"With just a few days left in 2024, Donald Trump is expected to take office as the first key figure of Bitcoin and altcoins in 2025. As Trump takes office, more lenient cryptocurrency regulations are anticipated, and a major price surge is expected in 2025. While investors and the market continue to hope for 2025, CoinGecko has assessed 2024."
"Memecoins Have Made Their Mark in 2024"
"CoinGecko's report reveals that memecoins are the most favored type of cryptocurrency among investors in 2024 and will continue to grow in 2024. The report notes that the most popular cryptocurrency aside from memecoins is AI and RWA tokens."
"CoinGecko analysts reported that the memecoin trend attracted 30.67 percent of global investor interest and took the lead."
"The most popular story of 2024 includes the main memecoin sector, with Solana and cat-themed memecoins also comprising 25 memecoins."
"In addition to the general memecoin story, four memecoin trends also made it into the top 20 cryptocurrency stories. CoinGecko analysts noted that Solana-based memecoins ranked 4th with 7.65%; Base-based memecoins ranked 11th with 2.13%; AI memecoins ranked 15th with 1.49% and cat-themed memecoins ranked 16th with 1.19%."
"After memecoins, AI tokens ranked second in popularity with 12.58% investor interest."
"Compared to last year, analysts noted that other popular cryptocurrency stories likely to attract more attention in 2024 include Real World Assets (RWA) and DePIN tokens."
"The 20 most popular cryptocurrency trends of 2024, based on the annual interest share of investors, are as follows:"
