Jun 20, 2025
Coins
Seven of the Wildest Meme Coin Livestreams on Pump.fun
Livestreaming with an attached meme coin was popularized this year after a mom promised sexual acts if her apparent son’s meme coin, called LiveMom, hit specific market caps. Despite promising to pour milk over her “36DDs,” the same ones her son allegedly “actually suckled on,” the pair ghosted with nothing really crazy going down. The views and opinions expressed by the author are for informational purposes only and do not constitute financial, investment, or other advice. Quickly, a flurry of...
Apr 2, 2025
Law and Order
Law Firm Seeks Libra Investors for Potential Lawsuit Over Milei-Backed Solana Token
A New York-based law firm has put out a call for victims of the Libra (LIBRA) meme coin scandal—which involved Argentine President Javier Milei—to step forward ahead of a potential lawsuit against the creators and supporters of the Solana-based token. The Treanor Law Firm has been investigating the controversial Argentina-linked token since the high-profile February launch, and believes there may be validity to allegations of fraud, market manipulation, and racketeering. Connecting with Libra in...
Apr 2, 2025
Technology
North Korean IT Workers Infiltrated European Solana-Based Projects: Google
North Korean cyber operatives have expanded their reach beyond U.S. firms to target blockchain startups in the EU and UK, posing as remote developers and leaving a trail of compromised data and extortion attempts. In a report released on Tuesday, Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) revealed that IT workers linked to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) have scaled up operations outside the U.S., embedding themselves in crypto projects across the UK, Germany, Portugal, and Serbi...
Apr 1, 2025
Markets
What Trump ‘Liberation Day’ Means for Bitcoin, Crypto Markets
Major cryptos rose on Tuesday amid an uptick in investor sentiment that tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump on his "Liberation Day" Wednesday would be less severe than anticipated, but analysts remain wary about a potential trade war’s impact on markets. Bitcoin’s price was recently trading at about $84,900, a more than 2.5% gain over the past 24 hours, according to data provider CoinGecko. The coin briefly touched over $85,000, for the first time since last week. "Traders are buzzi...
Apr 1, 2025
Law and Order
Kristin Smith Steps Down as Blockchain Association CEO to Lead Solana's Policy Push
Blockchain Association CEO Kristin Smith will resign next month from her role at the prominent crypto-focused industry group that helped elect the U.S.' first pro-crypto president to lead Layer-1 blockchain Solana’s new policy push. Smith will begin a new role as president of Solana’s Policy Institute on May 19, she said Tuesday in an X post. Her last day at the Blockchain Association will be May 16. The Blockchain Association’s Board of Directors has already begun the search for Smith’s succe...
Apr 1, 2025
Coins
Dogwifhat Abandons Las Vegas Sphere Plans, Team to Refund Nearly $700K
Dogwifhat organizers have given up on their goal of advertising the prominent Solana meme coin on the Las Vegas Sphere, over a year after nearly $700,000 worth of crypto was raised for the campaign. This comes after the token’s official X account hinted in late January that the dog would appear on the exosphere in Q1 2025. Late Monday, pseudonymous organizer GamesMasterFlex, also known as Edward, took to X (formerly Twitter) to state that the push to put the pup on the Sphere has ended, and that...
Apr 1, 2025
Markets
Hot Air Rises Again as Fartcoin Outpaces Dogecoin in April Fool's Meme Rebound
Flatulence-themed Solana meme coin Fartcoin is on the rise again, jumping nearly 22% in the last 24 hours to $0.53 and outpacing the gains of top meme coins like Dogecoin (DOGE) and President Trump’s official Solana token (TRUMP) in the same timeframe. The token, whose proponents use the tagline “hot air rises” when promoting its glide higher, has reclaimed a $500 million market cap after crashing to approximately $200 million in early March. However, FARTCOIN still remains about 78% off its al...
Apr 1, 2025
Coins
Grayscale Files to Convert Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP Large Cap Fund Into an ETF
Grayscale Investments, one of the largest Bitcoin ETF issuers, filed to convert its existing private Digital Large Cap Fund to a publicly available exchange traded fund (ETF). It currently contains Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, and Cardano. The existing private fund, which is only available to accredited investors through private placement, heavily leans towards Bitcoin with a 79.4% weighting, at the time of writing. The rest includes Ethereum with 10.69%. XRP, Solana, and Cardano take up 5.85...
Apr 1, 2025
Markets
Dogecoin, Cardano Lead Gains as Crypto Majors Rally
Six of the top eight cryptocurrencies by market cap have seen modest gains Tuesday morning, with crypto majors led by Dogecoin and Cardano (ADA) notching gains of up to 5.2% and 5.9% each. Data on CoinGecko also shows green over the past 24 hours across Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB, and Solana. Charts show Bitcoin gaining 2.5%, Ethereum up 3.7%, with BNB and Solana up 2.5% and 3.3% respectively. Notably, some $1 million in bearish Bitcoin options, with 1,180 contracts for $70K put options, was sighte...
Apr 1, 2025
Business
California’s Amended Digital Assets Act Would Protect Crypto Payments, Self-Custody
A member of the California State Assembly has introduced an amendment to a recently introduced money transmission bill that would protect the ability of state residents to use cryptocurrencies as a means of payment. First introduced by Democrat Senator Laura Richardson on February 20 as the Money Transmission Act, the bill had been concerned primarily with requiring digital wallet providers operating in California to “take certain actions” to ensure the security of their products, including the...
