• PUPS, a memecoin on the Bitcoin community, garnered huge consideration
• Blue chip memecoins did not see inexperienced as WIF, DOGE, and PEPE confronted corrections

The memecoin sector has seen important progress because the starting of the 12 months. The truth is, chains resembling Solana [SOL] have gained immensely from this rising curiosity on this subset of cryptocurrencies.

Memes coming to Bitcoin?

Though memecoins are primarily being traded on alt chains, new developments recommend that the Bitcoin [BTC] community might quickly enter the memecoin sector sooner or later.

Just lately, a Bitcoin native memecoin referred to as “PUPS” has been making waves on social media, attracting important consideration. One issue contributing to this buzz is the numerous surge within the value of PUPS.

Over the past 24 hours, as an illustration, the value of PUPS skyrocketed by 234.3%. On the time of writing, PUPS was buying and selling at $19.97.

Supply: Coingecko

What’s PUPS?

PUPS stands as a testomony to the burgeoning memecoin tradition inside the Bitcoin ecosystem. Launched in March 2023, it predates the official Bitcoin Puppets assortment, establishing itself because the OG memecoin. The free mint airdropped to the “OPIUM ordinal community” shortly gained traction, turning into a large in-joke inside the neighborhood. This airdrop was the first-ever BRC-20 airdrop on Bitcoin, a novel technical feat that additional cemented PUPS’s place within the Bitcoin Ordinal meme panorama.

Supply: X

The position of Runes

Historically, memecoins have thrived on various blockchains like Solana on account of their quicker transaction speeds and decrease charges. Bitcoin, with its slower tempo and better transaction prices, wasn’t precisely a hospitable surroundings for these fast-moving, usually humor-driven tokens. PUPS, current on Bitcoin via the BRC-20 normal, is a little bit of an anomaly.

That is the place Runes enters the scene. Developed by Casey Rodarmor, the mind behind Ordinals, Runes is a model new protocol that enables fungible tokens like memecoins to operate natively on the Bitcoin community.

Runes can be arriving on the Bitcoin community after the much-anticipated halving.

New “WIF” on the town?

Because of the hype round PUPS and the Rune community, PUPS is being touted because the “WIF” of Bitcoin. Solely time will inform whether or not PUPS can reside as much as the hype or whether or not it’s all bark and no chunk for the memecoin.

Supply: X

Mainstream memecoins resembling DOGE, PEPE, and WIF didn’t have the identical luck as PUPS in latest days. The truth is, the value for all of those tokens declined over the previous week.

Supply: CoinMarketCap

Area of interest memecoins resembling BODEN on the Solana community did comparatively nicely although, appreciating by 85% over the past 7 days.

Supply: DEXscreener