Author: Golem, Odaily Planet Daily

Jerry: A P-class player who earns A7 a month

How does a meme player who's still making a fortune spend their day these days?

Typically, Jerry is already seated at his computer desk, glued to the screen, by 10 a.m. His bed is right next to his workstation, meaning that the time from waking up to entering "chain scanning mode" is compressed to within one second. He always has three screens in front of him: a widescreen monitor in the middle and two vertical screens on either side. This "layout" allows Jerry to efficiently check social media and monitor alerts while quickly completing buy and sell transactions.

GMGN and 6551 are Jerry's favorite trading and monitoring tools. He once spent a month customizing these two tools, down to the size and color of the buttons, all to maximize trading efficiency. Jerry prefers to buy when the market capitalization of Meme coin reaches $10,000. When the monitoring alert sounds, Jerry will press the buy button for 0.6 BNB. In some cases, he will press the "nuclear button" and buy 3 BNB at once.

Most of the time, however, he would sell the tokens he had just bought within seconds, claiming the shortest holding time was 2 seconds . Even in dull market conditions, Jerry would trade dozens of Meme tokens a day, and hundreds when the market was good. Of course, he wouldn't remember most of them the next day.

This is Jerry's daily routine of "sitting still": monitoring → buying → selling → monitoring again . Jerry usually repeats this routine until 2 a.m. During these 16 hours , Jerry will not leave his seat except to go to the toilet, and he will not watch short videos. His biggest relaxation is "chatting" with P, who is also sitting still, in the group.

Jerry posted a picture of his living room on social media at the end of 2025.

The time saved may seem insignificant, but it reveals P's relentless pursuit of efficiency and responsiveness, and also his secret to making money in today's meme market.

After a year in the game, Jerry has become a well-known meme player on BSC. According to GMGN data, Jerry (ID: 金狗吊车) ranked 12th on the 30-day top performers list. In March, he accumulated $112,900 in profits, with only 5 days of losses. His longest winning streak was 13 days, and his highest single-day profit reached $14,900.

Since 2026, Jerry claims that he earned his second A7 in the BSC Meme market in February and March. His first A7 came from the "Binance Life Meme Craze" last October.

Making money in the meme market is now several times more difficult than it was last October.

First, the crypto industry as a whole has cooled down, with many players leaving the meme arena and even ceasing to pay attention to cryptocurrencies altogether. Second, the meme market has experienced a severe liquidity crunch, resulting in a lower market capitalization cap; a meme coin with a market capitalization of $1 million is now considered exciting. According to Dune data, the Four.meme platform has only created a few thousand meme coins daily in the past month, with fewer than a hundred successfully launched each day.

In this environment, the market inevitably descends into extreme PvP. Jerry estimates that only a few hundred people regularly engage in PvP on the BSC chain each day, though the number might reach a thousand during peak periods . So, given the similar nature of this activity, how does Jerry manage to consistently win in the market?

" I get in earlier than others, I'm faster than others, I'm more focused than others, and I choose the best angles than others ." Jerry said that this is the reason why he can make money, and it is also the general rule for other P players to make money. The remaining difference is in effort and details. However, compared with meme masters like Afeng and Nainiu, Jerry believes that he is not diligent enough.

But what narratives and angles will become popular, and how to pick out the right one from among many memes with the same name to reach a consensus—even meme enthusiasts like Jerry can't come up with a universal standard. "The more memes you buy, the more natural it becomes," Jerry says, calling it a "market feel." In actual trading, Jerry usually likes to buy memes themed around current events, zoos, and even those promoted through offline channels.

During our conversation, he mentioned that he had just bought "Jackie Chan's dog," but upon tracing the source, he found only one related video, and its authenticity could not be verified. Therefore, he immediately sold it, and the whole process took less than a minute.

Jerry stated that this "P-Youngster" strategy wouldn't allow him to make a huge profit all at once, but it would also ensure that he wouldn't lose too much due to a single heavy investment . Last October, during Binance's "Life on Binance" event, Jerry actually bought in during the internal trading phase, but because he sold too early, he only managed to pocket around $70,000.

Compared to selling his Meme Dog too early, what frustrates and exhausts Jerry the most is when the Meme coins he genuinely believes in fail to gain market recognition . "If a coin I really like not only doesn't rise but also causes me to lose money, it's incredibly disheartening," Jerry says. He's not always a ruthless Meme trading machine; he occasionally holds onto his coins for the long term, hoping for another massive wealth-creating boom in the Meme market so the community can win again.

But what he didn't know was that even the diamond-hardened players who had actually made money in the community had been forced to become like P-class players .

Big White: Forced to become P-class's Diamond Hand

When external funds cease to flow into the market, Meme ceases to create wealth, only transferring it, and the internal environment deteriorates into a brutal meat grinder. The best P-level players become the butchers, while the rest become the prey.

Last September, Da Bai and I met through the Meme market. In October, Da Bai caught a wave of success on Binance, achieving a peak unrealized profit of over 1.5 million RMB and reaching the A7 mark with a single coin. Although he didn't ultimately realize all the profits, he came to believe that this market rewards builders and diamond traders.

