YOUR DECK

• Launch: $15K MC when played.
• Pump: $8K MC every turn.

Before BONK, before WIF, before any of it. Somebody had to go first.

• Launch: $17K MC when played.
• Pump: $8K MC every turn.

No team to speak of. A group of people who decided they were the project.

• Launch: $24K MC when played.
• Pump: $15K MC every turn.
• Draw a card.

The pitch was that holding it would teach you how the chain worked.

• Launch: $26K MC when played.
• Pump: $14K MC every turn.

The month everything on Solana was up and nobody could explain why.

• Launch: $38K MC when played.
• Pump: $24K MC every turn.
• Each of your projects gets 1 holder back.
• When you are $600K or more behind: You gain $180K MC.

Down ninety-nine percent and the group chat never actually closed.

• Launch: $36K MC when played.
• Pump: $26K MC every turn.

Four years later it is still there, which almost nothing from then is.

• Launch: $15K MC when played.
• Pump: $8K MC every turn.

Named after the dog of the man who built the chain. That is how deep this goes.

• Launch: $17K MC when played.
• Pump: $8K MC every turn.

The month the whole chain woke up, and every dog on it went with it.

• Launch: $24K MC when played.
• Pump: $14K MC every turn.

After BONK and WIF there was one more, and for a while that was enough.

• Launch: $25K MC when played.
• Pump: $15K MC every turn.

An exchange nobody expected picked it up, and the chart did the rest.

• Launch: $39K MC when played.
• Pump: $24K MC every turn.

Weeks of up, on nothing but a dog and a good winter.

• Launch: $37K MC when played.
• Pump: $25K MC every turn.
• Each of your projects gets 1 holder back.

Some of it is still sitting in wallets that have not moved since.

• Launch: $14K MC when played.
• Pump: $9K MC every turn.

There was going to be a sloth. That part went fine.

• Launch: $16K MC when played.
• Pump: $9K MC every turn.
• You lose $4K MC.

Ten million dollars raised in an afternoon by a man with a plan.

• Launch: $21K MC when played.
• Pump: $18K MC every turn.
• You lose $9K MC.

He burned the mint authority with the presale still inside it.

• Launch: $20K MC when played.
• Pump: $19K MC every turn.
• You lose $11K MC.

Not a rug. Not a hack. A wrong click, on a livestream.

• Launch: $36K MC when played.
• Pump: $28K MC every turn.
• You lose $14K MC.

The trenches decided a mistake that big deserved a market cap.

• Launch: $39K MC when played.
• Pump: $26K MC every turn.
• Draw 2 cards.

He got on a call and explained. Half a billion dollars was listening.

• Launch: $13K MC when played.
• Pump: $8K MC every turn.
• $10K more marketing budget this turn.

An address posted on a timeline, and a clock. That was the whole mechanism.

• Launch: $14K MC when played.
• Pump: $8K MC every turn.
• $12K more marketing budget this turn.

No cap, no whitelist, no allocation. Send it before the window shuts.

• Launch: $21K MC when played.
• Pump: $13K MC every turn.
• $32K more marketing budget this turn.

169,982 of them, from people who had never met him.

• Launch: $23K MC when played.
• Pump: $14K MC every turn.
• $36K more marketing budget this turn.

Thirty million dollars in a day, for a drawing.

• Launch: $34K MC when played.
• Pump: $22K MC every turn.
• You lose $13K MC.

The money was in. The pool was not. Nothing moved for days.

• Launch: $30K MC when played.
• Pump: $26K MC every turn.
• You lose $17K MC.

Under a SOL or past the cutoff got it back. Some of it twice, some not at all.

• Launch: $12K MC when played.
• Pump: $10K MC every turn.

Born in a zoo in Thailand. That is the entire origin story.

• Launch: $13K MC when played.
• Pump: $10K MC every turn.

Millions of views of a small hippo being slippery.

• Launch: $22K MC when played.
• Pump: $17K MC every turn.
• $30K more marketing budget this turn.

Fourteen days from an animal video to a nine-figure market cap.

• Launch: $23K MC when played.
• Pump: $16K MC every turn.
• Each of your projects pumps more per turn: meme $4K.

You could not open a screen without seeing it for about a month.

• Launch: $37K MC when played.
• Pump: $26K MC every turn.
• You gain 12% market cap.

The listings came before most people had learned the name.

• Launch: $39K MC when played.
• Pump: $25K MC every turn.
• Each of your projects pumps more per turn: meme $6K.

