This Week on Crypto Twitter: BONK Simply Won’t Quit

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One week later, BONK nonetheless reigns supreme.

Nevertheless inconceivable, the dog-themed Solana meme coin has spent yet one more week dominating frenzied discourse on Crypto Twitter, after displaying no indicators of letting up its weeks-long, monster streak. The coin is up 796% within the final month, based on CoinGecko.

After hovering to new all-time highs this week, and blowing previous a market capitalization of $1 billion (since yesterday, the coin’s market cap has already virtually doubled to $1.758 billion), BONK acquired an additional injection of momentum after savvy Solana customers realized that the BONK that comes with the acquisition of any Solana Saga smartphone is now value extra than the telephone’s asking value.

With BONK’s enduring success now lifting quite a few different initiatives within the Solana ecosystem, Twitter customers doubled down on their fervent, diehard help for the seemingly miraculous dog-themed token.

“It’s not only a meme anymore,” Richard Wu, co-founder of Solana NFT market Tensor, posted Friday. “That is faith.”

That is loopy.

BONK saved Solana on Christmas 2022.

BONK is saving the Solana Saga Telephone on Christmas 2023.

In contrast to different canine cash, BONK has been the savior of probably the most battle-tested high-throughout L1.

It’s not only a meme anymore. That is faith.

— Richard | Tensor ⚛️⚡️ (@0xrwu) December 15, 2023

The Solana neighborhood took a number of victory laps concerning BONK this week, narrativizing the coin’s success as simply the newest episode proving Solana’s superiority in comparison with different blockchains.

First it was pyth, then jito, now bonk

and there are various extra coming

I hope you see that we’re simply getting began right here

That is what occurs when after this a few years we lastly have a quick, low cost, and scalable blockchain

Speed up

— mert | helius.dev (d/acc) (@0xMert_) December 15, 2023

Different Solana customers went as far as to brag that BONK, at this level, has not solely “saved Solana from FTX” and “offered out” the Solana saga telephone, amongst different exploits; it’s additionally, they (maybe jokingly) declare, destroyed many rival layer-2 blockchains with the uncooked drive of its energy.

bonk saved solana from FTXbonk paid artists & devs wen there was no cash on chainbonk first sol canine to 1 billionbonk paved method for SPL on coinbasebonk offered out saga phonebonk pump SOL nfts over ETHbonk destroying L2s https://t.co/IyhgTxA8n7

— degen poet (@solanapoet) December 15, 2023

BONK is admittedly highly effective today; however in all probability not that highly effective. On Friday, Ethereum scaling blockchain Arbitrum went darkish for over an hour, following an excessive surge in community exercise. Because it seems, Arbitrum was solely the newest layer-2 blockchain to endure by the hands of customers experimenting with expensive, seemingly redundant and network-clogging inscriptions.

Some blockchain builders expressed their frustration on the improvement, and the power of such allegedly juvenile transactions to hamstring a few of crypto’s largest blockchains—even ascendant Solana.

Truthfully

This is likely one of the moments that makes you crack as a dev

You place years into constructing the very best distributed system you may after which a literal JPEG pwns your total system

This has now occurred to Etherem, Solana, Bitcoin, and Arbitrum lol

Godspeed lads https://t.co/FT57pZBKhC

— mert | helius.dev (d/acc) (@0xMert_) December 15, 2023

What is the worth prop of inscriptions on a layer two like Arbitrum? I have to know who is that this fucking bored.

— themovingavg (@themovingavg) December 15, 2023

Edited by Ryan Ozawa.