Analysis
Base rode SocialFi, memecoins and AI agents to the top of Ethereum’s layer-2 ladder before turning inward to rebuild its core stack.
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Memecoin News
Memecoins, also known as meme cryptocurrencies or meme crypto, are digital currencies inspired by popular internet memes. Several meme tokens with large market caps boast active communities, such as Dogecoin (DOGE), Shiba Inu (SHIB), which are based on the Doge meme, and PEPE, which was inspired by Pepe the Frog.
So, what is a memecoin? Memecoins are a type of cryptocurrency featuring an internet meme character for its logo. Memecoins may serve a variety of purposes — or none at all — as they are not always the same, but they can still be bought and sold like other digital assets on most centralized and decentralized exchanges.
If you are looking to buy memecoins, do so at your own risk, as they are widely seen as speculative and volatile assets, and trading them is seen as risky.
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The Solana-based trading bot transferred 52.4 million LOBSTAR tokens in a single transaction after an apparent decimal misread.
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A drop in Solana’s DApp revenue, along with limited institutional and retail investor interest, adds vulnerability to SOL’s $78 support.
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The rewards model follows months of criticism that too few Pump.fun traders were breaking even on the platform, let alone profiting.
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The deal adds analytics and execution tools to Pump.fun’s ecosystem as Vyper winds down its standalone product and migrates users to Terminal.
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A wallet linked to an alleged theft of US government-seized crypto launched a Solana memecoin on Pump.fun that later crashed 97%, raising tokenomics red flags.
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The Nietzschean Penguin (PENGUIN) memecoin had a market capitalization of about $387,000 before the US White House published its post.
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Pump Fund will kick off with a hackathon and back up to 12 projects at $250,000 each at a $10 million valuation.
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Memecoin trading volume briefly spiked to $5.6 billion on Monday, with analysts suggesting speculative momentum for memecoins may have now cooled.
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The Solana-based NYC Token briefly surged before plunging shortly after launch, with Eric Adams saying proceeds would fund education initiatives.
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Memecoin launchpads such as pump.fun flooded the market in 2025 with millions of “low effort” coins, leading to a record number of crypto token failures.
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Pump.fun is introducing a new creator fee sharing system that lets teams and CTO admins split fees across up to 10 wallets, transfer coin ownership and revoke update authority.
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Memecoins fell 65% over 2025 as risk-taking behavior dropped among traders, but the tokens are seeing gains as positive sentiment returns to crypto.
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January’s unlock calendar is heavily concentrated, with four major projects accounting for more than one-third of all tokens set to enter circulation.
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Transaction volume jumped nearly 300% as memecoin market capitalization rose more than 23%, rebounding sharply from late-2025 lows across the sector overall.
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