Crypto glossary
GM (good morning)
GM, short for good morning, is the everyday greeting of crypto social media, posted at any hour as a sign of belonging to the community.
GM spread on crypto Twitter and NFT communities around 2021, when posting a bare gm became a ritual. It is said regardless of time zone, since the market never sleeps, and replying gm back is a low-effort way of acknowledging others. Its counterpart, gn, closes the day. Projects use it in Discord channels and on social media to build a sense of daily presence.
The greeting works as a cultural marker. It signals that someone is part of the in-group, follows the market every day and shares its optimistic tone, much like wagmi. Brands entering crypto adopted it quickly, sometimes awkwardly, and a few protocols named products or even tokens after it.
Because it is so common, gm carries no information about a project's quality. Scam accounts and bots use it heavily to look like genuine community members, and engagement made of gm replies says little about real users. Its tone also shifts with the market: cheerful in bull runs, ironic during crashes.
Example
A new project's Discord has thousands of members posting gm every morning, but on-chain data shows only a few hundred wallets have ever used its app.