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To Watch This Week
AIRDROPS + ALPHADec 9, 2024

Markets
PEPE Flips UNI and LTC, Surges Past $11 Billion Market Cap to New Record
Meme coin Pepe (PEPE) has reached new heights, breaking past a market cap of $11.37 billion and overtaking Uniswap (UNI) and Litecoin (LTC). The feat comes as Bitcoin (BTC) crossed the $100,000 threshold for the first time, marking a renewed wave of optimism across the crypto market. PEPE has witnessed a 4.5% surge in the past 24 hours, achieving an all-time high price of $0.00002708, per CoinGecko data. The asset is now ranked 23rd overall by market cap. Meme coins are thriving this year, esp...
Nov 14, 2024

Markets
Pepe Clinches Top 20 Spot, Outpaces Dogecoin in Weekly Gains
Meme coin PEPE has outperformed Dogecoin (DOGE) in weekly gains after major crypto exchanges announced plans to list the token as meme coins continue to swell on a Republican victory and a broader market rally. The announcement of Pepe’s listings sparked immediate market reactions. In just a few hours, the token’s market cap briefly surged past $10 billion, while Dogecoin’s sits at $56 billion. The surge in Pepe’s value comes after two major U.S.-based exchanges—Robinhood and Coinbase—announced...
Oct 14, 2024

Markets
Pepe Holder Loses $1.4 Million in Uniswap Permit2 Phishing Attack
Uniswap Permit2 signing, which started as a tool to simplify token approvals, has now become a common attack vector in the DeFi ecosystem. A PEPE token holder became the latest victim of a phishing scam, losing $1.39 million worth of crypto after unknowingly signing a malicious Uniswap Permit2 transaction. According to cybersecurity firm ScamSniffer, the stolen assets, including Pepe (PEPE), Microstrategy (MSTR), and Apu (APU) tokens, were transferred to a new wallet just an hour after the vict...
Jul 31, 2024

Business
Liminal Pushes Back Against $230 Million WazirX Hack Claims
Following the $230 million hack of Indian crypto exchange WazirX earlier this month, cryptocurrency custody service provider Liminal has pushed back against accusations that the attack involved its infrastructure. A Liminal spokesperson told Decrypt that the company’s systems were not compromised in order to recently funnel $230 million of WazirX’s crypto assets. A compromised multi-signature smart contract wallet used in the attack was allegedly “created independently and further imported on th...
Jul 18, 2024

Business
Crypto Exchange WazirX Hit With ‘Security Breach,’ $235 Million Moved
Indian crypto exchange WazirX has suffered a “security breach” after almost $235 million in funds were moved in a suspicious transfer. In a tweet, the exchange confirmed that one of its multisig wallets had experienced a security breach, and that it was “actively investigating the incident.” It added that crypto and rupee withdrawals have been “temporarily paused” following the breach. The firm did not comment on the amount of cryptocurrency affected by the breach, but an earlier tweet by blockc...
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...
Jun 4, 2024

Markets
Pepe, BONK, Floki and Shiba Inu Post Losses—But Based Brett Is Rising
It's a red day for meme coin favorites Pepe, BONK, Floki Inu and Shiba Inu as they all post big losses over the past day. But Coinbase Ethereum L2 Base's Brett (BRETT) has seen huge gains. At the time of writing, Pepe (PEPE) and Bonk (BONK), have each dropped 8% in the past 24 hours. Early Tuesday morning the PEPE price is sitting at $0.00001417 and the BONK price has settled at $0.000032, according to CoinGecko data. The losses for Ethereum meme coin competitors have been less severe for Floki...
May 15, 2024

Markets
Floki Inu Leads the Pack as Meme Coins Ride the Roaring Kitty Rally
Floki Inu is up 17% in the last 24 hours as meme coins continue to roar, after the apparent return of notorious meme influencer Roaring Kitty. The meme coin market appears to be correlated with Roaring Kitty tweets. During his 12 hour absence, the market cooled off. But since the account has started sending messages again, meme coins are soaring once again. Roaring Kitty (also known as Keith Gill and DeepFuckingValue) was a key figure in the 2021 GameStop short squeeze, which captured the inter...
May 14, 2024

