Original author: Frank, PANews
The MEME market seems to be heating up again. Since mid-March, Fartcoin has bottomed out and rebounded, rising by about 349% in about a month, with the overall market value reaching nearly $985 million. At the same time, the actions of MEME whales on the chain have also attracted attention. Some whales have spent millions of dollars on Fartcoin, RFC and other MEME coins, causing the market value of related tokens to rise rapidly.
Behind these changes, on April 11, the number of active addresses on the Solana chain once again exceeded 5.1 million, approaching the peak level in January.
Is this round of MEME market boom the return of the MEME bull market or a return of hot money in a boring market? PANews conducted a data analysis on several large addresses of MEME coins that have seen large increases in recent times, hoping to find clues.
Fartcoin Analysis: Whales Entered the Market in Mid-March, with an Average Cost of About $0.62
First, after observing several tokens with high market capitalizations, PANews found that this round of MEME craze is not universal, but concentrated in several specific tokens. Most MEMEs with market capitalizations of over 100 million yuan (such as Trump, BONK, WIF, POPCAT) are still in a decline or bottom oscillation stage. Among the tokens counted by PANews, except Fartcoin, the other tokens are either new coins born in the past 1 to 2 months, or tokens that have been tepid since their issuance. The following are several tokens observed by PANews: RFC, Fartcoin, ALCH, GOHOME, DARK, House, FAT.
The token screening rule is that the market value is between 10 million and 100 million US dollars, and the tokens have seen a large increase or rebound in the market in the past 1 to 3 months. Among them, RFC, which has been very popular recently, has the largest increase, with the largest increase in the past month reaching 54 times.
The leading token in this round is Fartcoin. After hitting the bottom on March 10, Fartcoin started a new round of upward trend. Its market value once reached 948 million US dollars, making it the leader of MEME again.
From the analysis of the initial purchase time of large investors, it can be found that this round of large investors collectively entered the market from mid-March. It continued until April 10, and the entry of large investors maintained an upward trend.
Fartcoin big players’ entry time distribution
From the cost point of view, the initial purchase costs of the top 1,000 large holders are basically concentrated between 0.2 ~ 0.6 US dollars and 0.6 ~ 0.9 US dollars. Combined with the Fartcoin chart, the proportion of large holders who are still stuck at more than 1 US dollar is relatively small. And from a comprehensive analysis, the current large holders basically entered the market after the price low on March 12.
Fartcoin large holders’ holding cost distribution
In general, the initial purchase cost of Fartcoins major holders is about $0.62. Based on the current price of $0.844, these new major holders have an average profit margin of about 36%.
23% of addresses have cross-holdings, DARK and RFC follow a repetitive pattern
Overall, by comparing the top 1,000 holders of these tokens, we found that 23% of the addresses held at least two tokens. Among them, the token most held by the holders was DARK, which was created the shortest time, but 116 holders held this token repeatedly.
Secondly, RFC has the highest number of repetitions, reaching 110 times. Fartcoin has received a lot of market attention recently, and its market value is also the highest among the analyzed tokens, but it has only 76 repetitions. However, according to PANews analysis, the reason for this may be that the market value of Fartcoin has risen to a high level, and many large holders have withdrawn or changed positions. Since it is impossible to track the historical information of large holders at a specific time, we are currently unable to come up with a clear answer.
However, from the analysis of RFC and DARK, the two tokens seem to have a similar script.
First of all, in terms of the K-line chart trends of the two, except for the different creation times, other trends including callback patterns tend to be similar.
In addition, the data of repeated holdings of these two tokens by major holders are also relatively close, both above 110. In a more detailed analysis, PANews found that 75 addresses hold both DARK and RFC tokens, which is the largest number among the major holders. The second largest number is the Fartcoin and House combination, with 35 addresses holding both tokens.
Further analysis of the purchase timing of these addresses holding both RFC and DARK shows that most of the large addresses first bought these two tokens on April 13 and April 14, respectively.
From the K-line trend, April 13 was the day when RFC rose rapidly, with an increase of 65% and an amplitude of 107% on that day. On April 14, DARK ushered in a similar market, with an increase of 80% and an amplitude of 218% on that day. This sharp rise in the front and back feet seems to be a move by the main force to change the car and raise the price.
Date of the first major purchase distribution of RFC
DARK’s main initial purchase distribution date
Of course, it should be noted that the market value of RFC has reached a maximum of 138 million US dollars, while the maximum market value of DARK is only 23 million US dollars. It seems that the big players behind this are not the absolute dominant force in the market, or the main players have different expectations for the two tokens. Therefore, it cannot be assumed that DARK can replicate the market value scale of RFC.
In addition, token combinations such as Fartcoin, House or DARK, House also appear quite a few times in the holdings of large investors.
“Artificial Cow” Loves MEME Culture and AI
In the overall data, the total holding amount of these large holders of duplicate positions in these 7 tokens is about 100 million US dollars (excluding the holdings of several major exchanges such as Gate, Bitget, Raydium, etc.), accounting for 8.47% of the market value of these tokens.
As of the early morning of April 16, these tokens have generally experienced a certain correction. Among them, FAT has pulled back 72.51% from its high point, House has pulled back 50%, and the overall average pullback is 37.12%. Among them, only ALCH has a smaller pullback. From the nature of this project, it is the only AI-related token with practical applications. However, from a cyclical perspective, ALCH may just be in the stage of market rotation and has not yet entered the selling cycle.
Behind this round of MEME rise, there seem to be some traces of an artificial MEME bull market. KOL @MasonCanoe said on Twitter that the whale address of the RFC rise is related to the addresses of TRUMP, VIRTUAL, LIBRA and other tokens that have market-making behaviors before, and is also related to several addresses that have been ambushing on RFC for a long time. Based on this, @MasonCanoe believes that the rise of RFC is by no means accidental, and it may be a signal of the careful layout of the big funds behind it.
Judging from the performance of the data, MEME on the Solana chain does seem to be attracting market attention again under the impetus of some whales. However, since this pull effect does not benefit all MEME tokens, the trend can only be determined by tracking the real-time dynamics of these main funds. In addition, judging from the classification of several tokens, cat, dog, and frog-themed tokens do not seem to have occupied a place in the recent rise, while AI and MEME cultural tokens have performed well.
In general, the recent round of MEME craze on the Solana chain is not a full-blown one, but is highly concentrated on a few specific tokens, among which Fartcoin, as the leader, has attracted a large number of new large investors who entered the market after mid-March. What is more noteworthy is that behind RFC and DARK, two tokens with highly similar trends, there are a large number of overlapping large addresses, and their main buying time is concentrated on April 13 and 14, when the two tokens rose sharply one after the other, which strongly suggests possible coordinated operations or major rotation behaviors. This round of rise does not seem to be a purely spontaneous market behavior, with traces of an artificial bull market, and whether this artificial rainfall can evolve into a natural influx of funds remains to be seen.
