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18 days ago

Daily Memecoin Recap - November 15

We got a decent amount of $10m + runners, but lots of pvp today

Mascot Meta
$lester -> hit $197m , litecoin mascot
$phil -> hit $23 .4m, binance mascot
$cupsey -> hit $21 .5m, pumpdotfun mascot
$clark -> hit $10m , coinbase mascot
$chatty -> hit $9 .1m, ChatGPTapp mascot
$bibi -> hit $2 .6m, tweet from 2018 of binance tweeting a coin/mascot
$blocky -> hit $2 .5m, okx mascot
$poly -> hit $2m , 0xPolygon mascot
- Litecoin started the mascot meta
- A bunch of companies are now coming up with their own mascots

Phantom Deployed A Coin?
#kendrook -> hit $7 .5m
- Someone did research going through a video made by phantom founder BChillman

Bitcoin Mascots
$bitcat -> hit $90m , Bitcoin mascot, greg16676935420 replied
$alpaca -> hit $14 .2m, old bitcoin mascot from 2011
$bitdog -> hit $6 .8m, $bitcat beta
#bitrhino -> hit $4m

Hasbulla Joins Memes
$barsik -> hit $103m , Hasbulla's cat
- hasbulla_main, continues to push his coin

Elon's New Podcast
$ @doge -> hit $37m , DOGE, Elon tweeted
#dogecast -> hit $33m
- Dogecast is a new podcast featuring VivekGRamaswamy and elonmusk

Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul
$tyson -> hit $5 .5m
$fight -> hit $4 .6m
#mikeass -> hit $3 .5m, MikeTyson goes viral after pantless in an interview

NYC Dog Mayor
$bert -> hit $185m , crashed to $12m (currently at $70m )
$simon -> hit $25m , Simon beat Bert to become the mayor for the next 2 years

Moo Deng Wants A Billion
#moodeng -> $282m to $703m (2.5x)

Animals
#charlie -> hit $15m
$bella -> hit $6 .1m, dog meme
$vibe -> hit $4m , vibe cat, OG meme, has been done multiple times
$nibsy -> hit $1 .3m, cat meme

Pnut Betas
#cheyenne -> hit $41m , first animal in $pnut 's freedom farm
#babypnut -> hit $23m
#pepnut -> hit $3 .5m, $pepe + $pnut
$tunp -> hit $1 .7m, pnut backwards

Artificial Intelligence
$goat -> hit $1 .2b, ATH
#zerebro -> hit $265m
$ava -> hit $90m , AI agent for storytelling, good tech
$rex -> hit $41m , moonshotdotcc launch, $800k + in LP Rewards
$aika -> hit $19 .6m

More Cooks
$maneki -> hit $130m , idrawline pushing
$arie -> hit $19m
$maxx -> hit $7 .4m
#malicious -> hit $5 .3m

How much are you up/down this week?

Level 1

1 month ago

Daily Memecoin Recap - November 1

Markets are waiting for Tuesday's election ⌛️

Government Kills Peanut
$pnut -> $250k to $10 .5m (42x), peanut the squirrel
$fred -> hit $670k , raccoon that was also seized during the raid for Peanut
- New York seized and killed a viral pet squirrel

High Volume
$hima -> $2 .6m to $8 .8m (3.4x), supply sent to solana foundation
$suwi -> hit $7 .1m, unique content
$potato -> hit $4 .5m, literally a potato
$god -> hit $3 .1m, "dog" backwards
$mob -> hit $1 .7m, museum of baddies
$pet -> hit $1 .2m

Election Countdown
$47 -> $6m to $14 .4m (2.4x), urealDonaldTrump 47th president
$djt -> hit $1 .8m
#Trump2024 -> hit $1m
$rigged -> hit $747k , gently used voting machine, election is rigged
#djtardio -> hit $357k , #retardio + Trump
- Elections are Tuesday 👀

Retardio
$rzack -> $1 .7m to $7 .1m (4.2x), new coin pushed by MrZackMorris
#djtardio -> hit $357k , #retardio + Trump

Artificial Intelligence
$matrix -> $984k to $3 .2m (3.3x), roko's matrix
$thales -> hit $1m , before $eliza there was thales, AI16Z, AI lore
#tag_coin -> hit $550k , first OpenAI coin
$enigma -> hit $467k

More Cooks
$earl -> $5m to $14 .2m (2.8x)
$toad -> $410k to $9m (22x), $pepe beta
$fridge -> $1 .7m to $7 .3m (4.3x), entire memecoin ran on a public fridge
#nailong -> hit $19 .7m, good community
#homdaeng -> hit $1 .4m
$froge -> hit $747k
$pro -> hit $730k , protagonist
$hasbu -> hit $687k , hasbulla_main
$nnn -> hit $648k , No Nut November
$mad -> hit $600k
#whatitis -> hit $548k , it is what it is
#nocturna -> hit $425k
$jonk -> hit $395k

Someone drop me a 100x rn

Level 1

1 month ago

Daily Memecoin Recap - October 29

$BTC near ATH. What happens next? 👀

Pump Fun On A Fridge
$fridge -> hit $9 .3m, the entire project is ran off a fridge at a local mall

