Memeapp: Will it be the next big thing combining Crypto and AI?

Original Article Title: "IOSG Weekly Brief | Memeapp, Will It Be the Next Wave of Crypto-AI Integration? #270"

Original Article Author: Danny, IOSG Ventures

What is Memeapp

Memeapp is an AI-generated app capability, lightly integrated with Crypto, and issuing assets for its application category, which some now refer to as an 'APP coin'.

Users simply need to input a description of the app to generate an interactive frontend. It combines MCP, prebuilt components, databases (blockchain), and cloud-based (decentralized) rapid deployment.

MCP stands for Model Context Protocol, which helps AI models connect to external data and tools by providing an Agent access approach on the server side, achieving an effect similar to a translator, making it more convenient for AI to interact with various tools and data sources without the need to develop corresponding code separately for connections. This significantly expands the capability of the Agent, addressing issues such as data crawling and tool accessibility problems encountered when using tools like Manus, which will be resolved as the server opens up to the Agent in the future.

SendAI released Solana MCP in the widely used Coding Agent Cline, giving the agent the ability to read and write transactions on the Solana chain. This will greatly lower the barrier to entry for future AI development of Solana-related applications.

By using these capabilities, applications with simple logic can be quickly developed. AI is still unable to write production-level smart contracts in the short term, and contracts that have been audited and withstood the test of time are difficult to replace quickly with contracts written by AI. However, if contract generation is possible in the future, it will be possible to create native Crypto applications.

This type of app is simple in functionality but has different levels of interest/functionality in the hands of different designers, and it carries a strong meme culture attribute. Its embryonic form has long been evident—linking to memecoin websites on Dexscreeners.

Currently, Memeapp is more commonly seen in the form of interactive websites and mini-games. This has already sparked people's creativity. Renowned indie developer @levelsio hosted a Vibe coding competition on Twitter. Solana has also launched a similar competition called Vibe Jam.

Why Pay Attention Now

The logic of Crypto AI is still evolving after the development of Web2 AI itself, leveraging Crypto to provide assetization capabilities.

So what is happening on the real-world AI application side? We see products such as windsurf, v0, Bolt, Lovable, and others initiating a mass participation in APP creation (Lovable just raised $15M in February this year). The Aha moment brought by using an Agent like Manus with virtual machine and MCP capabilities has already given us a new definition of software development. The innovation brought by such applications, known as "Vibe coding" in English, has transformed coding from bricklaying to creation.

After years of maturation, such tools have greatly improved in usability. The products that have emerged since 2025 are already sufficient to meet needs such as website building, data dashboards, small games, and more. Unlike auxiliary code tools like Cursor and Windsurf, Vibe coding products have lowered the development threshold to 0, allowing users to write the entire APP and even debug it using natural language, bringing powerful customization and cost-effective capabilities. Subsequently, developing applications has become a "no-permission" mode that everyone can easily pick up.

With the development of technologies such as MCP, AI's autonomous data acquisition and coding creation capabilities have greatly improved. Although the current technological level still lacks tools with complex and practical utility logic, meme-centric APPs have more than enough presence. Therefore, small games, data dashboards, and similar applications are currently popular. Software creation has now become equivalent to content creation.

Why Combine with Crypto?

The Value of Crypto for Memeapps

· Solving the Cold Start Problem

Currently, one of the biggest commercialization challenges facing Memeapps is the cold start problem. With the exponential growth in the number of AI-generated applications, the future app market will become more crowded. How to make high-quality APPs stand out, attract the first group of users, and accumulate users is a crucial task. In this scenario, a fair launch model similar to Pumpfun will provide an ideal solution for Memeapps. This model not only ensures the fair participation of initial users but also effectively drives growth in the cold start phase.

· The Challenge of Asset Fragmentation

The low entrepreneurial cost and low reproduction cost of AI applications have made competition fierce. At the same time, there is a weak link between the creators and operators of AI applications, and there is a lack of an effective benefit-sharing mechanism. How to motivate creators to continue innovating, how to protect their intellectual property, and how to fairly distribute and integrate the interests of all parties have become urgent issues that need to be addressed. Within the framework of Web3, blockchain technology has offered new possibilities to solve these problems.

As an assetized AI generation application, Memeapp has truly introduced the IPO concept to the blockchain, providing a new path for the capitalization of creativity through blockchain technology. This not only attracts more than 5.5 billion internet users worldwide but also provides a new way for users about to access AI to create and share value. Through blockchain, creators can ensure the transparency and traceability of ownership while also fairly sharing creative output globally.

This has led to the emergence of various on-chain derivative gameplay related to property rights combinations.

· The Value Memeapp Brings to Crypto

The innovative nature of user-generated software in terms of interactive experience, especially in the meme field, has a dimensionality reduction effect similar to short videos. Therefore, Memeapp is not only an excellent alternative to Memecoin but also effectively unleashes the speculation enthusiasm of Degens.

For example, Memeapp's activity themed around "morning routine" can stimulate people's interest and creativity. I believe that the construction of award-winning works will make people curious and eager to explore how these interesting applications are presented.

Essentially, Memeapp fills the gap in asset issuance decentralization. In the early days of the crypto world, only developers who created valuable products were eligible to issue assets to capture the value they created. However, models like Pumpfun, while decentralizing the right to issue assets to all crypto users, have led to excessive chaos and a lack of effective filtering mechanisms. P-holders are rewarded by taking on the initial screening responsibility for asset discovery, but users still rely on information such as the issuer's background, contract address, Twitter activity, and website quality to judge reliability.

