Memecoins take top spot for crypto investor interest in 2024: CoinGecko
Memecoin interest in 2024 was largely directed toward Solana-based tokens, followed by those on Coinbase’s blockchain Base, according to a CoinGecko study.
Memecoins took the top spot for mindshare in the crypto space this year with almost a third of investor interest focused on the highly speculative tokens, a CoinGecko study found.
“The most popular crypto narrative in 2024 was by far the memecoin narrative,” Lim Yu Qian, a research analyst at crypto data aggregator CoinGecko, wrote in a Dec. 23 report.
Lim said a study of site traffic to CoinGecko’s token categories from Jan. 1 to Dec. 21 found that memecoins and related categories captured nearly 31% of investor interest.
“In other words, almost a third of crypto narrative interest this year was focused on more speculative opportunities with less emphasis on fundamentals,” she wrote.
Memecoins have seen huge gains and losses this year amid a wider crypto market rally that’s seen Bitcoin BTC increase 123% year-to-date. The tokens are highly speculative, are sometimes scams and their price action is usually short-lived, but some savvy traders have made quick money on them.
CoinGecko found the “main memecoin narrative” took a nearly 15% share of interest — an over six percentage point hike from 2023 — while an additional four memecoin trends were among “the top 20 crypto narratives.”
Solana memecoins came in as the fourth-largest narrative with a nearly 8% share of interest, and memecoins on Coinbase’s blockchain Base took 11th place with just over a 2% share.
Meanwhile, AI memecoins and cat-themed memecoins respectively captured around 1.5% to 1.2% of mindshare and came in 15th and 16th place.
The memecoin market cap currently stands at $113.2 billion, led by Dogecoin DOGE and Shiba Inu SHIB at $49.3 billion and $13.8 billion, respectively, CoinGecko data shows.
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AI drops from top spot in 2023, but sees more interest
Interest in artificial intelligence-related crypto tokens was the runner-up narrative to memecoins, dropping from its top spot last year.
However, AI tokens saw interest rise from 2023, catching nearly 13% of interest compared to just over 11% last year.
The “overall AI narrative and 5 other AI-related narratives” took around 15.5% of the interest share this year, with 1.17% of CoinGecko visitors having an interest in AI agents — machines capable of autonomously performing tasks on behalf of a user or another system.
The potential of AI agents was on full display when the AI ran X account “Truth Terminal” promoted the obscure memecoin GOAT, which caused the token’s value to soar to $1.3 billion.
AI agent tokens still own only a small share of the $44.8 billion AI crypto token market, which is led by Near Protocol NEAR and Internet Computer ICP.
