Dogecoin is getting hot again, jumping by nearly 11% over the past 24 hours to continue gains from the last couple days—and another meme coin is even hotter, thanks in part to recent hype over AI-related tokens.
The DOGE price is currently $0.375. It’s the highest since December 18, when the market plunged. Dogecoin is up 18% from the beginning of 2025. It has recovered after dropping to $0.27 below on December 20, a market-wide plunge.
The original meme coin saw a surge this fall on the back of prominent fan Elon Musk's support of Donald Trump on the campaign trail, and then blasted off alongside Bitcoin and other major assets following Trump's win. DOGE reached a price peak of $0.48 per coin in December. This was the highest DOGE had been for over three years.
Dogecoin isn't the only major asset gaining steam Friday. It's not even the biggest gainer in the top 10 coins by market cap—that honor goes to Cardano, which has jumped 15% on the day to a current price of $1.10.
Ethereum, on the other hand, has increased by over 3%, reaching almost $3600.
Fartcoin is another meme coin amongst the top 100 cryptocurrency by market cap. It recently reached an all-time price high of $1.53.
Fartcoin’s rise is partly due to the fact that it was created by the AI-driven X Account Truth Terminal. This account came up with the idea for the coin name before a human unknown launched the meme coin via Pump.fun, a Solana coin launcher. It's now up 57% over the last seven days.
The Solana Token surged Thursday along with other cryptocurrencies linked to AI agents. These included meme coins and the launchpads to use to deploy these agents. Some traders hail the AI + crypto story as the latest meta, but it has its detractors.