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The first full week of January opens with risk returning to the riskiest corners of the crypto market. Meme coins like Shiba Inu (SHIB) are catching bids, XRP gets a credibility flashback from a real security heavyweight, and Bitcoin Cash is pushing into a weekly ceiling co-signed by Peter Brandt. TL;DR Meme coins are back in risk-on mode with $12 billion added in four days as a 30% pump makes the Shiba Inu coin hit $0.000009. XRP gets a trust boost as ex-Ripple CTO Schwartz says Kaminsky did a deep 2013 review and the main debate was UNL coordination, not a broken design. Bitcoin Cash is at a make-or-break level, while Brandt backs the move as the price tests $650 on the weekly. Shiba Inu (SHIB) leads $12 billion meme coin comeback with 30% price rise Shiba Inu coin was the star of the show this week, as meme coins bounced back in a big way, one of their most impressive performances since early 2023. In just four sessions, the sector added almost $12 billion in total market value, pushing the group’s cap up to almost $48 billion and driving daily volume to over $8 billion. SHIB added about 30% during the move before dropping back to the $0.0000086 range. It was not news, partnerships or tweets that triggered it. It was structural positioning. CryptoQuant keeps an eye on a ratio that measures how many meme coins there are in the altcoin market. It compares the market caps of meme assets to the rest of the altcoin basket. In November 2024, this metric hit 0.11. By late December 2025, it hit around 0.032. That level was the sector’s lowest share of attention and liquidity in over a year. Source: CryptoQuant In the past, this kind of collapse has often led to a…

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