BONK price gains 60% in a week as Solana memecoins make a comeback

Key takeaways:

BONK price is up 73% since April 22, hitting a five-month high of $0.00002167.

BONK’s open interest surged 290% to $43.2 million.

BonkBONK$0.00001998BonkChange (24h)8.31%Market Cap$1.38BVolume (24h)$17.64MView More, the second-largest Solana-based memecoin by market capitalization, is on track to continue the recovery it began on April 22. BONK has climbed approximately 73% from its April 22 low of around $0.00001247, bringing its price up to an intraday high of $0.00002167 on April 28.

Data fromCointelegraph Markets ProandTradingViewshows BONK trading at $0.00001923, up 3% over the 24 hours and 60% over the last seven days.

BONK’s trading volume has jumped 98% over the last 24 hours to $478 million, and its market capitalization also jumped, briefly touching $1.7 billion on April 28, before retracing to the current level of $1.5 billion.

Let’s examine the factors that have fueled BONK’s price momentum over the last week.

Memecoins recover across the board

BONK’s rally over the last seven days mirrors the bullish price movements across thebroader crypto market,including the memecoin sector. Most memecoins have posted double-digit gains over the last week. DOGE and Shiba InuSHIB$0.00001387Shiba InuChange (24h)4.32%Market Cap$8.17BVolume (24h)$32.13MView More, the leadingmemecoins, have jumped 3% and 5% over the last seven days.

Official Trump (TRUMP), the memecoin associated with US President Donald Trump, has recorded 73% weekly gains, while Base’s BrettBRETT$0.06535BrettChange (24h)4.58%Market Cap$647.7MVolume (24h)$36.45MView Morehas rallied 83% over the same period.

This widespread rally has pushed the total memecoin market value to $55.51 billion, a 17.5% leap in the past week, as per CoinMarketCap data.

Over $7.96 billion in memecoin trading volume was recorded in the past seven days alone, representing an 85% weekly change. The resurgence is driven by investors once again embracing risk-on assets like memecoins.

Increasing open interest backs BONK’s rally

The surge in the price of Bonk over the last seven days comes after a significant jump in itsopen interest(OI).

BONK’s total OI on all exchanges rose 290% from $11 million on April 22 to $43.2 million on April 26. Although this metric has since dropped to $28 million at the time of writing, it remains significantly higher than the OI seen since December 2024.

Rising open interest reflects growing trader participation in BONK futures, indicating heightened speculative activity.

Data from CoinGlass shows increasing demand for leveraged long positions in BONK over the last few days, as indicated by the OI-weighted futures funding rate.

Increasingfunding ratesusually suggest that futures traders are bullish, expecting future price increases, which may indicate a continuation of the uptrend.

BONK’s social dominance remains high, suggesting high social activity. Santiment data shows BONK’s social dominance spiking from 0.091% to 0.572% between April 20 and April 26, driven by BONK’s ecosystem buzz.

This surge in chatter on social media platforms reflects rising retail and institutional interest, amplifying FOMO and driving demand.

BONK breaks out of a multimonth downtrend

On April 13, BONK price broke out of a descending parallel channel, igniting strength that saw it flip the 50-day and 100-day exponential moving averages (EMAs) to support.

The bulls will likely continue the rebound toward the significant resistance level at $0.00002410 (200-day SMA) in the short term. A daily candlestick close above this level, accompanied by high volume, could see BONK rise toward the Jan. 19 range high near $0.000040. This would represent a 104% increase from the current price.

The sharp rise in the relative strength index and its position at 71 in the overbought region reinforces the buyers’ dominance in the market.

However, the overbought conditions could facilitate profit-taking, occasioning a slight correction before BONK continues its uptrend.

“$BONK’s descending trendline got cleared,”declaredpopular analyst World of Charts in an April 28 post on X, “expecting 2x in the coming days.”

Meanwhile, Crypto JoespottedBONK breaking out of a bullish pennant in the 30-minute timeframe targeting $0.00002690.

This article does not contain investment advice or recommendations. Every investment and trading move involves risk, and readers should conduct their own research when making a decision.

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