Lucky Trader Turns $170 Into $225K By Holding Solana Meme Coin

A diamond-handed trader bought $173 of a Solana meme coin in mid-December, when it had a market cap of just $6,510. In the four months since then, the token has skyrocketed over 361,500%, bumping their investment to $224,390.Troll (TROLL) was created on launchpad Pump.fun in May 2024, as a token dedicated to the classic internet meme: the The Solana token failed to gain traction for almost a year, previously peaking at a $10,500 market cap in January 2025 before slipping as low as $4,550 in April. But on the oh your sidelined? pic.twitter.com/HePKX8Kvbj— troll (@trololol_io) April 21, 2025The trader At the time of writing, according to Solana block explorer TROLL has had an extremely volatile 48 hours. After the trader’s first cluster of sales on April 21, the token tanked almost 55% from $8.4 million to $3.8 million. It then soared to $15.8 million when the trader sold more tokens, before crashing 25%… then jumped to a market cap of $25 million on Wednesday.Small meme coin investments have occasionally led to big payoffs. Last year, a trader turned Among the most notorious examples of this was a trader that turned Meme coins can spike in valuation in minutes and plummet just as fast. Since reaching its all-time high market cap of $29.26 million, TROLL has dropped 42% to $16.9 million—with the trader’s balance falling with it.Edited by James Rubin and Andrew Hayward