A trader in my Discord posted his allocation confirmations yesterday. Monad ICO: $5,000. Immunefi: $3,000. BOB: $2,000. Total investment: $10,000.
Someone asked him why he’s putting so much into ICOs when memecoins are still running. His response: “I’m not choosing between them. I’m stacking both strategies.”
Then he explained his math. If these ICOs do what Solana and Polygon did at launch, that $10,000 becomes $50,000 to $100,000 in weeks. Take half those profits. Deploy into memecoins with the gains. Suddenly you’re playing with house money on both sides.
That’s when it clicked for everyone in the chat. The whales making millions aren’t picking ICOs or memecoins. They’re using ICO allocations to generate the capital that lets them dominate memecoin plays without risk.
November 2025 is giving retail the same opportunity. Three major ICOs launching this month with legitimate institutional backing, immediate unlocks, and entry prices that VCs paid months ago. This isn’t 2017 scam territory. This is Coinbase and CoinList curating projects with real technology.
The question isn’t whether to abandon memecoins. It’s whether you want to keep buying memecoins with your initial capital, or start buying them with 10x profits from ICO allocations.
Monad: The Coinbase-Backed Layer 1 Everyone’s Fighting Over
Monad launches November 17 on Coinbase Launchpad at $0.025 per token. This is Coinbase’s first U.S.-accessible token sale since 2019. They don’t just randomly pick projects for their comeback.
The technology’s targeting 10,000 TPS with full Ethereum compatibility. Paradigm backed it with $225 million in funding. The team’s been building for years, not rushing a launch to catch hype.
Here’s the setup: $100 minimum gets you tokens at $0.025. Full unlock at token generation means immediate liquidity. If Monad captures even a fraction of Solana’s success trajectory, early allocators are looking at 10x to 20x potential.
The play is straightforward. Get allocated. Tokens unlock at launch. If it pumps 5x in the first week like most major ICOs do, you take half as profit and let the rest ride. That profit becomes your memecoin war chest while your remaining Monad position covers your initial investment.
Immunefi: The Unglamorous 10x Nobody’s Talking About
Immunefi isn’t sexy. It’s a Web3 bug bounty platform. But it protects over $60 billion in DeFi assets and has paid out $100 million in bounties. Every major protocol uses them.
The CoinList sale offers tokens at $0.01337. That’s a 73% discount to what VCs paid in the last private round. With 100% unlock at token generation, meaning no vesting overhang suppressing price.
This is the definition of asymmetric risk-reward. You’re buying essential DeFi infrastructure at better prices than institutions got, with better liquidity terms. The upside might be “only” 5x to 10x instead of 50x memecoin moonshots, but it’s 5x to 10x on something with actual revenue.
The whale strategy: allocate here for the high-probability 5x to 10x. Use those gains to size up memecoin positions where you need 50x to 100x for generational wealth. Stack strategies instead of choosing between them.
BOB: The Bitcoin DeFi Gateway Printing Early Allocators
Build on Bob launched November 10 bringing Ethereum-style DeFi to Bitcoin. One-click BTCFi. Zero-knowledge proofs. Everything Bitcoin holders wanted but couldn’t access easily.
The ICO allocated 400 million tokens across CoinList and Gate Web3. Vesting is 50% at launch, 50% over three months. Community tranche FDV started at $165 million, which is undervalued if they capture even 1% of Bitcoin’s DeFi ambitions.
Bitcoin DeFi is the narrative everyone knows is coming but nobody’s positioned for. BOB is the infrastructure play on that narrative at early-stage entry pricing. When Bitcoin DeFi actually takes off, early allocators will have multiplied their positions significantly.
The allocation window closed, but it demonstrates the pattern: get into infrastructure plays before the narrative goes mainstream. Use those gains to dominate when memecoin narratives shift.
The Capital Stacking Strategy Whales Use
Here’s what successful crypto traders figured out: you don’t choose between ICOs and memecoins. You use ICOs to generate capital, then deploy that capital into memecoins with conviction.
Example: You get $2,000 allocated in Monad. It 10x’s to $20,000 at launch. You take $10,000 profit and leave $10,000 riding. That $10,000 profit goes into three beaten-down memecoins positioned for the next rotation.
Now you’re playing both sides. Your Monad position covers your initial investment multiple times over. Your memecoin positions are pure upside funded by profits. If memecoins 5x, you just made $50,000 from a $2,000 initial allocation.
This is how small accounts become large accounts. Not by going all-in on one strategy, but by stacking multiple edge strategies that compound together.
The traders making millions in crypto aren’t the ones with perfect timing on one coin. They’re the ones with ICO allocations that fund memecoin positions that fund the next ICO cycle. It’s compound leverage across strategies.
Why November 2025 Is the Perfect Entry Point
We’re in a unique window. Bitcoin’s stable around $110,000. Major altcoins are consolidating. Memecoins had their initial run and are resetting. ICOs are coming back with institutional backing and compliance.
This creates the ideal setup for capital stacking. Get ICO allocations now at pre-market prices. Tokens unlock in late November through December. Take profits as they pump at launch. Deploy those profits into memecoins during their next accumulation phase before the December rally.
The timing gives you sequential opportunities instead of forced choices. You’re not abandoning memecoins to buy ICOs. You’re using ICO allocations to create bigger memecoin positions than you could afford otherwise.
Crypto Twitter’s narrative is “ICO is the new airdrop” but that’s incomplete. ICOs are the capital generation mechanism. Memecoins are the capital deployment mechanism. You need both.
How to Actually Execute This Strategy
Set up accounts on Coinbase Launchpad, CoinList, Gate Web3, and Legion now. These platforms curate legitimate ICO opportunities and handle compliance.
Allocate $100 to $1,000 per ICO depending on your capital base. You need USDC or USDT ready and KYC verification completed. Minimum entries are typically $50 to $100.
Don’t expect to get your full allocation request. ICOs are often oversubscribed, so you might request $5,000 and get $500. That’s fine. Even small allocations multiply significantly if the project performs.
When tokens unlock and pump at launch, take at least 50% profit. This isn’t being paper-handed. It’s locking in gains that become your memecoin allocation. Let the rest ride for longer-term upside.
Use those profits strategically. Don’t ape into whatever’s trending that day. Wait for memecoin consolidations. Enter beaten-down projects with strong communities. Give yourself the best risk-reward instead of chasing pumps.
The Infrastructure Advantage
Whether you’re stacking ICO profits into memecoin plays or thinking about launching your own projects, execution quality matters more than ever.
The gap between projects that survive cycles and projects that disappear keeps widening. Professional infrastructure, sustained volume strategies, and proper community building separate winners from losers. The capital is flowing. Being positioned to capture it requires preparation.
The Bottom Line
The path to whale status in November 2025 isn’t choosing between ICOs and memecoins. It’s stacking both strategies intelligently.
Monad, Immunefi, and BOB represent ICO opportunities with institutional backing at pre-market entry prices. If they perform like previous cycles, early allocators make 5x to 20x in weeks. Those gains become the capital that dominates memecoin positions without risking your initial investment.
My Discord trader with $10,000 in ICO allocations isn’t abandoning memecoins. He’s generating the capital to play memecoins bigger and smarter than he could with his original stack.
That’s not luck. That’s just understanding how successful traders actually build wealth in crypto. Multiple strategies. Compound leverage. Capital rotation across opportunities.
The ICO window is open this month. The memecoin rotation is coming in December. Position for both instead of choosing between them.
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