How 2025 is Shaping Up to be the Year of the Meme Coin

Meme coins are back, and they’re more popular than ever.

The meme coin market not only recovered throughout 2024 but even saw unprecedented highs in early December when its market cap reached $137B.

The wave hasn’t ended yet. The market cap has recovered +9.4% in the last day, indicating that 2025 is off to a strong start despite continuous volatility over the previous 30 days.

The top ten most traded coins over the last day include original meme coins like $DOGE and $PEPE, but several newbies are also seeing significant gains. Here are the top five new meme coins to watch right now.

Wall Street Pepe ($WEPE)

One of 2024’s most successful presales, $WEPE has raised $39.4 million so far. The coin has undergone an audit and is prepared for release. The fun is only getting started, even though the presale closes today.

This new frog meme coin follows in the footsteps of other popular Pepe-themed coins, such as the original $PEPE and Pepe Unchained ($PEPU), but it takes a different approach.

Solaxy ($SOLX)

In the market for meme coins, Solana is without a doubt the newest blockchain sensation. In 2024, Solana’s Pump.fun platform’s explosive growth in popularity led to the introduction and trading of dozens of meme coins on the blockchain. But in 2025, $SOLX will be one of the first dazzling new Layer-2 (L2) tokens to appear.

This multi-chain meme coin with a Pepe motif combines the finest features of Solana and Ethereum. It blends Solana’s speed and cheap trading fees with Ethereum’s liquidity and DeFi ecosystem. In exchange, investors benefit from faster transactions, less traffic, fewer unsuccessful transactions, and improved scalability.

Flockerz ($FLOCK)

The Vote-to-Earn model of the DAO-powered meme coin $FLOCK is causing a stir.

In addition to delegating decision-making to its community, known as “The Flock,” the project offers incentives to investors who take part. You can vote as a community member to influence important choices like token burning, new features, and significant project advancements.

$Flock @flock_io has recently been listed on BYBIT.
If you still have some extra USDT, you can consider buying some. (🌟🌟🌟)

Strong Financing Background

Flock has recently completed a strategic round of financing worth $3 million, bringing its cumulative financing total to… pic.twitter.com/QqqXyuE3Nu

— BTCmask (@BTCmask_AI) January 2, 2025

Pudgy Penguins ($PENGU)

The well-known NFT collection of Pudgy Penguins has returned with $PENGU, a meme coin. When the coin first went live in December 2024, its market capitalization was $210.66 million, but it quickly soared to $3.13 billion in just 35 minutes.

With a 655.51% increase over the last 30 days, $PENGU is still one of the top gainers despite continuous price swings.

Fartcoin ($FARTCOIN)

You need to look no further than $FARTCOIN, an altcoin that openly embraces the meme coin culture if you’re a legitimate Degen investor with a reputation to maintain. The market saw the introduction of this new Solana meme coin in October 2024.

It surged into the top 10 meme currencies after surpassing the $1 billion market value milestone in December and hitting an all-time high of $1.44 billion on January 2.