Meme Coin Volatility Index
How wild is the meme coin market right now? A live 0-100 VIX-style score from 3 signals across the top 100 memes.
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What's behind the score
4 signals combining the top 250 meme coins (CoinGecko) with trending DEX pools (Solana, Ethereum, Base, BNB). Each scores 0-100; the final index is a weighted average.
Frequently asked questions
What is the meme coin volatility index?
A live 0-100 score that measures how wild the meme coin market is right now. Higher means more extreme price swings across the top 100 memes. Lower means a calmer, more stable market. The score updates roughly every hour.
How is the score calculated?
We combine 4 signals across a wide meme pool: the top 250 CoinGecko meme coins merged with trending DEX pools from GeckoTerminal across Solana, Ethereum, Base, and BNB. The signals are median absolute 24h price change (35% weight), share of memes moving more than 30% in a day (25%), median intraday high-low range (15%), and share of trending DEX coins moving more than 5% in just the last hour (25%). Medians keep a single coin pumping 1000% from skewing the score, and the 1h signal catches flash pumps the daily numbers miss.
How is this different from the Fear and Greed Index?
Fear and Greed measures market sentiment (are people bullish or bearish). Volatility measures how wild prices are moving regardless of direction. A market can be calmly fearful, or wildly greedy. Pairing the two gives a fuller picture than either alone.
What does each score level mean?
0-19 is Dead Calm, 20-39 is Calm, 40-59 is Normal, 60-79 is Wild, 80-100 is Extreme. Extreme readings often coincide with major news events, exchange listings, or mass liquidations.
How can I use this for trading?
Volatility tends to revert to the mean. After Extreme readings, the market usually calms down within a few days. After Dead Calm stretches, a volatility spike often follows. Some traders scale position size down in Extreme regimes and up in Calm regimes. Not financial advice.
Where does the data come from?
Two sources combined. The 24h price data comes from CoinGecko's meme-token category, top 250 by market cap. The 1h price change and the trending pool list come from GeckoTerminal across Solana, Ethereum, Base, and BNB — the same data that powers our Movers page. The index is computed hourly and the chart shows the score over the last 7 days at hourly resolution.