts:
do you think this is just a pause, or are memecoins permanently shifting into a more selective, high-risk niche?

We can only say it's dying or losing its appeal to investors when other coins are going up, and the market is on a bull run.
I'm not defending memes. I also wish that they would be gone so it can stop investors from losing money, but as long as we have investors who love high-risk narrative-based speculative coins, it will still stay until they find a trend that is much better than memes to speculate.
If the same scenario happens again and the market becomes robust, then the statement in the OP's title becomes clearer.