I've never heard of successful memcoins that once had a listing on pancake. Would you share any examples of such projects?
In any case, the recognition of big players and the community does not mean that this project has become utilitarian. Rather, it means that the project is more attractive to all sorts of speculators. But is speculation a useful feature of the project?
Im not saying succesful but maybe meant survived, on being a memecoin. For a shitcoin who started to have a liquidity and got volume, is already succesful inspite of thousands of rug happening. Anyway heres a list its public anyway.
https://www.coingecko.com/en/categories/meme-tokenAnything that been survived long with chunck of marketcap and volume and still active considered successful ul for being a shitcoin.
You are right trend is based on speculation. Being hype is a good feature of a memecoin. Dont know if meme has useful utility anyway they dont work like that and comparing to L1 or bitcoin.