A meme coin trader turned 1 Ethereum (ETH) or around $2,455 into nearly $500,000 on Thursday after trading the surging Asteroid (ASTEROID) meme coin on the Ethereum network.

ASTEROID is up more than 71,000% in the last 24 hours, jumping from a market cap below $100,000 to nearly $19 million at the time of writing, according to data from DEXScreener.

The token, which is based on a Shiba Inu mascot named Asteroid, skyrocketed early on Friday following a social media post from media personality Glenn Beck, which earned a reply from X owner and SpaceX and Tesla founder, Elon Musk. 

Beck’s post highlighted the story of Liv Perrotto, a teenage girl who he said maintained a list of questions for Musk, but passed away from cancer…