Meme Cryptos BONK, WIF, POPCAT Best Performers in Top 100
2024-09-30

While the crypto markets are losing all of the gains triggered by a weekend optimism spike, some large meme cryptocurrencies are outperforming all competitors. By contrast, two meme coin behemoths, SHIB and DOGE, are in the red today, together with other large caps.
BONK, WIF, POPCAT: Meme coins in top gainers today
Today, Sept. 30, 2024, amid the five best performing cryptocurrencies, two represent the meme coin segment. Dog-coins Bonk (BONK) and Dogwifhat (WIF) added 7.1% each in the last 24 hours.Image by CoinGecko
Dogwifhat (WIF), one of Solana's most unusual meme coins, punished bears: over $2.17 million in liquidations were registered by traders shorting WIF in the last 24 hours.
Another large-scale cryptocurrency, Popcat (POPCAT), the only cat-coin in the top 100, increased its market capitalization by 2.4%.
Meanwhile, the rest of cryptocurrencies are down today. The market benchmark lost 3.3%, which is the sharpest drop in recent days. Bitcoin BTCUSD, the largest cryptocurrency, is down by 3.1%, while Ethereum ETHUSD lost 2% overnight.
Shiba Inu SHIBUSD, Dogecoin DOGEUSD losing value
At the same time, the largest meme cryptocurrencies, Dogecoin DOGEUSD and Shiba Inu SHIBUSD, are under fire today. Both are among the worst performers, together with GALA, CORE and XRP.
Shiba Inu SHIBUSD lost 6.4% overnight, while Dogecoin DOGEUSD bids farewell to 5.4%. Shiba Inu SHIBUSD is replaced by synthetic Ether WSTETH as the 14th largest cryptocurrency.
The largest TON-based meme cryptocurrency, Dogs (DOGS), lost 8.1% of its market cap and sees its capitalization dipping below $400 million.
BabyDogeCoin (BABYDOGE) is down 5.1%.