Meme-coin, named after Richard Dawkins, grew by 400% per day

A new meme token called Dawkoins (DWK) gained 400% in value in just 24 hours, outperforming Dogecoin DOGE $0.11 Binance-Peg Dogecoin -0.03% Market capitalization $0.2 billion VOL. 24 hours $37.2 million and Shiba Inu SHIB $0.00001736 Shiba Inu -1.48% Market capitalization $10.23 billion VOL. 24 hours $42.8 million . The surge in the price of the little-known cryptocurrency is a tribute to Richard Dawkins, a prominent evolutionary biologist.

Dawkins first introduced the concept of «meme» into the scientific lexicon in his book The Selfish Gene. On Dawkins’s 83rd birthday, his fans decided to honor him with this original gift — a digital currency named in his honor, Dawkoin.

The newly minted crypto asset has already reached a market capitalization of over $ 10 million, and all trading activity takes place on decentralized exchanges. Within one day, 22,969 transactions were made, which indicates the rapid entry of the coin into the cryptocurrency market. The total supply of Dawkoin is 989,500,203.32 coins.

Reacting to the creation of the cryptocurrency of the same name, Dawkins wrote in X on Tuesday, March 26: «Can you imagine — in honor of my birthday and the invention of the word 'meme', someone created a meme coin, Dawkoin. I don’t even know what it means, but it sounds intriguing.»