After Siqi Chen shared a post about his daughter’s brain tumor diagnosis, the crypto community created the meme coin MIRA to raise money for research funding. The token rose by more than 700% and reached a market cap of $72 million.
Solana (SOL)-based meme coin MIRA, named after Chen’s daughter, has formed a “god candle” just minutes after its launch on pump.fun.
According to data from DEX Screener, the token has reached a market cap of $72 million and liquidity of $7.2 million since its launch on December 26 at 03:00 UTC. At the time of writing, the meme coin is up 710% and is currently trading at $0.0768 with a trading volume of $16.4 million.
The token was created after Runway co-founder and CEO Siqi Chen posted a thread about his four-year-old daughter Mira, who was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor called craniopharyngioma.
At the end of his thread, he asked X users to help send donations to support Dr. to fund Todd Hankinson. Hankinson is a professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics at the University of Colorado, who Chen claimed “runs the only laboratory in the world focused on this tumor.”
“Although there is still no cure, with the help of our research team Dr. already helped. Hankinson’s lab identifies promising new drugs for Mira’s tumor. But we need your help,” Chen wrote in his post.
The thread reached more than 133,000 users, with many asking Chen to share his crypto wallet addresses, including Ethereum, Solana and Bitcoin. Not…
