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A trader in my Discord posted his allocation confirmations yesterday. Monad ICO: $5,000. Immunefi: $3,000. BOB: $2,000. Total investment: $10,000.
Someone asked him why he’s putting so much into ICOs when memecoins are still running. His response: “I’m not choosing between them. I’m stacking both strategies.”
Then he explained his math. If these ICOs do what Solana and Polygon did at launch, that $10,000 becomes $50,000 to $100,000 in weeks. Take half those profits. Deploy into memecoins with the gains. Suddenly you’re playing with house money on both sides.
That’s when it clicked for everyone in the chat. The whales making millions aren’t picking ICOs or memecoins. They’re using ICO allocations to generate the capital that lets them dominate memecoin plays without risk.
November 2025 is giving retail the same opportunity. Three major ICOs launching this month with legitimate institutional backing, immediate unlocks, and entry prices that VCs paid months ago. This isn’t 2017 scam territory. This is Coinbase and CoinList curating projects with real technology.
The question isn’t whether to abandon memecoins. It’s whether you want to keep buying memecoins with your initial capital, or start buying them with 10x profits from ICO allocations.
Monad: The Coinbase-Backed Layer 1 Everyone’s Fighting Over
Monad launches November 17 on Coinbase Launchpad at $0.025 per token. This is Coinbase’s first U.S.-accessible token sale since 2019. They don’t just randomly pick projects for their comeback.
The technology’s targeting 10,000 TPS with full Ethereum compatibility. Paradigm backed it with $225 million in funding. The team’s been building for years, not rushing a launch to catch hype.
Here’s the setup: $100 minimum gets you tokens at $0.025. Full unlock at token generation means immediate liquidity. If Monad captures even a fraction of Solana’s success trajectory, early allocators are looking at 10x to 20x potential.
The play is straightforward. Get allocated. Tokens unlock at launch. If it pumps 5x in the first week like most major ICOs do, you take half as profit and let the rest ride. That profit becomes your memecoin war chest while your remaining Monad position covers your initial investment.
Immunefi: The Unglamorous 10x Nobody’s Talking About
Immunefi isn’t sexy. It’s a Web3 bug bounty platform. But it protects over $60 billion in DeFi assets and has paid out $100 million in bounties. Every major protocol uses them.
The CoinList sale offers tokens at $0.01337. That’s a 73% discount to what VCs paid in the last private round. With 100% unlock at token generation, meaning no vesting overhang suppressing price.
This is the definition of asymmetric risk-reward. You’re buying essential DeFi infrastructure at better prices than institutions got, with better liquidity terms. The upside might be “only” 5x to 10x instead of 50x memecoin moonshots, but it’s 5x to 10x on something with actual revenue.
The whale strategy: allocate here for the high-probability 5x to 10x. Use those gains to size up memecoin positions where you need 50x to 100x for generational wealth. Stack strategies instead of choosing between them.
BOB: The Bitcoin DeFi Gateway Printing Early Allocators
Build on Bob launched November 10 bringing Ethereum-style DeFi to Bitcoin. One-click BTCFi. Zero-knowledge proofs. Everything Bitcoin holders wanted but couldn’t access easily.
The ICO allocated 400 million tokens across CoinList and Gate Web3. Vesting is 50% at launch, 50% over three months. Community tranche FDV started at $165 million, which is undervalued if they capture even 1% of Bitcoin’s DeFi ambitions.
Bitcoin DeFi is the narrative everyone knows is coming but nobody’s positioned for. BOB is the infrastructure play on that narrative at early-stage entry pricing. When Bitcoin DeFi actually takes off, early allocators will have multiplied their positions significantly.
The allocation window closed, but it demonstrates the pattern: get into infrastructure plays before the narrative goes mainstream. Use those gains to dominate when memecoin narratives shift.
The Capital Stacking Strategy Whales Use
Here’s what successful crypto traders figured out: you don’t choose between ICOs and memecoins. You use ICOs to generate capital, then deploy that capital into memecoins with conviction.
Example: You get $2,000 allocated in Monad. It 10x’s to $20,000 at launch. You take $10,000 profit and leave $10,000 riding. That $10,000 profit goes into three beaten-down memecoins positioned for the next rotation.
Now you’re playing both sides. Your Monad position covers your initial investment multiple times over. Your memecoin positions are pure upside funded by profits. If memecoins 5x, you just made $50,000 from a $2,000 initial allocation.
This is how small accounts become large accounts. Not by going all-in on one strategy, but by stacking multiple edge strategies that compound together.
The traders making millions in crypto aren’t the ones with perfect timing on one coin. They’re the ones with ICO allocations that fund memecoin positions that fund the next ICO cycle. It’s compound leverage across strategies.
