Dogecoin is heating up again, jumping nearly 11% over the past 24 hours – continuing the gains from the past two days – and another meme coin has gotten even hotter, thanks to recent AI-related tokens.
DOGE is now up to $0.375, the highest mark seen since December 18 amid a market-wide decline. Dogecoin It is now up 18% since the start of 2025, rebounding after falling below $0.27 on December 20.
The original meme coin was seen falling on the back of celebrity fan Elon Musk's support for Donald Trump on the campaign trail, and then crashed along with Bitcoin and other major assets following Trump's victory. DOGE rose $0.48 in December, marking a three-year high for the asset.
Dogecoin isn't the only major asset to gain steam on Friday. It's not the biggest gainer in the top 10 coins by market cap — that honor goes to Cardano, which jumped 15% on the day to its current price of $1.10.
In contrast, Bitcoin rose just 1% on the day to $98,275, while Ethereum rose more than 3% to nearly $3,600.
Another meme coin in the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market value is celebrating a new milestone on Friday, as well as the recently rising Fartcoin (FARTCOIN) which recently hit a new all-time high of $1.53.
Fartcoin is on the rise in part due to an unknown person dreaming up the coin's name before it was invented, and its association with the AI-driven X token Truth Terminal, which was launched by Solana Meme's coin launch pumppad pumpa.fun. It is now up 57% in the last seven days.
The Solana token was added on Thursday, along with cryptocurrencies tied to AI agents, the launchpads used to deploy them, and meme coins tied to those agents. The AI + crypto narrative is being hailed by some traders as the latest meta in the space, although it has notable detractors.
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