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Data from across the industry indicates a decline in the meme coin market trend. Leading meme coins have maintained consistent performance, but bearish trends have emerged in the last month, with trade volumes dropping from ~$30 billion to under $14 billion. While the leading meme coins have mostly ...
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Data from across the industry indicates a decline in the meme coin market trend. Leading meme coins have maintained consistent performance, but bearish trends have emerged in the last month, with trade volumes dropping from ~$30 billion to under $14 billion.
While the leading meme coins have mostly shown flat performance, the overall market is underperforming. High-profile successes of certain meme coins may distract from broader losses. Factors contributing to this decline include rug pull scams and data revealing that most meme coin traders lose money. Although it's premature to declare a bear market, traders should be cautious of these bearish signals.
IS A MEME COIN WINTER COMING? Around a month ago, the meme coin space was looking quite different: these assets were in an intense bull market, outperforming the top altcoins. However, new data is revealing growing cracks, as the space’s trade volumes have dipped from the ~$30 billion range to under $14 billion.
CoinMarketCap data also shows that the leading meme coins have mostly kept a flat performance this month. Nonetheless, meme coins are famous for wild jumps and declines, and they have a tendency to steal the spotlight from one another. For example, earlier this month, FARTCOIN achieved a 200% price hike, while older assets like DOGE fell sharply at that time. In a similar vein, POPCAT was a top-level performer in November, but it quickly began lagging behind the market. In other words, these big successes can distract from other losses. The whole market, however, is quietly underperforming.
It is difficult to create a comprehensive narrative that accurately explains these trends. Perhaps high-profile rug pull scams like Hawk Tuah have contributed to lowered market interest. More data clearly reveals that most meme coin traders lose money, at least on certain platforms. For whatever reason, their market dominance against altcoins is dramatically falling.
Although these trends are definitely worrying, it’s premature to claim that a meme coin bear market is imminent. For example, November trading data suggested that an altcoin season was also imminent, but the actual rally failed to materialize. Perhaps these trends will also amount to a temporary mirage. Still, traders should be aware of these bearish signals.