Holy meta
$luce -> $42m to $82m (1.95x), Mascot Of The Holy Year
$buio -> hit $5 .2m, Mascot Of The Unholy Year
$hi -> hit $2m , holy inu, cat meme
#santino -> hit $2m , Luce's Dog
$sky -> hit $1 .3m, Luce's Friend
- $LUCE started a holy meta

High Volume
$catana -> hit $18 .7m, the cat has a sword
$guano -> hit $8m , $617k + in LP Rewards
$animal -> hit $5 .7m
$rlr -> hit $5 .5m, Rizzler, viral tiktoker
#dogenes -> hit $4 .5m, Greek $doge
$frank -> hit $4 .4m, back from the dead
$rp -> hit $3 .9m, red panda, ties to elonmusk
$dg -> hit $1 .5m

Election Meta
$DOGE -> hit $24 .6m to $70m (2.85x), Department Of Government Efficiency, on $eth
$47 -> $8m to $20m (2.5x), Trump will be the 47th president, team dumped, currently sitting at $2 .5m
$djt -> hit $4 .4m, realdonaldtrump, on $eth
$trump -> hit $2m , trumpwifhat, $trump + $wif
$DOGE -> hit $1 .7m on $SOL , beta to the one on $eth
#america -> hit $1m

Mascots
$shibu -> hit $11m , $doge 's mascot, very good community
$rex -> hit $2 .2m, Google Chrome Mascot
$btcwiz -> hit $1 .5m, $bitcoin wizard mascot
$eagle -> hit $772k , American Mascot

Fair Launch
$ff -> hit $5 .5m
- Fair launch a pumpdotfun coin
- Uses AI

Artificial Intelligence
#project89 -> $4m to $16 .5m (4.1x)
$yousim -> hit $19 .5m, based on plastic_labs product
$muradAI -> hit $1m , Murad AI

Genshin Impact
$gacha -> hit $2 .3m

More Cooks
$ban -> $9m to $36m (4x), comedian
#zerebro -> hit $3m
$skito -> hit $2 .2m
#nogambling -> hit $1 .6m, viral video
$imagine -> hit $1 .3m, just imagine
$gta -> hit $1m
$up -> hit $764k
$bid -> hit $640k , break it down, good meme
$mk -> hit $510k
$netcoin -> hit $426k , first bitcoin domain
$dgeen -> hit $215k

What's your top holding rn?

Level 1

2 months ago

Will Ethereum remain institutions' top choice?

jonahrobrts breaks down the blockchain competition for TradFi's attention 🤼‍♂️

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Disruption. Digitization. Financial inclusion. Future-proofing.

What do all of these oft-repeated buzzwords have in common? They’ve all been used by crypto-pilled associates at TradFi firms to pitch their bosses on the exciting upside of blockchain tech. This year, it seems, the executives are listening.

Institutions jumped into crypto more headlong than ever in 2024. Their moves are starting to bridge the gap between TradFi and DeFi. However, this article isn’t focused on why firms are building onchain. Instead, we are focusing on where these funds are choosing to build.

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What’s Happening on Ethereum?
Ethereum is the world’s largest smart-contract blockchain network. It has secured over $90 billion in RWAs, including stablecoins. 2024 has been a big year for the adoption of non-stablecoin RWAs on Ethereum as well, with the network growing its onchain U.S. treasuries, bonds, and cash equivalents from $800 million to over $1 .5 billion and overall non-stablecoin RWA value to $2 .9 billion.

Some of the major players building on Ethereum this year include
Visa, BlackRock and FTI_US

Earlier this month, Visa announced that they are building the Visa Tokenized Asset Platform (VTAP) on Ethereum. This is the company’s biggest step toward crypto adoption thus far. VTAP enables Visa to issue and manage fiat-backed tokens on Ethereum. It is intended to be a sandbox for participating financial institutional partners to create and experiment with fiat-backed tokens. They expect to begin piloting the platform with Spanish multinational bank BBVA in 2025. While the VTAP program is certainly an experiment, it gives credit to the thesis that TradFi will migrate its operations onto Ethereum over the coming decades.

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Yet, the success of Ethereum’s competitors highlights a critical point: institutions are no longer bound to a single network. While Ethereum is foundational, blockchains like Solana and Stellar provide alternatives that are increasingly hard to ignore. However, they also present novel interoperability concerns.

Interoperability is central to the future of institutional blockchain adoption. As Visa states in their VTAP press release announcement, the largest benefits of building onchain include easy integration, programmability, and interoperability. Institutions that venture onto non-EVM chains like Solana or Stellar may face challenges in asset liquidity and protocol compatibility. This can lead to reliance on third-party services to bridge assets between chains, which introduces complexity and security risks. Ethereum’s widespread use means that staying within the EVM ecosystem—whether through Ethereum or Layer 2 solutions—remains the simplest and most secure option for institutions.

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However, for Ethereum to maintain its lead in the race toward institutional adoption, it must continue to balance world-class security and stability with the performance and scalability that competing chains continue to push. The race to capture the attention of institutional finance will be won by the network that can not only meet today’s demands but also anticipate the needs of tomorrow. Ethereum is well-positioned for now, but staying on top will require constant evolution.

