Memecoin Dogecoin, Shiba Inu Jump as Ethereum Optimism Spread

The Dog-themed cryptocurrency jumped on Monday amid widespread retail-investor enthusiasm in the market, especially as Ethereum works towards its much-anticipated software upgrade.

According to pricing data compiled by Bloomberg, Dogecoin is up about 14% in the past five days, while the Shiba Inu is up by about 40%.

The meme token is maintaining its gains even as bitcoin sits around $25,000 and ether hovers around $2,000 amid optimism around its upgrade, known as the merge, which will now take place around September 15th. are supposed to.

“Both Dogecoin and Shiba Inu broke out over the weekend, clear evidence that the retail investor is back,” Hayden Hughes, chief executive of social-trading platform Alpha Impact, said in a message on Monday. Like Ethereum because they are also due each upgrade.

After falling to around $875 billion as of June 19, according to data from CoinGecko, the crypto market has now shown some signs of recovery with a total market cap of around $1.2 trillion.