A year ago Solana was printing a fresh $100 MILLION memecoin every few days. This year you might get one every few months.
The peak was when $TRUMP launched in January 2025 and ripped to BILLIONS in hours, $SOL was trading near $290, and the trenches were printing runners non stop.
That was the high, and almost nobody knew it.
Three runners in the last six months, two back in January when $WhiteWhale crossed $100 MILLION first, then $PENGUIN ran to over $130 MILLION.
After that the liquidity drained out, and nothing else touched $100 MILLION until $TROLL in May, three and a half months later.
Nothing lasts the way it used to. They run for days now, then bleed straight back down.
SOL went from around $290 in January to about $70 today. Retail got wrecked and the money ran out.
And somehow even in these conditions, we still get to see a cultural runner like solana:9cRCn9rGT8V2imeM2BaKs13yhMEais3ruM3rPvTGpump this week.
Ansem called out Pumpfun keeping rewards from users, told the trenches he'd hand them a stimmy himself, and delivered the first real runner the space has had in months.