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2 months ago

🚨 Asian private wealth managers embrace crypto.

Some even predict that Bitcoin will reach $100 ,000 by the end of the year.

76% of Asian family offices and high net worth individuals investing in crypto compared to 58% in 2022 according to a report by Aspen Digital.
16% planning to do so in the future.

Most respondents had between $10 million and $500 million in assets under management.

DeFi remained a strong area of interest, with 67% of respondents interested, followed by 61% in AI and 50% in DePin.
47% in RWAs.

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2 months ago

How To Profit From My Daily Recaps

1) Find Profitable Wallets
- Every day, go through my recaps and look for the top traders on the coins that ran the most

2) Remain Informed
- Always see what the leading metas are
- Track momentum shifts & trends by reviewing the coins I highlight

3) Track Whale Movements
- Get insights into whale wallets
- Follow where the big money is going

4) Find gems
- Looking to add a coin to your portfolio but not sure which one?
- Go through the sections in my recaps
- Research the coins I mentioned & find the one with the best community

5) Monitor Trading Volume
- If you miss a day of trenching and wonder what the market's looking like, check out what you missed

6) Learn From Mistakes
- Analyze the coins that didn't perform well and find what they had in common
- Use this to refine your strategy

Don't just watch the market, take action

Level 2

2 months ago

🚨 Grayscale places $Doge , Worldcoin, $Pyth and $Rune on a list of 35 cryptocurrencies with high potential.

Grayscale has listed 35 cryptocurrencies broken down into 5 main categories:
🔹 Coins
🔹 Smart Contract Platforms
🔹 Finance
🔹 Culture
🔹 Public services.

Grayscale is considering potentially including them in its selection of crypto investment products.

Level 1

2 months ago

Daily Memecoin Recap - October 13

Easy mode is finally here

AI Takes Over
$goat -> $6m to $95m (15.8x), truth_terminal
$opus -> hit $2 .66m, Claude Opus AI
#memesAI -> hit $2 .3m, another AI agent like $goat , AIHegemonyMemes
#a69z -> hit $779k , based on a16z
$dog -> hit $635k , dog version of $goat , Dogteus Maximus
- Founder of A16z pmarca funded an AI agent. The AI then created its own coin and started shitposting truth_terminal ( $goat )
- It tweets around 10 times/hour, constantly bullposting the coin without end
- Proof that narrative is king

Truth Terminal Tweets
$tree -> hit $1 .78m
$wen -> hit $540k
- These are based on tweets by truth_terminal ( $goat )

SPX Wants $1B
$spx -> hit $925m
$marie -> hit $7 .6m, Marie Rose, girl in one of the main $spx memes
$marie -> hit $4 .12m, on $eth

Great Volume
#conviction -> $228k to $2m (8.77x), Buy + Hodl + Believe
$swarm -> hit $4 .93m
$pve -> hit $3 .26m, player vs environment trading instead of player vs player
$main -> hit $1 .12m, main character, gen z meme
$peek -> hit $903k
$fumble -> hit $400k , shoulda woulda coulda

Retardio Meta
#retardio -> hit $197m , new ATH, deranged communities stay winning
$rsi -> hit $3 .6m, Retardio Solami Index
#ethtardio -> hit $3 .73m, on $eth

Dead Or Alive Meta
$alpha -> hit $7m , boss from the game series "dead or alive"
$tina -> hit $1 .52m
$kasumi -> hit $303k

Hyped Launch
$genz -> hit $929k , good art

Speed Coming Back To Life
$speed -> $750k to $5 .88m (7.84x)
- ATH of $25m
- Was one of the highest market cap degen memes in May

More Cooks
$dolan -> $7 .6m to $26m (3.42x), Dolan Duck
$morud -> $2 .3m to $8 .3m (3.6x), redacted Murad
$aped -> $333k to $1 .53m (4.6x), "I aped"
$lockin -> hit $94m , the cult continues to grow
$rich -> hit $9 .93m, good meme
$us -> hit $1 .82m, America's flag
$cult -> hit $1 .77m
$piu -> hit $983k
#gt3rs -> hit $730k , Porsche
$bite -> hit $530k , bitecoin, $btc meme
$retire -> hit $517k , "the last play so I can retire"
$dorime -> hit $473k , viral rat meme
$xtacy -> hit $283k
$bwob -> hit $267k , $fwog beta
$ddog -> hit $235k , data dog, programmable and immutable dog on $sol

What if this AI meta never ends and we just start trading memes that different agents create all day

Level 2

2 months ago

🚨 Google officially integrates ensdomains

Users can now search for any .eth name and check associated balances directly in Google Search.

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2 months ago

Based Rollups

What are they, why do they exist, and which projects are already making waves?

A 101 explainer 👇

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Scaling #Ethereum has been one of the most discussed challenges in crypto.

To address this, the community chose a rollup-centric approach. The idea is simple: Instead of hosting all applications on Ethereum, the focus is on rollups that offer faster, cheaper transactions while still settling back on Ethereum. As a result, you get faster, cheaper transactions, but still keep Ethereum’s security.

They're bringing more users and value to Ethereum, however, concerns remain about their reliance on centralized sequencers and liquidity fragmentation across chains.

