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Meme coins roared into 2025 with a 9.5% surge in market capitalization to $103 billion as new meme coin index token Meme Index ($MEMEX) rocketed past $1.5 million in its presale. There are less than two days to go before the presale price of $MEMEX increases from the current $0.0148639 to $0.0149234, so there’s no time to lose to buy the native token of the first and only meme coin decentralized index, accessible exclusively to $MEMEX token holders. POV: The teams Index just exploded and the profits are rolling in 📈🚀 You ready to join the Frenzy? https://t.co/7P9aYCaBEn pic.twitter.com/bYQDS3M6zf — Meme Index (@memecoin_index) December 21, 2024 Although meme coins only account for around 2.4% of overall crypto market capitalization, their share of trading volumes was 6.7% in 2024. As new trends emerge among meme coins, the Meme Index will capture these developments within its family of indices. Leading the charge among meme coins t...

The original and foundational cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (BTC) has, unsurprisingly, consistently maintained the largest market capitalization of all digital assets.  But it hasn’t exactly been a smooth ride — the volatile nature of crypto has led to numerous intense price changes that have added or subtracted billions in BTC’s market cap in short timeframes. In 2024, a promising first quarter was followed up by an extended period of sideways trading without a clear trend. Since mid-October however, things have changed — Bitcoin, as well as the wider crypto market, is now in a bull run, buoyed by tailwinds from resurgent recession fears and the election of Donald Trump, widely seen as the pro-crypto candidate of the 2024 presidential race. Picks for you Why XRP price is crashing 1 hour ago ...