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To Watch This Week
AIRDROPS + ALPHASep 2, 2024
Markets
Solana Meme Coins Slump as Degens Ditch Pump.fun
Meme coins on Solana are some of the biggest losers over the past week as token launchpad Pump.fun fell out of favor, with the category as a whole dropping by 21.7% on the week, per data from CoinGecko. On Saturday, Pump.fun was responsible for 5,388 new tokens created on Solana, according to Dune data. To put this into perspective, just three weeks ago the protocol peaked, deploying 20,465 tokens. With Pump.fun statistics falling, so have the prices of some major tokens created by the protocol....
Jul 9, 2024
Markets
Solana Meme Coins Bonk and Billy Soar Amid Market Downturn
Meme coins are soaring while Bitcoin takes a heavy hit amid selling pressure from the German government and Mt. Gox refunds. Most significantly, BONK has jumped 12% over the past 24 hours. That’s seen BONK edge past Dogwifhat (WIF) as it fell 3%, making it the largest Solana meme coin by market capitalization. Similarly, Base chain meme coin Brett (BRETT) leaped 8.6%, Ethereum-based Mog Coin (MOG) climbed 6%, and Apu Apustaja (APU) soared 15%. Despite this the tokens are still down over the week...
Jun 12, 2024
Markets
Meme Coins Brett, Bonk and Pepe Top Gainers Amid Market Lull
Meme coins are performing well amid a broader market lull, with Base chain token Brett leading the pack. While industry leaders Bitcoin and Ethereum are largely unmoved over the past 24 hours, Brett (BRETT) jumped 7%, Pepe (PEPE) leaped 6%, and Bonk (BONK) climbed 4%. This puts them all in the top six gainers out of the top 100 tokens by market capitalization with Brett in first place. The token on Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 network also leads the pack for gains over the past week surging a hug...
May 28, 2024
Coins
Top Dogs: Floki, Bonk, and Dogwifhat Prices Rise as Bitcoin and Ethereum Cool
Bitcoin and Ethereum may have slowed down, but top meme tokens are riding high today. Solana-based Dogwifhat (WIF) is leading the charge, having jumped by 11%. It's now priced at $3.68. Meanwhile, Bonk is up by over 6% and is now trading hands for $0.00004148, CoinGecko shows. Every Dog Coin Has Its Day: Dogecoin Hits Highest Price Since 2022 Amid Bitcoin Bull Run FLOKI has also made notable gains—having surged by 9%: its price now stands at $0.0002953. Zooming out, all three assets have boomed...
May 8, 2024
The Coins
What is BONK? Solana’s Dog-Themed Community Meme Coin
Born out of the wreckage left behind by the collapse of FTX in November 2022, BONK is a meme coin aimed at bringing together the Solana community. In December 2023, a BONK boom saw the cryptocurrency's market cap surge to over $1 billion, causing Solana Saga smartphones to sell out after savvy traders realized that the BONK airdrop bundled with the phones was worth more than the devices themselves. But what exactly is this dog coin all about? What makes it special? How does it work? And what eve...
May 6, 2024
Markets
Solana's Dogwifhat Pumps as Bonk, Dogecoin and Other Meme Coins Lose Ground
Bitcoin is trading at $63,330, representing a -1.5% dip in the last 24 hours as it recovers from a dip last week. The rest of the crypto market is following suit, and meme coins are also suffering. They post big gains when markets are green, but bleed hard when bears take over. Solana-based Dogwifhat (WIF) is the only meme coin in the top 100 of the largest cryptocurrencies that is posting gains today, edging up from $3.20 to $3.36, marking a 2.75% spike in the last 24 hours. The coin is current...
May 3, 2024
Markets
As Bitcoin Pumps, These Altcoins Are Doing Even Better
The global crypto market cap stands at $2.29 trillion, marking a 3.50% increase over the last day, according to CoinMarketCap. Excluding stablecoins, 96% of the Top 100 tokens are registering gains, leaving only LEO, Gnosis, Axelar, and Celestia in bearish territory with less than 1.2% in losses. That closes out the week with at least one bullish day, as Bitcoin is also up over 4% in the last 24 hours and above $61,800 at time of writing, CoinGecko data shows. There are also 64 top coins that ar...
Apr 27, 2024
Coins
This Week in Coins: Bitcoin Stumbles but Meme Coins Come Out Winning—Again
Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. Bitcoin's movements have been unremarkable this week, weakly wavering seven days after its long-anticipated halving event—but one category of crypto has come out winning: meme coins. Over the past week, Bonk has made the biggest gains, according to CoinGecko data. The Solana-based token is up 58%. The reason for the dog coin's rise is in part due to the Bonk DAO approving a proposal to burn over 278 billion Bonk tokens—seen as a bullish move because...
