The cryptocurrency market is still recycling old stories, with few new trends still being replaced by dominant themes in the first quarter of 2025.
According to a quarterly research report by Coingecko, Artificial Intelligence Tokens and Memocoin are the dominant crypto stories in the first quarter of 2025, accounting for 62.8% of investor interest. The AI Token won 35.7% of global investors’ interest, overtaking the memokine share of 27.1%.
Of the top 20 cipher stories for the quarter, six were in the Memocoin category, and five were AI-related.
“It appears that another new story hasn’t appeared and we’re still following trends over past quarter trends,” said Bobby Ong, co-founder and chief operating officer of Coingecko, in the X-Post on April 17th. “I think we’re all tired of repeating the same old trends.”
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Interest in Mimecoin rose sharply ahead of President Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, after launching the official Trump (Trump) Memocoin on January 18 and the official Melania (Melana) token on January 19, on the Solana Network.
However, some industry watchers are concerned that Memecoin is emitting capital from utility tokens such as Solana (SOL), limiting the price potential.
Sol has dropped by about 48% in the past three months since Trump’s inauguration.
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Memecoins “fallen off the cliff” after Libra Fiasco
The crypto industry won another hit after the collapse of the Libra token, a mimecoin approved by Argentine President Javier Mailei.
Memecoins added, “falling off a cliff” after the Libra scandal as the number of new tokens deployed in Solana’s pumps, according to the report:
“The daily tokens deployed have fallen by more than 56.3% from their peak in January and end-of-2025. The percentage of “graduated” tokens has dropped dramatically to 0.7% compared to 1.4% in 2025. ”
The Libra scandal marked the end of the “Politicam Memecoin” trend, but the industry’s most profitable traders are still hunting speculative Memecoin investments despite the end of Memecoin Supercycle.
“There’s been a recent meme surge and smart money is always happy to rain down on it,” Nansen research analyst Nikolai Sondergaard told Cointelegraph, adding that Memocoin could only be a “fun play” for smart investors.
At the end of March, a savvy trader turned his initial investment of just $2,000 at Pepe (Pepe) Memecoin to $43 million, but despite Pepe exceeding 70%, he lost out on top sales by locking in realised profits of over $10 million.
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