# MEME

PEPE surges 65% behind the scenes: When "smart money" starts betting on Meme, is it a bubble upgrade or a paradigm shift?
As leverage and consensus become the new narrative, the valuation logic of Meme coins is quietly being rewritten by institutions.
In the past week, the spotlight in the crypto market was stolen by a frog. PEPE surged 65% against the trend amid Bitcoin's pullback and Ethereum's weakness, with its on-chain open interest reaching a historic peak of 75 trillion tokens at one point. This is not retail frenzy—data shows a large influx of high-leverage positions into this token bo

#Meme Is receding, and the prediction market is taking over. This is not a guess, but an ongoing capital migration.
When #Polymarket obtained a full US license and received a $2 billion investment from ICE, the parent company of NYSE, many people hadn't yet realized one thing:
👉 The Meme era of meme coins and meme trading is over.
👉 A new track centered around “truth pricing” is being officially taken over by capital.
This is not a narrative shift,
It’s a change of species.
1. Why is the prediction market exploding at this moment?
True turning points in trends are often not sudden surges o