Roaring Kitty reignites GameStop fever 🎮

Ready for another round of meme madness? GameStop shares are up, as is the GME tribute coin on Solana. What's next?

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Andrew Hayward
June 03, 2024

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📝 What you need to know

Roaring Kitty is back, and that means GameStop stock is surging again. Wait, didn’t we just do this last month? Despite the déjà vu, the impact is very real, with GME shares nearly doubling in pre-market trading. Even the unofficial GameStop meme coin on Solana skyrocketed late Sunday.

GameStop isn’t the only memey asset making waves right now, either: Notcoin, a gaming token that has quickly also become the biggest meme coin on The Open Network (TON), has tripled in price over the last week. Now a new Telegram-based clicker game called Hamster Kombat is starting to gain buzz ahead of its own TON token launch ahead.

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