Dog coins are back: BONK leads Dogecoin, Floki and Shiba with 1400% rally

Solana’s heart still beats with the sound of BONK, the network’s very own dog coin

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Humanity has for centuries put dogs on their money — ancient Romans frequently did it and so did the Greeks.

Now, thousands of years later, dog-themed cryptocurrencies (or dog coins) are so popular that they’re outperforming practically the entire market.

Dogecoin (DOGE) — the largest dog coin worth $12 billion — has popped 43% over the past month to nearly eclipse cardano’s (ADA) market cap.

Floki (FLOKI) has almost doubled while shiba inu (SHIB) has gained more than a quarter — outstripping ether, XRP, tron (TRX) and binance coin (BNB) since this time in October.

Solana-native dog coin Bonk (BONK) has them all with a very hairy 1,400% rally. 

That’s far ahead of the top 25 cryptocurrencies by market cap, which on average have gained 40%, with top-two bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) each eking out about 25%. 

Solana (SOL) is in second place with 142% gains, with BONK perhaps benefitting from renewed interest in the layer-1 blockchain. Avalanche (AVAX) follows with 130% as hype swirls around its part in tokenization trials by JPMorgan for Project Guardian. 

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BONK is now close to retesting its price record set days after its January debut, after which it had tanked more than 95%. BONK funding rates have spiked on Solana perpetual futures DEX platform Drift with speculators paying upwards of 1.4% per day for the privilege of being long. Liquidity providers on decentralized exchange Orca’s BONK/SOL pair have been netting more than 1% per day to keep spot trading flowing.

BONK’s outperforming price can mostly be explained by its tiny market value — under $8 million before its recent pump to around $125 million. Its average daily volume has also been very low — under $3 million for most of the year — so any sudden upticks in trading activity would’ve easily moved the needle. 

There’s not much to BONK. As is the case with most memecoins, it’s really more of a tokenized idea.

BONK presents itself as the fun-loving heart of the Solana community — billed as “the first Solana dog coin for the people.” 

Its creators first airdropped half of the supply to certain Solana users last Christmas — a pick-me-up after the whole Sam Bankman-Fried fraud thing, which put a real dampener on being a Solana investor on account of his outsized influence throughout the network’s ecosystem.

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Since then, its showrunners (along with a dedicated DAO) have opted to find growth in securing the most “integrations” possible across DeFi, gambling apps and wallets — now at 131, according to its website. 

Each integration is intended to serve a slightly different use-case, such as “BonkOrBust,” which allows BONK bets on which color the next one-minute candle will be, something similar to one-minute futures.

Blue-chips like Bitcoin and Ethereum boost the legitimacy of the digital asset space, to the point that world-leading asset managers like BlackRock want a piece of the pie.

But the dog coins — which in many ways better reflect crypto’s true chaotic nature — clearly aren’t going anywhere.

Macauley Peterson contributed reporting


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