Markets
Pepe Jumps 19% to All-Time High Following Roaring Kitty Return
PEPE has hit a new all time high after climbing 19% in the past 24 hours. This comes after Roaring Kitty’s return has seen GameStop and other memes continue to soar. Financial analyst Roaring Kitty was a central figure to the 2021 GameStop short squeeze which saw the r/WallStreetBets subreddit community attempting to take down hedge funds by purchasing meme stocks. Yesterday, the figure returned to social media after a three year hiatus which saw GameStop double in value and a new meme frenzy be...
May 8, 2024

Markets
Meme Coins DOGE and SHIB See Losses as Ethereum Drops 4%
During this market lull, meme coins have still been performing but this trend appears to have come to an end. The top meme coins have seen losses that outweigh Ethereum’s drop in the last 24 hours. Legacy meme coin Dogecoin has dropped 6.8% while Shiba Inu slipped 5.5% in the past day. Meanwhile, Dogwifhat fell a sizable 12.3%. It wasn’t just dog coins though, even Pepe saw a decline of 7.3% and Book of Meme fell 9.6%, according to CoinGecko data. This comes after somewhat of a meme supercycle,...
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 4, 2024

Coins
This Week in Coins: Bitcoin Battered But Rebounds As Meme Coin Mania Abides
Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. It was a rough week for Bitcoin—and the wider crypto market—but as of yesterday, things were looking brighter. The price of Bitcoin is now at $63,107. It’s effectively where it was seven days ago, barely down a fraction of a percent, according to CoinGecko data. That's an improvement from when it was trading for below $57,000 per coin earlier in the week. Bitcoin’s mid-week plunge was exacerbated by spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) posting...
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 28, 2024

Coins
Dogwifhat Hits All-Time High, Flips Pepe as Meme Coins Soar
While the broader cryptocurrency market has been relatively flat, meme coins have been on a tear, with Dogwifhat leading the pack. The most popular Solana memecoin reached a new all-time high earlier today. Dogwifhat is a relatively new meme coin launched on the Solana ecosystem in November of last year. Despite being a newcomer, it has made a name for itself in the highly competitive meme coin space. Today, the coin started at $3.21, traded sideways until about 9am ET, then suddenly started to...
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...
Aug 28, 2023

Coins
Bitcoin Holds Steady While Major Altcoins SUI and PEPE Plunge
Bitcoin held steady on Monday while popular altcoins plunged as the largest cryptocurrency by market cap regained its recent lack of volatility. The asset was at the time of writing trading for $26,131 per coin, according to CoinGecko, having not budged at all in the past 24 hours. What's more, it has seen stayed still over the last seven days. Bitcoin touched yearly highs of $31,000 per coin after BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, submitted a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) appl...
Aug 14, 2023

Markets
Meme Coins PEPE and SHIB Rally Double Digits on the Week
Meme coins Pepe (PEPE) and Shiba Inu (SHIB) are among the market’s biggest bulls in the past week, with both tokens soaring double digits over the span. PEPE is currently up 22.5% on the week, changing hands at $0.00000142, according to data provided by CoinGecko. The asset is also up 6.9% over the past 24 hours, hitting a three-week high on Monday morning. PEPE’s market capitalization, which now stands at just below $600 million, grew by almost $150 million over the week, helping the meme coin...
Jun 22, 2023

Markets
PEPE's 79% Weekly Gains Lead Meme Coin Surge as DOGE, SHIB, FLOKI Up Double Digits
Pepecoin (PEPE) is up over 79% on the week, leading a meme coin rally that’s seen Dogecoin (DOGE), Shiba Inu (SHIB) and Floki Inu (FLOKI) rise by double digits in the same timespan. Over the week, Dogecoin has risen by 11.2%, Shiba Inu by 25.6% and Floki Inu by 30.9%, per data from CoinGecko. The momentum has built over the week, with the total market cap of meme coins posting gains of 11% in the past day, over 2.5 times that of the 4.2% gains seen by the total market cap of all cryptocurrencies...