Key Highlights
- 25, 2025 at 8:28 pm UTC Share Cover art/illustration via CryptoSlate.
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- The year opened with a sitting president launching his own token three days before inauguration and closed with researchers proving that one of the year's “comeback stories” was controlled by a few dozen wallets. Between those bookends, 2025 turned memecoins from niche absurdity into crypto's most visible, and most embarrassing, corner.
- A sovereign leader rugpulled his citizens on Valentine's Day, an AI chatbot's fart jokes spawned a billion-dollar token, Dogecoin got two regulated ETFs, and the platform that minted 9.4 million tokens became the year's de facto casino. What made these ten tokens iconic wasn't quality or innovation, but their capacity to crystallize everything broken about the meme trade.
- Together they traced a narrative arc from political grift through AI-driven mania, celebrity fiascos, institutional crossover, and late-cycle manipulation. TRUMP and MELANIA rekindled PolitiFiOn Jan.
