The meme coins market recorded a heavy sell-off on Monday as its cumulative capitalization took a dip of more than 5% in the last 24 hours.
The ongoing drop has added to a much longer decline seen in the market. Data shows that the top 10 meme coins have crashed by 65% on average from their peak over the past year.
Biggest meme coins like Dogecoin (DOGE) and Shiba Inu (SHIB) have seen a similar decline over the last 7 days. DOGE and SHIB prices have dropped by 13% and 12%, respectively, in the same period. It has led the cumulative meme cryptos market cap to slide to $38 billion.
Dogecoin, the most famous and largest meme coin, has managed to keep up its position in the biggest ten crypto tally. However, its decline of 40% in the last 90 days depicts the depreciating interest for the token. DOGE price dropped by another 5% in the last 24 hours.
The biggest meme coin is trading at an average price of $0.094, at press time. DOGE has recorded a 52-week high of $0.226 with a 52-week low of $0.057. This marks a 57% decline from its peak over the last year. It is still down by 87% from its all time high (ATH) of $0.73, registered on May 8, 2021.
Shiba Inu, the second biggest meme coin, has posted similar but higher losses despite its community trying to spark a bullish rally. It is trading at an average price of $0.00001335, with a market cap of $7.8 billion, at press time.
Over the past year, the top 10 #MEMEcoins have dropped an average of 63.73% from their peak.$DOGE: -57.93%$SHIB: -70.86%$PEPE: -58.16%$WIF: -70.93%$BONK: -64.63%$FLOKI: -65.97%$BRETT: -62.59%$POPCAT: -43.77%$BOME: -79.48%$MEW: -62.99% pic.twitter.com/GzRNI4dYaB
— Lookonchain (@lookonchain) September 2, 2024
SHIB posted 52-week high of $0.0000453 and 52-week low of $0.0000066. This depicts over 70% price drop recorded from its peak in the past year. It is down by a huge 85% from its all time high of $0.000086, registered on October 28, 2021.
PEPE and WIF, the new trending coins, are also dealing with the interconnected price decline. PEPE and WIF are down by more than 50% in the last 90 days. PEPE attained a 52-week high of $0.000017 and a 52-week low of $0.0000006071. It is trading at an average price of $0.00000072, which shows a dump of 58% from its one-year peak.
Dogwifhat went on to hit a 52-week high of $4.84 and a 52-week low of $0.0677. It is trading at an average price of $1.41, which presents a drop of almost 71% from its one year peak. However, whales are now accumulating WIF. Lookonchain reported that a whale bought 9.57 million WIF (approx. worth $13.59 million) from Binance and Bybit in the last 4 days.