This is where based rollups come in. They integrate more closely with Ethereum's infrastructure, helping retain value within the ecosystem. This new method of building rollups could bring additional value to Ethereum and $ETH .

What are Based rollups?
Based rollups, or L1-sequenced rollups, are a type of rollup where the base L1 chain, like Ethereum, manages transaction sequencing directly.

Unlike traditional rollups that rely on their own sequencers, based rollups tap into the security, liveness, and decentralization of the L1 by outsourcing transaction sequencing to the L1’s infrastructure. This infrastructure includes proposers, searchers, builders, and other actors who permissionlessly include based rollup blocks in L1 blocks.

How do Based rollups work?
Based rollups use the L1 for consensus, data availability, and settlement layers, while handling execution independently. For instance, when Ethereum is the base L1, the key layers of based rollups are as follows:

1. Execution Layer — Managed by the rollup itself, where transactions are executed off-chain.

2. Consensus Layer — Relies on Ethereum validators to sequence transactions.

3. Data Availability Layer — Uses Ethereum as the DA layer to ensure that transaction data is available for validation by anyone.

4. Settlement Layer — Also part of Ethereum, where final transaction states of the rollup are recorded.

Based rollups use Ethereum for everything from ordering transactions to settling them. While this approach may not seem radically different from traditional rollups, it fundamentally shifts how sequencing is handled. Instead of relying solely on separate sequencers, based rollups leverage Ethereum itself for transaction sequencing.

Why based rollups?
As Justin Drake outlined in his original post, based rollups are worth your attention for several reasons:

1. Inherited Liveness and Decentralization — One of the key advantages of based rollups is their ability to inherit the liveness guarantees of the base L1 chain. As long as the L1 is operational, so is the rollup.

2. Economic Alignment with L1 — The economic model of based rollups creates a mutually beneficial relationship with the L1. Priority fees and MEV from these rollups naturally flows to the L1. This synergy doesn’t just add value to the base layer, it also boosts the legitimacy and brand awareness of the rollups themselves, thanks to Ethereum’s community.

3. Cost Efficiency — Outsourcing sequencing to Ethereum reduces development costs, accelerates time to market, and lowers user costs (especially at scale) for based rollups.

However, based rollups have trade-offs. They sacrifice some profitability by relying on Ethereum for sequencing, missing out on priority fees and MEV. Additionally, they contend with Ethereum's inherent challenges, such as slow block times, which can cause latency issues.

There's a real debate that these changes might compromise the simplicity and security that initially made based rollups appealing.

Level 1

2 months ago

PREMIERE:

The Problem of Misinformation

We sat down with leading free speech & individual rights advocate NicoPerrino, currently serving at the Foundation for Individual Rights & Expression (TheFIREorg) -- topics include:

🤳 The role of social media
🤫 The dangers of having a "Ministry of Truth"
🤖 The future implications of AI on free speech
🙊 Increasing government control over digital speech
🥸 How misinformation and disinformation are shaping our society

Tune in to hear about the parallels between historical moments of technological change and today's digital challenges, and why timeless principles of free speech remain more relevant than ever 👇

Level 2

2 months ago

🇺🇸 A division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security focused on cybercrime said it has prevented more than 500 ransomware attacks and seized billions of dollars in cryptocurrency since 2021.

Homeland Security Investigations investigates cybercrime and transnational illicit activities and notifies government agencies, businesses, and other potential victims that an extortion event is imminent.

HSI is said to have prevented 150 ransomware plots between October 2023 and September 30, 2024.
537 intrusions have reportedly been disrupted since its creation in 2021.

HSI has reportedly seized $4 .3 billion in cryptocurrency seizures since 2021, including $180 million last year.

Assets are recovered mainly through crypto exchanges, when hackers are arrested.

"There are definitely groups that we have our eyes on. There are gangs that are active outside of the United States that are continually looking for ways to obtain cryptocurrencies."

Level 2

2 months ago

🚨 Britain Gambling Commission pursues Sorare.

According to the British regulator, the web3 fantasy game is a gambling game and therefore operating without a license.

Sorare denies the charge of unlicensed gambling.

“You may have seen the statement made today by the UKGC. Please be assured that this does not change the way our site operates if you are a UK resident. We will continue to operate as normal and you will be able to continue to play as usual.

We of course strongly deny any allegations that Sorare does not comply with UK laws. We have created a new category of games, built an innovative product concept while using emerging technology.

The Commission is misinterpreting and misapplying the law in applying it to Sorare’s business. We are taking steps to ensure this is rectified and have instructed our UK lawyers to challenge the allegations currently being made by the Commission.

We have always maintained a proactive and constructive approach with regulators around the world, and we will continue to do so.”

Says Nicolas Julia, CEO of Sorare.

Level 2

2 months ago

⚠️ ZachXBT warns the community of an increase in IRL robberies targeting crypto traders in Western Europe in recent months.

The cases mainly involve well-known figures in the crypto community who were threatened at gunpoint.

Be careful! 🙏

Level 1

2 months ago

It’s here — a crypto game for mass audiences.

