AI agents roared back to life this week.
Introduction
AI agents roared back to life this week, unleashing a frenzy led by Virtuals Protocol, which is up over 150% and now boosted by Virgen Points, subDAO fees for builders, and the Genesis Launch.
7-Day Meme Coin Market Snapshot
The meme coin market cap gained another 20% over the last seven days, up from $47.04 billion to $56.77 billion.
The meme coins’ top gainers showed a correlated move to the upside, and AIXCB skyrocketed well over 500%. These agents showed promising gains but are still far from their ATHs.
Source: CoinMarketCap
The crypto blue chips, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP and BNB, are stuck in a new range but showing strength. ETH was the top gainer, and Strategy scooped up another 15,355 BTC, signaling big confidence in the market.
Meme Coin Market vs Other Crypto Sectors
DeFiLlama's Narrative Tracker showed that memes were ranked fifth, down three spots since last week, but they still outperformed Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Gaming and NFTs.
The 30-day trajectory continued its surge and is up almost 100%.
Source: DeFiLlama
Top 20 Meme Coin Leaderboard
All the top meme coins recorded gains once again over the past seven days, continuing their upward momentum.
Meme Coin Charts: 7-Day Insights
The meme coin rally was not only about AI agents, though, as Pudgy Penguins took first place and outperformed AI16Z by about 16%.
https://twitter.com/pudgypenguins/status/1916944855751700855
Biggest Gainers
- Pudgy Penguins (PENGU): +131.05%
- ai16z (AI16Z): +113.88%
- Turbo (TURBO): +111.10%
- Brett (BRETT): +84.98%
- Dog (DOG): +81.01%
Meme Coins by Chain
Solana Memes
- dogwifhat (WIF) surged 42.75%, and they still have their hats on!
Ethereum Memes
BSC Memes
- Cheems (CHEEMS) went up almost 15% while they are staying simple as a meme and building a BNB dream.
Base Memes
- Ski Mask Dog (SKI) ripped 50%, and the mask stays on!
Tron Memes
- Sundog (SUNDOG) gained 16% while on its mission to the sun.
Bitcoin Runes
What Can You Do Next?
- DYOR before aping any tokens; meme coins are extremely risky.
- Keep an eye on AI agents, they are performing.
- Meme coins are extremely volatile. Make sure to have a diversified portfolio.
- Consider reinvesting some profits into safer crypto tokens or stables.
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