Topics related to meme coins accounted for over a third of all traffic on the CoinGecko platform in 2024. Artificial intelligence (AI) ranked as the second most popular theme among crypto users.
CoinGecko analysts published a report analyzing user attention distribution across various topics in 2024. Meme coins emerged as the leading crypto narrative, collectively attracting 30.67% of global investor interest across 25 subcategories.
The interest distribution for the most popular meme coin-related themes is as follows:
- meme coins overall (14.36%);
- meme coins on the Solana blockchain (7.65%);
- meme coins on the Base blockchain (2.13%);
- meme coins with AI themes (1.49%);
- cat-themed meme coins (1.19%).
Beyond meme coins, the top 10 most popular crypto narratives were:
- Artificial intelligence (12.58%).
- Real-world asset (RWA) tokenization (8.64%).
- Solana ecosystem (5.78%).
- Gaming projects (3.72%).
- Layer 1 blockchain networks (3.51%).
- Decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN) (3.38%).
- Base ecosystem (2.68%).
- Layer 2 blockchain networks (2.25%).
- Decentralized finance (DeFi) (1.87%).
- Ethereum ecosystem (1.82%).
The top 20 crypto narratives combined captured 78.72% of global investor interest. The remaining 21.28% was distributed across 180 additional themes.
The study examined interest in related materials on the CoinGecko website based on global user traffic (excluding bot traffic) between January 1 and December 21, 2024.
In March 2024, analysts at investment giant Franklin Templeton published an investor note that meme coins could deliver quick profits despite lacking utility.
