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PWEASE is a [[Solana]] [[meme coin]] derived from one of the defining political memes of 2025. After the televised Oval Office confrontation of February 28, 2025, in which United States vice president JD Vance told Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky he should be more grateful for American support, the internet responded with a wave of edits depicting Vance as a round faced, pleading toddler, captioned in baby talk: "You have to say pwease and tank you, Mistow Zensky." The token monetized the edit within days.

## Origin

The coin launched on Solana in early March 2025, in the [[pump.fun]] era meme to market pipeline, as the babyface Vance edits saturated X, one of many attempts on the meme in which a single ticker won the liquidity race. It slotted into the PolitiFi lineage of [[jeo boden]] and [[doland tremp]], but with a difference of register: where the 2024 parody coins traded on candidates' electoral fortunes, PWEASE traded on a single humiliating image of a sitting official, which made every fresh edit and every mention of the meme a potential catalyst.

## Market history

Decrypt reported the token peaking at about 54 million dollars in market capitalization in March 2025, and CoinGecko records the all time high of about 0.053 dollars on March 14, 2025, implying a similar figure against the roughly one billion supply. The strangest chapter came months later, in August 2025, when Vance himself posted the babyface meme from his personal account while sparring online with critics. Decrypt reported PWEASE surging about 65 percent within an hour of the vice president posting the image mocking him, before giving back most of the move and settling near a 4.65 million dollar market capitalization. By August 2026 the market capitalization sat near 730,000 dollars.

## Cultural impact

PWEASE completed a loop that even the 2024 PolitiFi coins never closed: the subject of the meme personally posted the meme, and the coin of the meme repriced in real time. In [[the trenches]] the August 2025 episode is cited as the purest demonstration of attention pricing in the political subgenre, with the added absurdity that a vice president's self deprecating shitpost functioned as a market event. The coin is also referenced in discussions of how fast the meme to token pipeline had become by 2025, with the gap between a viral image and a liquid market measured in hours, and it stands as the PolitiFi entry of a cycle whose politics otherwise ran through [[official trump]] and its aftermath.

## References

- https://decrypt.co/341104/pwease-solana-coin-skyrockets-after-vice-president-jd-vance-posts-meme
- https://phemex.com/news/article/pwease-solana-token-jumps-65-after-vp-jd-vances-meme-post-21034
- https://www.benzinga.com/content/44282416/jd-vance-meme-coin-pwease-blasts-up-150-in-24-hours-can-it-overtake-trump
- https://www.btcc.com/en-US/square/Tronweekly/1012331
- https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/pwease

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