What happened
Memecoins usually move together. This weekend they did not. PEPE jumped roughly 15% on Friday, October 30, outperforming Dogecoin and Shiba Inu even as the Binance security breach rattled the broader market, according to TradingView News. Over the previous seven days PEPE was up 5.5%, while Dogecoin had fallen 5% and Shiba Inu had dropped 6.5%, according to CoinGecko. The...
A memecoin is a cryptocurrency whose value comes mostly from community attention, jokes and social momentum rather than from a product or revenue. That is not a criticism — it is the definition, and it explains both why memecoins can rise so fast and why they carry a specific kind of danger that other crypto assets do not. The most notorious version of that danger is the rug pull: an exit...
Five years ago this week, Shiba Inu hit its all-time high of $0.00008616 on October 27, 2021. On October 30, 2026, SHIB traded at about $0.00000471, according to CoinGecko data — roughly 94.5% below that peak. The anniversary is not a celebration for SHIB holders. It is a measurement: half a decade after the meme coin's defining moment, the token is back near its 2026 lows, its layer-2...
Memecoins rarely move in the same direction for long, and the run into November is proving the point. Dogecoin is quietly reorganising its commercial house while its price barely moves, holding near $0.0799 on October 30. PEPE, meanwhile, has just been hit by a forced sale of 7.77 trillion tokens linked to a suspected hacker, dropping 12.33 percent in a single move. One token is changing who...
PEPE has just lived through the two faces of memecoin markets in a single week — and both faces were whales. On one side, wallets linked to TRON founder Justin Sun accumulated about $51.25 million of PEPE, roughly 2.82 percent of the entire supply, mostly through two withdrawals from Poloniex on October 17 and October 26, according to Arkham Intelligence data reported on October 27. On...
It is happening again. Bitcoin reclaimed $81,000 this week, risk appetite came back, and memecoins led the entire crypto bounce — coins with no product, no revenue and no roadmap outrunning everything with actual fundamentals. Dubai group chats are full of green screenshots. This is the fun part of the cycle, and it is also the part where most people give back everything they made. Here...