Half a billion dollars for a hippo that does not know it exists.

• Launch: $14K MC when played.
• Pump: $9K MC every turn.

A dog in a jumper, hands in pockets, entirely unbothered.

• Launch: $15K MC when played.
• Pump: $8K MC every turn.

No thesis, no promise. A feeling with a ticker on it.

• Launch: $23K MC when played.
• Pump: $15K MC every turn.
• Draw a card.

Reposted so far that the artist lost track of where it went.

• Launch: $25K MC when played.
• Pump: $15K MC every turn.
• Cancels the opponent's biggest influencer or tool.

He filed to take it down. The internet does not work that way.

• Launch: $39K MC when played.
• Pump: $24K MC every turn.
• Cancels the opponent's biggest influencer or tool.

Then somebody took his account and launched more of them.

• Launch: $41K MC when played.
• Pump: $23K MC every turn.
• You gain $26K MC.

Every attempt to end it was another day on the front page.

• Launch: $15K MC when played.
• Pump: $11K MC every turn.

There is no roadmap. There was never going to be a roadmap.

• Launch: $14K MC when played.
• Pump: $11K MC every turn.

No utility, stated up front, in the ticker, as the whole pitch.

• Launch: $25K MC when played.
• Pump: $18K MC every turn.

Every other coin lied about having a product. This one did not.

• Launch: $24K MC when played.
• Pump: $19K MC every turn.

No team, no treasury, no announcements. Just holders.

• Launch: $39K MC when played.
• Pump: $28K MC every turn.

From nothing to hundreds of millions, on absolutely nothing.

• Launch: $41K MC when played.
• Pump: $27K MC every turn.
• Draw 2 cards.

The people who bought it simply took over running it.

• Launch: $12K MC when played.
• Pump: $11K MC every turn.

No utility, no roadmap, no pretence. A monkey, and a cigarette.

• Launch: $13K MC when played.
• Pump: $11K MC every turn.

It started before the season everyone remembers, and it was still there after.

• Launch: $19K MC when played.
• Pump: $18K MC every turn.

Every chart it was on had the same people underneath it.

• Launch: $20K MC when played.
• Pump: $19K MC every turn.
• Each of your projects gets 1 holder back.

January, and you could have had the whole thing for nine tenths of a cent.

• Launch: $32K MC when played.
• Pump: $29K MC every turn.

A year of it, not a weekend. That is the part nobody screenshots.

• Launch: $33K MC when played.
• Pump: $30K MC every turn.
• Each of your projects gets 1 holder back.

For a while it sat in the top ten with coins that had a hundred staff.

• Launch: $14K MC when played.
• Pump: $9K MC every turn.

Another frog. There is always another frog.

• Launch: $23K MC when played.
• Pump: $15K MC every turn.
• Draw a card.

A whole token named after the only question anyone asks.

• Launch: $16K MC when played.
• Pump: $8K MC every turn.

Nobody could explain it. It ran anyway.

• Launch: $14K MC when played.
• Pump: $9K MC every turn.

It was a picture collection first. The coin came later and the people came first.

• Launch: $16K MC when played.
• Pump: $8K MC every turn.

No roadmap, no utility, no team. A group chat that got out of hand.

• Launch: $23K MC when played.
• Pump: $15K MC every turn.

Printed for the people who were already there, which is why it held.

• Launch: $26K MC when played.
• Pump: $14K MC every turn.
• Draw a card.

They rented a venue in Los Angeles. For an internet joke.

• Launch: $38K MC when played.
• Pump: $24K MC every turn.

Anonymous accounts turning out to be people, in a room, wearing the merch.

• Launch: $36K MC when played.
• Pump: $26K MC every turn.
• Each of your projects gets 1 holder back.

The chart went down and the group chat did not get quieter.

• Launch: $14K MC when played.
• Pump: $9K MC every turn.

One letter, changed early, and the second name is the one that stuck.

• Launch: $16K MC when played.
• Pump: $8K MC every turn.

A frog with the proportions wrong. Getting it right would have ruined it.

• Launch: $23K MC when played.
• Pump: $15K MC every turn.

The month it went from a picture in a group chat to a line on every screen.

• Launch: $26K MC when played.
• Pump: $14K MC every turn.

Not a typo, and not the only coin doing it that autumn either.

• Launch: $39K MC when played.
• Pump: $24K MC every turn.

