Tagged: memecoins

November 10, 2026 @ 8:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

North Korean actors linked to the Binance cryptocurrency platform theft (the largest financial heist in history) have begun minting disposable tokens to obscure the movement of stolen assets, according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. At the same time, the platform’s long-serving chief financial officer has… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 3:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On Thursday, October 2, 2026, attackers briefly seized Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) official account on X and used the company’s enormous audience to push a speculative token built around Clippy, the long-retired Office paperclip assistant. The @Microsoft profile, which has more than 13 million followers, was under… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 12:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

An on-chain investigator has tied a long run of memecoin launches on Robinhood Chain to what he describes as one repeating extraction operation. On September 27, 2026, the analyst known as Wazz published a thread arguing that the same crew could be linked to 53… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 9:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

California Governor Gavin Newsom has approved a package of ethics and consumer protection measures that includes a first-of-its-kind state ban on public officials issuing memecoins. The announcement from his office on September 27, 2026, was framed in blunt political terms as “THE OPPOSITE OF TRUMP,”… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 5:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hunter Biden has publicly described how the LAPTOP memecoin will distribute tokens to selected groups and how a large portion of supply will be either destroyed or given away, depending on whether a list of real-world events comes to pass. The coin is scheduled to… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 12:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood Chain processed about $875 million in decentralized exchange volume on August 30, alongside a record 5.52 million transactions. The session put the two-month-old Layer 2 among the busiest venues in crypto that day and arrived as tokenized stocks, the products the network was designed… Read More

August 2, 2026 @ 12:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BNB Chain has announced it is taking legal steps against a former employee who allegedly used a wallet originally set up for an educational video to release a new memecoin without any company approval. The blockchain network, linked to the Binance ecosystem, stressed that it… Read More

May 21, 2026 @ 7:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dogecoin (DOGE) price remains flat at around $0.10 (after reaching over $0.30 a few years back) despite seemingly bullish ecosystem developments such as digital bank Revolut announcing it will launch a physical debt card with support for the memecoin. Interestingly, Dogecoin began as just a… Read More

March 24, 2025 @ 8:15 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Blockchain industry executives share their thoughts on some issues of the week. High tokenization treasury totals suggest market defensiveness but obscure real-world asset opportunities. “News that tokenized treasuries have hit an all-time high of $4.6 billion, combined with Aave’s decision to abandon new tokens in… Read More

February 12, 2025 @ 8:51 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

A new report from Kraken details the seven trends it believes will shape 2025. They begin with increased regulatory clarity. That is key for improved investor confidence. Kraken said such improvements will drive innovation and growth in the United States. A recent survey found that… Read More

January 2, 2025 @ 4:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The most profitable crypto narratives in 2024 are AI, which “recorded the highest average price gains of 2,939.8% year to date (YTD), followed by memecoins which saw returns of 2,185.1% YTD.” This, according to a report from CoinGecko. This makes the AI and memecoin narratives… Read More

December 15, 2024 @ 6:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A staggering 40% of Solana’s transaction volume is now driven by memecoins, according to an update shared with CI. And yet, the majority of these assets never even reach centralized exchanges (CEXs). Memecoins are increasingly bypassing CEXs altogether, launching and thriving in decentralized finance (DeFi)… Read More

May 14, 2024 @ 1:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Building a successful crypto portfolio requires diversification, and that applies to meme coins as well, according to an update from Bitpanda. However, actively researching and managing “a basket of individual meme coins is a time-consuming endeavor,” Bitpanda notes while adding that this is where the… Read More