Today in crypto, Bitcoin retail interest is lagging despite the asset reaching new all-time highs, Pump.fun ICO raises $500 million. Meanwhile, BlockFi’s bankruptcy administrator and the DOJ have settled a $35 million crypto asset transfer lawsuit.Bi
Crypto exchange Kraken will airdrop tokens from Pump.fun's public PUMP token sale to some users whose orders failed due to the exchange's system constraints, Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi announced. "The sale was fully allocated in under sixty seconds an
Today in crypto, Pump.fun ICO raises $500 million, BlockFi’s bankruptcy administrator and the DOJ have settled a $35 million crypto asset transfer lawsuit, and US-based spot Bitcoin ETFs posted another inflow day above $1 billion on Friday.Memecoin l
US House Speaker Mike Johnson has brushed off corruption concerns surrounding President Donald Trump’s dinner for the top holders of his memecoin and dodged answering whether the list of attendees should be released in the interest of transparency.Jo
By Vicky Ge HuangSome small Chinese companies are betting President Trump's memecoin will help them save their shares from losing a place on U.S. exchanges.A technology company called GD Culture Group said on May 12 that it had struck a $300 million
By Katherine HamiltonDeFi Development shares rose after the company said it was collaborating with a memecoin to operate a node to validate blockchain transactions.The stock rose 16% to $105 Friday, marking a 52-week high. Shares have gained 86% over
Jason Guthrie, head of product at asset manager WisdomTree, says he’s optimistic despite a noticeable lack of hype that typically comes along with a crypto bull run. There hasn't been a “really frothy use case that has typically driven these market c
Update (May 5 at 3:27 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include comments from Niko Demchuk and Yarden Noy.US President Donald Trump will host a gala dinner for top holders of his Official Trump (TRUMP) memecoin despite bipartisan criticism an
Senator Cynthia Lummis and at least one other Republican in Congress are reportedly critical of US President Donald Trump for offering the top holders of his memecoin a dinner and White House tour. According to a May 2 CNBC report, Lummis said the id
President Donald Trump's Official Trump memecoin jumped over 8% in 24 hours after 40 million tokens belonging to the project's creators were unlocked Thursday.The unlocked tokens represent just 4% of the total supply of 1 billion tokens but increase
SINGAPORE, April 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — In April 2025, at the Paris Blockchain Week(PBW), BYDFi, as one of the official sponsors, unveiled its new Web3 product—MoonX, capturing the spotlight at the event. MoonX is an on-chain smart trading too
Mixed-martial arts (MMA) champion Conor McGregor launched a memecoin called "REAL" on April 5, which will reportedly feature staking rewards and voting rights for token holders.Spokespeople for the project told Cointelegraph that the token was launch
The apparent LIBRA token rug pull is the the latest incident to negatively affect the Solana memecoin ecosystem, Galaxy Research said in a report on Monday.The narrative had already began to sour following the TRUMP token's introduction in January an
Kelsier CEO Hayden Davis, the brains behind the controversial LIBRA memecoin, said he also launched the MELANIA memecoin and that his team sniped both tokens as soon as the contract addresses went live.LIBRA was released on Friday, sparking a now-del
Solana (SOL) recently lost its key support zone amid the controversial Libra (LIBRA) token launch and crash. The cryptocurrency has dropped over 12% in the last three days and some analysts suggest it risks a deeper correction to monthly lows.LIBRA T
Hackers took control of the Saudi Law Conference's social-media account on X, using it to impersonate Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and promote fraudulent cryptocurrencies.In a series of now-deleted posts, the scammers used the name and image of t
Life comes at you fast. Memecoin cycles… even faster.Such was the gwei on a bloody Thursday in the memecoin trenches. The trend of the day was Changpeng Zhao's dog. The former Binance CEO said on X that he would tweet its name and photo, knowing full
Elon Musk’s father may be the next influential figure to raise funds through a memecoin amid growing interest in celebrity-backed meme tokens.Retail investor interest returned to memecoins after President Donald Trump launched the Official Trump (TRU
CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju recently said that memecoins and the art market share similar valuation mechanisms, with both relying on the power of narrative creation to drive price appreciation.Ju predicted that the memecoin market would mature over t
Donald Trump wasted no time making waves in the crypto world. Just days before his inauguration as U.S. President, he launched the TRUMP memecoin, and soon after taking office, he signed an executive order establishing a working group to evaluate the