meme coin

English

Noun

meme coin (plural meme coins)

  1. (cryptocurrencies) A cryptocurrency created as a joke.
    Coordinate term: altcoin
    • 2021, Eswar S. Prasad, The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 188:
      Struck by the absurdity of such meme coins, in August 2020 a programmer named Jordan Lyall introduced the Degenerator, a phony project that supposedly allowed anyone to create their own DeFi project in less than five minutes.

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