For a season you said it in the same breath as the dogs, and nobody blinked.

• Launch: $36K MC when played.
• Pump: $26K MC every turn.
• Each of your projects pumps more per turn: meme $6K.

The frog turned up in avatars belonging to people who never bought it.

• Launch: $13K MC when played.
• Pump: $8K MC every turn.
• You gain $9K MC.

One man posted a drawing of himself sitting forward. Billions moved.

• Launch: $15K MC when played.
• Pump: $8K MC every turn.

Pixel monkeys, on a chain nobody outside it had heard of yet.

• Launch: $17K MC when played.
• Pump: $8K MC every turn.

The mint price, back when that was about forty dollars.

• Launch: $24K MC when played.
• Pump: $15K MC every turn.

Every other collection was priced by how far below this one it sat.

• Launch: $25K MC when played.
• Pump: $14K MC every turn.

The second generation, and the first argument about which one counted.

• Launch: $39K MC when played.
• Pump: $23K MC every turn.

A number people checked the way you check the weather.

• Launch: $36K MC when played.
• Pump: $25K MC every turn.
• Each of your projects pumps more per turn: NFT $6K.

There was a whole year here where the chain was pictures, not tickers.

• Launch: $14K MC when played.
• Pump: $8K MC every turn.

A cat opening its mouth. That was the entire product.

• Launch: $13K MC when played.
• Pump: $8K MC every turn.
• Draw a card.

A website where you click a cat. Millions of people did.

• Launch: $23K MC when played.
• Pump: $14K MC every turn.
• Each of your projects pumps $4K MC more per turn.

Whole countries competing to click a cat the most. Genuinely.

• Launch: $25K MC when played.
• Pump: $15K MC every turn.
• Each of your projects gets 1 holder back.

They did not sell. That was the whole strategy and it worked.

• Launch: $40K MC when played.
• Pump: $22K MC every turn.
• Draw 2 cards.

The kind of stupid that spreads faster than anything with a use.

• Launch: $38K MC when played.
• Pump: $24K MC every turn.
• Each of your projects pumps $7K MC more per turn.

Somewhere along the way a cat became a top three Solana meme.

• Launch: $14K MC when played.
• Pump: $9K MC every turn.

That is the picture. That is the entire creative brief.

• Launch: $15K MC when played.
• Pump: $9K MC every turn.

Every meme on the chain was a dog. Being a cat was the position.

• Launch: $24K MC when played.
• Pump: $15K MC every turn.
• Draw a card.

No dev to blame and no dev to wait for. It ran itself.

• Launch: $25K MC when played.
• Pump: $16K MC every turn.
• Each of your projects pumps more per turn: meme $4K.

The exchanges came for the cat once the dogs were expensive.

• Launch: $38K MC when played.
• Pump: $25K MC every turn.
• Each of your projects pumps more per turn: meme $6K.

For a month the cats outran the dogs and nobody could say why.

• Launch: $40K MC when played.
• Pump: $24K MC every turn.
• You gain $26K MC.

It finished ahead of coins with ten times the noise behind them.

• Launch: $16K MC when played.
• Pump: $8K MC every turn.

Somebody made a jaw in a 3D program. The internet did the rest.

• Launch: $15K MC when played.
• Pump: $9K MC every turn.

Nine years of a single image meaning one thing to everybody.

• Launch: $26K MC when played.
• Pump: $14K MC every turn.

No founder to interview, no roadmap to miss. Just the face.

• Launch: $27K MC when played.
• Pump: $15K MC every turn.
• You gain $14K MC.

A whole worldview compressed into one syllable and a chin.

• Launch: $42K MC when played.
• Pump: $22K MC every turn.
• You gain $30K MC.

Up and up, on nothing, for months, against everybody's model.

• Launch: $40K MC when played.
• Pump: $24K MC every turn.
• Each of your projects gets 1 holder back.

The chart has almost no wicks down. That is a community, not luck.

• Launch: $18K MC when played.
• Pump: $7K MC every turn.

A photographer with a following decided to make a coin.

• Launch: $19K MC when played.
• Pump: $7K MC every turn.

The pitch was archiving memes forever. Nobody was here for that.

• Launch: $31K MC when played.
• Pump: $12K MC every turn.
• $40K more marketing budget this turn.

No contract, no site. An address in a post, and people sent it.

• Launch: $30K MC when played.
• Pump: $13K MC every turn.
• You gain $16K MC.