Therefore, DaBai's initial approach was completely different from Jerry's. He had a full-time job, and although he followed the Meme market trends daily, he didn't pursue speed and efficiency like P Xiaojiang. Instead, he hoped to find good targets on overseas exchanges and work with the community to build a listing on Binance Alpha or even Binance Spot . So, for Meme coins with market capitalizations of several million or even tens of millions of dollars, DaBai would invest heavily if he believed they had potential.

After Binance Life, he successively invested heavily in other Meme coins he believed had narrative potential, such as Life K-line and Memes. However, the results were all the same: short-term paper profits followed by stubbornly holding diamond hands and refusing to sell, ultimately leading to real losses. Gradually, the money he had previously earned on Binance Life was almost gone.

"During that period, buying in was basically a guaranteed loss, and it was hard to beat those who started watching from the inside," Da Bai said. He also realized that the liquidity of the Meme market had deteriorated after Binance's departure , but he just didn't want to admit it and always thought, or even fantasized, that there was a stock that could bring back the Meme bull market.

After several unsuccessful attempts at community building and continuous losses following January 2026, Da Bai finally gave up. "After the market boom in January, everyone realized that anyone who tried to build a community was a fool; everyone was just thinking about selling it to the next buyer as quickly as possible. A Feng became everyone's role model," Da Bai said. He added that before this, he would receive private messages from meme communities inviting him to participate in community building, but now there are very few. (Odaily note: A Feng is the top performer on the GMGN BSC leaderboard, earning a total of $471,700 in March.)

Faced with this reality, Da Bai also went from being a diamond player to a junior player, and began to learn to chase the inside, reducing his hitting range to within the $50,000 market value of Memes. If the market value rises to more than $200,000, Da Bai will hesitate, and if the market value reaches $1 million, he will resolutely not buy.

Despite changing his strategy, Da Bai failed to make money as he had hoped. "I only trade two or three times a day, so even if I get 10x returns, I don't make much money," Da Bai said. He believes he can't sit still like Jerry. For someone in his middle age, balancing work, life, and on-chain PvP is not an easy task.

“At the beginning, I worked during the day and stayed up all night doing on-chain PVP, which was very exhausting.” Insomnia, anxiety and confusion plagued Da Bai. Later, he changed his strategy. Although he still participated in on-chain PVP, he no longer made himself feel so pressured.

You should play with memes no matter the market conditions.

There's also a junior member of the Odaily Planet Daily team who, like Jerry, used to dabble in the meme market. But during a weekly meeting, he said that it had been more than a month since he last bought a meme. "I'll watch what they're doing every day, but I won't buy. The liquidity is bad right now, and the margin for error is too low. I can't compete with them."

This is perhaps the mindset of most players: waiting for the meme market to improve before entering, and remaining inactive when the market is down. However, Jerry disagrees with the "wait for the market to improve before returning" approach. In his view, memes are never a game worth participating in only when the market is booming, and if you only want to wait for the market to improve before entering the meme market, you will most likely be the one left holding the bag.

For Jerry, he never found "sitting around" boring, and he didn't even consider whether he would ever say goodbye to his P-gamer status. "I have a goal to earn $1 million, because I heard that's a threshold for financial freedom in the United States, but even if I earn it, I will continue to P-gamer," Jerry hesitated for a while, and then continued, "But if I don't play memes, what else can I play now? It feels very empty."

Jerry not only firmly believes that Meme is the best way to make money in the crypto world, but also thinks that P Xiaojiang is currently one of the most astute people in the crypto world . Even if any new narrative with wealth efficiency emerges in the future, P Xiaojiang will be among the first to rush in.

You might say that Jerry only says this because he's made money, but when I talked to DaBai about whether he would leave the meme market, he firmly denied it, even though he knew there were very few new players in the meme market at present.

When Da Bai started using Meme, he also simultaneously operated his own X account (ID: @0xldb) and commission-based services. Currently, he has over 5,000 followers and a Telegram group with over 1,000 members, but his Binance wallet and GMGN referrals have fewer than 100 people. This also proves that Meme is no longer the best way to create wealth and attract outsiders into the cryptocurrency world.

Faced with a market environment lacking newcomers and where he himself couldn't compete, Da Bai expressed his belief that future opportunities still exist. "What we need to do now is protect our principal, maintain our market sense and alertness, and believe that opportunities will definitely appear within one or two months."

Jerry, however, had seen even worse times. He recalled that last April or May, the meme market was even more boring than it is now. " There were probably only about 100 people still probing on the chain, and these people were all in a group encouraging each other. "

To some extent, Jerry and Big White represent two types of people who haven't left the meme market yet: one type, like Jerry, trades time and speed for profits and can get considerable returns at this increasingly crowded and brutal game table; the other type, like Big White, has seen the hype and endured the pullback, but is still unwilling to turn around and leave completely, keeping expectations in their hearts.

Those who don't use memes don't understand them, while those who do enjoy it. Looking at the crypto world from a higher perspective, isn't it the same for everyone? A small percentage are making money, some are waiting, and many more have already left. And that's precisely why the meme players are currently radiating the warmth of the crypto market, which hasn't completely cooled down yet.