"Studio Ghibli" craze is blowing up the virtual currency market with GHIBLI meme coin based on the Solana blockchain.

GHIBLI is a meme coin based on the Solana blockchain. It has a market capitalization of $30.33 million based on CoinGecko on the 28th.

Recently, the "Studio Ghibli" craze has been blowing in the virtual currency market.

GHIBLI is a meme coin based on the Solana blockchain. It has a market capitalization of $30.33 million according to CoinGecko on the 28th.

MemeCoin is a coin issued by paying attention to a phenomenon based on fun. Examples include Dogecoin pushed by Tesla's head Elon Musk and official Trump issued by President Trump.

Ghibliography has gained attention as ChatGPT's new artificial intelligence model, '4o', has been able to generate studio Ghibli-style images.

According to CoinDesk on the 27th (local time), familiar characters such as Totoro from "My Neighbor Totoro" and Kaonashi from "Sen and Chihiro's Missing" have been born as meme coins and are rapidly spreading around the online community.

For example, various images such as actor Ben Affleck, who looks depressed while biting a cigarette, and Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, who turned into a gangster style, have been reborn with a cute atmosphere unique to Ghibli and are popular on social media.

Some analysts say that these coins are not just fun, but also form values based on the support of Studio Ghibli's fandom and are becoming a new trend in the market.

However, Ark Invest CEO Cathy Wood, who is called Money Tree Sister, warned, "The rise of MemeCoins is temporary and adjustments will follow."

There is also a bittersweet side to the Ghibli meme trend.

According to CoinTelegraph, director Hayao Miyazaki, the founder of Studio Ghibli in 2016, showed strong rejection after seeing early demonstrations of AI image generation technology. "It's a really disgusting technology," he said. "I never want to use this technology in my work."

Studio Ghibli Animation is produced with up to 70,000 manual paintings and watercolor techniques. A single animator is known to have worked for as many as 15 months for a four-second crowd scene in the 2013 film The Wind Rises.

It is pointed out that when the era comes when AI can generate similar styles of video in seconds, the question of who will fund the cartoonist may arise.