
What is BONK? Solana’s Dog-Themed Community Meme Coin
Billed as the "social layer" of Solana, dog-themed meme coin BONK has surged to a market cap of over $1.5 billion.

Billed as the "social layer" of Solana, dog-themed meme coin BONK has surged to a market cap of over $1.5 billion.
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BonkDAO, the decentralized autonomous organization tied to the popular Bonk meme coin on Solana, fell victim to a "malicious" governance attack that resulted in a roughly $20 million heist from its treasury. The team behind the meme coin and its various endeavors said it is working with centralized exchanges, network bridges, and the Solana Foundation as it navigates the situation. “During the investigation, BonkDAO identified the exchange wallets used to purchase BONK ahead of the proposal,”...
Technology
Hackers hijacked the domain of the Solana-based token launch platform Bonk.fun on Wednesday, prompting the team to warn users not to interact with the site after attackers deployed a wallet-draining phishing message. An operator associated with Bonk.fun, known as Tom, said in a post on X that a team account had been compromised, allowing attackers to push a malicious prompt through the bonk.fun domain. The prompt reportedly asked users to sign a fake terms-of-service message designed to author...
Markets
The new year enthusiasm has all but vanished as Bitcoin continued its sustained downtrend, undoing most of the year-to-date gains noted in the first week. Bitcoin is down 2.4% over 24 hours, and is trading at $89,881, according to CoinGecko data. The total crypto market capitalization, which hit $3.305 trillion yesterday, is down 2.6%. As a result of the top crypto’s downward move, total liquidations over the past 24 hours have exceeded $477 million, according to CoinGlass data. Bulls who rode...
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Solana-based meme coin Bonk (BONK) has begun trading on Switzerland's third-largest stock exchange, through a newly launched exchange traded product, adding another regulated crypto offering to Europe's expanding digital asset market. Swiss-based crypto ETP issuer Bitcoin Capital issued the BONK ETP on SIX Swiss Exchange, allowing investors to gain exposure to the token through traditional brokerage accounts, according to an announcement shared with Decrypt. As a subsidiary of Swiss asset-manag...
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Australians appear to be trading on curiosity and culture as much as conviction, according to a new analysis by crypto exchange Kraken. The company’s latest wallet report, based on an anonymized dataset covering millions of wallets between August 2024 and August 2025, shows Australians leaning heavily toward Ethereum and smaller tokens while reducing exposure to Bitcoin and older altcoins. For the average Australian wallet, Ethereum takes up roughly 33% of the cache, nearly double the global ra...
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Meme coins led a recovery rally Monday morning, with traders piling into high-risk assets as cooling U.S.-China tensions helping crypto markets rebound after they suffered their worst liquidation event in history. Dogecoin (DOGE) rose 11.9% to $0.21 over the past 24 hours, while other popular meme coins posted even stronger gains, according to CoinGecko data. Dogwifhat (WIF) surged by 18.4%, Pudgy Penguins (PENGU) jumped 17.5%, and Pepe (PEPE) climbed 13.2%. Bonk (BONK) and Shiba Inu (SHIB) c...
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A beverages company turned meme coin treasury is set to rebrand from Safety Shot, Inc. to Bonk, Inc. on Friday. The firm says the shift—which will see the firm trade via the ticker BNKK—is an important way for it to provide “clarity” about the brand as it looks to “evolve” its plans and “sell off any unnecessary assets.” The announcement follows the firm bumping its Bonk (BONK) holdings to 2.7% of the circulating supply, valued at approximately $43 million, according to the BonkDat dashboard. Bo...
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Meme coin markets cooled on Friday morning as Solana token launchpad Pump.fun’s flagship token tumbled by 9.2% in 24 hours, leading a wider retreat across the sector. The token, now priced at $0.007213, has nevertheless surged 142% over the past 30 days. PUMP remains just 11.5% below its all-time high of $0.008819, reached September 14, per CoinGecko data. The mobile app has seen daily active users rise 450% in the past three months, according to company figures. On prediction market Myriad (la...
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A flood of crypto ETF applications hit the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday, with five distinct filings spanning everything from Avalanche infrastructure to Bonk (BONK) in what one analyst called "wild" territory. The lineup includes Bitwise’s spot Avalanche ETF and a Stablecoin & Tokenization ETF, Defiance ETFs built around Bitcoin and Ethereum basis trades, Tuttle’s “Income Blast” funds covering Bonk (BONK), Litecoin (LTC), and Sui (SUI), and T-Rex’s leveraged 2x Orbs ETF, accordi...
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Safety Shot Inc., a healthy beverage company, is set to receive $25 million worth of BONK from the founding contributors of the Solana meme coin. By the end of the year, the company aims to acquire up to $115 million worth of the Solana meme coin. It is the latest in a long line of publicly traded companies pivoting to create crypto treasuries, first starting with Bitcoin and, more recently, expanding to the fringes of the industry. Traded on the NASDAQ under the ticker SHOT, the wellness compan...
