The cryptocurrency and meme coin market is rebounding.
Top gainers over the past 24 hours include $FOFAR (+184%), $CUMMIES (+88%), and $CARLO (+68%). Even trend-setters like PEPE and Dogecoin are in the green, with the total meme coin market up 0.6%.
Farcoin ($FARTCOIN) is another winner, gaining 4.8% in the last day and 30% in the last week.
It’s meme time again, and we all agree, so let’s review the hottest new cryptocurrencies that could become popular in January 2025.
Remember to DYOR and never take unnecessary risks. Meme coins are risky.
1. Solaxy ($SOLX) – Solana Layer-2 Raises $8 Million in Presale
It hasn’t even been a month since Solaxy ($SOLX) launched in pre-sale, and it has already raised $7.97 million.
Solana Layer-2 (L2) will solve many of $SOL’s problems, such as network congestion, expensive transactions, and an insufficiently scalable ecosystem.
With zero downtime, even during high traffic periods, Solaxy aims to become the fastest channel ever. It’s also the only Solana L2 in existence, so it has first-mover advantage.
The project is currently receiving a lot of attention. A whale purchased $158,000 SOLX on New Year’s Eve, demonstrating growing interest from big crypto players.
Traders have already staked 2.5 billion tokens for a staking APY of 445%, so long-term HODLing is definitely an option.
Many see Solaxy as Solana’s only chance to progress and evolve beyond her natural limits. Read the white paper And follow the project on to understand the project and stay up to date with the latest events.
You can buy $SOLX for $0.001588/token from the official pre-sale website.
2. Meme Index ($MEMEX) – First Decentralized Meme Coin Index Raises $1.5M
Meme Index ($MEMEX) is another strong contender for the 2025 list of high-gain meme coins. It is the world’s first meme coin index, allowing you to invest in multiple coins with a single asset.
According to official information, $MEMEX will have exposure to the entire market with one of the most staked APYs (1,500%) and four indices to choose from, from low volatility to high risk:
1. Titan Meme Index
2. Clue Meme Moonshot
3. Meme Midcap Index
4. Meme Frenzy Index
Community governance will be a key aspect of $MEMEX, allowing buyers to vote on project proposals and changes to the ecosystem (like adding or completely removing an index).
The project raised $1.5 million, with a token price of $0.0148639, gaining visibility faster than expected. This “Coin World ETF” is definitely one of the best meme pieces of 2025.
3. Pepe Unchained ($PEPU) – Pump Pad is coming to the biggest presale of 2024
Pepe unleashed ($PEPU) was the biggest meme coin presale of 2024, raising a staggering $74 million before increasing its listing price 3x in two days.
Early buyers should have earned at least 10x if they sold high.
On December 28, the development team sent a preview of the upcoming Pump Pad to X, and it shook fans.
The Pump Pad will be similar to Pump.fun, a coin launch pad helping developers launch coins. As one of the leading ETH L2 protocols, $PEPU could hit big after the launch of its Pump Pad.
A CEX listing is also planned, although it is unclear which centralized exchange the team is aiming for. Fans are hoping for 100x or 200x as Pepe Unchained gains popularity and its usefulness comes into play.
Read $PEPU White Paper And follow the project on to find out more.
4. Best Wallet Token ($BEST) – Next Generation Wallet Token of 2025
Best Wallet Token ($BEST) is the native token of Best Wallet, a popular crypto wallet that lets you buy all the best cryptos and meme coins from one place.
Its symbolic project has raised more than $6 million since the launch of the pre-sale at the end of November 2024, and it is steadily gaining ground. With more 29.2K subscribers on and the established reputation of its parent crypto wallet, $BEST appears to be a winner.
Benefits enjoyed by $BEST holders include:
- Early access to new projects like reputable pre-sales before their market launch
- Reduced transaction fees within the Best Wallet ecosystem
- Higher Staking Rewards for High APY Earnings in Staking Aggregator
- Community governance to vote for key ecosystem decisions
Best Wallet has a detailed roadmap and the future looks bright for the project. From advanced anti-fraud protection to the launch of the best card and a new stake aggregator, the upcoming features make $BEST a coin with great potential.
One $BEST token is currently worth $0.002345 and you can join the presale from official pre-sale website. We recommend that you read $BEST’s lightweight paper to better understand the project.
5. Chubby Penguins ($PENGU) – Fluffy, cute and up to 600% in one month
Meet the cutest, fluffiest, chubbiest coin, Chubby penguins ($PENGU).
Inspired by the original Pudgy Penguin NFT collection that became an instant sensation in 2021, the piece continues this success story.
To understand how popular $PENGU is, watch its half a million followers on. During the NFT’s heyday, it was featured by the likes of The New York Times and CNBC.
Now the Penguins A-Team has its own coin, its own store and clothing brand on the market.
On the performance side, $PENGU had an amazing time after launching on December 17 for $0.003375. It reached a high of $0.05019 on the same day, fluctuated slightly and stabilized at $0.03 until now.
It is currently the fifth largest coin by market capitalization ($2.2 billion), with a 24-hour trading volume of $377 million. The project is not only cute and fluffy, but also extremely successful so far.
Read The story of $PENGUfollow it on
6. Fartcoin ($FARTCOIN) – A burst of 489% in the past month
Farcoin ($FARTCOIN) is a piece created by an unknown developer who was inspired by AI conversations on Truth Terminal, a crypto AI chatbot.
Basically, an AI chatbot came up with the idea for Fartcoin, a developer created it, and then sold their allocation for $500.
Now, $FARTCOIN has no core team or anyone in charge, but holds a market cap of $1.36 billion. Truth Terminal is essentially the first AI billionaire.
Fartcoin performance review shows a magnificent rise of 2,725,393% in more than two months. And remember, no one controls this rogue ship.
As originally defined by Truth Terminal, Fartcoin is expected to have community governance, “Gas Leak” marketing events, a “Hall of Flame” for top Fartcoin content creators, and much more.
Naturally, none of these things exist (yet?) because there is no one to create them. An NFT collection is also mentioned, with concepts such as “Fart Zodiac” or “Eco-Fart Infographics” and “Fart-Powered Vehicles”.
You can visit a Fartcoin X page made by the community with 48.7K followers and join the Fartcoin movement.
7. Gigachad ($GIGA) – Crypto Sigma is up 53% in the past week
Gigachad was launched on January 5, 2024 and has generated 3,760x in one year, rising from $0.00002386 to its current price of $0.08971.
Inspired by the wildly popular Gigachad meme based on Russian bodybuilder Ernest Khalimov, $GIGA brings maximum masculinity to the crypto industry.
With more 36.1K subscribers onthe project is taking the industry by storm in an unapologetic, definitively hyper-masculine, sigma-approved way.
$GIGA holders double…drum roll…Gigachads. It’s one of the most close-knit communities we’ve seen.
The “Gigachad Thesis” says you have to be a testosterone-rich, bench-pressing, life-maximizing Chad to invest in $GIGA. No “normie” is accepted, but who’s to say what a normie is?
The token features are incredibly simple: a total supply of 9.6 billion, an immutable contract, and a burned liquidity pool. As far as a white paper goes, there is none.
If $GIGA sounds appealing to you, you can buy it on Coinbase.
The future of Meme Coin looks better than ever
It feels like we’re repeating ourselves, but meme pieces are back in the spotlight. But have they already completely disappeared?
Not really.
Whether it’s Pepe Unchained, Best Wallet Token or Solaxy, these new meme coins all have high potential to make good gains in 2025.
But remember to do your own research and be very careful about scam projects: meme coins are risky investments and volatility is almost always high.