Meme coins have recently become popular again. An address made a low-cost position six days ago and now has an unrealized profit of $430,000. The coin price has surged 55.13% in the past 24 hours, and the market cap has reached $35.36 million. These "luck stories" always attract attention, but are they really worth jumping in?

To be honest, most meme coins are just a synonym for price volatility. Today’s surge might be astonishing, but tomorrow’s drop could shatter your mindset. Treating short-term luck as normal investment? That’s too naive. Behind every such rapid increase, there are often many retail investors caught in traps.

Instead of chasing the thrill of meme coins, let’s look at what projects with real technical depth and practical applications are doing. For example, Layer1 blockchain projects that started in 2018, focusing on compliant and privacy-focused financial infrastructure.

In the second week of January this year, these projects’ DuskEVM mainnet went live. What does that mean? Developers can deploy Solidity smart contracts directly, and settle on Layer1 without unnecessary friction. This means the doors to compliant DeFi and RWA applications are fully open.

A more critical technology is Hedger. It uses zero-knowledge proofs and homomorphic encryption to protect privacy while allowing for audits. For regulated financial scenarios, this is almost tailor-made — privacy and compliance handled simultaneously.

There are more tangible actions in 2026: partnering with licensed Dutch exchange NPEX to launch RWA applications, planning to tokenize securities worth over €300 million on-chain. You can already join the waiting list in January. This is real, tangible value.

Ultimately, investment still boils down to fundamentals: Are there real applications? Is there regulatory backing? Can it sustain long-term? Compared to the fleeting excitement of meme coins, finding projects with underlying technology, practical applications, and institutional backing makes you feel more secure. Short-term hype can easily cause chaos, but long-term value is the real deal.