Everything you need to know about
@solana
's new mobile shooter -- FTW 🔫👇

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jungle_xyz’s FTW is a fast-paced mobile shooter where players can play casually or win real rewards by competing in tournaments and PVP wagering matches.

While FTW has multiple ways to play—Free-for-Alls, Team Deathmatches, and Extractions (akin to capture the flag)—its main mode is Showdown, where 10 players face off in a 3-minute Battle Royale. Here, players spawn with randomized load-outs of different heroes, weapons, and gadgets and can respawn during the first 2 minutes, battling to rack up points and buffs.

After this, the playing zone starts closing and respawns are disabled until the last player standing claims victory. Along the way, players can pick up new weapons and equipment scattered across the map. These come in four rarity levels: White, Blue, Purple, and Yellow, each offering increased power for an edge as the match progresses.
⚔️ Qualifiers (Mon-Fri): During weekdays, you can play Showdown matches for free and collect points to prepare for the weekend Finals. This mode helps you accumulate upgrades, currencies, and tickets, which will be crucial for weekend competition.

🎖Finals (Sat-Sun): The weekend Finals require one ticket per match, and only these games count toward the leaderboard for prizes. Players can win $USDC , $SOL , in-game rewards, and whitelist spots for Jungle’s Genesis mint — though you must connect your wallet and Discord to be eliglible.

Additionally, there is a Monthly Leaderboard on FTW’s Jungle Discord, where your Finals scores accumulate throughout the month. Players who perform well can qualify for boosted rewards.

How to Get Started:

Additional Features:

🎯 Auto-Aim: FTW lets you choose between manual and auto-aim in its settings. While it may burn through your bullets, personally I’d recommend auto.

💥 Hero Ultimates: Each hero has a unique ultimate ability like airstrikes, poison gas, or shock blasts, which charges up as the match goes on and you rack up more stats.

🧰 Hero and Weapon Upgrades: XP will be earned as you play, alongside crates offering unique boosts which can be used to upgrade your heroes and weapons, increasing traits like their resilience, precision, and speed.

How to Earn:

FTW’s tournaments are where the money’s made, and these events are split into Qualifiers and Finals:

📲 Download FTW: The game is available on the iOS App Store and Google Play in early access worldwide.

✅ Sign Up: Once downloaded, create your account through your email or Google.

🔗 Link Your Account: To qualify for rewards, join the Jungle Discord and complete your profile under the profile channel by linking your FTW account (a code will be provided in the app) and Solana wallet.

🏆 Join Tournaments: Participate in weekly Qualifiers to earn points, and use tickets to join the weekend Finals for a shot at the prizes.

And that's all it takes to get started here!

With mobile games feeling ripe for crypto adoption by augmenting their casual gameplay with onchain rewards, Jungle looks to be flying under the radar as a studio to watch.

Move quickly, though! The last Qualifiers for this first “Play-to-Mint” tournament end on September 27th, though we can expect more down the line.

✍️ by wmpeaster

Pokemon

Level 1

2 months ago

$HONEY , $MPLX , $CROWN Lead Solana Ecosystem Token Performance During Breakpoint
Which native tokens outperformed the market during Solana Breakpoint 2024?

Solana Breakpoint delivered a bounty of massive announcements not only for Solana, but also for a host of applications and projects building in the ecosystem.

However, market dynamics don’t always line up with protocol updates. Hype and speculation can push prices up ahead of the event, only to be met with disappointing price action when teams don’t deliver the news traders are hoping to hear.

On the other hand, projects that were ignored by speculative traders can enjoy solid price appreciation when they deliver unexpected announcements.

In the eyes of the market, who were Solana Breakpoint’s best and worst performers?

Solana Breakpoint Market Dynamics
To illustrate market dynamics during Breakpoint, analysts compiled and analyzed price data from 20 key projects in the ecosystem. Tokens were shortlisted from the following criteria:

In the industry’s top 1,000 tokens by market capitalization.

Made announcements, or participated in Breakpoint panels and debates.

If not presenting at the event, proven ecosystem OGs like Orca and Raydium were included.

Other than BONK Memecoins were excluded. BONK’s inclusion is due to its announcements and significant presence at the event.

Using Step Finance data, prices were pulled from Breakpoint’s opening and compared that with the price recorded at the closure of the event.

While the market anticipated big announcements from the likes of Jupiter and Sanctum, it was the projects that no one expected updates from who performed the best. $HONEY , $MPLX , and $CROWN outperformed the market, while most of the ecosystem remained largely unchanged.

Hivemapper, the company behind $HONEY , shared impressive growth statistics. The DePIN protocol has successfully mapped over 26% of the world’s road network and now sells mapping data to three of the ten largest mapmakers.

Metaplex, one of Solana’s longest-standing infrastructure providers, held a stealthy presentation in The Pod, one of Breakpoint’s smaller spaces. During the session, Metaplex teased the upcoming launch of the Metaplex Aura Network, a mysterious new addition to Metaplex’s product suite.

Finally, Photo Finish announced that its mobile app was approved for distribution on the Apple App Store. According to Photo Finish CEO, this makes the app the world’s first real-money horse racing mobile game approved by Apple.

