Mitrade Insights is dedicated to providing investors with rich, timely and most valuable financial information to help investors grasp the market situation and find timely trading opportunities.

2021

Best News & Analysis Provider

FxDailyInfo

2022

Best Forex Educational Resources Global

International Business Magazine

Insights

News

Why Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, and Pepe Are Among the Top Meme Coins Surging Today

Source The Motley Fool

Meme coin movements have elevated beyond a niche group of investors and toward the mainstream. In the cryptocurrency sector, the variety of animal-inspired meme tokens continues to grow. But Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE), Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB), and Pepe (CRYPTO: PEPE) are what most investors consider to be the most credible options for investing, or at least trading. And these tokens are ones that many investors a year ago may not have known about.

Today, these three tokens are up 2%, 4.3%, and 5.8%, respectively, over the past 24 hours as of 3:30 p.m. ET.

Where to invest $1,000 right now? Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to buy right now. Learn More »

With 10- and 11-figure market capitalizations, these are significant assets that continue to garner tremendous attention from the investing community for a number of reasons. Most are well aware of the value highly volatile assets such as meme tokens can provide to traders. However, it's also true that longer-term investors find other reasons to buy these tokens when they appear cheap (or have momentum on their side).

Today's rally does appear to be based on a number of fundamental factors, as it's not demand for speculative assets driving the boat today (the Nasdaq is down more than 2% at the time of writing).

What's moving the needle today?

The fact that these three speculative assets are catching a bid today as risk takers appear to be pulling back on other tech-related investments isn't lost on many market watchers.

However, there do appear to be some intriguing catalysts investors are focusing on with these three tokens.

In the case of Dogecoin, a recently formed corporate arm of the Dogecoin Foundation called House of Doge appears to be driving interest in this mega-cap meme token today. A press release highlighting plans to launch "The Official Dogecoin Reserve" appears to have some investors rethinking their view of the token as a potential payment solution and/or store of value. While that may seem far-fetched, this is a widely held asset in the crypto community, with an investor base that typically follows news flow much more closely than the average investor. We'll have to see how this catalyst plays out over time, but it's certainly something to watch.

As I pointed out in a recent piece, Shiba Inu has seen some fundamental price support build thanks to the project's focus on increasing its token burn. Today brings more news on this front, with reports circulating that an anonymous user has transferred 1 billion tokens to a dead wallet, removing them from circulating supply. I'll be keeping a close eye on developments on this front, but the fewer tokens there are for this capped meme token, the better for existing investors looking for reasons to hold.

Pepe's recent rally has outpaced both Dogecoin and Shiba Inu, with some investors pointing to technical factors (and the token's relative size compared to these other two large-cap projects) as reasons why Pepe has seen an outsize move. Looking at derivatives markets, one of the interesting factors behind the scenes is the amount of long liquidations as a percentage of total (around $477,00 out of $498,000 in the past 24 hours). This suggests to me that investors are still mostly on one side of the boat, and likely ramping up bets on an even higher Pepe price moving forward.

Where to go from here?

These three meme tokens remain highly speculative investments, and the sheer derivatives volume for these projects compared to their market capitalizations suggests that the volatility may not only continue, but ramp up if some sort of shock befalls the market. I'm going to continue to monitor how these three tokens perform, but for now, I'm going to happily watch this price action from the sidelines.

Should you invest $1,000 in Dogecoin right now?

Before you buy stock in Dogecoin, consider this:

The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy now… and Dogecoin wasn’t one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years.

Consider when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you’d have $739,720!*

Stock Advisor provides investors with an easy-to-follow blueprint for success, including guidance on building a portfolio, regular updates from analysts, and two new stock picks each month. The Stock Advisor service has more than quadrupled the return of S&P 500 since 2002*. Don’t miss out on the latest top 10 list, available when you join Stock Advisor.

