So apparently Rus Yusupov, the guy who founded Vine, just dropped his own crypto token called VINE and it went absolutely mental. Like within hours it hit $200M market cap and people were making life-changing money from it. There's this one trader who literally threw in 3 SOL (around $735) and walked away with $1.3M in profit just hours later. Wild stuff.

The whole thing happened back in January when he posted the contract address on X saying 'let's relive the magic' or something. People were obviously skeptical at first - you know how it is in crypto, everyone assumes accounts are hacked. But he posted a selfie confirming it was real and he was just having fun with it. The token apparently surged over 400,000% from launch price according to the data at the time.

What's interesting is how this whole personal memecoin thing became a trend after Trump did it. Now every founder seems to be jumping in. Rus Yusupov's net worth definitely got a major bump from the early success of VINE, though like most memecoins, things have cooled down since then. The current price is sitting around $0.02 with market cap around $15M as of now. Still, those early investors who caught it at launch? They made absolutely insane returns. That's the memecoin lottery for you - sometimes you're just in the right place at the right time.