The PENGUIN memecoin just went absolutely wild, exploding overnight thanks to one legendary White House post.
It all kicked off when the White House dropped an AI-generated image on X, of President Donald Trump strolling through the snow, hand-in-hand with a penguin.
Yeah, you read that right. The image blew up fast, and the PENGUIN memecoin, officially the Nietzschean Penguin token caught everyone’s attention instantly.
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Before that post hit, PENGUIN memecoin was chilling with a market cap around $387,000. Then suddenly $244 million in trading volume poured in over the next 24 hours, per SolanaFloor data.
Right now it’s sitting pretty at approximately $136 million market cap, trading around $0.13 on DEXScreener.
Alon Cohen, co-founder of Pump.fun said the early success of PENGUIN is proof that on-chain trading was never dead. “It was just a sleeping giant waiting for the right moment.”
PENGUIN memecoin surge pops during a rough patch for most memecoins
After crushing it in 2024, the memecoin sector took a beating in 2025 when big celebrity tokens dropped 80%+ from their highs. Remember Kanye and his YZY Token?
Millions of tokens (11.6 million to be exact) flopped last year, thanks to the nonstop launches on Pump.fun and similar pads.
But January 2026 flipped the script. Memecoin total market cap jumped 23% from $38 billion to over $47 billion, CoinMarketCap shows, with social buzz exploding too.
“Memecoins typically lead when risk appetite returns,” says Vincent Liu, CIO at Kronos Research.
“The rebound in the Fear and Greed Index from extreme fear toward neutral reinforces this shift.”
The PENGUIN memecoin ride actually proves the fact.
Sure, the broader memecoin market dipped back to around $39 billion as things sideways-shuffle between quick pumps and pullbacks, but that doesn’t dim the spotlight on PENGUIN memecoin right now.
