Dogecoin is having a rough day, with the leading meme coin plunging 10% in the past 24 hours amid a market-wide decline which follows mixed US economic reports released earlier on Tuesday.
But even though DOGE is the biggest loser among the top 10 cryptocurrencies in terms of market capitalization, beating heavyweights like Bitcoin, EthereumAnd Solana On this front, other major coins are even worse as of this writing.
Dog Parts Based on Solana Bonk (BONK) and Dogwifhat (WIF) are both down about 11% as of this writing, while recently coin meme agent AI buzzy AI16Z fell almost 15% today.
Floki (FLOKI), Brett (BRETT) and Gigachad (GIGA) are also down about 11% over the past day, although SPX6900 is down almost 14% and Popcat (POPCAT) is down by nearly 16% at the time of writing.
Only one meme coin among the top 250 cryptocurrencies by market cap is in the green over the past day: Akuma Inu, a dog-themed token on Ethereum. Layer 2 Network Basiswhich soared 55% on the day amid a 264% weekly rise.
Dogecoin is currently priced at around $0.35, down just under 10% on the day. Despite this, it remains up 11% over the past week, thanks to a spike earlier this month that brought the original meme coin to a price of almost $0.40.
Galaxy Digital said last week that it expects Dogecoin reached $1.00 for the first time in 2025, breaking its previous all-time high of $0.73 from 2021, although Tuesday’s price drop pushes DOGE further away from that goal.
Meme coins are notoriously volatile, and although established, high-value coins are less likely to drop to zero without noticethey still tend to swing higher than major coins like Bitcoin or Ethereum. Bitcoin is down almost 5% today, for example, but Dogecoin and other meme coins are down twice as much.
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