Russian crypto holdings on centralized exchanges still worth billions despite volatility, Bank of Russia reveals. Russian crypto holdings on centralized exchanges still amount billions despite nearly a 16% decline comparing to March’s figures, per the Bank of Russia’s latest report. According to the central bank’s data, Russians held $6.8 billion in crypto on centralized exchanges, marking a 15.8%...
Solana proved to be the fastest among major blockchains, according to a report by CoinGecko. The report states that on April 6, the average daily number of transactions per second (TPS) reached a record high of 1,504 amid the boom of meme coins on Solana. “This makes Solana 46 times faster than Ethereum and more than five times faster than Polygon, which...
Meme coins remain a hot crypto narrative during this year’s second quarter, following staggering runs for popular tokens like Dogwifhat in the first quarter. Blockchain researcher Crypto Koryo noted that CoinMarketCap captured over 138 new memecoins launched under the ERC-20 standard last month. While the number grew more than seven times from April last year, CoinMarketCap only lists a...
Participants of the Token2049 conference examined trends in consumer web3 applications, noting the growing role of meme coins. During the Emerging Trends in Consumer web3 Apps panel at Token2049 in Dubai, speakers discussed tokenizing user attention and the role of meme coins in this development. Imran Khan from AllianceDAO noted that a new direction is emerging in the blockchain industry today —attention tokenization,...
A meme coin parodying President Joe Biden is up almost 271% over the last 30 days. Meanwhile, digital assets tied to former President Donald Trump — scheduled to appear in criminal court Monday, April 15 — are plummeting in value. Sales volumes for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on Ethereum hit $536 million in the last 30 days, according to...
TON Foundation distributed 300,000 Toncoin to active meme coin traders. The Open Network project airdropped Toncoins (TON) worth around $2.19 million to the most active meme coin traders on DeDust and Ston.fi platforms. Meme coin traders who made transactions on DeDust and Ston.fi between March 4 and April 10 were eligible for the airdrop. Users also had...
Coinbase International Exchange announced the launch of perpetual futures trading for a Pepe meme coin. Pepe (PEPE) futures trading on Coinbase International and Coinbase Advanced platform will be available from April 18. “Coinbase International Exchange will list PEPE perps on Coinbase International and Coinbase Advanced and commence trading on or after 9:30 a.m. UTC on April 18.” Coinbase announcement Amid the...
Due to the ongoing meme coin frenzy, DEXs on the Solana network have taken up the majority of trading volume over the past 24 hours. According to CoinGecko, Solana-based decentralized exchanges (DEXs) accounted for most trading volume over the past 24 hours. The top three were Raydium, Jupiter, and Orca. Raydium’s volume in the last 24...
Last week, a jury in New York declared Terraform Labs and its founder Do Kwon guilty of fraud charges. Meme coins had an average return of 1,312% in the first quarter (Q1), and Ripple wants to launch a USD-backed stablecoin. Here’s our weekly recap. Do Kwon guilty The Do Kwon saga took a new turn this week...
Among the top cryptocurrencies to watch in the days ahead are Nervos Network (CKB) and PENDLE, which surpassed multiple resistance levels. In contrast, Wormhole (W) experienced a price decline shortly after its debut. Despite the price increases observed in select cryptocurrencies, the broader market saw a marginal downturn. The global crypto market cap shed over $111...
