Dogecointhe original meme coin and most valuable by market cap, surged to a weekly high price of nearly $0.46 after the top cryptocurrency Bitcoin finally surpassed the long-awaited $100,000 mark on Wednesday evening.
And although DOGE has fallen slightly since that weekly high, it remains the biggest gainer among the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap, not to mention the hottest meme coin among the top 100 coins by data from CoinGecko.
Dogecoin is currently sitting at a price of $0.4518down slightly from the high of $0.458 seen just after midnight ET on Thursday. Despite this, DOGE is up more than 9% on the day, outpacing Bitcoin’s 7% jump and EthereumThis is an increase of 5%.
Although Dogecoin’s gains have cooled over the past two weeks, the coin has still posted impressive gains since Donald Trump’s election victory last month, now up 163% over the past 30 days.
Bitcoin continued to rise after surpassing the $100,000 mark for the first time ever on Wednesday evening, peaking at $103,679. Less than 1% remains from this point at the current price of $102,447, with the 30-day gain sitting at 49% at the time of writing.
Other large-cap meme coins are also up today, but almost as much as DOGE, with Shiba Inu (SHIB) up almost 6% in the last 24 hours and Pepe (PEPE) with a jump of 7.5%.
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