This is also one of the healthier and more sustainable industry impacts that Memeapp exhibits compared to Memecoin. Through decentralization and a more standardized approach, Memeapp can provide users with more certainty, thereby bringing a more positive driving force to the entire crypto industry.

Comparing the launch data of pumpfun, it can be seen that dev.fun conducted its token launch through pump.fun, and the dev.fun token has a graduation rate of approximately 4.5%, significantly higher than pump.fun's data, which is well below 1%. If we define the duration during which the token price remains above the initial market cap after the internal launch, the current average lifespan of the dev.fun token is about 12 days, far exceeding pump.fun's three days. Therefore, it can be seen that Memeapp has a higher quality and sustainability compared to Memecoin.

Soon, participants in various aspects of the industry will link everyone, organizations, and the ecosystem by building their own applications, and the resulting chain reaction will far exceed everyone's imagination.

The founder of Colosseum, and also an investor in @devfunpump, @crabbylions, has created a grants platform named rick through AI, with its token serving as a reward token for high-quality applications on devfun. This quickly led to the birth of numerous applications centered around the rick theme.

This means that just for the Crypto industry itself, such platforms can simplify and tokenize all our behaviors and activities in the work environment, completely revolutionizing the way we build industries.

What's Next for Memeapp

As indigenous people gradually appreciate the charm of Memeapp (I believe this will happen soon), Memeapp is poised to evolve into a more powerful APP Coin platform. In the future, it will not only be a simple application but will carry more complex logic contracts, built on AI and Crypto-native infrastructure, driving the upgrade of the entire ecosystem.

AI contract writing is a direction that many teams dream of, but contract security is crucial. Therefore, compared to a regular Vibe coding platform, the barrier to entry for AI contract writing will be higher. Nevertheless, the EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine) platform is relatively friendly; for example, open-source contract libraries like OpenZeppelin have already made it easy for AI to create basic template contracts. However, once AI can write complex contracts, it will unlock more innovative gameplay, bringing new possibilities to the entire crypto world.

For example, the current token generation model of Pump, including token specifications, Bonding curve parameters, internal cap size, and liquidity migration method, are all hardcoded patterns. If there could be a launchpad where users and AI interact to write contracts, set different parameters and gameplay, it would spark endless creativity.

A large amount of AI infrastructure lacking use cases will launch similar products. This is a paradigm shift from transaction-centric Agents to application-centric on-chain AI.

In the long run, mastering the ability to write contracts will allow AI to further penetrate Crypto. Remember that the two most important organizational structures in blockchain, L2 and DAO, are essentially contracts. So Ethereum's long-standing vision of a fully automated and customizable/differentiated chain has been concretized.

@Ch40sChain is a pioneer in this direction, built by the team from @NethermindEth. It is worth mentioning that this project was led by the current Executive Director of the Ethereum Foundation.

In addition to the development platform, around these "software" creators, it is highly likely that two types of organizations will be built:

1. New Distribution Channels

Similar to Steam's impact on indie games, Memeapp may potentially see the emergence of similar distribution platforms that control exposure and pricing from top to bottom. These platforms will aggregate Memeapp tool outputs from various platforms and provide personalized pushes, driving value appreciation for existing coin projects and facilitating the quick launch of projects that have not yet issued coins.

In terms of traffic exposure, projects like @KaitoAI Launchpad, which focus on Memeapp platform distribution, may have more opportunities in the future to become a key force driving platform and content creator development.

2. Developer Guild DAO

Similar to the game guilds of the Gamefi era, Memeapp may also see the emergence of Developer Guild DAOs dedicated to Memeapp developers. These organizations will vertically integrate developer resources in a bottom-up manner, promote the integration of APP business needs, and even drive the consolidation and innovation of certain tokens.

Currently, there are already Developer Guild DAOs such as @buidldao_ emerging for Memeapp developers. By integrating the value of a group of developers into a token, they provide stronger promotion and marketing advantages for their APPs and encourage more innovative chemical reactions among developers.

Projects Worth Watching

Many teams are already working towards this direction.

@devfunpump - An AI-generated application platform on Solana that requires the release or binding of a token on Pump.fun when launching an application. The product design has a Pump.fun feel, the model understands Crypto-related prompts very well, the product guidance is very effective, and the onboarding process has an excellent user experience. The developer community on the platform is very active, the meme culture is strong, making it one of the more outstanding available products currently.

@alchemistAIapp - The earliest platform on Solana to propose AI-generated applications. It has just completed the V3 update and is one of the few products that survived the previous AI hype wave. It has a strong capability to build native applications. Currently, there is no in-app tokenization experience. It has a certain platform token economy, and its token with an $80M market cap has captured a considerable portion of the market pricing and has been listed on Binance Alpha.

@tryoharaAI - An AI-generated application platform on Base, the construction process is also very smooth. The UI is relatively simple without any special settings, but it is functional enough. Currently, there is no in-app tokenization experience.

@0xtarobase - Still in stealth mode, this is an AI-generated application platform that aims to further solidify contract writing capabilities.

There are many similar projects in the Stealth stage, including infrastructure, upstream and downstream, and mentioned organizational innovations. The Memeapp summer is coming soon.

Regarding Memeapp, my thesis is very simple: the nihilism brought by Memecoin is enriched by applications written by AI. The app explosion brought by AI is solved by assetization through Crypto. This is the best integration of Crypto and AI I have seen, bringing strong consumer perception, low entry barriers, addressing real needs, and creating legitimate assets.

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