The $135M Secret Hiding in Plain Sight
- Mike Adamemes
- Dec 4, 2025
- 2 min read
While CT is busy chasing “the next 100x” like their life depends on it, the real math is sitting quietly in the corner… grinning. That’s where the real degens are looking, not where TikTok screams, but where the numbers quietly whisper.
That’s basically what @K41P0NE did in that post you’ve already seen screenshotted a hundred times:
Top 20 Cardano meme coins = $134,939,329 total market cap.That’s it.
For the entire top 20. 🤯
Meanwhile, on other chains, a single half-baked dog or random fruit can sprint to a billion on vibes and a TikTok clip.
Memes With History, Not Just Hype
Here’s the part most people sleep on:
A bunch of those Cardano memes have 1+ year of history
Communities survived multiple nukes, drama cycles, and zero-volume weeks
Most of them still sit at valuations that would be rounding errors elsewhere
These aren’t 2-day casino tickets.They’re basically mid-caps in micro-cap clothing.
That’s what “asymmetric risk/reward” actually looks like outside a viral thread:
Downside is limited by already-compressed caps
Upside is what happens if just a small chunk of meme liquidity rotates in
Why Nobody Notices (Yet)
Cardano has a weird curse:The tech and governance people actually build, so the meme narrative always feels one cycle late.
Fees are low
Tools like snek.fun make discovering and tracking memes stupidly easy
Communities are sticky, they don’t just migrate to the next shiny launchpad every week
But because it doesn’t explode overnight, CT writes it off as a “boomer chain” and goes back to chasing whatever launched 14 minutes ago.
That’s the opening.
What @K41P0NE Is Really Pointing At
We see the same thing @K41P0NE is pointing at:
A whole meme ecosystem priced like an afterthought,but behaving like it’s already in the majors.
You’ve got:
Multi-chain traders quietly farming entries
Builders using memes as onboarding, not exit liquidity
And a total top-20 cap that one decent rotation could 3–5x without breaking a sweat
Does that guarantee a 100x? Of course not.
But if you’re going to play the degen game anyway, you might as well play it where the odds aren’t completely cooked.
Because somewhere inside that $135M “rounding error,” a few future monsters are already doing push-ups in the bear market, while CT is still doomscrolling and FOMO-ing into the seventh dog-with-a-hat this week.
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