The cryptocurrency market experienced a notable recovery last week, largely driven by leading memecoins and Telegram-linked Toncoin.

What Happened: BNX, the native token of the GameFi platform BinaryX, topped the gainers' list, surging more than 60% over the week.

The BNB Chain BNB/USD-based coin was just 10% away from reaching its all-time high, which it set two years ago.

The rally occurred ahead of the project's rebranding to Four (FORM) to align with its newest product, Four.meme, an ecosystem for meme coins.

Toncoin, the native token of The Open Network, emerged as the second most successful cryptocurrency over the week, yielding over 34% to its holders.

The surge followed the recovery of Telegram founder Pavel Durov's passport from French authorities. The tech entrepreneur was detained in August 2024 for an investigation into crimes related to child pornography, drug trafficking, and fraudulent transactions on the popular social messaging platform.

Decentralized exchange token CAKE came in third with a 30% spike last week, aided by an 11% weekly increase in volumes on PancakeSwap.

Market leader Bitcoin BTC/USD saw a slight gain of 1.10%, while Ethereum ETH/USD, the second-largest cryptocurrency, fell over 8% in a week.

Meme coin heavyweight Dogecoin DOGE/USD remained largely unchanged from the previous week, while Shiba Inu SHIB/USD and Pepe PEPE/USD performed better with gains of 8.50% and 10.87%, respectively.

The total cryptocurrency market capitalization rose 4.5% over the week to reach $2.71 trillion.