Bonk’s Roller-Coaster Ride: A 40% Plunge in Just 3 Days – Can it Bounce Back?

• Once the hottest token in the crypto ecosystem, Bonk shed over 40% in just three days as investor interest began to wane and the FOMO that pushed it to the top started dissipating.
• However, institutional investors and whales are holding steady, and the volatility is spearheaded by retail investors, blockchain data analytics show.

Bonk recently shot to the limelight as one of the cryptocurrency market’s best performers, shooting up by over 100x between October and early December. The token, deployed on Solana, quickly ascended the charts to become the third-largest meme coin after Shiba Inu and Dogecoin. However, the momentum has slowed, and investors are getting jittery after shedding 40% in three days.

At press time, Bonk trades at $0.00001855, losing 14% in the past day as the market continues to sour for the meme coin. Since hitting its all-time high on December 15 at $0.0000342, it has shed 45% of its value and looks likely to continue the trend.

While some mitigating factors precipitate the dip, Bonk is ultimately a victim of the meme coin cycle. These types of tokens usually attract hype and massive investment from investors over a short period, pushing them to new heights quickly. This sudden surge attracts more investors through FOMO, and the new group pushes the price even higher.

In Bonk’s case, it gained 574% over the past month alone, despite the 45% correction in the past four days. Over the past year, it has gained an incredible 17,000%.

However, like any other asset, these meme coins can’t rise infinitely; after some time, the shaky fundamentals catch up. This phenomenon isn’t new; it happened with Dogecoin, Shiba Inu and other top meme coins.

Can Bonk Maintain its Position as a Top Crypto?

The meme coin cycle has claimed many victims. However, some, like DOGE and SHIB, have managed to cement their positions in the top 20. The key to staying at the top for them has been moving on from being purely speculative meme coins to offering some utility to their users.

Dogecoin has positioned itself as a low-cost payment method for the BTC faction. It has even attracted the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, who has toyed with DOGE payments for Teslas. Shiba Inu is also working on redefining its image, with lead developer Shytoshi Kusama unveiling his vision of impacting a billion people through Shibarium, the project’s Layer 2 network.

Bonk’s ability to bounce back will be tied to whether it can shake off the ‘fad’ moniker. Fortunately for the project, it’s based on Solana, an ecosystem that has been growing massively in the past year. In that time, SOL has shot up by 450%, making it one of the best performers in the large-cap section.

With Solana projects recording rising investment and users, Bonk could be a big beneficiary as the ecosystem’s leading meme coin. Moreover, if Solana continues to scale new heights as it has done in recent times, Bonk could accumulate further gains by association.