The broader cryptocurrency market has signaled its first revival signs of the year after the painful Q4, 2025, in which many assets posted double-digit declines, pushing analysts to question the overall industry state.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, the biggest gainers since Friday come from the meme coin niche, which could signal a significant change in investor behavior.<\/p>\n
Data from CoinGecko shows that BONK has emerged<\/a> as the top performer in the past 24 hours. The asset has returned to the top 100 alts by market cap after suring by 40% daily and more than 60% since this time last Sunday.<\/p>\n PEPE follows suit<\/a>. The frog-shaped meme coin is up by 13% daily and more than 66% weekly. Shiba Inu is also well in the green on both charts, 11% and 21%, respectively.<\/p>\n Dogecoin became the biggest gainer from the larger-cap alts. The OG meme coin has surged by 6% since yesterday and 23% weekly. The Official Trump (TRUMP) token has performed even better today (a 7% surge), perhaps due to the most recent actions undertaken<\/a> by the US President.<\/p>\n In a statement to CryptoPotato<\/em>, Jake Kennis, Senior Research Analyst at Nansen, said this early-year rotation into larger-cap meme coins may suggest \u201ctraders are positioning for upside after months of consolidation.\u201d He added that these more speculative assets have been some of the hardest hit during the October crash in terms of downside volatility.<\/p>\n \u201cMarkets may have been extremely bearish on memes based on price action and the risk appetite not being there,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n However, Kennis admitted that the meme coins have been trending down relative to bitcoin, and these brief upticks would \u201chave to be confirmed on higher timeframes as both PEPE and DOGE are still down around 80% from their respective ATHs.\u201d<\/p>\n The post DOGE, SHIB, PEPE Explode: Is Meme Coin Frenzy Back in Full Force?<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The broader cryptocurrency market has signaled its first revival signs of the year after the painful Q4, 2025, in which many assets posted double-digit declines, pushing analysts to question the overall industry state. Interestingly, the biggest gainers since Friday come from the meme coin niche, which could signal a significant change in investor behavior. Data […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":124596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/124596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}