Mar 14, 2024
Markets
Memes Continue Run: Dogwifhat, Bonk, and Pepe Jump Double Digits
Bitcoin may have dipped from its new all-time high it hit yesterday—but smaller cap meme coins and tokens are up big. The biggest winner is Dogwifhat (WIF), which is up nearly 34% in 24 hours and is priced at $3.21, CoinGecko data shows at time of writing. And Pepe (PEPE), which came into existence last year, is up slightly more than 13%, making it the second biggest gainer in the past day. Solana-based meme Bonk (BONK) has also made gains, jumping by nearly 10%. Why Most Meme Coins Die Young Bi...
Mar 4, 2024
Markets
PEPE, Dogecoin, BONK Lead Double-Digit Meme Coin Gains
With a crypto market surge propelling Bitcoin to $65,000, just 6% below its all-time high, meme coins like PepeCoin, Dogecoin, and BONK are following in its wake with double-digit gains on the day. Of the meme coins in the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, frog-themed PEPE is leading the charge, up 35.6% over the past 24 hours and a massive 421.8% over the past seven days. That's enough to have made it the 44th largest digital asset by market capitalization, according to CoinGec...
Feb 29, 2024
Markets
Top Dogs: Dogecoin, Shiba Inu and Bonk Outpace Bitcoin, Ethereum Gains
The crypto markets are sizzling, but it's the dog-themed meme coins like BONK, Dogecoin, and Shiba Inu that are stealing the show, with massive gains in the last 24 hours. As Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies experience a bullish surge, the meme coin phenomenon has grabbed some of the spotlight. In an industry known for its volatility and unpredictability, memecoins have emerged as a unique and intriguing segment of the crypto landscape. And they can be the subject of some of the most int...
Feb 13, 2024
Coins
BONK, PEPE and Dogwifhat Leading Meme Coin Rally
It's often true that digital assets go where Bitcoin leads them, but Pepecoin, BONK and Dogwifhat are overclocking for the meme coin segment. But first, a very necessary disclaimer: Even the most popular meme coins can be extremely volatile. A token that's up one day can crash to zero the next. Investors should proceed with caution. At the time of writing, Solana meme coin BONK has seen a 7% grain since yesterday. It's currently trading for $0.00001284—which is 27% higher than it was this time l...
Dec 27, 2023
Coins
Brakes on Bonk: Solana Meme Coin Down 56% From All-Time High
Hype surrounding Solana-based meme token Bonk (BONK) has died down. The meme coin is dropping in value and is worth nearly 22% less than it was seven days ago. The dog-themed coin, which blew up this month, is currently priced at $0.00001492, according to CoinGecko. That's a 7.5% 24-hour drop. Perhaps even more indicative of waning investor interest is BONK's plunge since the all-time high it touched on December 15: it is now down by over 56%. And BONK's market cap is now sitting below the $1 bi...
Dec 18, 2023
Markets
Helium Tokens Surge Amid Network Expansion, Solana Saga BONK Mania
Tokens for the decentralized mobile network Helium have boomed in the past day, with protocol token MOBILE leading the pack. MOBILE, a governance token mined by 5G-CBRS and Wi-Fi hotspots, is up over 60% on the day and a massive 821% on the week, currently trading at $0.00632984 per CoinGecko data. Helium's native cryptocurrency HNT is up 2.4%, trading at $7.39, while its IOT token, which underpins Helium's Internet of Things subnetworks, is up 11% over the past 24 hours. The surge in Helium Net...
Dec 13, 2023
Coins
Solana Meme Coin BONK Down 11% After Coinbase Reveals Plans to List
Solana meme coin BONK went from boom to blah, down 11% after Coinbase announced yesterday it would soon list the token on its exchange. BONK is currently trading for $0.00001051, according to CoinGecko. It did initially spike in price after the announcement from Coinbase, which led to the token surging 15%. But it was short-lived: The price later sank as low as 20%. This comes a week after BONK set a new all-time high and flipped the Elon Musk-themed coin FLOKI. Best in Show? Solana's BONK Joins...
Jan 18, 2023
Coins
Dogecoin, Bonk and Shiba Inu Combine for $25 Billion in Monthly Trading Volume
To say dog-themed cryptocurrencies are popular is a bit of an understatement—in terms of just how prevalent they’ve become ever since Tesla founder Elon Musk first tweeted about Dogecoin in 2019. The now-owner of Twitter famously said, “Dogecoin might be my fav cryptocurrency.” Years later, hundreds of dog-themed tokens are now vying for similar attention. As one Reddit user recently pointed out, nearly all of the top 10 tokens under CoinGecko’s so-called meme section make some reference to man’...
Jan 6, 2023
Markets
Developers Burn 5 Trillion BONK as Solana-Based Meme Coin Slides
The developers behind Solana-based meme coin BONK burned their allocation of 5 trillion BONK tokens early Friday, in a bid to stem the token’s bearish momentum. After the token burn event, which saw nearly $1 million worth of BONK removed from circulation, BONK’s circulating supply shrunk 5% to 94.16 trillion, per data from Solana block explorer Solscan. $BONK represents the best of Solana. Our community is working together across the ecosystem to make positive change for all of us. The 5 Trill...