The Thai zoo’s viral child hippo will have fun its first birthday with a three-day extravaganza, simply as South Korean change Upbit lists its eponymous token.
Moo Deng, the viral child pygmy hippo of Thailand’s Khao Kheow Open Zoo, is ready to have fun her first birthday in type, as her eponymous memecoin soars greater than 20% on the again of being listed by South Korean change Upbit.
Upbit introduced that it could listing the MOODENG token on July 3, paired with the Korean Gained (KRW) in addition to BTC and USDT. Listings on the centralized change usually set off important volatility.
At present’s spike additionally coincides together with her dwelling zoo saying a three-day celebration of all issues Moo Deng (and cute and cuddly) culminating on the pygmy hippo’s July 10 birthday.
Moo Deng took the web by storm final yr, with the zoo seeing big strains, and an unofficial Solana-based memecoin naturally adopted, with MOODENG briefly spiking north of $600 million.
In December, Moo Deng was again within the information after the zoo revealed that Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin had donated 10 million baht — then about $293,000 — to sponsor Moo Deng and her household.
“I’m glad to be adoptive father to Moo Deng as she grows up over the following 2y and help her with my 10M THB donation, possibly extra as I put aside 88 ETH for[the pygmy hippo] + frens. Could they dwell lengthy and prosper,” Buterin wrote in an X put up.