Mar 31, 2025
Law and Order
Trump's Crypto Dealings Are Making Regulation 'More Complicated': House Financial Services Chair
House Financial Services Committee Chair French Hill (R-AR) said Monday that the personal cryptocurrency dealings of President Donald Trump and his family have made drafting legislation for the novel sector “more complicated,” in a rare rebuke of the president’s personal activities by a key member of congressional Republican leadership. Hill specifically named the president’s meme coin and stablecoin projects as two endeavors that have negatively impacted the work of lawmakers racing to create r...
Mar 31, 2025
Markets
Solana Meme Coin Spikes as Elon Musk Hints at Vine Revival
The world's richest man Elon Musk appears to have greenlit the revival of old school video app Vine, after an xAI employee announced that the company has acquired the defunct mobile app. In response, the Pump.fun launched Vine Coin, VINE, created by the app’s co-founder, has spiked 122% over the past three days. Musk’s love affair with Vine started back in January when he said he was “looking into” bringing back the popular app, amid concerns that TikTok would be banned in the U.S.. Not long aft...
Mar 31, 2025
Law and Order
Solana Advocacy Group Headed by Former DeFi Lobbyist Debuts
One of Washington’s top crypto lobbyists is establishing the country's first nonprofit focused on the interests of Solana, the popular blockchain that has emerged in recent years as a crucial hub for meme coin trading and decentralized finance. Miller Whitehouse-Levine, who previously headed the DeFi Education Fund, announced Monday he has started the Solana Policy Institute and will serve as its inaugural CEO. The Solana Policy Institute describes itself as a nonpartisan nonprofit advocating fo...
Mar 29, 2025
Coins
Why 'Tiger King' Joe Exotic Launched a Solana Meme Coin From Behind Bars
Why did Joseph Maldonado-Passage, better known as Joe Exotic from the viral Netflix docuseries “Tiger King,” debut a meme coin on Solana from prison earlier this week? “I’m knee-deep in lawyer bills,” he told Decrypt in an interview, claiming the endeavor will also benefit children through donations to a nonprofit called Operation Smile. The 62-year-old, who has lived behind bars for seven years, didn’t launch the meme coin himself. Instead, he said his lawyers helped him get “Official Tiger Kin...
Mar 29, 2025
The Coins
What is Dogwifhat (WIF)? The Solana Dog Meme Coin With a Hat
What do you get when a cute dog puts on an even cuter hat? A meme coin, of course! Meme coin investors love dogs, and a photo of a pooch sporting a pink woven hat went viral—and took the crypto world by storm, spawning its own Solana-based meme coin, Dogwifhat (WIF). In true degen fashion, WIF is “literally just a dog wif a hat,” per its official site, with no promises of revolutionary technology or actual utility. Despite this, Dogwifhat rapidly rose to become one of the biggest meme coins by m...
Mar 28, 2025
Law and Order
Hawk Tuah Girl Says SEC Dropping Probe Into Solana Meme Coin: TMZ
Haliey Welch, better known online as the girl behind “Hawk Tuah,” isn’t worried about the Securities and Exchange Commission’s probe into her meme coin anymore after the agency dropped the investigation, she said Friday. “For the past few months, I've been cooperating with all the authorities and attorneys, and finally, that work is complete,” she told TMZ. Welch launched a meme coin on Solana in December that quickly imploded, sparking backlash and forcing her to temporarily take her account of...
Mar 27, 2025
Markets
'Ghiblification' AI Anime Image Trend Pumps GHIBLI Solana Meme Coin
Social media has been taken over by AI-generated images in the style of popular Studio Ghibli movies, created using ChatGPT’s latest update. The “Ghiblification,” as it’s been coined, has caused a Solana meme coin inspired by the anime studio to skyrocket to a $28.3 million market cap. Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki is a well-known AI detractor, having said in a 2016 documentary that the technology is an “insult to life.” But that didn't stop the meme coin from pumping, with Ghiblificat...
Mar 25, 2025
Business
Cboe Exchange Submits Filing to List Fidelity Solana ETF
Cboe has submitted a filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that would allow the exchange to list shares of a Fidelity exchange-traded fund tracking the price of Solana. The19b-4 form, filed Tuesday, is a major step in the SEC’s approval process, although Fidelity must still file an S-1 registration statement describing the product. The filing comes just days after Fidelity registered a Delaware Trust entity for its Solana fund, which would be based on the performance of the six...
Mar 25, 2025
Coins
DOGE Barks Again—Are Meme Coins Making a Comeback?
Dogecoin (DOGE) is up 14.5% on the week, regaining ground amid a broader meme coin rally fueled by investors’ renewed appetite for risk-on assets. They have sent the meme coin category up 11% according to data provider CoinGecko, with other top tokens by market value Pepe and Shiba Inu rising more than 10% to claw back some losses and newer, popular tokens, SPX6900 and FARTCOIN, skyrocketing 70% and 104%, respectively over the last seven days. The surge has left meme coin proponents feeling mo...
Mar 25, 2025
Technology
Deadfellaz Creators Unveil New Tool to Link Real Life to Blockchain
DFZ Labs, the creators of the Ethereum NFT project Deadfellaz, will launch a new asset verification tool that allows users to connect online and offline assets without signing blind transactions or smart contract approvals. Coldlink, now in beta, enables blockchain users to connect their blockchain address to any asset in Web2, Web3, or real life without incurring the security risk of blind signing or smart contract approvals, DFZ Labs said. “To ‘Coldlink’ something is to connect any digital ass...

