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|2 min ReadWhite House Tweets Send $PENGUIN 6000x to Break $100M
Carter Hayes
Senior Analyst
Published
Jan 25, 2026
Binance Alpha just ended a year-long freeze on pure Solana meme coins, and it took a geopolitical shitpost from the President of the United States to unlock the liquidity. Traders who positioned early in $PENGUIN (Nietzschean Penguin) printed a 6,000x return this week as the asset blasted past a $100 million market cap in just 10 days.
Geopolitics as Trading Alpha
The catalyst wasn't on-chain metrics; it was White House social media managers. At 6:00 AM yesterday, the official White House X account tweeted "Embrace the penguin," featuring the viral meme holding an American flag alongside Donald Trump.
This wasn't a random meme. The administration co-opted the penguin—originally a symbol of nihilism from a Werner Herzog documentary—to justify Trump's renewed, highly controversial push to purchase Greenland. By framing Trump's bid as a heroic, "willpower-over-reality" move, the White House effectively weaponized $PENGUIN as a pro-America narrative.
Internet critics pointed out that penguins don't live in the Arctic, but the market didn't care about zoology. They cared about the $PNUT-style presidential endorsement.
The Binance Signal
Before this week, Binance Alpha hadn't listed a pure, non-AI Solana meme coin since Fartcoin in December 2024. The $PENGUIN listing confirms the centralized exchange giant is capitulating to retail demand for politically charged memetic assets.
With $PENGUIN hitting a nine-figure valuation faster than any token in recent memory, smart money is officially rotating back into the Solana trenches to front-run the next White House narrative.
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