From skyrocketing to getting out of control: Breaking down the trading logic of the five major demon coins recently

By Wenser, Planet Daily

Original title: Five recent “monster coins”, who controls the market?

The crypto market continues to fluctuate and decline, yet even when the market is lukewarm, a few coins are bucking the trend and maintaining their own independent rhythm of “rising and falling.” In this article, Odaily Planet Daily will sort out the “monster coins” that have performed well in recent years, try to summarize the commonalities, and help discover the next investment target that is expected to skyrocket.

PIPPIN: The orphan of the AI Agent craze, a masterpiece of “Insider Board”

From the end of last year to January of this year, AI Agent tokens once occupied the absolute focus of the crypto market. Tokens such as ai16z (ELIZAOS) and swarms were often at the top of the token growth list, and PIPPIN was also a product of the same batch of AI concept tokens at the time.

However, now, almost a year later, only PIPPIN is left, or has been selected by Yeshuang due to its convenient control, and has been rising all the way up in almost half a month. You need to know that on November 23, its price was only around 0.05 US dollars. After only a week, its price has skyrocketed to over 0.17 US dollars:

On December 1, PIPPIN bucked the trend and rose more than 60%, and the price rose to close to $0.18. At the time, analyst @frontrunnersx warned that PIPPIN showed the characteristics of centralized position opening, and that some addresses continued to attract funds and showed no obvious selling behavior, causing the price to continue to touch short positions during the upward process and trigger chain bursts. An address bought about $200,000 of PIPPIN 6 days ago, sold it after doubling the price, and is currently taking similar action on ARC.

On December 2, Bubblemaps monitored that 50 associated addresses purchased PIPPIN tokens worth $19 million, and also discovered that 26 addresses withdrew 44% of the PIPPIN token supply from the Gate platform within two months, totaling $96 million. Most wallets were recently recharged. The majority of PIPPIN token withdrawals occurred on October 24 and November 23. At the time, the price of the PIPPIN token had risen by as much as 1000%, and its insiders controlled half of the token supply, worth $120 million.

In other words, PIPPIN opened a position even a month earlier, and the real violent rise occurred about a month or a week after opening the position.

Immediately, a diamondhand cleared the 24.8 million PIPPINs that had previously been hoarded, and the floating profit shrunk from a peak of $7.6 million to $3.65 million.

On December 6, Onchain Lens monitored that a giant whale spent 23,736 SOL (worth about US$3.3 million) in 3 days to buy 16.35 million PIPPINs at a price of $0.20. At that time, its surplus exceeded 740,000 US dollars.

On December 16, Bubblemaps issued another reminder that the price of PIPPIN continues to rise, but the internal address now holds about 80% of the supply, worth about US$380 million. Bubblemaps pointed out that since the last disclosure (December 2), 16 new wallets have the same model (funds by HTX, similar SOL collection, no history, large withdrawals of PIPPIN from CEX); they also identified a group of 11 wallets linked to Bitget, holding about 9% of the total supply. The flow of funds is highly consistent with the time window, and is suspected to be controlled by the same entity.

On the same night, as the price of PIPPIN fell below $0.3, the “Monster Coin Award” announced a phased closure. However, the next day, on December 17, PIPPIN once pulled up to around $0.5, and once again exploded on a large scale. I have to say that Kumaichino's violent methods can be described as cruel.

At the time of writing, the price of PIPPIN was tentatively reported at $0.44, up more than 15% in 24 hours, and its performance continues.

FOLKS: Cross-chain DeFi protocol token, up nearly 24 times due to lower S2 incentive announcements

As a cross-chain DeFi protocol that provides lending, staking, and trading services and mainly runs on the Algorand chain, not many people originally followed Folks Finance, but with the launch of the officially announced S2 incentive campaign, the market's enthusiasm for its token was rekindled.

It's worth mentioning that Folks Finance distributed 1.5 million FOLKS tokens, including Chainlink incentives, during the S1 incentive campaign; on November 6, FOLKS officially landed on Binance Alpha, with an all-time low of around $2.

On December 9, after the official announcement of Folks Finance was released, the FOLKS token price soared from less than $10;

On December 14, after almost a week of hype, the FOLKS token price broke through $40 for the first time, and eventually rose to close to $47. The price at the lower point increased nearly 24 times;

Subsequently, FOLKS prices fell rapidly, with a drop of around 80%.

At the time of writing, the FOLKS price was tentatively reported at $6.4, down more than 24% in 24 hours. The circulation volume was 12.7 million tokens (25.4% of the total supply), and the market capitalization was tentatively estimated at around $81 million.

