As Bitcoin continues to set new historical highs, everyone is eagerly anticipating the "altcoin season". As long as some phenomenal "large MC memecoins" appear on-chain, market enthusiasm can be ignited at any moment.
Last night, Musk announced that SuperGrok subscription users will be able to enable the "companion" feature in Grok.
The blonde anime girl in the image is called Ani, and Musk is quite fond of her. Until today, he is still interacting with Twitter content related to Ani:
This AI-related new hot topic has corresponding tokens launched on Solana and ETH. On Solana, although pump.fun's official token started trading at 1 AM, the hot market actually occurred on Bonk. Under the leadership of @brenthewolf and @solotraderz, Tom focused on the Twitter community group of $ANI last night, and foreign traders like Ansem and pow subsequently bought in. The market cap of $ANI on Solana once exceeded $20 million, rising 50 times from its lowest point after launch, undoubtedly becoming the most eye-catching new "large MC memecoin" in the past day.
In comparison, the peak market cap of $ANI on ETH was only close to $1 million.
Along with Ani's image, another "companion" is a little panda named Rudi. Unlike Ani's gentle speaking style, Rudi has a rough demeanor.
Currently, $rudi's market cap is about $3 million, also launched from Bonk.
But... if we don't enable child mode, Ani and Rudi can be quite wild. For example, when your intimacy level with Ani is high enough, she will show her sexy side:
In the iOS version of Grok App, there's another optional character showing "Coming soon":
These characters are all affiliated verified accounts of @AnimationIncDot on Twitter. From the list below, we can discover that the unreleased optional male character is named "Chad":
Currently, $CHAD's market cap is about $1 million, also launched from Bonk.
This is the first time Bonk has completely replaced pump.fun in an entire hot concept. Besides $ANI, $rudi, and $CHAD, we can also see from the affiliated verified account list another "companion" called Bad Rudi, which is Rudi's "trash-talking version". Bad Rudi does not exist as an independent "companion" character; in Grok settings, users can switch Rudi's style and decide whether it's bad or not:
In @AnimationIncDot's follow list, we can also find a potential "companion" character named Kai, which hasn't been verified with an affiliated account, but its Twitter handle format is exactly the same as the previous characters and has a cartoon avatar.
Additionally, Rudi's original name was Rudy, but Musk felt that changing it to Rudi would make it less intimidating because Rudi is so "trash-talking" that the name Rudy sounds too elegant and gentle.
Currently, there are quite a few usage slices around Ani and Rudi on Twitter, which is the first time a hot concept has been completely dominated by Bonk. In contrast, on the pump.fun side, alon's interactions after $PUMP's opening are still mainly focused on live streaming and a few pump.fun ecosystem coins he likes. Will this be his main direction for counterattack in the future?
Interestingly, $Ani's official platform is from the vibe coding platform Replit. We have previously written about the development of vibe coding in the crypto and proposed that vibe coding is very suitable for content creation and can become a driving force for meme ecosystem development. Will this increasingly become the mainstream in meme coin construction in the future?
Everything is getting more and more interesting.
