Solana Memecoin $MIRA Rips to $80M Market Cap In 5 Hours
“A friendly reminder that every dollar you rug from MIRA is a dollar you’re taking away from rare disease research for children because I am not keeping a cent. Not a penny,” Siqi reiterated.”
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Not all memecoin rugs are created equal - in this case, a Christmas miracle and for a great cause.
⚗️Mira Chen, the daughter of Runway CEO and co-founder Siqi Chen was diagnosed with Adamantinomatous Craniopharyngioma, a rare brain tumor.
⚗️$MIRA a SOL memecoin was created on Dec 25 when a “random” crypto trader created the token and sent 50% of the total supply to Siqi. Siqi encouraged well-wishers to donate to fund cancer research.
⚗️ Siqi Chen, aka @blader pledged to donate 100% of $MIRA to charity, turning a $14M holding into funding for children’s cancer research.
⚗️ X user, Waddles, was later revealed to be the anon creator of the token.
Memecoins rarely have a feel good ending, with founders rugging the project more often than not cascading into lost funds for those that invest. Siqi has provided transparent updates on his plans for the funds on X and offers a glimpse of the potential meaningful social impact meme coins can drive.
Notable ETH founder, Vitalik Buterin presented the idea of Charity Coins being a usecase in his update to his original thesis on issuing coins that could be a new way to fund important public projects: What Else Could Memecoins Be?