Samoyedcoin
SAMO
Evaluation Score
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AI Analysis
Comprehensive evaluation of the token
Samoyedcoin (SAMO) is an early Solana-based dog-themed memecoin launched in April 2021. The project exhibits significant structural and market weaknesses across multiple dimensions. Active development has slowed to maintenance-level, marketing-driven updates, with flagship roadmap milestones remaining unfulfilled and communication channels largely inactive. The use case is limited to community exchange and sentiment-driven payments, facing severe competitive pressures in the memecoin sector. Although the project executed substantial historic token burns capping supply at ~4.746B SAMO and maintains a clean record free of smart contract exploits or regulatory actions, it suffers from an anonymous core team, centralized governance, and near-illiquidity with a sub-$1M market cap representing a ~99.9% collapse from peak. A data gap was identified in Community Support (-1.0), which was excluded from the weighted score calculation. Overall, SAMO lacks fundamental utility and growth momentum.
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Community Support
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Tokenomics
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Market & Use Case
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Team & Governance
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Security & Audits
Security history and audit status
About Samoyedcoin (SAMO)
Samoyedcoin (SAMO) is a dog-themed memecoin deployed as an SPL token on the Solana blockchain, launched on April 1, 2021. Designed initially as an ambassador and community onboarding token for the Solana ecosystem, SAMO primarily functions as a community-driven medium of exchange and payment asset via integrations such as Solana Pay, with additional ecosystem initiatives centered around non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and community governance through SamoDAO.
The token initially launched with a maximum supply of 14 billion tokens, with allocations designated across burns (66.1%), airdrops (14.4%), marketing (10.0%), gradual release (5.6%), and the core team (3.9%). Through a multi-stage burn program concluding in 2022—including an event that destroyed 54% of the supply—the permanent maximum supply was capped at approximately 4.746 billion SAMO. The token features no active ongoing burn mechanics, and governance remains centralized and informal under an anonymous team operating under pseudonyms such as 'smsl' and 'Hot Onion'.
Samoyedcoin has experienced severe market contraction, falling approximately 99.9% from its October 2021 all-time high down to a micro-cap valuation below $1 million with low trading liquidity. In June 2025, OKX delisted SAMO trading pairs. While SAMO maintains a clean operational record with no reported smart contract exploits, hacks, or regulatory actions, development has largely slowed to maintenance mode, with key roadmap deliverables like the Samoyedcoin Mastercard and Samo Swap remaining unreleased, official blog communications dormant since mid-2022, and no standalone third-party security audit reports publicly available.