However, Breakpoint is a relatively short event with plenty of other dynamics influencing price movements. For example, $CLOUD’s appears to have traded sideways during Breakpoint, but it needs to be said that the asset enjoyed an impressive surge both before and after the event.

Despite stale price action throughout Breakpoint, $CLOUD is up 67% on a weekly time frame and has been one of the Solana ecosystem’s best performers, based on Step Finance data.

Chemzy

Level 1

2 months ago

Drift Protocol, a rising star in the Solana DeFi space, has secured a $25 million Series B funding round led by crypto venture firm Multicoin Capital. This significant investment follows Drift's series of strategic moves to capture a larger share of the diverse DeFi derivatives market and will fuel an ambitious expansion of its team.

Drift's recent launch of BET on DRIFT, a prediction market built on Solana ahead of the US elections, has garnered considerable attention. Within just one week of launch, Drift flipped PolyMarket in 24-hour volume on August 28th, 2024, signaling a strong user response and a potential shift in the prediction market landscape.

The platform's rapid growth, with $388 million in total value locked (TVL) and a series of successful product launches, has attracted significant investor interest. While details of the latest funding round remain unclear, it is believed to be a private token sale, given Drift's existing $DRIFT token launched in May 2024.

Multicoin Capital's Managing Partner, Kyle Samani, confirmed the private nature of the funding round in a tweet posted a few days before the official announcement. He expressed strong confidence in Drift's potential: "We have been analyzing DeFi derivatives pretty seriously since 2019-2020, and we believe that Drift Protocol is the best positioned protocol to capture that opportunity. We led multiple private rounds and have been buying on the public market since the token launched in May."

The Drift token $DRIFT has surged by 77% in the past 30 days, currently trading at.73 at press time.

Drift's Journey: From Seed to Series B and Beyond
Drift's journey to this point has been marked by steady growth and strategic fundraising. The platform raised $3 .8 million in a seed round in 2021, followed by a $23 .5 million Series A round in May 2023. This latest funding round brings Drift's total funding to an impressive $52 .5 million, positioning it for further expansion and innovation.

Fueling Growth: Doubling the Team
With this fresh injection of capital, Drift is set to embark on an aggressive growth trajectory. The company plans to double its headcount from 25 to 50 within the next year. This expansion will bolster Drift's capabilities across various fronts, including engineering, product development, marketing, and business development.

With fresh capital and a growing user base, Drift is well-positioned to execute its ambitious roadmap. The platform plans to expand its suite of financial services tools, enhance its cross-margin functionality, and further develop its prediction market offerings.

PLAYA

Level 1

2 months ago

Solana’s iconic memecoin scene is restructuring. Frustrated by the rampant oversaturation of token launches and a litany of extractive practices, memecoin traders are reevaluating their approach..

Liquidity has evaporated from the memecoin economy, causing dramatic price fluctuations across the board. Abandoning smaller caps, the remaining traders have solidified positions in established coins.

The collapse of smaller memecoins has led market participants to explore alternative trading strategies and take advantage of emerging DeFi applications.

Memecoin Leverage Trading Apps Gain Popularity
Losing patience with the frequent scams, rugpulls, and pump-and-dumps popular on platform’s like pump.fun, Solana meme coin traders are eager for a new meta. The oversaturation of new launches has worn the patience of even the most committed degens, drawing attention back to established memecoins.

Despite their relatively short lifespan, Solana’s veteran memecoins have birthed devout and resilient communities. While these established memecoins remain volatile, their relative stability compared to new launches has seen coins like $POPCAT , $GIGA , and $MUMU enjoy renewed interest and capital rotates away from new launches.

However, these popular coins have arguably already completed the bulk of their run. To maximize potential profits through these coins, traders are turning to applications like Lavarage to add additional weight to their positions.

Adding a layer of dynamism to the memecoin economy, Lavarage supports margin trading positions on over 400 Solana memecoins.

With Lavarage, traders can increase the size of their positions, amplifying their profit and loss. This approach breathes new life into established memecoins and gives traders a new tool in this compelling market.

Ironically, implementing leverage trading into memecion markets might actually make them safer. Traders could be compelled to speculate on established coins, rather than gamble on new pump.fun launches and hope that the coin they’ve chosen is one of the 1.38% that graduate to Raydium.

Lavarage Partners with Backpack - Boosting Rewards
After launching in mid-August, Lavarage’s Tephra Rewards campaign has kicked into gear following its collaboration with Backpack wallet.

Lavarage users who access the application and execute trades via the Backpack will benefit from a 10% points boost. Tephra points are expected to play a key role in determining airdrop allocations ahead of Lavarage’s anticipated TGE (Token Generation Event).

An Unexpected Airdrop?
In a bid to further reward users, Lavarage has partnered with the $NAMI memecoin to distribute $1 ,500 of $NAMI to traders. Over the course of the campaign, 5,325,000 $NAMI will be proportionally airdropped to users as follows:

$1000 worth of $NAMI to users who trade $NAMI with leverage

$500 worth of $NAMI to users who trade any other token with leverage

Currently, Leverage only allows traders to open long positions on its extensive list of tradable assets.

However, moderators in the Lavarage Discord server have indicated that “we have a good idea of how shorting can be implemented”, before conceding that the team “do not have any immediate plan to roll that out

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2 months ago

🚨 Assetera launches the first regulated RWA market in Europe, on the Polygon blockchain.