Why November 2025 Is the Perfect Entry Point
We’re in a unique window. Bitcoin’s stable around $110,000. Major altcoins are consolidating. Memecoins had their initial run and are resetting. ICOs are coming back with institutional backing and compliance.
This creates the ideal setup for capital stacking. Get ICO allocations now at pre-market prices. Tokens unlock in late November through December. Take profits as they pump at launch. Deploy those profits into memecoins during their next accumulation phase before the December rally.
The timing gives you sequential opportunities instead of forced choices. You’re not abandoning memecoins to buy ICOs. You’re using ICO allocations to create bigger memecoin positions than you could afford otherwise.
Crypto Twitter’s narrative is “ICO is the new airdrop” but that’s incomplete. ICOs are the capital generation mechanism. Memecoins are the capital deployment mechanism. You need both.
How to Actually Execute This Strategy
Set up accounts on Coinbase Launchpad, CoinList, Gate Web3, and Legion now. These platforms curate legitimate ICO opportunities and handle compliance.
Allocate $100 to $1,000 per ICO depending on your capital base. You need USDC or USDT ready and KYC verification completed. Minimum entries are typically $50 to $100.
Don’t expect to get your full allocation request. ICOs are often oversubscribed, so you might request $5,000 and get $500. That’s fine. Even small allocations multiply significantly if the project performs.
When tokens unlock and pump at launch, take at least 50% profit. This isn’t being paper-handed. It’s locking in gains that become your memecoin allocation. Let the rest ride for longer-term upside.
Use those profits strategically. Don’t ape into whatever’s trending that day. Wait for memecoin consolidations. Enter beaten-down projects with strong communities. Give yourself the best risk-reward instead of chasing pumps.
The Infrastructure Advantage
Whether you’re stacking ICO profits into memecoin plays or thinking about launching your own projects, execution quality matters more than ever.
The gap between projects that survive cycles and projects that disappear keeps widening. Professional infrastructure, sustained volume strategies, and proper community building separate winners from losers. The capital is flowing. Being positioned to capture it requires preparation.
The Bottom Line
The path to whale status in November 2025 isn’t choosing between ICOs and memecoins. It’s stacking both strategies intelligently.
Monad, Immunefi, and BOB represent ICO opportunities with institutional backing at pre-market entry prices. If they perform like previous cycles, early allocators make 5x to 20x in weeks. Those gains become the capital that dominates memecoin positions without risking your initial investment.
My Discord trader with $10,000 in ICO allocations isn’t abandoning memecoins. He’s generating the capital to play memecoins bigger and smarter than he could with his original stack.
That’s not luck. That’s just understanding how successful traders actually build wealth in crypto. Multiple strategies. Compound leverage. Capital rotation across opportunities.
The ICO window is open this month. The memecoin rotation is coming in December. Position for both instead of choosing between them.
Someone in the group chat asked why everyone’s suddenly talking about Monad when we’re supposed to be focused on memecoin season. Fair question.
Then one of the whales dropped a screenshot. He’d secured a $3,000 allocation in the Monad ICO at $0.025 per token. His caption: “This is my memecoin bankroll for December.”
That’s when it made sense. The smartest traders aren’t choosing between infrastructure plays and memecoins. They’re using one to fund the other.
Monad launches on Coinbase Launchpad November 17 with a $2.5 billion fully diluted valuation. It’s the first major U.S.-accessible token sale Coinbase has done since 2019. The timing couldn’t be better for anyone looking to multiply their capital before the real memecoin rotation hits.
What Actually Is Monad?
Monad’s a Layer 1 blockchain that does 10,000 transactions per second while staying fully compatible with Ethereum. That’s the technical part.
The part that matters for traders: it’s backed by Paradigm with $225 million in funding, it’s got over 290 dApps already building on testnet, and Coinbase chose it as their comeback ICO after six years of silence.
The team’s from Jump Trading. They’ve been building for years, not rushing a launch to catch hype. The tech uses parallel execution to process transactions simultaneously instead of one-by-one like Ethereum. Sub-second finality. Actual institutional partnerships with Circle, Chainlink, and LayerZero.
This isn’t some random Layer 1 promising the moon. This is infrastructure that serious money believes will capture market share from Ethereum’s congestion problems and Solana’s occasional outages.
The ICO Setup That Has Everyone Allocated
November 17 to November 22. Sale runs on Coinbase Launchpad. Price locked at $0.025 per MON token.
Minimum entry is $100. Maximum is $100,000. They’re allocating up to 7.5 billion tokens, which is 7.5% of total supply. If it’s oversubscribed, they prioritize smaller bids to avoid whale concentration.
Here’s what makes this different from 2017 ICO garbage: 100% unlock at token generation on November 24. No vesting suppressing price. Full liquidity immediately. You can take profits the same day mainnet launches.