DeFi
Solana launchpad Pump.fun has been the center of the meme coin ecosystem ever since it launched in January 2024. But on Sunday, LetsBonk became the first Solana launchpad to ever flip it for daily tokens created. Over the past 24 hours, according to Dune data, Pump.fun was responsible for the creation of 9,249 tokens, while LetsBonk launched 19,620. “Going over the [more than $200,000] BONK runners in the last 24 hours it seems like most are organic,” Dune dashboard creator Adam Tech tweeted. “L...
Gaming
Solana meme coin Bonk launched its very own video game on Monday: Bonk Arena, developed by studio Bravo Ready, known for the Solana extraction shooter, BR1: Infinite. This marks the first officially licensed game for the popular Solana meme coin, after the project has dipped its toes in countless other crypto ventures. Bonk Arena is a fast-paced, top-down arcade shooter, playable via web browsers and the official Phantom wallet mobile app. It will also be released on the upcoming handheld PSG1...
Markets
DeFi Development Corp, the AI-powered real estate platform building a digital assets treasury centered on Solana, announced Friday that it’s teaming with leading Solana meme coin Bonk (BONK) on a jointly backed Solana validator node—and its stock continued to blast off to new highs. The Nasdaq-listed firm (trading as DFDV) and meme coin team will collectively work to increase the delegated stake, or the amount of Solana tokens committed to its validator, sharing rewards in the process. “DFDV an...
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Meme coins plunged over the last 24 hours, hit by the one-two punch of a global market selloff and tariff-induced panic that has rattled both crypto and equities. Dogecoin (DOGE), Shiba Inu (SHIB), and other popular tokens have posted double-digit losses, as traders rush to exit riskier assets amid macroeconomic fears. The crypto carnage came after a weekend of chaos prompted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement of sweeping new tariffs on 185 countries, triggering fears of a global slo...
Business
The name and brand of Solana meme coin Bonk will soon adorn a combat sports stadium, as a result of it teaming up with the president of crypto-fueled fighting league Karate Combat, Asim Zaidi, as he looks to upgrade his social media-famous gym, the Goat Shed. With this, the Bonk Stadium is set to host half of the upcoming Karate Combat events, with the league saying that two other fighting organizations have expressed interest in using the venue. Currently, the Goat Shed gym spans 3,000 square f...
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REX Shares have filed for a slew of crypto exchange traded funds (ETFs) including the first funds for the recently launched TRUMP meme coin, as well as BONK and Dogecoin. The filing also seeks to create funds for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and XRP. The Miami, Florida based firm offers a range of exchange traded products, including a number of crypto services through its sister company Osprey Funds. These crypto products include leveraged funds for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and MicroStrategy. REX claims...
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Meme coins on Solana are some of the biggest losers over the past week as token launchpad Pump.fun fell out of favor, with the category as a whole dropping by 21.7% on the week, per data from CoinGecko. On Saturday, Pump.fun was responsible for 5,388 new tokens created on Solana, according to Dune data. To put this into perspective, just three weeks ago the protocol peaked, deploying 20,465 tokens. With Pump.fun statistics falling, so have the prices of some major tokens created by the protocol....
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Meme coins are soaring while Bitcoin takes a heavy hit amid selling pressure from the German government and Mt. Gox refunds. Most significantly, BONK has jumped 12% over the past 24 hours. That’s seen BONK edge past Dogwifhat (WIF) as it fell 3%, making it the largest Solana meme coin by market capitalization. Similarly, Base chain meme coin Brett (BRETT) leaped 8.6%, Ethereum-based Mog Coin (MOG) climbed 6%, and Apu Apustaja (APU) soared 15%. Despite this the tokens are still down over the week...
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Meme coins are performing well amid a broader market lull, with Base chain token Brett leading the pack. While industry leaders Bitcoin and Ethereum are largely unmoved over the past 24 hours, Brett (BRETT) jumped 7%, Pepe (PEPE) leaped 6%, and Bonk (BONK) climbed 4%. This puts them all in the top six gainers out of the top 100 tokens by market capitalization with Brett in first place. The token on Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 network also leads the pack for gains over the past week surging a hug...
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Bitcoin and Ethereum may have slowed down, but top meme tokens are riding high today. Solana-based Dogwifhat (WIF) is leading the charge, having jumped by 11%. It's now priced at $3.68. Meanwhile, Bonk is up by over 6% and is now trading hands for $0.00004148, CoinGecko shows. Every Dog Coin Has Its Day: Dogecoin Hits Highest Price Since 2022 Amid Bitcoin Bull Run FLOKI has also made notable gains—having surged by 9%: its price now stands at $0.0002953. Zooming out, all three assets have boomed...