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Bonk! No, we didn’t hit you. It’s the name of a new coin. And it is a token that is launched in the decentralized organization BonkDAO, based on the Solana blockchain. Until December of this year, not many people had heard of it, except those who actively monitor the Solana development.
However, Twitter personality R89 Capital, who is quite famous in the crypto community, recently told his followers about the existence of a new (yet another, sigh) meme token. And this token (sigh again) is dedicated to the Shiba Inu dog.
R89 Capital says the token has a chance to reach $1 even though it has 100 trillion coins (usually the higher the number of tokens, the cheaper they are). In such a case, BONK would become the largest token by market capitalization, with Bitcoin second. That’s because the capitalization would reach at least $100 trillion. By comparison, Bitcoin’s capitalization is $324.81 billion as of December 26. At the moment, even DOGE, the most popular doggy coin, has not managed to reach the price of $1, only $0.07. Another popular Shiba Inu coin is Shiba Inu (SHIB) worth about $0.000008.
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Now let’s get to the hardest part. The new meme token should not be confused with another (yes, it’s complicated), better known one (to some extent). DogeBonk (DOBO) is not the same as the Bonk Inu Token (BONK) in question here today. DogeBonk is a Binance Smart Chain (BSC) token with deflationary properties and automatic yield generation
The token appeared to support the Solana community, which is going through bad times. The decentralized exchange (DeFi/DEX) protocol Serum on the Solana blockchain announced its closure, while the Solana-focused cryptocurrency wallet Phantom has added support for Ethereum and Polygon. Among the last to leave Solana were major NFT collections like DeGods and y00ts. They preferred Polygon and Ethereum. The process should be completed early next year.
All because Solana was hit by FTX collapse. About $643 million in SOL is under the control of liquidators as part of the bankruptcy process of Alameda Research (an FTX subsidiary). All of this is causing great fear among investors and companies who are trying to distance themselves from Solana, or at least not target only this blockchain as the only one.
A BONK token giveaway has been launched just before Christmas to reward everyone who is supporting the work of the Solana blockchain (NFT, art and Solana DeFi enthusiasts, developers etc.). Overall, 50% of the total number of coins will be distributed as an airdrop (free giveaway).
Dexlab, a minting lab, launchpad, and a dedicated DEX for all listings, helped create the token. Helio, the Web3 payments API, is used as an initial funding tool. Integrating airdrops, fflips, and raffles is implemented with the Famous Fox Federation.
BONK is an airdropped community dog coin (since half of all tokens will be distributed to those who support Solana blockchain in different ways) provided to a wide range of Solana NFT holders, DeFi members, 1/1 art collectors, and Solana developers.
BONK tokens are still in the process of giving away, but the token developers have already told us what percentage the community will receive:
Non-members of the Solana community can also buy BONK by following these simple video instructions below. Half of the Bonk Inu Token (BONK), i.e. 50 trillion, will be available after the airdrop completion.
The developers promise many integrations and possibly the possibility of future voting among BONK holders (usually by voting important decisions about the further development of the project are made). The project is still under active development. It is expected that the more rights and opportunities the token itself will provide, the higher its value will be. The developers have promised staking, raffles, and trading contests in the near future. Soon it will also be possible to borrow and lend BONK through the Solend protocol and this will be maintained as a raffle token for the Famous Fox Federation. The Realms/SPL Governance, the chain community platform in the Solana ecosystem, will help the Bonk Inu Token (BONK) to power governance.
According to Solscan, there are 63,165 BONK holders as of December 27.
As it has already become clear, the list of dog tokens has arrived. Now we have to remember the Bonk Inu Token (BONK), not forgetting Shiba Inu (SHIB), Dogecoin (DOGE), Dogecoin 2.0 (DOGE2), OOGI (OOGI), KOROMARU (KOROMARU), Captain Inu (CPTINU), Baby Doge Coin (BabyDoge), Doge Killer (LEASH), Dogs Of Elon (DOE), DogeBonk (DOBO) and many more.
So why do meme coins keep appearing? As you know, it is demand that creates supply.
To understand what meme tokens are and whether they are useful, Nansen researchers analyzed more than 50 projects on Ethereum. Among them are Shiba Inu, Dogelon Mars, Baby Doge Coin, Kishu Inu, Tyrant and others.
The most profitable wallet address in terms of ROI
Overall, the top 200 wallet addresses (based on ROI) spent over $160k and made a combined total of over $82M from meme token trading.
The average amount spent by each wallet was $800 and the average number of trades was just over 5.
The 213 wallet addresses were able to make over $1 million in profits by trading meme tokens.
The wallet address that generated the most net profits from trading meme tokens is the Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) bot
Interestingly, the wallet addresses in both groups of investors profited from similar tokens. But their strategies were quite different — the traders with the highest ROI made very few trades with large winnings, while those who made more than $1 million in profits made many trades with more complex strategies.
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