The Memecoin season continues to print life-changing trades for people willing to give it a try.
An anonymous wallet bought 2.79 billion ASTEROID tokens for $575 on April 17 and sold the entire position for 503 ETH on Tuesday, worth about $1.17 million, according to on-chain tracker Lookonchain. The round trip took five days and produced a return of more than 2,000 times.
ASTEROID is an Ethereum-based memecoin branded as “First Shiba In Space”. It is themed around a Shiba Inu drawing by Liv Perrotto, a teenage cancer patient who died in January 2026 after a five-year battle with the disease.
Two years before his death, Perrotto drew the dog while serving as a volunteer with SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn ground support team. The design, inspired by Elon Musk’s own Shiba Inu named Floki, flew on the Polaris Dawn mission in September 2024 as the crew’s zero-gravity indicator.
Before he died, Perrotto had written down eight questions he hoped to ask Musk. The latter asked if Asteroid could become SpaceX’s official mascot. His mother shared the list publicly after his death, and media personality Glenn Beck amplified it on April 16. The post went viral, reaching Musk and him saying “ok” in response to making Asteroid the official SpaceX mascot.
That response lit the record. ASTEROID’s market capitalization rose from approximately $50,000 to over $20 million within hours of Musk’s response, and then surpassed $100 million in the following days with over $100 million in 24-hour trading volume.
At its peak, the token briefly broke into the top 200 cryptocurrencies by market cap. As of European morning hours on Wednesday, it is trading at $0.0004435 with a market cap of $186.5 million and $24 million in 24-hour volume.
The token has no formal backing from SpaceX, no licensing agreement, and no confirmed involvement from Musk beyond social media responses.
It trades on Uniswap against wrapped ether with a market capitalization of $186.5 million and a 24-hour trading volume of $24.3 million. The price is up 20.69% in 24 hours, 28.54% in six hours, and has increased approximately 10x since the wallet’s entry point on April 17, according to data from DEX Screener.
