Solana memecoin names rising

A cluster of small Solana meme tokens is drawing fresh trading attention in April, with NEET posting some of the sharpest recent gains. (coingecko.com) CoinGecko’s Solana meme-coin category showed a combined market value of about $3.76 billion on April 13, with NEET listed at about $36.8 million market cap and up 93.6% over seven days. (coingecko.com) On NEET’s standalone CoinGecko page, the token traded at about $0.029 on April 13, with roughly $4.7 million in 24-hour volume and a one-week gain of 57.3%. Phantom showed NEET at about $31 million market cap on April 10, with 28,202 trades in 24 hours. (coingecko.com) (phantom.com) The setup is familiar on Solana: traders cycle from larger meme names into newer, thinner tokens because the chain’s low fees make rapid-fire speculation cheap. Solana traded near $82.53 early April 13, giving the network a liquid base asset for that flow. (google.com) That helps explain why social posts are now elevating smaller names instead of the older Solana meme leaders. CoinGecko’s category page still shows bigger incumbents such as Bonk at about $500.6 million, dogwifhat at about $188.8 million and Popcat at about $49.1 million, far above the newer tokens now being pushed in trader chatter. (coingecko.com) Punch is one of the names getting that attention. Trojan, a Solana trading platform, said on April 7 that Punch launched on February 5, 2026, moved to a community takeover on February 7, and was still holding around $11.5 million market cap with 26,800-plus on-chain holders. (trojan.com) Trojan tied Punch’s rise to a viral baby macaque from Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan, while exchange and trading blogs separately described the token as a pure meme trade with no formal utility and extreme price swings after launch. (trojan.com) (xt.com) (wazirx.com) NEET’s branding leans on the phrase “not in employment, education, or training,” and OpenSea lists more than 34,000 holders while flagging that parts of its descriptive text are generated from online sources and may be outdated. That split captures the market: measurable trading activity is real, but the narratives around these coins move faster than formal disclosure. (opensea.io) The smaller names circulating in posts, including WHATTHEDOGDOING, TUNG TUNGSAHUR and AFK, are harder to verify through mainstream price trackers than NEET or Punch. In this corner of Solana, attention often arrives before durable listings, which leaves traders relying on wallets, decentralized exchanges and social feeds rather than established market data pages. (coingecko.com) (solanatracker.io) For now, the clearest signal is not that a new leader has emerged, but that speculative traffic is rotating back into Solana’s meme-coin fringe. NEET has the cleanest recent numbers, Punch has the strongest documented backstory, and the rest of the watchlist is still being priced in public, one post at a time. (coingecko.com) (trojan.com)