Meme coins are in the spotlight after shiba inu coin's massive run. Here are the 10 largest by market cap.
Meme tokens have been hounding the spotlight thanks to shiba inu's massive run.
"These are driven by culture and represent an underlying theme or movement," John Wu of Ava Labs said.
Here are the top 10 meme coins by market capitalization.
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Thanks to shiba inu's massive run, the coin is now the top meme token and eighth-largest cryptocurrency overall after its founding just over a year ago in August 2020.
But what exactly is a meme token? John Wu, president of Ava Labs, the team behind altcoin avalanche, put it simply: "These are driven by culture and represent an underlying theme or movement, rather than special technical use cases."
That's not to say meme coins, which are typically borne out of jokes, are useless. The ethereum-based shiba inu, for instance, is developing shibarium and shobosi games and is offering non-fungible tokens, to name a few.
And if anything, the eye-popping success of shiba inu only reinforces that investors should not dismiss meme tokens, Tim Frost, CEO of digital wealth management platform YIELD App, told Insider.
"The value of a crypto token is decided upon by the people that are buying and selling. And if the people that are buying decide that they like a dog meme coin, then a dog meme coin is going to be popular," Frost said.
Apart from the coin with a cute puppy as its mascot, there are other meme tokens out there that are well-loved by the crypto community. Here are the top 10 by market capitalization, according to CoinMarketCap data.
10. Doggy
Ticker: DOGGY
Price: $0.008882
Market capitalization: $35.9 million
Overall crypto market cap rank: 661
One-week performance: +34.02%
9. Tiger King
Ticker: TKING
Price: $0.00009783
Market capitalization: $58.9 million
Overall crypto market cap rank: 544
One-week performance: -13.41%
8. SafeMoon Inu
Ticker: SMI
Price: $0.00007325
Market capitalization: $73.2 million
Overall crypto market cap rank: 496
One-week performance: +744.39%
7. CumRocket
Ticker: CUMMIES
Price: $0.06276
Market capitalization: $82.8 million
Overall crypto market cap rank: 466
One-week performance: +41.17%
6. MonaCoin
Ticker: MONA
Price: $1.44
Market capitalization: $94 million
Overall crypto market cap rank: 440
One-week performance: -5.12%
5. Hoge Finance
Ticker: HOGE
Price: $0.0005165
Market capitalization: $203.9 million
Overall crypto market cap rank: 285
One-week performance: +169.48%
4. Dogelon Mars
Ticker: ELON
Price: $0.0000007371
Market capitalization: $405.8 million
Overall crypto market cap rank: 156
One-week performance: +49.59%
3. Samoyedcoin
Ticker: SAMO
Price: $0.1607
Market capitalization: $467.9 million
Overall crypto market cap rank: 234
One-week performance: +712.51%
2. Dogecoin
Ticker: DOGE
Price: $0.2991
Market capitalization: $38.3 billion
Overall crypto market cap rank: 10
One-week performance: +19.10%
1. Shiba Inu
Ticker: SHIB
Price: $0.00007928
Market capitalization: $45.0 billion
Overall crypto market cap rank: 8
One-week performance: +181.46%
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