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Meme Launch Platform Wars
On May 14, the MEME market staged a striking showdown. The MEME coin named Glonk was launched on both the Pump.fun and Letsbonk.fun Launchpad platforms, and the founders of the two platforms personally came out to promote the platform. This battle for traffic not only quickly ignited the enthusiasm of the market, but also revealed the increasingly fierce competition among MEME issuance platforms.
Believe is experiencing a backlash in traffic. With the sharp pull of the platform currency LAUNCHCOIN, the successive appearance of tens of millions of fast-pass transactions, and the appeal of a group of Web2 entrepreneurs, Believe once occupied the C position in the recent Launchpad melee and became the focus of traffic. However, behind the excitement, with the platform's high withdrawal, frequent "scraping" phenomenon, and lack of sustainable narrative problems gradually emerging, the community FUD sentiment quickly heated up.
The number of graduated tokens of Pump.fun has been overtaken by LaunchLab. Will the Meme issuance track usher in a reshuffle?
Nowadays, there are so many Meme coin launch platforms and the models are so complicated. Let’s analyze the advantages and disadvantages of each one and get started quickly.
The first launch project Aster (AST) is a decentralized perpetual contract trading protocol, which has received investment from YZi Labs.
Macro perspective
In recent days, Ethereum has pulled out a big positive line, which has greatly boosted the morale of the "E Guards" and the market's bullish sentiment has rapidly heated up. This wave of strong pull-ups has not only brought about a comprehensive recovery in the Ethereum ecosystem, but also further heated up the market's expectations for the staking function of Ethereum spot ETFs, especially related staking projects have become a hot spot for capital chasing.
On May 13, the market value of stablecoins reached 242.821 billion US dollars, and Tether's USDT market value exceeded 150 billion US dollars for the first time, accounting for 62% of the market value. In recent months, there have been continuous developments on stablecoins in the crypto market. In this article, PANews sorted out the development trends of stablecoins of major technology and financial companies to provide a panoramic observation of the track.
As the global asset tokenization wave sweeps across the world, Hong Kong is becoming a key testing ground for on-chain asset layout. According to PANews, many domestic companies holding physical assets have also heard the news and are seeking to put their assets on the chain for tokenized financing. The most common compliance solution is to confirm the ownership of domestic assets on the alliance chain, then set up a main body in Hong Kong to control domestic assets, and then issue tokens for financing. At present, Hong Kong's RWA industry is still crossing the river by feeling the stones.
Against the backdrop of the accelerating trend of de-dollarization, Bitcoin is gradually becoming a global alternative asset with sovereign neutrality and value storage functions.
SEC Chairman Paul Atkins called for a comprehensive modernization of U.S. crypto asset policy and outlined a three-part strategy for reforming issuance, custody, and trading regulations.
From Meme Coins to CSGO Skins: Speculation Never Sleeps
The hyped market is fragile. How do these skins, which look like NFTs and can fall as sharply as Meme coins, attract believers and what will they bring?
22 kidnappings in 5 months, crypto wealth causes "murder"
The wave of violence involving kidnapping, coercion and demands for money may be more serious than we imagined.
AI and Meme
Virtuals is the strongest in terms of speed and maintaining popularity. Although CreatorBid is slow in execution, it has a clear vision and focuses on the Bittensor smart agent ecosystem, so it has great long-term potential.
The wealth effect is obvious. How to participate in Virtuals IPO and get 30 times return?
The Virtual Geneses points model is an oversubscription model that determines the investment ratio based on the proportion of points. The proportion of tokens that can be obtained is calculated based on the ratio of invested points to total points. The upper limit of investment for a single wallet is 566 $Virtual tokens.
From a practical perspective, cryptocurrencies allow us to achieve atomicity of payments through proof of service, which means that all work must be verified to be completed before the AI agent can be paid.
L2 is powerless to recover? Metis's AI strategy to see its future development
Recently, Metis released a strategic roadmap of All in AI. Can this alternative choice break the current dilemma of layer2?
PANews' account [MEME Daily] will select the hot memes of the day for readers to understand the track situation. Click here to view.
Seize the opportunity
Most people still underestimate Solana, and isn’t that a good thing?
Alpha opportunities are still there, sorting out DePIN's investment logic from scratch
This article attempts to sort out DePIN's investment logic from scratch, including why DePIN is an investment track worthy of our attention, and proposes a simple analysis framework.
Viewpoint: Why is FRAX the best investment target for the stablecoin narrative?
Frax has evolved into a full-stack monetary system built around regulatory clarity, institutional synergy, and vertical integration.
Web3
Binance Alpha points are intensifying, but the truth is not so good
In this seemingly winner-takes-all feast, there is a view that its huge traffic is "overflowing" to other ecosystems such as Sui and Solana, injecting vitality into them. However, what is the true situation of this spillover effect? What kind of far-reaching impact will this "hair-pulling" carnival ignited by Binance Alpha ultimately have on the industry?
MapleStory Chain NXPC is launched strongly. Can it drive the recovery of GameFi?
The blockchain gaming industry is on the rise again, will it be revived by Koreans?
The Bitcoin ecosystem is gradually recovering, and a new round of "protocol wars" is about to begin
The Bitcoin ecosystem has officially entered the 2.0 era from 1.0, and the protocol has also entered the DeFi era from Token issuance. The three major narratives of the Bitcoin 2.0 ecosystem: OP_CAT, BRC2.0, and Runes2.0 are eager to try, and have all entered the infrastructure stage. The exciting drama of the Bitcoin ecosystem has begun.
The hardware scam of Depin is so hard to come by that no one wants it.
In this round, the concept of DePIN emerged and once again set off a narrative climax in the Web3 circle. However, when we took a closer look at the actual implementation and economic models of these projects, we found that: in the current DePIN market, more than 60% of the equipment suppliers are from Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen. The selling price of these devices is often 30-50 times the wholesale price in Huaqiangbei, and almost all hardware investors have lost all their money.
Ten truths about RWA: Who is wielding the sickle and who is harvesting the leeks?
From the blockchain circle to the financial circle, from self-media to investment groups, it seems that overnight, RWA has become synonymous with financial freedom.
"It's easier to get things done if you have connections in the government", this saying is particularly applicable to the Trump family's crypto projects. According to incomplete statistics, the stablecoin USD1 has rapidly expanded and integrated more than 10 protocols or applications. Binance also received USD 2 billion in financing from MGX through USD1.
Key Information
China to suspend 24% tariff on US goods for 90 days, retaining remaining 10% tariff
JPMorgan settles first tokenized U.S. Treasury bond trade on public blockchain
Guangzhou Nansha will build a blockchain and digital asset integration application platform
Truth Social Denies Rumors of Launching a New Meme Coin
Dell rejects shareholder proposal to add Bitcoin to company coffers