Memecoins created on the Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) blockchain withstood the overall market drop on Monday to post encouraging gains.
What happened: Dog-themed Bonk emerged as the best-performing billion-dollar capitalization meme coin in the last 24 hours and the third-best cryptocurrency overall, surging over 8%.
The token's trading volume soared 92% to $486 million, indicating heightened demand.
Dogwifhat, the largest memecoin on Solana by market capitalization, jumped 4.6% to extend its weekly gains past 40%. In fact, both BONK and WIF were up more than 40% over the week.
| Cryptocurrency | Gains +/- | Price (Recorded at 11:15 p.m. EDT) |
| Bonk (CRYPTO: BONK) | +8.06% | $0.00002485 |
| dogwifhat (WIF) | +4.66% | $2.51 |
| Popcat (POPCAT) | +1.08% | $1.01 |
Popcat, the cryptocurrency market's biggest gainer this year, also traded in the green. The feline-themed coin was up a massive 12317% year-to-date.
Meanwhile, blue-chip meme currencies like Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) and Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) retraced 3.90% and 1.68%, respectively. The total meme coin market valuation shrank nearly 5% in the last 24 hours.
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Why It Matters: The strong performance of Solana-based meme coins coincided with the broader market decline owing to an escalation in geopolitical tensions in the Middle East.
Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), the market bellwether, was down 1.36% in the last 24 hours, while Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) traded flat as of this writing. SOL, Solana's native coin, lost 1.35% from yesterday.
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