Memecoin Glossary

Holding a crypto position instead of selling, usually through heavy volatility.

Fear of missing out — buying late into a pump because everyone else already did.

Fear, uncertainty, and doubt — negative talk about a token, sometimes manipulation, sometimes just accurate.

A wallet big enough that its trades move the price.

The gap between the price you were quoted and the price you actually got.

All-time high — the highest price a token has ever traded.

Information with an edge — a listing, a narrative, a wallet signal — before it's priced in.

Buying fast with no research, usually on vibes.

The lowest price sellers are willing to accept — a soft support level.

Refusing to sell through drawdowns, pumps, and FUD.

Selling at the first sign of red.

A trader who takes high-variance bets on memecoins and early launches, often with minimal research.

Going vertical — a token pumping hard in a short window.

Promoting a token, usually because you hold it or got paid to promote it.

We're all gonna make it — optimism slogan, usually deployed in a red market.

Not gonna make it — the pessimistic counterpart to WAGMI.

Key opinion leader — a crypto influencer whose posts move price.

'Wrecked' — catastrophic losses from a trade, liquidation, or rug.

A cryptocurrency whose value comes from culture, community, and attention — not technical utility.

How a token's supply, distribution, and incentives are structured.

Circulating supply multiplied by price — what the token is 'worth' at today's price.

Sending tokens to a dead address so they're removed from supply forever.

Free tokens sent to eligible wallets, usually for marketing or to reward early users.

A platform for deploying new tokens with standard contracts and built-in liquidity.

A formula that sets token price from supply — more buys, higher price, automatically.

Decentralized exchange — you trade directly from your wallet against a smart contract.

Centralized exchange — a company custodies your funds and matches your trades.

Decentralized finance — lending, trading, and yield protocols running on smart contracts instead of banks.

A smart contract holding two tokens that traders swap against on a DEX.

The opportunity cost LPs eat when pooled token prices diverge from when they deposited.

Moving capital between DeFi protocols chasing the highest reward rates.

Locking tokens to secure a network or a protocol, in exchange for rewards.

The network fee you pay to have a blockchain process your transaction.

Code deployed to a blockchain that runs automatically when conditions are met.

The team exits with the money — pulls liquidity, dumps their bag, or drains the contract.

A coordinated pump to draw in buyers, then a dump by the organizers onto those buyers.

12 or 24 words that control your wallet. Anyone with them owns your funds.

Do your own research — don't trade someone else's conviction.

Not financial advice — a disclaimer on every trading take ever.

Someone stuck holding a token that's down bad with no realistic path back.