The sale uses USDC. You need KYC verification on Coinbase. It’s compliant, regulated, and accessible to U.S. retail for the first time in years.
Why This Matters for the Memecoin Rotation
Bitcoin’s holding around $110,000. Major altcoins are consolidating. Memecoins had their initial pump and are cooling off. This is the perfect setup for capital rotation.
Here’s the play everyone’s running: allocate $1,000 to $3,000 in Monad at $0.025. If it does what previous Coinbase launches did and pumps 5x to 10x in the first week, that’s $5,000 to $30,000 in gains. Take half as profit. That’s your memecoin war chest while your remaining Monad position covers your initial investment multiple times over.
The traders making serious money aren’t going all-in on one strategy. They’re stacking multiple edges. ICO allocations generate capital. That capital deploys into beaten-down memecoins positioned for the next leg up. When memecoins pump, profits rotate back into the next infrastructure play.
It’s compound leverage across strategies. You’re not choosing between Monad and memecoins. You’re using Monad gains to dominate memecoin plays you couldn’t afford otherwise.
The Ecosystem Already Has Traction
Over 290 dApps building before mainnet even launches. DeFi protocols like Kuru Exchange and Drake offering up to 50x leverage. Gaming projects like Lumiterra with AI agents and MMO gameplay. Prediction markets like KizzyMobile for social betting.
Monad’s running incentive programs with $1 million prize pools and $60 million in follow-on investments for builders. The Monad Momentum initiative rewards early mainnet users across 13+ apps with points and airdrops. This isn’t launching into a vacuum.
The institutional backing’s real. Circle’s integrating USDC. Chainlink’s providing data feeds. PancakeSwap V4 is already on testnet. These aren’t speculative partnerships. These are live integrations from protocols that move billions in volume.
If Monad captures even 5% of the market share that Layer 1s like Solana and Avalanche achieved, early ICO allocators are looking at significant multiples on their entry price.
What This Launch Means for Crypto
Coinbase bringing back public token sales after six years signals something. They’re not doing this casually. They chose Monad as their return to ICOs because they believe it has staying power.
The transparent approach matters too. Monad’s disclosing market makers publicly and using allocation mechanisms that limit concentration. If successful, this could set a new standard for how major projects launch tokens. Less insider dumping. More retail access at fair prices.
For the broader crypto space, Monad represents the next generation of EVM-compatible chains that actually work at scale. If it delivers on the 10,000 TPS promise with full Ethereum compatibility, it makes high-frequency DeFi, real-time gaming, and AI-driven applications actually viable onchain.
That expansion of what’s possible could pull capital and developers from congested networks. It could accelerate the next DeFi summer if the infrastructure can finally handle the volume. And it gives memecoin traders the exact thing they need: a high-probability infrastructure play that generates capital for higher-risk, higher-reward strategies.
How to Position for Both
Set up your Coinbase account now if you haven’t already. Get KYC verified. Have USDC ready. The sale opens November 17 at 9 AM ET.
Request your allocation. Even if you only get $500 of a $2,000 request due to oversubscription, that’s fine. Small allocations still multiply significantly if the launch performs.
When tokens unlock November 24, take at least 50% profit if it pumps. Lock in gains. That becomes your memecoin allocation. Let the rest ride for longer-term upside.
Use those profits strategically. Don’t chase whatever’s pumping that day. Wait for memecoin consolidations. Enter projects with strong communities that got beaten down. Position for the next rotation instead of the current one.
This is how small accounts become large accounts. Not by perfect timing on one coin, but by stacking multiple strategies that compound together. ICO profits fund memecoin positions. Memecoin profits fund the next ICO cycle. It’s capital rotation that builds real wealth.
The Infrastructure That Captures the Flow
When ICO capital eventually rotates through the ecosystem and into memecoins, the projects positioned to capture that flow are the ones with professional execution.
As capital flows from infrastructure plays into memecoin opportunities, having the right launch tools and volume strategies separates projects that capture attention from projects that get ignored. Professional execution isn’t optional anymore. It’s the baseline for competing.
The Real Opportunity
Monad’s ICO isn’t just another token launch. It’s Coinbase returning to public sales with their first pick in six years. It’s institutional backing meeting retail access at pre-market prices with immediate liquidity.
For memecoin traders, it’s the capital generation mechanism that funds bigger plays without risking your original stack. For the crypto space, it’s potentially the infrastructure that enables the next wave of applications that couldn’t run on current networks.
The sale opens November 17. Mainnet launches November 24. The memecoin rotation hits in December. Position for both instead of choosing between them.
The traders making millions aren’t the ones with perfect timing on one strategy. They’re the ones stacking edges across multiple strategies that compound together. That’s not luck. That’s just understanding how capital actually moves in crypto.
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