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To Watch This Week
AIRDROPS + ALPHADec 1, 2024

Markets
Dogecoin Price Climbs as Shiba Inu Spikes to 8-Month High
The second-biggest dog coin by market cap, Shiba Inu (SHIB), is having its day Saturday, with the Ethereum-based token jumping to an eight-month high price—all while top dog Dogecoin (DOGE) charts more modest gains. Shiba Inu saw a sharp spike Saturday evening, popping to a price of $0.00002969 before cooling off slightly to a current price of $0.00002897. Even at the subdued price, SHIB is up more than 12% on the day—and the last time it hit Saturday's peak was back on April 1, eight months ago...
Nov 21, 2024

The Landscape
What Are Meme Coins and Tokens?
Memes have always been part of crypto culture—so it was perhaps inevitable that they would be financialized using the same technology that birthed cryptocurrencies. Initially, meme coins like Dogecoin were created as a joke, poking fun at cryptocurrencies—but, in true decentralized fashion, they’ve evolved beyond their creators’ original intentions. With their highly volatile prices shaped by influencers and rapidly moving news cycles, meme coins have become a growing sector of the crypto econom...
Nov 10, 2024

Markets
Who Let the Doge Out? Dog-Themed Meme Coins Spike on Trump, Fed-Fueled Rally
Dog-themed meme coins are running in a pack, following the lead of Dogecoin’s (DOGE) incredible rally to three-year highs, bolstered by trading fervor on several favorable tailwinds for crypto. Alpha meme coin Doge rose to a top of $0.29 on Sunday following a break earlier in the day that saw the crypto spike to its highest point since October 30, 2021. The asset is up 27% over the last 24 hours, trading at $0.26, CoinGecko data shows. Several market tailwinds The recent election of President-e...
Sep 9, 2024

Markets
Neiro on Ethereum Becomes Top 25 Meme Coin After Binance, Crypto.com, OKX Listings
Neiro on Ethereum (NEIRO) has broken into the top 25 meme coins by market capitalization, according to CoinGecko. This comes after the token was listed on exchanges Binance, Crypto.com, HTX, and OKX over the past three days. Earlier this year Kabosu, the mascot of Dogecoin, sadly passed away. Two months later, Kabosu’s owner adopted a new Shiba-Inu called Neiro. This caused a meme coin war as two Solana meme coins launched in the new pup’s honor and then the Ethereum NEIRO entered the picture, v...
May 29, 2024

Markets
Cardano Drops Out of Top 10 by Market Cap Again as Toncoin Rises
After dropping 4.7% over the last seven days, Cardano has fallen out of the top 10 tokens by market capitalization, according to CoinGecko data. At the same time of this Cardano (ADA) drawback, Toncoin (TON) climbed 3.2% over a seven day period making it into the top 10. This isn’t the first time this exact swap has happened, in April Toncoin flipped Cardano after TON jumped 12% in a day. ADA is trading at $0.46 after having gained 0.6% in the past day. Meanwhile, while TON is at $6.47 and has c...
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...
Apr 22, 2024

Coins
Shiba Inu Draws $12 Million Raise for New Blockchain and TREAT Token
A consortium of prominent crypto VCs has backed meme coin Shiba Inu (SHIB) to the tune of $12 million for a stake in the ecosystem’s upcoming “layer three” blockchain—a stake that will come in the form of a new TREAT token. Investors include Animoca Brands, Polygon Ventures, DWF Ventures, Spirit Dao, and others. “Through the involvement of these venture capital firms and their strategic partners, we are expanding not only our network of trusted partners, but also exponentially increasing what Sh...
Apr 3, 2024

Coins
How Much SHIB Does Shiba Inu Founder Ryoshi Really Hold?
There’s good reason to believe the enigmatic Shiba Inu meme coin founder “Ryoshi” is sitting on 10% of the total SHIB supply, despite repeatedly claiming to own no SHIB tokens. It might even be more accurate to say they own 17% of the supply, considering that 41% of the tokens had been burned by 2022. Regardless, Ryoshi may be holding a SHIB fortune worth $1.8 billion at today’s prices, according to an analysis by crypto forensics firm Bubblemaps. That means when SHIB’s market cap ballooned to $...
Mar 5, 2024

Coins
Dogecoin Has Doubled in Price This Week—And SHIB Has Tripled
Dogecoin's run has slowed recently, but the top memecoin is still one of the biggest winners over a seven-day period. The price of DOGE is $0.15, according to CoinGecko data. That's an increase of nearly 65% for the week. Earlier today, the 10th biggest digital asset had reached a high of $0.18—meaning it had doubled in price. But it has since lost those gains as the crypto market tumbled earlier this morning in the afterglow of a new all-time high price for Bitcoin. Elsewhere, Shiba Inu (SHIB),...
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...
Dec 19, 2023

