Is Meme Coin back to full power?

Some of the biggest earners in the past several days have been meme coins.

The broader cryptocurrency market has marked the first signs of revival of the year after the painful Q4, 2025, in which many assets posted double-digit declines in which analysts question the general state of the industry.

Interestingly, the biggest gainers since Friday have come from the meme coin space, which could indicate a significant shift in investor behavior.

According to data from CoinGecko, BONK has performed strongly over the past 24 hours. Since last Sunday, the asset has returned to the top 100 alt in market value after confirming daily gains of 40% and more than 60%.

PEPE follows this. The frog-shaped meme coin is increasing by 13% daily and over 66% weekly. The Shiba Inu is good at 11% and 21% in green on both charts.

Dogecoin became the biggest earner of the large cap alts. The OG meme coin is up 6% since yesterday and 23% weekly. The official TRUMP token performed better today (up 7 percent), possibly due to recent actions by the US president.

Jake Kennis, senior research analyst at Nansen, said in a statement to CryptoPotato that this turn to large-cap Memcoins earlier in the year is “traders standing up after months of consolidation.” He added that these additional speculative assets were some of the hardest hit by the October crash given the low volatility.

“Markets can be very bearish on memes based on price action and the risk of not being there,” he said.

However, Kennis acknowledged that meme coins are depreciating relative to bitcoin, and that these brief corrections “should be confirmed on a higher timeframe as both PEPE and DOGE are still down 80% from their respective ATHs.”

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