CoinGecko Identifies Meme Coins as Leading Trend Among Traders in 2024

Meme coins have emerged as the most popular narrative among crypto investors in 2024, capturing over 30% of overall interest, according to a CoinGecko report.

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The meme coin narrative was the most popular, with a combined global investor interest of 30.67% across the main meme coin narrative and 25 meme coin trends.

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In the web traffic ranking, “funny coins” took the top spot with 14.36%, marking a 6.04% increase from the previous year.

Related themes include Solana memes (7.65%), Base memes (2.13%), AI memes (1.49%), and cat memes (1.19%).

Artificial intelligence ranked second in popularity with a 15.67% share. Besides direct interest (12.58%), queries covered five related categories, with AI agents (1.17%) making it into the top 20.

In 2024, investors also showed interest in the segment of real-world asset tokenization (RWA), which ranked third with 8.64%.

Year-on-year, GameFi’s popularity fell from 10.49% to 3.72%, while investor interest in DePIN rose to 8.64%.

In terms of blockchain ecosystems, Solana’s combined figure was 14.3%, with a significant portion attributed to network-related meme coins. Similarly, Base’s share of overall interest reached 4.87%.

Ethereum, with 1.82%, surpassed Sui (1.04%) and TON (0.85%).

Earlier, the community expressed doubts about the long-term popularity of AI agents.