See the 10 stocks »

*Stock Advisor returns as of March 24, 2025

Chris MacDonald has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

Disclaimer: For information purposes only. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

Recommended Articles

Dollar index tops 100 for the first time since July as the Fed's hawkish dot plot sinks in The U.S. dollar index broke back above 100 for the first time since 31 July after the Fed delivered its first rate hike since 2023, with the dot plot showing 16 of 18 officials expect at least one more increase this year. Here are the levels that matter for DXY, the currencies feeling it most, and what to watch next.

Author Irene Q.

Sep 17, Thu

The U.S. dollar index broke back above 100 for the first time since 31 July after the Fed delivered its first rate hike since 2023, with the dot plot showing 16 of 18 officials expect at least one more increase this year. Here are the levels that matter for DXY, the currencies feeling it most, and what to watch next.

Gold ends three-week slide at the $4,400 line — eight straight days of ETF inflows vs a 5% 10-year and a 100 dollar Spot gold closed Friday at $4,378.39, up 0.84% on the day and about 0.8% for the week — its first weekly gain in four weeks — with the intraday high of $4,399.67 leaving it 33 cents shy of the $4,400 line. Gold ETFs have now logged eight straight sessions of inflows, but with the 10-year back above 5% and the dollar index near 100, here is what decides whether this is a reversal or a bounce.

Author Suzie

Sep 20, Sun

Spot gold closed Friday at $4,378.39, up 0.84% on the day and about 0.8% for the week — its first weekly gain in four weeks — with the intraday high of $4,399.67 leaving it 33 cents shy of the $4,400 line. Gold ETFs have now logged eight straight sessions of inflows, but with the 10-year back above 5% and the dollar index near 100, here is what decides whether this is a reversal or a bounce.

Dollar holds above 100 near a 3-month high — three Fed speakers and a $69 billion auction land tonight The dollar index closed at 100.43 on Monday, its highest close since late July, after a weekly gain of about 1% — the best in more than three months — and is holding above the 100.00 handle in Asia. Three Fed officials speak tonight alongside a $69 billion two-year note auction, the first leg of $183 billion of Treasury supply this week.

Author Suzie

Yesterday 06: 34

The dollar index closed at 100.43 on Monday, its highest close since late July, after a weekly gain of about 1% — the best in more than three months — and is holding above the 100.00 handle in Asia. Three Fed officials speak tonight alongside a $69 billion two-year note auction, the first leg of $183 billion of Treasury supply this week.

October hike odds climb toward 60% as Goldman and BofA both flip — what Warsh's "dose of accommodation" really changed Rate futures now price roughly 55% to 62% for a 25bp hike at the October 27-28 FOMC, up from about 30% before Chair Warsh's post-meeting framing that the Fed is merely "removing some accommodation." Goldman Sachs has added an October hike to its forecast and Bank of America now sees moves in both October and December. Here is the repricing, the language behind it, and the two data points that decide it.

Author Irene Q.

7 hours ago

Rate futures now price roughly 55% to 62% for a 25bp hike at the October 27-28 FOMC, up from about 30% before Chair Warsh's post-meeting framing that the Fed is merely "removing some accommodation." Goldman Sachs has added an October hike to its forecast and Bank of America now sees moves in both October and December. Here is the repricing, the language behind it, and the two data points that decide it.

Memory chips surge, Nasdaq notches a second straight record close — why the Dow fell 185 points anyway Micron gained 5%, SanDisk 6.8%, Seagate 4% and Western Digital 3% as the memory complex led the Nasdaq Composite to a second consecutive record close of 27,244.28. But the Dow fell 185 points as JPMorgan, Wells Fargo and Schwab slid more than 3% each — a split tape that says more about positioning than about the economy.

Author Irene Q.

6 hours ago

Micron gained 5%, SanDisk 6.8%, Seagate 4% and Western Digital 3% as the memory complex led the Nasdaq Composite to a second consecutive record close of 27,244.28. But the Dow fell 185 points as JPMorgan, Wells Fargo and Schwab slid more than 3% each — a split tape that says more about positioning than about the economy.

Popular Symbols