ShibaInu On Solana (SHIB)

over 25 billion SHIB moves out of exchanges as price declines again https://t.co/mUa1GOvCZN

You hate meme token taxes, right? Every time the actual profit differs from the expected, that difference is a tax, "Dog project teams tax and cut the grass," I also often complain 😂

But the meme tokens we've made money from most likely have taxes.

Think back: What does SHIB use for burns? Where does BONK's community activity budget come from? Those meme projects we profited from, why can they survive the first week instead of spiraling down 🤔

Because they have operational budgets. After the first wave they still have money to buy promotion, create those boring image creations & music events. And it's precisely because of this music and addictive memes -> that makes the narrative richer -> concepts go viral, get retweeted -> token price rises

What does a meme token without a budget look like? On the fourmeme trench you can see tens of thousands daily yourself — 99% don't survive 48 hours. It's not that the narrative fails; aside from the park trading, after most tokens are issued the project’s pocket is empty: want to build? Find KOLs to promote? Host a community event with rewards? Run a meme contest for traffic? No money, can't do anything 😮‍💨

The most awkward thing about meme projects is: issuing a token seems zero cost, but staying alive costs money. Where does the money come from? Operations are crucial, taxes are crucial too.

🎩 https://t.co/nLYQTltVVQ Just launched two features:

1️⃣ Custom tax: project teams can design their own transaction tax rules. A tax‑cutting tool? NO! Look at it another way: if DOGE had a 0.5% transaction tax automatically going to a community treasury back then, its ecosystem might be ten times stronger today

Not all taxes are malicious. The key is what the project does with the tax, how much they take, whether the rules are transparent, and where the treasury goes. Previously, every project used one template: those who wanted to tax couldn’t, those who didn’t need to tax had no choice; that was the market. Now things have changed, https://t.co/nLYQTltVVQ gives the choice to the project.

2️⃣ Internal‑market tax: even before a token is listed on external markets, a tax can be set. It’s like the project has an operational budget from day one, without waiting to be listed on a DEX to figure out how to make money

👀 If you ask me, how does a p‑junior see it?

I think tax isn’t necessarily bad, just like contracts—they are tools, not inherently good or bad; it depends on who uses them and how they’re used

From now on, when you see a meme token on https://t.co/nLYQTltVVQ, besides the narrative and market‑cap hype, also look at how thoughtfully its tax settings are configured

Tax rate, whether tax proceeds are disclosed, whether there’s a lock‑up period—this info is far more useful than how many tweets the project posts ⚠️

Transparent tax ≠ good project

But a project without even an operational budget is most likely a pump‑and‑dump that disappears after launch 🤷

@fourdotmemezh