{"id":21225,"date":"2025-02-17T19:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T17:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/intruder-climbs-hollywood-sign-to-promote-meme-coin\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T19:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T17:30:10","slug":"intruder-climbs-hollywood-sign-to-promote-meme-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/intruder-climbs-hollywood-sign-to-promote-meme-coin\/","title":{"rendered":"Intruder Climbs Hollywood Sign to Promote Meme Coin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 15, a man in Los Angeles climbed the Hollywood Sign with a flag promoting the meme token Vigilante (VIGI) on the Solana blockchain.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Vigilante! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iAyPoLEqrF\">pic.twitter.com\/iAyPoLEqrF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vigilante (@Vigilantetoken) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Vigilantetoken\/status\/1890947099681837320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Following the post on X, the coin&#8217;s market capitalization surged to $3.82 million, only to plummet by 71% within an hour, according to DEX Screener.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-qw.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXfVelxz-MfmVxpstxhuQIpPlYrgxVg9HbFoSl2j88EqPh59sB0Bch0XW90NiwxECR7PchQNO8DDxBJPjaD6T__13q7Lf8hkaiuBBvBR3zNmR4RuXD24JY2o9WaHzY2S4bAVv40IFg?key=eoAI--E6GY-H2ggFodF-dbeq\" alt=\"Intruder Climbs Hollywood Sign to Promote Meme Coin\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">15-minute VIGI\/SOL chart on Raydium exchange. Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/dexscreener.com\/solana\/b7lvrp3hrnhhfivptsjtaf88sbnwxljcjm4anhb8nzw8\">DEX Screener<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The individual waved a white flag featuring the token&#8217;s logo and illegible text. He was removed from the letter &#8220;D&#8221; after an hour. Later, police confirmed the young man was taken into custody, reports local news channel <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/person-waves-cryptocurrency-flag-atop-hollywood-sign\/\">KTLA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vigilante representatives <a href=\"https:\/\/pump.fun\/coin\/HeBCP2imwM8vosBqU5PBvm1PamCzWj2ch9ZhVrsLpump\">launched<\/a> the project on the Pump.fun platform on the day of the incident, announcing &#8220;the most viral marketing campaign.&#8221; According to a statement on social media, this is the first phase of their strategy, with the next event &#8220;being 10 times bigger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Next marketing stunt will be this coming up week! It will be 10x bigger!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vigilante (@Vigilantetoken) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Vigilantetoken\/status\/1891093200829386920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao revealed his Belgian shepherd&#8217;s name\u2014Broccoli, which led to the creation of dozens of meme coins with that name. Interest in the topic surged after the post, with one token&#8217;s market capitalization exceeding $150 million.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Elon Musk changed his X-profile name to Harry B\u014dlz, sparking interest in meme coins of the same name. As a result, the HARRYBOLZ token&#8217;s price soared over 400 times, but plummeted by 94% after Musk reverted to his real name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 15, a man in Los Angeles climbed the Hollywood Sign with a flag promoting the meme token Vigilante (VIGI) on the Solana blockchain. Vigilante! pic.twitter.com\/iAyPoLEqrF \u2014 Vigilante (@Vigilantetoken) February 16, 2025 Following the post on X, the coin&#8217;s market capitalization surged to $3.82 million, only to plummet by 71% within an hour, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1161],"class_list":["post-21225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-memes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"52","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}