Today’s meme coin news carries a small surprise. Meme tokens are worth $24.77 billion together on August 17, 2026, up 0.34 percent, on $0.88 billion of trading. Bitcoin handed back 3.0 percent over seven days and Ethereum 2.1 percent. Money did not walk away from the joke corner of crypto this week. Some of it moved earlier down the chain instead, and the meme presale drawing buyers now prints $0.000015 on its second rung.