BEAT: The real monster coin, never needs much to be said

As another alternative to altcoins rooted in the BNB Chain ecosystem, similar to previous monster coins such as MYX and COAI, the rise of BEAT is another classic example.

It is worth noting that the main concept of the official account of the project behind the BEAT token is “Web3 AI Entertainment Platform + IP Building Platform”, a version of the popular concept of changing soup without changing medicine. After landing on Binance Alpha and the contract in early November, BEAT officially claimed that there were even more than 1.2 million independent holding addresses on the chain. I have to say “how bold people are, how productive the land is.”

Similar to the previous trend of monster coins, BEAT still maintained a low market capitalization — after experiencing a round of increases in the initial launch of Binance Alpha, the market value remained around $25 million; since then, the price has risen rapidly as it has been destroyed.

At the time of writing, the price of BEAT was tentatively reported at around $2.7, up more than 14% in 24 hours. The market value in circulation was tentatively reported at US$440 million, and the number of on-chain holding addresses was around 126,000.

AIA: Decentralized AI agent concept token, contract swaps cause fluctuations

As the project token of DeAgent AI, AIA previously attracted a lot of market liquidity and attention due to its sharp rise after the launch of the Binance contract. At one point, the price skyrocketed by more than $1. However, due to the increasingly lackluster market environment and the gradual cooling of AI concepts, token prices gradually fell silent and fell all the way down.

However, the “Binance Futures Delisting AIA” once again injected the power of volatility into its liquidity.

On December 11, according to an official announcement, Binance Futures announced that all AIAUSDT perpetual contracts will be closed and settled automatically at 20:15 on December 11, 2025. After settlement is completed, the contract will be removed, and AIA once plummeted by more than 90%.

However, Binance subsequently announced that Alpha 2.0 will support Deagentai (AIA) contract replacement. Binance Alpha 2.0 has temporarily closed AIA trading to carry out this contract replacement since 20:00 (East 8th zone time) on December 11, 2025. The contract exchange will be carried out according to a 1:1 ratio. The snapshot was taken on December 11, 2025 at 20:00 (East 8th Zone time). Binance Alpha 2.0 will resume DeagentAI (AIA) trading on December 15, 2025 at 16:00 (EST).

On December 15, official data from Binance Alpha revealed that Deagentai (AIA) completed the smart contract replacement and officially resumed trading at 16:00 (UTC+8) on December 15. The market shows that after the opening of the market, AIA rose sharply. At one point, it rose by more than 160%, making it one of the top gainers in the Binance Alpha sector.

At the time of writing, the AIA price was tentatively reported at $0.11, a 24-hour decline of 6.3%, and the market value in circulation was tentatively estimated at $16 million.

RAVE: An offline community-driven cultural platform supported by Trump's eldest son and CZ

As a DAO organization focusing on the concept of “decentralized music and cultural community and platform ecosystem,” raveDAO is growing at a rapid pace. After months of community building and project construction, raveDAO has completed member NFT-related sales several times before.

On November 10, RaveDAO officially announced the token economy model and airdrop. Officials stated that the token aims to connect artists, organizers, and fans through the token economy and promote a “culture is agreement” decentralized entertainment ecosystem. The total number of RAVE is 1 billion, including 30% community, 31% ecology, 20% team and co-builders, 5% early supporters, 5% liquidity, 3% airdrop, and 6% foundation and charity pool. Approximately 23.03% will circulate after the token generation event (TGE), with the rest having a 12-month Cliff and 36-month linear unlock cycle.

A month later, on December 10, Binance Alpha announced that it would soon be listing raveDAO (RAVE).

The next day, the news that raveDAO was supported by the WLFI and Aster ecosystem went unheeded, and trading volume surpassed $25 million within one hour of landing on Binance Alpha on December 12.

Not only that, but RaeDAO's “upper line” also went extremely well — on the evening of the 12th, Trump's eldest son retweeted and followed the news of the Aster and USD1 cooperation. RaeDAO, one of the participants in the partnership, also received a lot of exposure. CZ later retweeted this tweet, and RAVE prices also soared.

• On December 13, the RAVE price once hit $0.67, a 24-hour increase of more than 410%;

• On December 14, Binance Futures launched the RAVE U-standard contract;

• On December 15, RAVE successively landed on centralized exchanges such as OKX, Bybit, Bitget, Aster, Gate, Kucoin, and MEXC. At that time, the price fell back to around $0.41.

At the time of writing, RAVE's on-chain price was tentatively reported at $0.38, up more than 12% in 24 hours, and the market value in circulation was tentatively estimated at $88 million.