admitting that memes have gotten so bad that there is utility in having a curation layer (which used to just happen through ct naturally) does not feel bullish memecoins long term and should probably open up a broader discussion, particularly bc market is so copytrader driven atm. we can see the issues with this through the profitable onchain trader metric being sub-10% while hyperliquid’s is 25% (i would have thought those would be flipped) coins that do well typically have a quarterback but having a singular kol give a stamp of approval to guarantee of some form of safety or vetting just feels akin to “hold a bored ape and get whitelisted for xyz mint” where there’s no real safety or guarantee. it creates a bottleneck where rather than the collective deciding what a good coin is and encouraging people to learn how to think for themselves and figure out what makes a good coin, coins become even more reliant on a small handful of people or one person dictating all of it. buy coins that someone says are good and approve with a badge on their platform or it’s not going to go up this is no different than the many (short lived) bsc seasons where for a couple weeks everyone tries to frontrun binance alpha listings, or figure out what base is going to tweet, or who vlad is going to follow. none of these games are sustainable because they rely on one person or entity to make something go up compare this to 2024 where yes interactions/listings/posts moved coins, but the focus was on the coin itself being good enough to warrant those things, not because the coin itself was KOL-bait. every coin has essentially turned into a tweet coin where traders are waiting for someone to post before they buy or sell, and I feel like a curation layer exacerbates this I’ve hit good trades participating in these types of coins (Elon coins, aster, 4, miggles etc) but the bulk of the best trades that I had last cycle were coins that had either an organic community that formed and grew or a dev/dev team that was obsessed with delivering a good product bootstrapping some form of community is a good concept but a curation layer feels like a solution that’s just kicking the can down the road or potentially making the copytrading-only (and the “this coin is gonna get ‘crimed’” thesis) issue worse. memecoins are currently going the same route that NFTs went and there needs to be a new game or a new way to play them to prevent them from going that direction, unless there’s something im missing here, and admittedly I could be missing something because some smart people that I follow think of this as a positive direction for onchain a lot of the current conditions onchain can be attributed to shaking off the bear market and most of these things can get solved with time, but if they can be solved with time, why is the solution - at its core, basically tailing a KOL - needed at all? if a curation layer were launching at a different time in the market maybe I’d have a different perspective on it, but right now it feels like it’s keeping the ship pointed in the same direction: low profitability for most, and emphasis on copytrading, teaching new coiners to only buy coins that are approved by someone with clout