Peanut The Squirrel-Themed Meme Coins Surge Amid Social Media Outrage Over Celebrity Animal’s Death: Trump will Save The Squirrels, Says Elon Musk

Memecoins cashing on the popularity of pet squirrel and social media star ‘Peanut’ have become the new money-minting opportunities for cryptocurrency degens.

What happened: A token named PEANUT on the popular decentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap (CRYPTO: UNI) jumped over 58% in the last 24 hours, with its market capitalization now around $2.2 million, as per CoinMarketCap.

A coin with a similar name was launched on Solana (CRYPTO: SOL)-based DEX Raydium, which was up a whopping 336% in the last 24 hours, though having a far lower market capitalization of $33,790.

It is worth noting that the liquidity of these tokens …

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