On October 20, Elon Musk pumped FLOKI meme coin’s price with an X post. The whole meme coin sector is on the rise today, with FLOKI as leader.
Floki is the name of a Shiba Inu that Musk has adopted in 2021. Musk previously shared photos of Floki on social media calling his the CEO of Twitter back in 2023.
Musk Announced that Floki is Back as X CEO
Earlier today, Musk announced that Floki is back as the X CEO and shared a clip featuring a Shiba Inu at a table.
Flōki is back on the job as 𝕏 CEO! pic.twitter.com/Zu29Dos24r
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 20, 2025
On February 15, 2023, Musk shared a photo featuring a Shiba Inu, calling him the “new CEO of Twitter” which “is amazing,” and “so much better than the other guy”, referring at the ex CEO of the platform, Jack Dorsey.
The new CEO of Twitter is amazing pic.twitter.com/yBqWFUDIQH
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 15, 2023
Musk’s X post on October 20 triggered a price rally for the meme coin with the same name, FLOKI.
FLOKI Price Trajectory
At the moment of writing this article, FLOKI is trading above $0.000083, up by almost 24% in the past 24 hours.
The meme coin has a market cap of over $801 million and more than $404 million in 24-hour trading volume, up by over 630%.

FLOKI is one of the best meme coins that you can buy in 2025.
Meme Coin Sector on the Rise
The entire meme coins sector is up by over 6% today. The dog-themed coins are up by over 6.3% in the past 24 hours, surpassing $40,66 billion in total market cap, CoinGecko data shows.
The 24-hour trading volume of dog-themed coins is over $2,9 billion.
The trending coins on CoinGecko are Floki, Shiba Inu, and DOG on Bitcoin, and the top gainers are FLOKI, doginme, and Conan Meme.

DOGE is up by over 1% in the past 24 hours, BONK surged by more than 3%, SKI is by over over 29%.

DOGE remains the top dog-themed coin by market cap, followed by SHIB, BONK and FLOKI.
