{"id":76495,"date":"2026-03-16T18:46:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=76495"},"modified":"2026-03-16T18:46:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:46:38","slug":"pepe-surges-17-as-doge-rises-by-only-4-heres-why-its-outperforming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=76495","title":{"rendered":"PEPE Surges 17% As DOGE Rises By Only 4%\u2014Here&#8217;s Why It&#8217;s Outperforming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Pepe<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/PEPE-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"PEPE\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">PEPE<\/a>) surged 17% Monday, leading memecoin gainers and outpacing <strong>Dogecoin\u2019s<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/DOGE-USD\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"DOGE\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/doge\/usd\">DOGE<\/a>) 4% rally as trading volume exploded 520% to $1.73 billion.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Derivatives Setup<\/h3>\n<p>Open interest on PEPE futures <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coinglass.com\/currencies\/PEPE\/futures\">climbed<\/a> 11.56% to $228.54 million while 24-hour trading volume exploded 520.51% to $1.73 billion, signaling fresh money entering rather than just short covering.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Liquidation data showed $98,000 in short liquidations over four hours versus $327,000 in longs, suggesting the rally caught a significant portion of the short side offside while skeptics remained.<\/p>\n<p>PEPE had been more aggressively sold than Dogecoin, setting up a cleaner derivatives squeeze when the macro tailwind arrived. The volume wave dwarfed PEPE\u2019s 30-day average of 1.23 trillion tokens.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Technical Picture<\/h3>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"879\" src=\"https:\/\/editorial-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/16133916\/X_PEPEUSD-price-moving-averages-chart-1024x879.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1358944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/editorial-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/16133916\/X_PEPEUSD-price-moving-averages-chart-1024x879.png 1024w,https:\/\/editorial-assets.benzinga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/16133916\/X_PEPEUSD-price-moving-averages-chart-300x257.png ...&lt;\/figure&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/03\/51279507\/pepe-surges-17-as-doge-rises-by-only-4-heres-why-its-outperforming?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel alt=PEPE Surges 17% As DOGE Rises By Only 4%\u2014Here's Why It's Outperforming&gt;Full story available on Benzinga.com&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;\/body&gt;&lt;\/html&gt;\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pepe (CRYPTO: PEPE) surged 17% Monday, leading memecoin gainers and outpacing Dogecoin\u2019s (CRYPTO: DOGE) 4% rally as trading volume exploded 520% to $1.73 billion. The Derivatives Setup Open interest on PEPE futures climbed 11.56% to $228.54 million while 24-hour trading volume exploded 520.51% to $1.73 billion, signaling fresh money entering rather than just short covering.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-76495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}