Key Takeaways
What drove the PolitiFi coins’ surge?
A Trump-related political event in Asia sparked renewed buying interest in PolitiFi tokens, boosting MELANIA and TRUMP prices.
How has the broader memecoin performed so far?
The memecoin segment remained muted despite the PolitiFi rebound.
Memecoins saw a slight rebound this week. Unsurprisingly, the recovery was led by PolitiFi coins dominated by Official Trump [TRUMP] and Melania [MELANIA] memecoins.
The surge followed recent positive progress on the U.S.-China tariff agreement ahead of the Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump meeting.
According to Coingecko, TRUMP memecoin rallied about 9% in the past 24%, while MELANIA posted a whopping 15% upswing.
Source: Coingecko
Compared to the rest of the memecoin segment in red, PolitiFi coins posted an average of 8% gain.
But there was a different picture when zoomed out and contrasted against the broader crypto market.
Source: Coingecko
Memecoins lag the broader crypto sector
In the past 24 hours, memecoins ranked third but were down by about 3% on average, according to Velo data.
Over the same period, the AI and DeFi sectors showed a much better resilience. They ranked first and second, respectively.
Source: Velo
On a YTD (year-to-date) basis, memecoins, as tracked by the GMCI Indices, ranked third with a 104% return. Top performers were the GMCI 30 (large-cap assets) and GMCI L1 (Layer 1 coins).
Source: The Block
Another strong narrative hardly tracked by the GMCI Indices was privacy coins. It has dominated in 2025 and eaten into the memecoin’s “supercycle” meta.
In fact, if the new narrative is considered, memecoins didn’t feature even in the top five of best performers in 2025.
Speculative interest in memecoins
But given the recent PolitifFi segment outperformance, perhaps speculators should track Trump’s macro updates more closely for more opportunities.
Speaking of speculation, TRUMP and MELANIA dominated the entire memecoin sector in terms of Open Interest (OI). In the past 24 hours, OI for MELANIA hit 99% and ranked first, underscoring that most leveraged traders were betting on it.
So it wasn’t surprising that MELANIA’s price mooned 17% compared to TRUMP’s 9%. From the OI perspective, TRUMP ranked second with a 67% surge over the same period.
Source: CoinGlass
In other words, during PolitiFi or any segment surge, more trading opportunities can be found where the speculative activity is most dominant. In the recent case, it was MELANIA and TRUMP.
