Creator tokens may become the new hub for overnight wealth myths
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Creator tokens may become the new hub for overnight wealth myths
Creator tokens will become the soundest and most powerful attention currency ever invented in human civilization.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsWritten by: Primitive Astronaut
Translated by: AididiaoJP, Foresight News
The meme sector in crypto Twitter is gradually dying, with people in the trenches painfully fighting over the last crumbs.
As @notthreadguy likes to say during live streams, this is a "bear casino."
By any metric, the meme sector is not in a bull market.
Yet all major cryptocurrencies are near or above their all-time highs (ATH).
In fact, the total market cap of the crypto market is at an all-time high, with more realized value and capital inflow than ever before.
Capital is locked into ETFs, CEXs (centralized exchanges), treasury companies, and so on.
Saylor, Tom Lee, Robinhood, Stripes, even the SEC—they’re all pushing prices higher. But this time, not every sector is rising with the tide.
Capital in the meme sector is nearly dried up.
As you should already know, P-normie sentiment is one of the best contrarian trading signals.
"Retail will never come back," said @Cupseyy while watching a $600k shitcoin go to zero—even with his expertise, he couldn’t identify it as a pump-and-dump.
But that’s an illusion. Summer is ending, and retail is coming back—just in a different sector.
Attention is today’s best representation of capital. This should be common sense, especially in our industry.
Still, I want to remind you: it all started with Memes.
BTC was the original Meme coin. Without those "HODL" and "Gold 2.0" memes, we wouldn't be where we are today.
Later came "hyper-bitcoinization" and "decentralized finance."
If not for those memes—or rather, shared beliefs—we would never have believed in narratives like "inflation hedge" or "store of value."
All prophecies are self-fulfilling.
Shared beliefs initially stem from a few contrarian voices until they gain wider recognition and acceptance, eventually forming large communities.
Then these communities claim the narrative, reshape it, refine it, and make it their own.
I use Murad as an example here because now everyone knows his name—not only because he was one of the most skilled narrative builders of 2024, but also because he hit viral peaks twice on CT.
He was already a central figure on CT due to that "ultimate Bitcoin debate" podcast with @APompliano.
A very different era, yet the same protagonist journey. After that podcast, everyone on CT knew who he was. Especially that legendary clip that went viral.
What actually happened was he didn’t say anything newer or more contrarian than what Bitcoin extremists had already been circulating in small circles.
He simply wove together all the narratives and memes in a one-hour podcast, using excellent communication skills to make them accessible to ordinary listeners.
So much so that it became required learning for everyone entering crypto—and a reference point for OG narrative builders.
He turned a group of beginners into professional promoters.
Creator tokens will become the soundest and most powerful attention currency ever invented in human civilization
This is where I’m guiding you to understand.
Narratives, beliefs, cult followings—they can all converge into a single person, a single token.
These beliefs and cult followings can exist across thousands of subcultures.
You choose the ones you believe in most, or simply resonate with the most. Your social and quasi-social circles influence your perception.
When someone enters unknown territory—like CT and crypto markets—they turn to the faces they recognize most: their favorite influencers.
The creator token of each of them will become the best on-chain onboarding tool. Greedy holders and hard-working believers will push these tokens to unimaginable heights.
They will be this cycle's DOGE and PEPE.
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Better revenue sharing than any Web2 monetization model
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Revenue sharing includes the audience—a concept unheard of on Web2 platforms
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It will first attract risk-taking small creators, then trigger a flywheel effect drawing bigger-name creators
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Creator tokens, though far from their final form, are a better entry point for newcomers than meme coins.
Those who successfully formulate the "secret recipe" will reap huge rewards—educating their audience, who in turn spread the word. Telling friends how they made big money by owning a piece of their favorite influencer’s brand, plus earning passive income through revenue shares.
New distribution channels
CT chooses to ignore what @pumpdotfun and @a1lon9 are building. But judge for yourselves where this is headed.