The initiative is supported by regulation by the Austrian Financial Market Authority and compliance with the MiFID II directive.

https://www.coindesk.com/b...

Blockchain-Based Investment Platform Assetera to Offer Tokenized Real-World Assets (RWA) on Polygon

Assetera will use Ethereum scaling network Polygon to secure transactions and utilize stablecoins for purchase, clearing and settlement to ensure the process is fast and efficient.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/09/25/blockchain-based-investment-platform-assetera-to-offer-tokenized-assets-on-polygon/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=coindesk_main&utm_content=editorial&utm_term=organic&utm_medium=social

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2 months ago

🇩🇪 German MP Joana Cotar said she would distribute Bitcoin books to her colleagues in parliament.

"We will be happy to distribute the remaining copies here in the Bundestag."

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2 months ago

💬 "Previous Bitcoin bullruns peaked between October and March, and we expect a major breakout in Q4 2024."

“We expect $5 billion to $8 billion to come back into the crypto space.”

Markus Thielen, manager at 10x Research.

Analysts agree on a range of catalysts fueling Bitcoin's momentum:

🔹️ The Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates by 0.50%, which weakened the US dollar.

🔹️ US fiscal debt reaching $35 trillion and increasing by $1 trillion every 100 days.

🔹️ Political developments with Kamala Harris expressing support for digital assets.

🔹️ Bitcoin ETF flows remained positive, with total inflows of $17 billion.

🔹️ The stability of BTC miners after the halving.

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2 months ago

HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOLANA BREAKPOINT DAY TWO

Solana Breakpoint Day One set a rapid pace, with milestone announcements about Firedancer, key product updates from Jupiter, and trillion-dollar asset manager Franklin Templeton disclosing its intention to build a mutual fund on Solana.

Despite the high expectations following a blistering Day One, Day Two kept the momentum alive and delivered plenty of showstopping announcements.

COINBASE TO LAUNCH cbBTC ON SOLANA
Coinbase, one of the industry’s most popular centralized exchanges, announced its intention to deploy its wrapped version of Bitcoin on the Solana network. Since launching on Ethereum and Base just a few weeks earlier, cbBTC has quickly climbed the ranks to become the third-largest wrapped Bitcoin token in the market.

The move is expected to bring more of Bitcoin’s deep liquidity to Solana, where cbBTC can be integrated into various DeFi applications and increase capital efficiency on the network.

FIREDANCER LIVE ON MAINNET FOR NON-VOTE TRANSACTIONS
FireDancer may have stolen the show on Day One, but the Jump Crypto developers weren’t content to stop there. Firedancer’s Research and Development Architect, Phillip Taffet, and Production Engineer Anway De announced that the full Firedancer validator client was now live on the Solana mainnet for non-vote transactions.

But that wasn’t all that the Firedancer team had in store. A live demo also demonstrated the Frankendancer client executing 1.04M transactions per second.

MAGIC EDEN UNVEILS NEW FEATURES
Magic Eden, the blockchain industry’s largest NFT marketplace across all chains in terms of trading revenue, outlined some of its future plans.

Showcasing a more composable cross-chain ecosystem Magic Eden teased new features like the ability to swap fungible assets on one chain for non-fungible assets on a completely different network.

In a move that didn’t surprise anyone, Magic Eden also announced that its upcoming $ME token will be launched on Solana.

deBridge ANNOUNCES TGE
The deBridge ($DBR) token airdrop has been one of the most anticipated TGEs in recent months.

To thunderous applause from a captivated audience, deBridge co-founder Alex Smirnov announced that $DBR is scheduled to go live on the 17th of October.

Smirnov also used his time in the spotlight to share a wealth of new product features coming to the deBridge application, including gasless bridging and the integration of new chains live Bitcoin and Tron.

BONK ETP
One of Solana’s favorite memecoins, BONK made its presence known at Breakpoint. But beyond the BONK boxing ring, BONK core contributor Nom highlighted the prolific growth of the Bonk brand, which has secured impressive partnerships across the Web2 world, like its sponsorship of Borussia Dortmund.

Affirming BONK’s rise from memecoin, to cultural movement, to financial entity, Nom also announced the team’s intention to launch a BONK ETP. The move is believed to be a precursor to an eventual BONK ETF.

SANCTUM ANNOUNCES BIG UPDATES
Sanctum, the Solana DeFi powerhouse bringing greater flexibility to LST (Liquid Staking Tokens), announced several exciting updates.

First, Sanctum co-founder FP Lee introduced ‘Creator Coins’, a novel spin on LSTs that provides new tools for individuals, communities, and businesses to build, grow, and monetize their audiences.

Lee also announced the upcoming launch of a Sanctum card. Conceived in collaboration with BasedApp and Jupiter, the Cloud Card is expected to facilitate real-world payments using Solana-based crypto assets.

Finally, the Sanctum founder also shared that the platform’s polarizing incentives campaign, Wonderland, would be making its return soon with a second season of rewards.

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2 months ago

Solana co-founder Aeyakovenko responded to the launch of the Firedancer full validator client on the mainnet, stating that the "end of mainnet beta is upon us".

