Meme coins are no longer limited to ironic logos and hype waves. In 2025, some of them underwent a transformation — from speculative assets to functional projects with real architecture.
Dogecoin and Shiba Inu set the tone, but now on the scene — FLOKI, $NEIRO, $ACT. FLOKI is developing an educational platform and DeFi tools, $NEIRO is experimenting with on-chain identity, and $ACT is building AI infrastructure on top of Ethereum. These tokens are no longer just 'memes', but nodes of an ecosystem.
The key driver is the community. Memecoins with a strong user base scale more easily: they gather liquidity faster, test new features more actively, and are more resilient to market pullbacks. Market makers, including Wintermute, are already treating memecoins as full-fledged assets: $NEIRO, for example, received support in the futures market after its capitalization rose to $290 million.
For the trader, this is a signal. Memecoins 2.0 provide access to the early phases of new solutions, but require filtering: it is important to distinguish architectural projects from the next 'pumps'. The criteria are the presence of a roadmap, on-chain activity, integrations, and transparent tokenomics.
The evolution of memecoins is not just a trend, but a new entry point. And it is already working.
