What does GM mean in crypto? The greeting, explained
GM means good morning, crypto's all-day hello. Where it came from, why it floods busy groups, and how Cherry's GM filter counts it as a daily streak.
What does GM mean in crypto? GM is short for good morning, and in crypto it is the community’s standard hello: posted at any hour, in any time zone, to say you are here and still in the game. Cherry (cherry.fun) is a wallet-to-wallet messenger and community app for crypto, and its group chats can treat that greeting as a message type of its own.
How gm works in crypto
Gm was part of NFT Twitter’s vocabulary by 2021. In September 2021 CoinDesk wrote up a list of NFT Twitter vocabulary posted by the pseudonymous collector punk6529, and the list started with gm. CoinDesk quoted punk6529’s reason: “We say good morning to each other because we are a friendly happy optimistic global community…”
The greeting came with relatives. Gn is good night, posted when you log off. Wagmi, “we’re all gonna make it”, is the optimistic rallying cry, and ser is a joking “sir”, as in “gm ser”. Decrypt’s slang guide of May 2022 defines all four. Each one says you showed up, which is why people post them every day and reply to strangers who do.
Why gm floods a busy group
In a large open group the greeting turns into a wall. Fifty one-word messages in a morning push a real question or an announcement out of view, and each one can buzz a phone. When every gm posts as ordinary text, moderators get two bad options: delete greetings and look hostile to newcomers, or leave them and lose the useful lines. The guide to moderating a crypto group chat covers the rest of that job, and Cherry’s anti-spam layers handle the spam side.
Example on Cherry: the GM filter
In the Cherry web app, a group owner or admin opens the group’s settings and finds a section called “GM Filter”. Its switch reads “Enable GM filter”, with the line “Detects greeting messages and counts members’ daily GM streaks”. Members without those roles do not see the setting.
Turning it on reveals a “Trigger words” field, set to “gm, gn” by default. The words are comma-separated, and the hint under the field says “Stretched letters count too (gmmmm = gm)”. That rule holds for any word the owner adds: put wagmi on the list and waagmiii counts as well.
When a member sends a message that matches, it goes out as a GM counted toward their daily streak and stays out of the chat history. On the web, the send button’s tooltip then reads “Send GM (long-press to send as text)”: hold the button and the same words post as an ordinary message, for anyone who wants their gm in the conversation. A gm sent that way is an ordinary message and is not counted as a GM.
The filter fits the first weeks of a new group, when greetings are most of the traffic. The guides on building a crypto community from scratch and keeping a group chat active cover what comes after the hello. To try it, create a group at chat.cherry.fun and switch the filter on in its settings.
Related terms
- Holder chat : a group whose members are verified on-chain to hold a token or an NFT, where the morning gm comes from people with a stake.
- Trenches : the newest and riskiest end of the market, and the slang that comes with it.
- AMA : the scheduled question-and-answer session, the other ritual of a crypto group chat.
FAQ
What does GN mean in crypto? GN means good night. It is the sign-off that pairs with gm, posted when someone logs off for the day, often in the same room they greeted that morning. In a Cherry group with the GM filter on, gn is one of the two default trigger words, so it is counted as a GM too.
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