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2 months ago

The bulls are in charge as markets pump 🐂📈

But can J Pow really stick that Goldilocks landing to secure that full-on bull market?

What you should know 👇

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Bulls appear to be firmly in control as the market prices in the “Goldilocks” landing scenario following Wednesday's major rate cut announcement.

What’s the Scoop?

✂️ Fed Cuts: Wednesday, America’s Federal Reserve announced a 50 bps (0.5%) decrease to its benchmark short-term policy rate in the central bank’s first instance of monetary easing during the post-Covid era.

📊 Volatile Regime: While markets initially rallied on confirmation of the telegraphed Fed cuts, they gave back the gains headed into the U.S. close and finished out that first day red. Although the bullish impulse from Fed cuts didn’t transpire until after the close, the broad market S&P 500 opened 1.5% higher today, the index’s strongest overnight gain since 2022 and its largest gap up opening to new all-time highs in at least 35 years.

🌼 Achieving Goldilocks: High interest rates were tough on the economy, but they were seen as necessary to control the big inflation that hit in 2022. Now that inflation has slowed down a lot in recent months, the Fed can start easing up on its monetary policies. Despite some softening in the labor market, numbers aren't pointing to imminent disaster, and global central bankers remain supremely confident they can keep unemployment from rising too much without causing more inflation through carefully calculated interest rate cuts.

📢 Bankless Take: The best mix of conditions seems to be coming together, boosting economic optimism and giving the green light for bulls to push markets to new all-time highs. While investors will see tanking inflation data as bullish and shrug off deteriorating labor conditions in the weeks ahead thanks to renewed confidence in the Fed Put, an unexpected turn for the worse will swiftly give way to serious recession concerns.

Analysis by JackInabinet

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3 months ago

SOLANA BREAKPOINT: The Biggest Announcements From Day One
Hopes were high for some big announcements, but even the most devout Solana maxi wasn’t ready for this.

Over 5,700 Solana fans, users, and bulls descended on day one of Singapore Breakpoint. The biggest conference event in Solana history, Breakpoint delivered a wrath of key updates, with crucial developments announced from both native teams and institutional players.

If you weren’t at Breakpoint, here’s what you need to know:

FIREDANCER LIVE ON TESTNET
Solana users and investors alike were delighted to see Kevin Bowers, Jump Crypto’s Chief Science Officer take the stage to deliver one of the network’s most eagerly awaited updates.

Firedancer, the novel validator client promising to bring unparalleled levels of scalability, decentralization, and security to Solana, is now live on testnet.

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Bowers also took the opportunity to outline the development history of the client and its evolution from Frankendancer, an experimental synergy of existing software with Jump’s new codebase, to the optimized final Firedancer product.

To rounds of raucous applause from the Solana faithful, Bowers announced that the existing Frankendancer client is now live on the Solana mainnet.

FRANKLIN TEMPLETON BUILDING ON SOLANA
While existing SOL ETF applications find themselves unlikely to be approved in the short term, that doesn’t mean that TradFi giants aren’t eager to launch Solana-based products to their institutional clients.

Franklin Templeton, one of the world’s largest financial players boasting over $1 .3T in AUM (Assets Under Management) announced its intention to launch a mutual fund on the Solana blockchain.

CITIBANK EXPLORING SOLANA
Franklin Templeton, 21Shares, and VanEck aren’t the only Wall Street players with an eye on crypto’s most performant Layer-1.

Citibank, the fourth largest bank in the United States, shared that it was exploring Solana’s potential, suggesting that seamless money transfers and advanced smart contract composability present unique opportunities in the future.

JUPITER MAKES BIG MOVES
Traditional Finance may have dominated the headlines, but Solana-native DeFi teams also commanded their fair share of the spotlight.

Jupiter co-founder Siong presented an immense range of updates coming to Jupiter’s expansive ecosystem. Crucial announcements included a refreshed v2 perps platform, the reveal of the Ape Pro memecoin trading platform, further details surrounding the Jupiter mobile wallet, and Jupiter’s acquisition of the SolanaFM explorer.

SKY, FORMERLY MakerDAO, DEPLOYS ON SOLANA
MakerDAO, one of the crypto industry’s longest standing DeFi protocols, recently rebranded to SKY, migrating its iconic decentralized stablecoin from $DAI to $USDS . Building on top of the momentum achieved with the rebrand, SKY announced a proposal to leverage Wormhole’s cross-chain infrastructure to bridge $USDS to Solana.

Reinforcing SKY’s desire to be present on the Solana network, the protocol announced an rewards campaign to incentivise deeper liquidity on the network. According to SKY governance, the maximum distribution of weekly rewards is capped at 2M $SKY .

The move helps to bring greater stability to Solana DeFi by providing a more diversified range of stablecoin assets onchain.

Continuing the trend of Solana migration, the Huma Finance PayFi network also announced its intention to launch on the network.

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3 months ago

PayPal's José Fernández states that Ethereum isn't the best solution for payments, prompting their launch on Solana, which offers token extensions, lower costs, and can process 1,000 transactions per second, ideal for mainstream adoption.

- Breakpoint 2024