AKE Surges 24.5% as PoW Nostalgia and Meme Flows Split Mid-Cap

CoinGecko's top-10 held its shape as of 09:00 UTC on 23 Oct 2026, leaving the day's sharpest rank moves concentrated in the 50-100 band — where a legacy PoW coin and a gaming token outpaced everything else while stablecoin-adjacent names and DeFi infrastructure drifted lower.

The mid-cap split

Token	Rank	Delta	24h Price
AKE Akedo	99 → 88	▲ 11	▲ 24.5%
DASH Dash	97 → 91	▲ 6	▲ 9.0%
PEPE Pepe	55 → 51	▲ 4	▲ 11.7%
ASTER Aster	52 → 58	▼ 6	▲ 0.4%
AERO Aerodrome Finance	90 → 96	▼ 6	▼ 0.5%

AKE (Akedo) posted the session's largest rank gain and price move at +24.5%, lifting its market cap to $0.77B. DASH added six ranks on a 9.0% gain — its strongest 24h showing in recent snapshots — pairing with AKE in a rare dual-PoW climber session. PEPE extended its run to rank 51 with an 11.7% price gain. On the other side, ASTER shed six ranks despite a marginally positive price (+0.4%), a pure mcap-dilution signal, while AERO slipped six ranks on flat volume.

Pattern read

PoW and meme narratives absorbed capital simultaneously; DeFi infrastructure (AERO) and newer AI-adjacent names (ASTER) absorbed the outflow.