A Coingecko Report revealed that Memecoins were the most searched and preferred Crypto asset in 2024 grabbing an impressive 30.67% share of Global investor interest.
In the memecoin category, certain categories of memecoin came on top representing the best of the crop and the peak of global investor interest in 2024.
Solana meme coins ranked 4th with a 7.65% share of narrative interest, Base meme coins in 11th place with a 2.13% share, AI meme coins in 15th place with 1.49%, and cat-themed meme coins came in 16th with 1.19% interest.
AI Crypto Assets come second place with 16%
Trailing Memecoins were AI tokens that captured a commendable 16% of Global investor Interest.
Crypto News earlier reported that AI tokens were voted the most favored crypto asset by respondents in a survey conducted by Binance.
Despite witnessing a 1.26 percentage point increase from last year’s 11.32% share of interest, the AI narrative still lost in popularity compared to the meme coin narrative.
Trailing the Top 2 popular narratives the AI agents narrative also made it into the top 20 ranking with a 1.17% share of investor interest.
Other Notable Mentions
Real-world Assets (RWA), Depin, and Gamefi popularity were notable mentions in the report.
The RWA narrative saw its share of investor interest increase by 2.16 percentage points, from 6.48% in 2023 to 8.64% in 2024. This placed RWA’s at 3rd place behind Memecoins and AI tokens.
Similarly, Depins witnessed its share of investor interest increase by 1.56% placing the category at 8th on the list.
On the other hand, the popularity of the GameFi narrative shrank despite the massive Web 3 game projects launched on the Ton Blockchain this year.
Gamefi saw its share of investor interest shrink by 6.7% from 10.49% in 2023 to just 3.72% in 2024.
Methodology
The above metrics were obtained based on CoinGecko’s categories’ non-botted global web traffic, from January 1 to December 21, 2023, and January 1 to December 21, 2024.
Only categories with listed pages and a Non zero percentage share of traffic were considered for the study.