Business
Shiba Inu Team Seeks to Launch SHIB Domains for Websites and Email
.Com, .Net, .Gov. Next: .Shib? That’s the dream, anyway, of the team behind the dog-themed Shiba Inu (SHIB) crypto ecosystem, which announced Tuesday that it plans to apply for a .shib top-level-domain (TLD) with ICANN, the nonprofit that maintains numerous aspects of the internet. While organizations such as the Ethereum Name Service and companies like Unstoppable Domains already offer crypto users the ability to claim domain names ending like .eth or .crypto, those domains can be directed to...
Nov 15, 2023

Business
Manny Pacquiao Turns to Shiba Inu to Help His Foundation
Filipino boxing legend Manny Pacquiao has announced that his charitable foundation will use meme token Shiba Inu’s network for fundraising. In a Wednesday announcement, the world-champion-turned-politician said that the Manny Pacquiao Foundation would implement Shiba Inu’s Layer 2 blockchain Shibarium into the foundation’s operations. The Manny Pacquiao Foundation is a non-profit run by the former fighter. Shibarium is a layer-2 network backed by SHIB tokens which runs on Ethereum. Launched i...
Nov 2, 2023

Technology
SHIB Devs Launch Name Service in Decentralized Identity Push
Shiba Inu has finally rolled out its SHIB Name Service (SNS) on its Shibarium Layer-2 network, as part of the project's push to leave its meme coin status at the kennel. The SNS allows users to replace the typically complex blockchain addresses with straightforward, easily remembered domain names, Tuesday's announcement read. Ethereum Name Service is a similar offering for the wider Ethereum community, swapping complicated strings of numbers and letters for human-readable names as crypto address...
Oct 26, 2023

Markets
Memecoin Madness: PEPE, Dogecoin and SHIB Surge Amid Crypto Rally
Popular memecoins haven't been left out of the latest rally alongside heavyweight assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Topping the list is the frog-themed Pepecoin, which has enjoyed an overnight rally of almost 14%. PEPE is still worth fractions of a penny, though, trading hands now at $0.00000120 per CoinGecko, meaning that 84 million PEPE tokens are only really worth $100. Over the week that rise is much steeper, too; the cryptocurrency has soared a whopping 90% since last Thursday. Pepecoin, as...
Aug 22, 2023

Business
Shibarium Devs Say Enhanced Network ‘Almost Ready’ to Reopen
After a rocky start last week, Shiba Inu's Layer-2 network Shibarium is expected to relaunch with a new monitoring system and other features designed to help it cope with high levels of traffic. In their latest blog post, the pseudonymous Shiba Inu developer Shytoshi Kusama stated that after two days of “testing and tweaking parameters” to achieve a "ready" state, “Shibarium is now enhanced and optimized.” “As mentioned it is still in testing, but producing blocks,” wrote Kusama. “Moreover, we h...
Aug 21, 2023

Markets
Meme Coins PEPE, SHIB Plummet More Than 20% Over the Week
From being the market’s biggest bulls this time last week, meme coins Pepe (PEPE) and Shiba Inu (SHIB) have now turned into the market’s biggest bears. Over the last seven days, both coins have plummeted in value, posting losses of over 20%, according to CoinGecko. PEPE leads the fall with a 22% drop, currently changing hands at $0.00000111. SHIB’s intra-week decline is virtually no lighter. The Dogecoin contender crashed 21.6% to trade at $0.00000818 on Monday morning. PEPE rallied hard a fo...
Aug 17, 2023

DeFi
$1.7M of Ethereum 'Stuck' in SHIB Layer-2 Network Shibarium
Shiba Inu's much-hype layer-2 network Shibarium is off to a rocky start after encountering serious issues just a day after its launch. Examining the network's bridge contract, which ports funds from Ethereum to the layer-2 solution, approximately $1.7 million worth of Ethereum is currently stuck between the two networks. Beosin, a blockchain security team, confirmed that the funds are locked. As a precautionary measure, they have recommended users temporarily stop using Shibarium. 🚨Transaction...
Aug 16, 2023

Technology
SHIB Developers Deploy Layer-2 Shibarium to Ethereum Mainnet
The Shiba Inu (SHIB) ecosystem is finally launching Shibarium, its Ethereum layer-2 network. According to the developers, Shibarium's mainnet launch provides the essential technical foundation “for the entire SHIB state.” Today's launch follows an extensive beta testnet phase, which saw a reported 21 million users. Shibarium, like the swath of layer-2 networks on the market, seeks to address some of the scalability challenges inherent in the Ethereum network. By offering enhanced throughput and...