Sigma
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| ticker | SIGMA |
|---|---|
| blockchain | Solana |
| launched | 2024 |
| peak market cap | about 155 million dollars (November 2024) |
Sigma is a Solana meme coin built on the sigma male grindset meme, which rose through October 2024 to an implied peak value around 155 million dollars in November 2024 during the internet culture meta on pump.fun era Solana.
Sigma is a meme coin on Solana themed on the sigma male grindset, the ironic internet archetype of the self reliant lone wolf who rejects social hierarchies and grinds in silence. It became one of the notable winners of the fall 2024 internet culture meta on Solana.
Origin
The token launched on Solana in 2024 with a supply near one billion and an anonymous team, positioning itself less as a joke about an image and more as a joke about a personality: marketing framed SIGMA holders as investors who navigate markets outside traditional frameworks, prizing independence and adaptability. The sigma meme itself, born from years of manosphere parody and school hallway brainrot culture, gave the coin a ready made audience among the same demographic driving that autumn's meme rotation.
Market history
Sigma's breakout came in October 2024, when Solana meme activity was accelerating into its strongest quarter. Coverage by 99Bitcoins on October 11, 2024 recorded the token hitting an all time high market capitalization of 83 million dollars before settling near 69 million, attributing the move to the broader cultural momentum of the sigma archetype. The run extended into November alongside the post election melt up that carried Peanut the Squirrel and chill guy: CoinGecko records the all time high at about 0.172 dollars on November 10, 2024, an implied market value around 155 million dollars against the roughly 900 million circulating supply. The token then followed the standard trajectory of its class, declining more than 99 percent through 2025 and 2026 to a market capitalization near 900,000 dollars, with most remaining volume on smaller centralized venues rather than Raydium.
Cultural impact
Sigma exemplifies the abstraction meta of late 2024, when the strongest Solana launches were no longer specific animals or people but whole internet moods, sigma, chill guy, brainrot vocabulary, priced directly. In the trenches the coin is remembered as part of the November 2024 cohort that briefly made grindset irony a nine figure asset class, and as a caution that memes about personalities age faster than memes about creatures: when the sigma joke cooled offline, no mascot remained to hold the community together.