Zero to a billion dollars in four days, which was a record.

• Launch: $46K MC when played.
• Pump: $20K MC every turn.
• You gain $32K MC.

Days old, no product, and on the largest exchange in the world.

• Launch: $44K MC when played.
• Pump: $21K MC every turn.
• Takes 8% of the opponent's MC.

People are still arguing about the wallets. They will not stop.

• Launch: $38K MC when played.
• Pump: $24K MC every turn.
• Takes 6% of the opponent's MC.

A rapper out-traded the trenches and never let anyone forget it.

• Launch: $16K MC when played.
• Pump: $9K MC every turn.

The first one had not finished going up when this landed.

• Launch: $17K MC when played.
• Pump: $8K MC every turn.

A single announcement and every chart on Solana turned red.

• Launch: $26K MC when played.
• Pump: $14K MC every turn.
• The opponent loses 9% market cap.

There was only ever one pot of money. Now it was two.

• Launch: $25K MC when played.
• Pump: $15K MC every turn.
• The opponent loses 10% market cap.

TRUMP never recovered its high. This is why.

• Launch: $40K MC when played.
• Pump: $23K MC every turn.
• The opponent loses 11% market cap.

By now nobody was surprised, which was its own kind of milestone.

• Launch: $38K MC when played.
• Pump: $24K MC every turn.
• Takes 9% of the opponent's MC.

Somebody was buying before the post. It was on the screen for anyone.

• Launch: $16K MC when played.
• Pump: $8K MC every turn.

Every swap you have ever made probably went through it.

• Launch: $15K MC when played.
• Pump: $9K MC every turn.

It quietly checked every pool so you did not have to.

• Launch: $25K MC when played.
• Pump: $15K MC every turn.
• Draw 2 cards.

An airdrop every January, to people who had already stopped hoping.

• Launch: $27K MC when played.
• Pump: $14K MC every turn.
• $35K more marketing budget this turn.

It started launching other people's tokens, and they went.

• Launch: $41K MC when played.
• Pump: $23K MC every turn.
• Each of your projects pumps more per turn: DeFi $6K.

Leverage on chain, and the liquidations to go with it.

• Launch: $38K MC when played.
• Pump: $24K MC every turn.
• Draw 2 cards.

Governance so loud it made the news more than the product did.

• Launch: $16K MC when played.
• Pump: $8K MC every turn.

Two tokens in a box, and a price that comes out of the ratio.

• Launch: $15K MC when played.
• Pump: $9K MC every turn.

It was here before the memes and it will be here after.

• Launch: $27K MC when played.
• Pump: $15K MC every turn.
• Draw a card.

Every token that made it off the curve landed here first.

• Launch: $25K MC when played.
• Pump: $16K MC every turn.
• $34K more marketing budget this turn.

For one winter it earned more than almost anything on the chain.

• Launch: $39K MC when played.
• Pump: $24K MC every turn.
• Each of your projects pumps more per turn: DeFi $6K.

Losing the flow to a rival is a reason to become the rival.

• Launch: $41K MC when played.
• Pump: $22K MC every turn.
• Each of your projects gets 1 holder back.

pump.fun opened its own pool and the volume simply left.

• Launch: $15K MC when played.
• Pump: $9K MC every turn.

A trading interface that did not look like a Bloomberg terminal.

• Launch: $16K MC when played.
• Pump: $8K MC every turn.

Concentrated liquidity, explained in words a person could follow.

• Launch: $25K MC when played.
• Pump: $15K MC every turn.
• $32K more marketing budget this turn.

It took less, said so plainly, and kept the volume anyway.

• Launch: $24K MC when played.
• Pump: $16K MC every turn.
• Each of your projects gets 1 holder back.

Years of running money with no incident anybody remembers.

• Launch: $39K MC when played.
• Pump: $24K MC every turn.
• Each of your projects pumps more per turn: DeFi $6K.

Size that goes through without moving the price against you.

• Launch: $41K MC when played.
• Pump: $22K MC every turn.
• $50K more marketing budget this turn.

A chunk of the treasury went to people building next to it.

• Launch: $14K MC when played.
• Pump: $11K MC every turn.

Twenty times your money, from a browser tab, at three in the morning.

• Launch: $13K MC when played.
• Pump: $11K MC every turn.

Liquidity that did not have to exist for the trade to happen.

• Launch: $22K MC when played.
• Pump: $19K MC every turn.
• Each of your projects gets 1 holder back.