I’ve noticed a pattern: older coins used to put out some news before a pump. For example, there was $ONE before, and now there’s $STRK and $CFX . There were others in between, but I’ve forgotten them. At the very least, they’d put out an exchange listing announcement or something before pumping, because the teams behind older projects would usually have some news to accompany the pump.

But new coins nowadays basically have no news at all. As soon as the on-chain data and OI start building up, they start pumping. This happens more often now: they pump once, take off, then come back two days later.