The Thai zoo’s viral child hippo will have a good time 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 about to have a good time her first birthday in fashion, 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 Received (KRW) in addition to BTC and USDT. Listings on the centralized change usually set off vital volatility.
At this time’s spike additionally coincides along with her residence 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 12 months, with the zoo seeing big traces, 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 happy to be adoptive father to Moo Deng as she grows up over the next 2y and support her with my 10M THB donation, maybe more as I set aside 88 ETH for[the pygmy hippo] + frens. May they live long and prosper,” Buterin wrote in an X publish.
