Author: Cookie, X@lonelyhorseme

How long has it been since Binance Alpha listed the Solana meme coin? The last Solana listed on Binance Alpha was JELLYJELLY($JELLY) on February 26, 2025, almost a year ago.

The reason why $JELLY was launched was not "pure" and was related to the Hyperliquid incident. If we set the standards more stringently and exclude AI meme coins that can "work" like Zerebro and elizaOS, the last pure Solana meme coin that was not listed on Binance Alpha due to other factors was Fartcoin on December 18, 2024.

We finally have another Solana meme coin listed on Binance Alpha - $PENGUIN (Nietzschean Penguin).

The story of this token originates from a viral clip in the 2007 documentary "Encounter at the End of the World" shot by German director Werner Herzog. In that clip, a penguin turns its back on its colony and heads toward the sea, where food and life lie.

For the sake of the sea, it went deep inland alone, heading towards the distant iceberg, and the distant sea was 5,000 kilometers away. Everyone knew it meant hunger and cold, exhaustion and certain death.

By the mid-2010s, the video became widely known for its "nihilistic" interpretation. In late August 2015, YouTube user Seppe uploaded the clip to YouTube with the title "Nihilist Penguin," and the version quickly went viral and has been viewed nearly 2 million times to date.

This old meme has been slowly gaining life again on Tiktok and Instagram this year. Just like the name of this meme "Nietzsche Penguin/Nihilist Penguin", the keyword "But Why" is basically included in various related popular videos and emoticons. People all over the world use this meme to torture themselves-but why do I have to live this way in my life?

The world will tell us that we should find a good job, marry and have children, and think less about meaningless or unrealistic things, but isn’t the meaning of life just that we explore the meaning of life in the way we want? They would ask us why, but there was no why, that’s what we wanted to do. To live your life and not care about worldly opinions is to transcend yourself.

If we follow the original development path of this meme, $PENGUIN is just like $NEET, both reflecting contemporary people’s desire for self-exploration and self-awareness to escape from the secular “system” and pursue freedom. But the White House’s use of this meme has given this meme a new meaning, and also transformed this meme coin from a social media hotspot/awareness meme coin to a political one.

At 6 a.m. yesterday, the White House

At 10:30 pm on the same day, the White House

These two tweets coincided with Trump’s renewed public expression of interest in acquiring Greenland. Trump proposed the idea as early as 2019, and after going through the bumpy journey of being out of office and winning again, he still has not given up his desire for Greenland.

This kind of desire is another kind of crazy wishful thinking in the eyes of most people. The White House's use of this meme amplifies the personal perspective of exploring the meaning of life, emphasizing that Trump does not care about ridicule and practical resistance, but dares to think, act, and move forward firmly, packaging Trump's "madness" into a heroic and America-first pursuit.

The photo above has attracted a lot of ridicule. Netizens believe that there are no penguins in the Arctic. This common sense mistake is as anti-intellectual as Trump’s suggestion of injecting disinfectant to kill the virus during the epidemic. But what is interesting is that many netizens have sublimated this picture again. They have linked Trump's proposal to purchase Greenland with the history of the United States' purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867. They believe that this is the United States' "manifest mission," that is, the United States has a unique mission to expand influence, spread institutions, or obtain resources.

And there are no penguins in the Arctic? It doesn’t matter, Trump wants it, Trump gets it. This is interpreted as a kind of Trump-style humor, conveying the spirit of "reality is not important, only will is important".

At this point, we can already understand why $PENGUIN has the same expectations as $PNUT by currency players. And this expectation echoes the reality of the Solana meme coin - after the glorious meme season, it has been too long since we have seen a meme coin that exceeded US$100 million in market capitalization within 10 days of token deployment.

Binance Alpha once again "purely" launched the Solana meme coin after more than a year, which also excited the players in the currency circle. It was seen as Binance once again opening its arms to the Solana meme coin and the beginning of the recasting glory of the Solana meme coin.

This time, do we dare to think, will we really get it?