Solana’s market capitalization has topped $90 billion following a ten% achieve on the day for SOL. This has pushed token costs to only under $205, the best degree since December 2021.

Moreover, SOL has gained a whopping 45% over the previous seven days as altcoins begin to transfer within the wake of Bitcoin’s retreat from all-time highs final week.

The large transfer enabled SOL to flip BNB for the fourth spot available in the market cap charts, because the Binance token misplaced 1.5% on the day, falling to $571 on the time of writing. BNB’s market cap was $88 billion on the time of writing, rating it fifth.

sol simply flipped bnb once more, steadiness is being restored pic.twitter.com/9ByOlFITH8

— Bluntz (@Bluntz_Capital) March 17, 2024

Memecoin Degens

Solana exercise is primarily being pushed by a meme coin craze as degens aped into the E-book of Meme (BOME) token.

The meme coin spiked 31,000% in two days, hitting a peak value of $0.026 on March 16 earlier than starting its retreat.

Nevertheless, as has been the case earlier than, the Solana community turned congestedleading to transactions failing.

Different metrics for Solana are bullish, together with its DeFi whole worth locked, which has simply exceeded $4 billion, in line with DeFiLlama. The determine has surged 193% for the reason that starting of the yr, nonetheless, the worth of SOL has influenced it quite a bit.

Different Altcoins Surging

Solana’s positive aspects are spectacular, however a handful of different altcoins are doing even higher this Monday morning.

Avalanche (AVAX) has surged a whopping 17.5% over the previous 24 hours to succeed in its highest value since Could 2022. On the time of writing, AVAX was buying and selling at $61.55 having topped $62 in Monday morning buying and selling in Asia.

Analysts are already suggesting the Avalanche memecoins might be driving it.

$JOE has already made a HTF breakout as AVAX / AVAX memecoin szn is beginning to warmth up

Ship it larger https://t.co/KfdIvLUhwD pic.twitter.com/hw09WkoygQ

— Okay A L E O (@CryptoKaleo) March 17, 2024

Talking of memecoins, Shiba Inu is performing properly as we speak with a 12.7% achieve.

Toncoin (TON) has pumped 16% on the day to high $4, whereas Close to Protocol (NEAR) is up 12%, having reached $8.50 throughout early Asian buying and selling.

Moreover, Bitcoin’s dominance has declined round 3% thus far this month because it retreats, altcoins start to bubble, and requires altseason begin to ring out once more.

Many altcoins went up by 20-50% as we speak. That’s regular after a giant correction. Keep in mind it for the subsequent time.

However the actuality is, subsequent time a giant correction happens, you’re gonna hen out. Once more.

— Kaduna (@CryptoKaduna) March 18, 2024