TLDR:
- Market: PickleVault ($PICKLE) reached an all-time high (ATH) market capitalization of $1.9M, trading at $1.1M with a 24-hour volume of $3M.
- Narrative: $PICKLE, a memecoin on Solana, capitalizes on US expansion of pickleball, Ben Johns’ fame, and rare 2023 Leaf cards (~3,900). Creator purchases of cards from fees send vault value soaring.
PickleVault ($PICKLE), contract address DAfKg6exaeMMUQeqwRq3UP5KYPJjFNyVuVzFfr4kpump, blew up on the Solana blockchain in early September 2025, reaching an all-time high market cap of $1.9M before settling at $1.1M, and a 24-hour volume of $3M. Launched on Pump.fun, $PICKLE takes advantage of pickleball’s title of fastest-growing American sport by leveraging the fame of Ben Johns, the “Michael Jordan of pickleball,” andthe scarcity of his ~3,900 2023 Leaf trading cards. The humorous name of the token further enhances its meme potential, appealing to crypto’s love of idiosyncrasies.
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The PICKLE story relies on a positive-feedback loop: fees from PICKLE trades paying for purchases of scarce Ben Johns Leaf cards, boosting the value of PickleVault, and pushing card prices “parabolic.” X tweets promotion of such a strategy, likening it to the touted strong $CARDS memecoin story and positing PICKLE’s potential for pickleball’s cultural wave.
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