{"id":213666,"date":"2023-12-16T03:01:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T21:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=213666"},"modified":"2023-12-16T03:01:53","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T21:31:53","slug":"bonk-memecoin-just-had-the-12th-most-successful-coinbase-debut-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/bonk-memecoin-just-had-the-12th-most-successful-coinbase-debut-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"BONK Memecoin Just Had the 12th Most Successful Coinbase Debut &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>BONK had trading volume of approximately $238 million in its first 24 hours of trading on Coinbase.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Solana-based memecoin &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/bonk\">BONK<\/a>&#8221; had one of the most successful Coinbase debuts in the history of the exchange. <\/p>\n<p>The dog-themed memecoin had trading volume of approximately $238 million in its first 24 hours of trading on Coinbase, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/0xRishi\/status\/1735717310193713554\">said<\/a> Rishi Prasad, Coinbase product manager. <\/p>\n<p>This made it the 12th most successful token by first-day volume among more than 270 listings hosted by Coinbase since the trading platform launched in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>For comparison, SHIB recorded a first-day volume of $126 million in September 2021, placing it at 20th place. DOGE had an initial volume of $263 million in June 2021, earning it 9th place. XRP had volume of about $161 million when it was re-listed, landing in the 16th spot, Prasad said.<\/p>\n<p>Like DOGE, PEPE and SHIB before it, BONK is a new testament to the power of memes and online communities. <\/p>\n<h2>Stunning Rise<\/h2>\n<p>BONK&#8217;s first-day trading volume follows a stunning rise. The token has posted the largest increase over the past week and past month, among all coins with a market cap greater than $10 million. Over the week, BONK rose by 147%, while the monthly increase reached an eye-popping 836%, according to Coingecko, <\/p>\n<figure><figcaption class=\"text-center text-xs\">BONK Price &#8211; Source: Coingecko<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The rally was in part fueled by announcements from centralized crypto exchanges, including Coinbase and Binance, that they would list BONK for trading. <\/p>\n<h2>Solana Phone Sells Out<\/h2>\n<p>Due to the rising demand for the memecoin, Solana&#8217;s phone preorders in the US have completely sold out, Solana Mobile <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/solanamobile\/status\/1735541775018738169\">tweeted<\/a>. Each phone shipment comes packed with a hefty 30 million in BONK tokens.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relative flex items-center gap-2 rounded-md bg-[#191919] p-2 my-4 lg:hidden\">\n<div class=\"relative group  flex w-max items-center gap-2  p-2 text-sm text-white mx-auto\"><strong class=\"whitespace-nowrap w-min sm:w-auto bg-gradient-to-r from-[#9FF9D2] to-[#DB9FF9] bg-clip-text text-transparent\">DeFi Alpha<\/strong><span class=\"whitespace-nowrap  w-min sm:w-auto border-l border-white pl-1 lg:hidden\">Premium Content<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"tooltip font-heading shadow-cta absolute hidden lg:visible left-6 z-10 -top-[80px] w-max max-w-xs translate-y-full flex-col rounded-lg bg-[#EEEEF4] p-3 text-left text-xs text-black group-hover:flex lg:left-auto lg:right-4\">Looking for Alpha? Become a premium member of The Defiant and join our DeFi Alpha community.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-inside list-disc\">\n<li>DeFi Daily | Weekdays<\/li>\n<li>DeFi Alpha Letter | Weekly<\/li>\n<li>Defiant Podcast Transcript | Weekly<\/li>\n<li>Inbox Dump | Saturday<\/li>\n<li>Weekly Recap | Sunday<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thedefiant.io\/go-premium#pricing\" class=\"disabled:bg-cta-disabled-background disabled:text-cta-disabled-text rounded font-semibold border-cta-primary-border bg-cta-primary-background text-cta-primary-text hover:border-cta-primary-border-hover hover:bg-cta-primary-background-hover ml-auto block p-2 text-center text-sm !text-black !no-underline shadow-newButton\">Start for free<\/a><\/div>\n<p>BONK was launched a year ago in the depths of the FTX exchange collapse. FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was Solana&#8217;s biggest backer and champion. As a way to cheer up the beleaguered community,  the team behind BONK distributed tokens to a group of Solana developers. Each developer was gifted 25 billion BONK, which are now worth over $700,000.<\/p>\n<p>Some whales have started to cash in on the BONK token craze. Investor Adam Cochrane said that one of BONK&#8217;s developers sold $25 million worth of BONK tokens over-the-counter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BONK had trading volume of approximately $238 million in its first 24 hours of trading on Coinbase. Solana-based memecoin &#8220;BONK&#8221; had one of the most successful Coinbase debuts in the history of the exchange. The dog-themed memecoin had trading volume of approximately $238 million in its first 24 hours of trading on Coinbase, said Rishi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[274,273,272,244,266,271,268,270,269,267],"class_list":["post-213666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de-fi","tag-crypto-finance","tag-decentralized-finance","tag-liquidity","tag-metamask","tag-pancake","tag-slippage","tag-sushiswap","tag-tronlink","tag-trust-wallet","tag-uniswap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213673,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213666\/revisions\/213673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}