Whale transactions worth over $100,000 in FLOKI (CRYPTO: FLOKI), PEPE (CRYPTO: PEPE), and Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) exploded by 950%, 620%, and 111% respectively this week, as meme coins added $14 billion in market cap in 2026.
Meme Coins Dominate Whale Activity Rankings
Market intelligence firm Santiment tracked a surge in transactions worth $100,000 or more—the type of size that indicates institutional or wealthy individual investors rather than retail traders.
Meme coins dominated this activity, taking four of the top ten spots among all crypto projects with at least $500 million market caps.
FLOKI on Ethereum led with a 950% surge, followed …