Author: Lim Yu Qian, CoinGecko; Compiler: Deng Tong, Golden Finance

What is the most popular cryptocurrency narrative in 2024?

The most popular crypto narrative of 2024 so far is the meme coin narrative, which has attracted a combined 30.67% of global investor interest among the major meme coin narratives and 25 meme coin trends. In other words, as the market rapidly expands from dog-related memecoins to other animal- and personality-themed memecoins, nearly a third of crypto narrative interest this year is focused on more speculative opportunities than on Pay attention to fundamentals.

Specifically, the main meme coin narrative ranks first with a 14.36% crypto narrative interest share. This is an increase of 6.04 percentage points from last year’s Meme Coin Narrative interest share of 8.32%.

In addition to the overall meme coin narrative, four meme coin trends managed to break into the top 20 cryptocurrency narratives: Solana meme coin ranked 4th with 7.65% narrative interest share, and Base meme coin ranked 2.13% The share of AI meme ranked 11th with 1.49% and the cat-themed meme coin with 1.19% ranked 16th in share.

Artificial Intelligence-related narratives attract 16% of investor interest

Another popular cryptocurrency narrative in 2024 is the Artificial Intelligence (AI) narrative, within the overall AI narrative and other 5 Of the AI-related narratives, it accounted for a total of 15.67% of investor interest.

Artificial intelligence ranks second in overall popularity this year, accounting for 12.58% of investor interest. Despite an increase of 1.26 percentage points compared to last year’s 11.32% interest share, AI narratives have still declined in popularity compared to meme coin narratives.

In addition to the overall AI narrative and AI meme currency trends, AI agent narrative also entered the top 20 with a 1.17% investor interest share.

RWA and DePIN Gain Attention

Other popular cryptocurrency narratives that are receiving more attention in 2024 than the previous year are the Real World Assets (RWA) and DePIN narratives.

RWA's share of investor interest increased by 2.16 percentage points, from 6.48% in 2023 to 8.64% in 2024. As a result, its popularity ranking rose from sixth to third. Likewise, the DePIN narrative rose from 13th to 8th in popularity rankings, increasing its investor interest share by 1.56 percentage points.

On the other hand, GaThe popularity of the meFi narrative has declined, with its investor interest share falling 6.77 percentage points from 10.49% in 2023 to 3.72% in 2024.

Growing interest in Solana and Base-related narratives

Solana-related narratives attracted a total of 14.30% of investor interest, closely following the AI ​​narrative in terms of popularity. While the Solana meme coin attracted nearly half of the attention, investors remained interested in the broader Solana ecosystem, which ranked fifth with 5.78% investor interest. The Pump.fun narrative itself only accounts for 0.61% of investor interest, which may reflect its overlap with the Solana meme coin narrative.

Meanwhile, two Base-related narratives also entered the top 20 this year as the blockchain’s popularity grew. Overall, the Base ecosystem and Base meme coin narrative accounted for 4.87% of investor interest.

Overall, 5 out of 67 blockchain ecosystems feature in the top 20 cryptocurrency narratives of 2024. In addition to Solana and Base, these popular blockchain ecosystem narratives include the Ethereum ecosystem (1.82% investor interest share), the Sui ecosystem (1.04%); and the TON ecosystem (0.85%).

The most popular cryptocurrency narratives in 2024

The 20 most popular cryptocurrency narratives in 2024 (ranked by market share of annual investor interest) are as follows:

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Ranked by investor interest share from January 1 to December 21, 2023, the 15 most popular cryptocurrency narratives in 2023 are:

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