I doubt even 1% of what’s coming has been discussed on CT.
As early as July 24th in an interview with Threadguy, Alon stated his desire for Pumpfun to become a social hub and competitor to Web2 streaming platforms.
Everything remains to be done, but everything is falling into place.
There are many hints in Alon’s replies.
If you search Twitter, you’ll see many posts speculating about Pumpfun announcements, reportedly around revenue sharing models, especially creator tokens.
Specific details should be announced in the coming days, preparing for Q4.
Clearly, it may evolve to share trading fees with creator token holders—the answer seems imminent.
Coinbase’s move
@base and @coinbase are also advancing here. Zora’s strong rebound is visible to all, and it should rise even higher in the coming months thanks to Coinbase’s backing and promotion by @brian_armstrong.
Beyond that, Coinbase CEX has opened access, allowing direct purchase of any token on Base chain within the app.
This directly addresses the complaint: "Institutions won’t buy our coins." Rotation will happen eventually, and Wall Street loves paying content creators.
The Base app will begin exiting closed beta via invitation within the next two weeks, as @jessepollak stated yesterday during the @onchainsf AMA.
In short, Pumpfun and Base are quietly competing to become the first app people open every morning—even aiming to replace Web2 apps.
And creator tokens bring all the necessary ingredients and incentives for this vision to succeed.
Holdings
Of course, rug pulls won’t disappear, nor will they be solved by creator tokens. This will continue:
The solution is simple: only choose creators with a proven non-rug track record.
Don’t buy into day-one hype and launch projects.
Look for creators genuinely committed to building, even when their token drops 90%.
Most will rug—it’s just how the game is played today, even founders backed by VC funds.
A rare few who show both passion for Web2-level content craftsmanship and willingness to connect with crypto-native communities will achieve massive success.
On Pumpfun, there are respectable figures—crypto natives trying to reach mainstream, like @rasmr_eth ; @gainzy222 ; @SolJakey , etc.
But what we lack are suitable Web2-known faces integrating into CT culture.
@diddyboplive enters the scene.
This kid launched independently without help—he’s a well-known TikTok creator with 1.5 million and 650k followers on two accounts. He’s also one of the few creators whose personal supply is under 10%, fully liquid.
He self-listed without intermediaries owning his entire supply, and continues building daily on X and Pumpfun.
He could’ve started streaming on Twitch, but chose Pumpfun to gain first-mover advantage—an incentivized bet on the platform’s success.
No one sees the value of Pumpfun streamer tokens yet, but that will change once Pumpfun announces and aggressively promotes creator tokens.
They’ll have no choice but to pump them hard, making them attractive to the public and other creators alike—not to mention their race against Base and Zora.
No one saw value in a TikTok Gen-Z figure entering CT—until yesterday.
He caught the attention of that cult follower.
The SPX6900 cult follower has been trying to grow on TikTok for months.
Have you ever seen Web2 brands pay such high premiums to secure top creators as advertisers? What happens when Web3 brands enter the game?
A rare few Web2 creators who can properly bridge Web2 and Web3, blend the two cultures, and do so not just for quick cash, will achieve enormous success.
You’re seeing early signs through threadguy & phantom, @0xBreadguy & MegaETH, @beast_ico & @ProofOfPlay.
But these guys are still crypto-native.
When Diddybop made his first SPX6900 post, I foresaw a major repricing of his $DIDDYBOP token.
Creator tokens as attention currency use case.
The younger generation has historically led trends.
Murad is right—people love jokes. But there’s a non-zero chance SPX truly becomes Bitcoin for Gen-Z.
More importantly, I foresee the entire creator category undergoing massive repricing, sparking a race to transform successful Web2 creators into crypto-native ones.
Other potentially bigger creators may emerge. But in this case, Diddy has a significant first-mover advantage: he’s proven himself as a consistent builder over a long enough period.
Many tokens and projects want to become Gen-Z’s own Bitcoin.
They will be the ones reclaiming CT.
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