- SHIB led the most recent memecoin rally amid general altcoin market optimism
- Memecoins was the top-performing section on a YTD foundation
The altcoin sector has seen robust positive aspects because the Fed pivot in mid-September, reinforcing the market’s conviction of an early innings into the much-awaited alt season. Nevertheless, a well-known pattern gave the impression to be transpiring at press time — Memecoin dominance.
Glassnode’s founders famous the identical, claiming that memecoins took the lead within the early alt season. In doing so, they highlighted dogwifhat [WIF], Shiba Inu [SHIB], and Pepe [PEPE] displaying robust momentum.
“We just entered Altcoin Season 5 days ago, and we’re already picking up strong momentum on #memecoins.”
SHIB leads memecoin rally
Supply: CoinMarketCap
As of 27 September, 8 of the highest 10 memecoins, together with SHIB, WIF and MOG, had double-digit positive aspects between 25% and 50% over the previous 30 days of buying and selling. SHIB was an outlier throughout this week’s rally too, with the identical mountaineering by 40%.
At press time, SHIB’s rally had cooled off barely across the 200-day MA (Shifting Common). Additionally, the RSI flashed overbought situations.
Supply: SHIB/USDT, TradingView
Nevertheless, relative to different classes, there was stronger speculative market curiosity in memecoins, which may enhance the sector.
In keeping with Coinglass, memecoins have been ranked first (12%) in Open Curiosity (OI) up to now 24 hours. That was about double the market curiosity within the second-ranking sector – Gaming – with a determine of 6.8%.
Memecoins additionally ranked third in quantity over the identical interval. This underscored robust liquidity injection and speculators within the section over the weekend.
Supply: Coinglass
This huge speculative fervor in memecoins may reinforce its market dominance once more in Q3. In H1 2024, the sector was a high performer, eclipsing even Bitcoin [BTC] in positive aspects.
On the time of writing, the section had the best positive aspects on a YTD (year-to-date) foundation, with whopping 1160% returns.
Supply: Artemis
