What is a good memecoin (with Rusk0f)

11.06.2024
What is a good memecoin (with Rusk0f)
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There are thousands of memecoins, but only a handful are capable of taking it off. We take a look at this very special subculture with specialist Rusk0f.

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Often treated with disdain, memecoins have nonetheless been an unavoidable trend in the crypto ecosystem for some months now. Some very serious asset managers, such as Franklin Templeton or VanEck, have even ventured to publish a note on the subject for their investors.

Not really based on solid fundamentals, apart from the community they manage to bring together, memecoins have also become a tool of protest against the investment world, which is notably dominated by professional investors, with venture capitalists at the forefront.

To explore this theme, we spent nearly an hour and a half with Rusk0f (pseudonym X), one of France's leading experts on the subject.

See also - Why memecoins are a lasting trend in cryptos

Louis Tellier

Louis Tellier is Lead Institutional Research at Blockstories, where he focuses on developing the institutional offering for digital assets. He joined Blockstories in April 2025. Blockstories was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Berlin, with presence in France and Switzerland.

Prior to joining Blockstories, Tellier worked as a crypto journalist at The Big Whale from August 2023 to January 2025, covering crypto and blockchain topics. Before that, he was a journalist at L'AGEFI from May 2022 to July 2023, specialising in cryptocurrencies. Earlier in his career, he worked as a web and video journalist at BFM Business and as a video journalist at Le Figaro. He also taught journalism at IICP in Paris for three and a half years, with a focus on web video journalism. Tellier is a graduate of Sciences Po Grenoble and the University of Lille.

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