GigaChad (Crypto Slang)

GigaChad is an internet meme, based on heavily stylized black-and-white images of a muscular man with an exaggerated jawline, that crypto communities use as shorthand for supreme confidence. Calling someone a GigaChad, or describing a move as "GigaChad energy", praises them for bold or unshakable behaviour: holding through a crash with diamond hands, buying when others panic, or making an outsized bet. The image also appears in memes that contrast a calm, unbothered GigaChad with an anxious or emotional trader. Like much crypto slang, the term is mostly humorous, and it is used both sincerely and ironically. Its celebration of risk-taking can encourage reckless behaviour, and it often appears in communities around meme coins, where some tokens have been named after the meme. Also see degen.