Weekly Alpha Recap #194 | 17–23 August

Base(d) Cat is a community-run memecoin hub for $BASECAT on Base; this week they asked CoinMarketCap to register basecat@basecatonbase.com to manage Basecat's self-reporting dashboard. They also pushed creative social content (TikTok and image posts) across their feed to promote the token.

Market cap: $12.6M -> $30.0M (+138.7%). ATH market cap: $41.1M.

riggles is an on-chain art experiment combining DeFi mechanics with collectible digital art, and this week they opened submissions/claims for early participants, with submissions filling in 30 minutes and closing while claims stayed open. They also posted their Art Thesis and multiple calls to claim or submit wallets for review.

CT discussion around it noted "NFT on Robinhood // still early" as a signal of interest in Robinhood-deployed NFTs.

An onchain risk-strategy game that ties mint-first playable NFTs, a Market Vault and an in-game $SHELL economy to Uniswap v4 hooks; this week they ran a weekend giveaway announcing 4 free Genesis Crates with one winner per day. They also teased new NFT previews and said full Genesis details would drop later in the day.

They announced a weekend giveaway: 4 days, 4 FREE Genesis Crates, 4 winners (one winner a day).

An onchain memecoin index account that posts the Z500 thesis and signals for token launches. This week the account repeatedly pushed the Z500 message and restated the index thesis across several posts.

Market cap: $1.1M -> $392.6K (-65.7%).

Logos builds formally verified guardrails that turn fund mandates into deterministic, on-chain checks for AI-driven trading, and this week they deliberately sent the vault an oversized order that was refused onchain and publicly observable. They also published threads explaining the Lean proofs (591 theorems) and the whitepaper.

Market cap: $764.7K -> $354.8K (-53.6%). ATH market cap: $1.0M.

An on-chain football sticker album where each sticker is an ERC‑20–style token. They announced a foil Uniswap FC card was ripped from a pack (foil = 5/100; Uniswap FC = 1/100 = 1/2000).

Market cap: $518.6K -> $69.9K (-86.5%). ATH market cap: $471.0K.

A memecoin framing itself as a Gen Z alternative to traditional retirement vehicles that promises S&P exposure through dividends; this week they retweeted LaunchMemestonk's post about the first batch of token buybacks.

Market cap: $153.6K -> $18.6K (-87.9%).

A new token standard and launchpad designed to make fees, restrictions, hooks, and other deviations machine-readable and bytecode-verifiable in one call. They open-sourced the core launchpad source code this week and announced the system is fully deployed with a buyback-and-burn worker active.

Market cap: $110.8K -> $18.4K (-83.4%). ATH market cap: $141.4K; CT discussion around it noted one user said they "aped" despite not knowing the team.