Dogecoin is getting hot again, jumping nearly 11% in the past 24 hours to continue the gains of the past two days – and another coin is even hotter, thanks in part to recent hype over tokens linked to l ‘AI.
DOGE hits a current price of $0.375, the highest mark recorded since December 18 amid a market-wide slide. Dogecoin has now climbed 18% since the start of 2025, rebounding after falling below $0.27 on December 20.
The original meme coin saw a surge this fall thanks to prominent fan Elon Musk’s support of Donald Trump during the election campaign, then exploded alongside Bitcoin and other major assets after Trump’s victory. Trump. DOGE then peaked at $0.48 in December, marking a three-year high price for the asset.
Dogecoin is not the only major asset to gain momentum on Friday. It’s not even the biggest gainer in the top 10 coins by market cap – that honor goes to Cardanowhich jumped 15% on the day to a current price of $1.10.
Bitcoinon the other hand, rose only 1% on the day to $98,275, with Ethereum up more than 3% to nearly $3,600.
Another meme coin in the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap is also celebrating a new milestone on Friday, with the Fartcoin has been rising recently (FARTCOIN) recently reached a new all-time high price of $1.53.
Fartcoin rises partly thanks to its association with account X driven by Truth Terminal AIwho came up with the name of the coin before an unknown human created it and launched it via the Solana Pump.fun coin launchpad. It is now up 57% over the last seven days.
The Solana token surged Thursday alongside other 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 like the last meta in spacealthough he also has prominent detractors.
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