Daily Market Recap – April 18, 2025

Below is a daily market recap of the crypto market over the past 24 hours, focusing on price movements and market sentiment, and hot news. Let’s check it out.

Daily Market Recap - April 18, 2025
Daily Market Recap – April 18, 2025

Price Movements and Market Sentiment

  • Prices: The meme coin market cap is ~$48.1B, down 2.1%. Dogecoin (DOGE), Shiba Inu (SHIB), and Pepe (PEPE) are stable, and $DARK ($43M market cap, $14.4M volume) shows strong activity.
  • Sentiment: Investors remain cautious amid Trump-Fed interest rate disputes and the Base token collapse, which sparked fears of insider trading and bot manipulation.
  • FOMO drives interest in new tokens like $DARK, but volatility and scams (e.g., Base’s crash) heighten risk concerns.

Daily Market Recap – Trending News

Base’s Content Coin Crash

  • Layer-2 Base launched a trial “content coin” on Zora, with “Base is for Everyone” surging to $17M in market cap before crashing 92% within 2 hours.
"Base is for everyone" price on MevX
“Base is for everyone,” price on MevX

LayerZero’s $55M Funding

  • LayerZero raised $55M through a $ZRO token sale to a16z, with a 3-year lockup, marking a16z’s first follow-on investment in the project. This reflects long-term confidence in LayerZero’s cross-chain interoperability protocol.

Notable Meme Coins

  • $DARK: Launched 05/04 via Pump.fun, $DARK soared 5,700% initially and hit $43M market cap after Binance Alpha listing, with $14.4M volume. Its link to developer Edgar Pavlovsky boosts credibility.

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