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As 2026 kicks off, the market is taking stock of 2025. Despite all the volatility, there were some clear divergences that set the stage for renewed rallies. Solana [SOL] is a perfect example. Last year, SOL showed a big disconnect between its fundamentals and price action.  While it closed 2025 as the “worst-performing asset” with a 34.16% pullback, it still dominated Layer 1s across key on-chain metrics, highlighting strong underlying activity that the market didn’t fully price in. Source: DeFi Development Corp. Take transactions per second (TPS), for instance. SOL averaged 1.1k TPS. As the chart above shows, Solana led…

Shiba Inu [SHIB] has started the year with a big 30%+ move! At first glance, it looks like just another memecoin surge, but there’s more to it that’s worth taking a good look at. What’s holding up this big rally? Pace, but not enough faith? The recent surge is backed by clear pace. Price has pushed above key short-term MAs, with clear indication of buying interest. RSI showed strong but stretched momentum. The move happened quickly after while of sideways action, which often attracts short-term traders rather than long-term holders. Source: TradingView While the breakout is technically valid, it doesn’t…

Dogecoin [DOGE] fell below a two-week range formation at the end of December but made a V-reversal. At the time of writing, it was challenging the highs from December and could see a much bigger rally than it had already witnessed. Source: DOGE/USDT on TradingView Dogecoin fell below the $0.13 low in December. This had been a low that the memecoin previously visited in April, before rebounding higher. January saw DOGE prices take a quick upward turn, but there was no denying the longer-term trend. The OBV and CMF showed that the selling pressure in recent weeks has begun to…

Dogecoin has rebounded in recent days, mirroring the performance of other meme coins. Its price is up by about 30% from its lowest point on December 31. It has also jumped to its highest level since Nov. 30. The uptick is in tandem with Shiba Inu (SHIB), Pepe (PEPE) and Pudgy Penguins, as the market capitalization of all memecoins tracked by CoinGecko has jumped to over $52 billion. Summary Dogecoin price has rebounded by 30% this year. Spot DOGE ETFs have added $3.9 million this year. The futures open interest has rebounded in the past few days. Dogecoin (DOGE) and…

Memecoins could be back at it, though their rally is not guaranteed to continue. Usually the year starts with pumps in different financial markets. FARTCOIN continued to capitalize on this rotation in memecoins, as it rose more than 13% in 24 hours. This resulted in more than 60% gains since the year started, as per CoinRank. As a result, FARTCOIN flipped PIPPIN in terms of capitalization despite the latter leading AI-themed memes. FARTCOIN price on a steep uptrend! On the charts, FARTCOIN price broke from a small consolidation that had started in mid-December, as seen on the hourly chart. The…

Meme coins are clawing back attention after weeks in the shadows, with tokens like Pepe, Bonk and Floki outpacing even Dogecoin and Shiba Inu as speculative appetite returns to crypto markets. Summary While DOGE and SHIB still logged gains of around 20% over the past week, smaller meme tokens delivered sharper moves. PEPE, BONK helped lift the sector’s total market value by 7% on Monday to $52.4 billion. The surge marks a notable rotation into higher-risk assets, as traders pile into meme coins that lagged for much of late 2025 but are now staging aggressive rebounds. Pepe (PEPE), Floki (FLOKI),…

Pepe [PEPE] has been on a tear, jumping 76% in a week! This revival happened during a huge patch of green that pushed most top memecoins firmly into the green. Does this rally have real legs, or is it just the market slipping back into old habits? Pepe steals the spotlight Pepe’s surge came in just a few sessions, snapping out of consolidation. The move came so quickly, with the price breaking above a long-standing range and pushing to levels not seen in a long time. Source: TradingView The strength behind the rally is important. Volume surged with price, so…

Shiba Inu [SHIB] rallied 16.3% on Sunday, the 4th of January. It was up 26% at the time of writing, measured from the start of the new year. This rally came alongside a Bitcoin [BTC] price bounce above the $90k level, which lent many altcoins bullish short-term momentum. Source: Santiment on X In a post on X, crypto market data platform Santiment revealed that a good chunk of the memecoin’s supply was concentrated within a few whales’ wallets. The top 10 largest SHIB holders controlled 62.65% of the entire supply. It must be noted that the wallet containing 41% is…

Pudgy Penguins [PENGU] token has rallied 8.6% in a day as the altcoin market continued to make gains. Since the 1st of January, the altcoin market cap, excluding Ethereum [ETH], has increased by 7.5%. The market-wide short-term strength was particularly evident in the memecoin sector. PENGU was one of the meme tokens posting strong gains, and it was up 47% since the start of the year. Should PENGU traders buy the strength? An AMBCrypto report from the final week of December noted the persistent selling pressure on PENGU and its long-term downtrend. A quick rebound was not anticipated, but it…

FLOKI has risen over the past day despite a turbulent year that saw the memecoin decline by nearly 72%. At the time of writing, the memecoin was up 18%, a move that may hint at renewed investor interest in the market. However, questions remain over whether this interest in FLOKI [FLOKI] is sustainable. From a technical perspective, AMBCrypto examines the chart to provide clarity. FLOKI breaks a bearish chain The recent rally followed a breakout from a descending resistance line that had kept the price in a sustained decline for an entire quarter, between October and December 2025, as selling…