Pump.fun, Pepe and Floki stand out among meme coins in second week of January 2026

Beincrypto highlights three meme coins to watch in the second week of January 2026 as the category sends mixed signals — down over 5% for the week but up roughly 5% in the last 24 hours. Pump.fun (PUMP) is trading stronger short term, up about 6% in 24 hours and nearly 9% over seven days, though CoinGecko classifies it as a meme coin despite it being a launch platform by design.

Price action shows a downward-sloping cup-and-handle and whale wallets cut holdings by 6.37% over seven days (about 820 million tokens sold, roughly $2 million), with $0.0026 cited as the key level to confirm a breakout toward $0.0037 and $0.0023/$0.0020 to invalidate the pattern.

Pepe (PEPE) is up roughly 35% over 30 days but down about 14.5% weekly; whale wallets added about 1.17 trillion tokens since January 7 (from 133.15 trillion to 134.32 trillion), roughly $6.9 million at a current price near $0.0000059, and a clean 12-hour close above converging 20- and 200-period EMAs could open moves to $0.0000075 and $0.0000085, while a 12-hour close below $0.0000056 could expose $0.0000039.

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Crypto, Pump.fun, Pepe, Floki, Whale Wallets, Coingecko