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August 9, 2024
ALPHA: What a Wonderful Worlde
August 9, 2024
AIRDROPS: Margin trading, no liquidation
August 2, 2024
AIRDROPS: Lend an asset
August 2, 2024
ALPHA: What a Wonderful Worlde
July 26, 2024
AIRDROPS: Apple + Moon
July 26, 2024
ALPHA: Make it Immutable
July 19, 2024
ALPHA: Are you an Old Soul?
July 19, 2024
AIRDROPS: On the Mantle
July 12, 2024
AIRDROPS: Stone age
July 12, 2024
ALPHA: Free ChampionsApr 17, 2025

Markets
Solana Hits Highest Price This Month Amid Coinbase Upgrades, Canadian ETF Launches
The price of Solana (SOL) rose to its highest price so far in April on Thursday, outpacing other top coins following the launch of multiple Solana ETFs in Canada with staking capabilities, along with long-awaited Solana infrastructure upgrades at centralized exchange Coinbase. Solana is currently trading for nearly $136, per data from CoinGecko, reaching that level for the first time since March 28. SOL is up 6% on the day, outpacing daily gains from Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and other top 10 coin...
Apr 17, 2025

Coins
Central African Republic Solana Meme Coin Jumps as President Fuels Rumors of Revival
It appears that the Central African Republic President hasn’t given up on the country’s official meme coin. He hinted Wednesday that the token is set to influence a future law. After the tease, the Central African Republic Meme (CAR) token has jumped 20% to a $15.8 million market cap, according to CoinGecko. “Some documents don’t just make laws. They make history! $CAR,” President Faustin-Archange Touadéra wrote on X. This was accompanied by a photo of a white document with the word “decret” at...
Apr 17, 2025

Technology
How Solana Copy Trading Platform Odinbot is Achieving ‘Zero Block Latency’
Copy trading is a powerful tool in the crypto investor’s arsenal, enabling them to automatically replicate the strategies of experienced and successful traders. In the fast-paced world of crypto, timing is everything when it comes to mirroring the actions of top traders. Solana copy trading platform Odinbot has “first and foremost concentrated on speed,” the project’s PR lead Erik Demeters told Decrypt, becoming one of the fastest copy trading bots in the marketplace as a result. Odinbot claims...
Apr 16, 2025

DeFi
Raydium Debuts Solana Token Launchpad Following Split From Pump.fun
Solana decentralized exchange Raydium has deployed its native token launchpad, which is designed to rival the popular Pump.fun. This comes almost a month after Pump.fun deployed its own decentralized exchange, cutting ties with Raydium in the process. LaunchLab by Raydium offers a more sophisticated token creation process, compared to Pump.fun’s simplistic approach. The new launchpad allows for deployers to toy with the token supply, how many tokens will be sold on the bonding curve, and how muc...
Apr 16, 2025

Business
Trump Meme Coin Team Withdraws $4.6M to Coinbase Ahead of $309M Token Unlock
A wallet used by the creators of President Donald Trump’s Solana meme coin made its first-ever withdrawals on Tuesday, sending $4.6 million worth of the project’s liquidity to a Coinbase Prime account. The move comes just days ahead of the project’s first major token unlock, which is set for Thursday. Upon the three-month anniversary of the coin’s surprise launch on the eve of the president's inauguration, 40 million TRUMP tokens are scheduled to be released into circulation. At writing, that...
Apr 16, 2025

Markets
Solana, Cardano and Avalanche Lead Crypto Market Losses With 5% Dips
Solana and Cardano are so far leading Wednesday altcoin losses, dropping 5.6% and 5.5%, respectively, in the past 24 hours, according to CoinGecko data. The entire crypto market is down 4.3% overall, with the Bitcoin price outperforming rivals with a comparatively modest 2.2% fall in the past 24 hours. Other altcoins also performed relatively poorly, with Avalanche falling 5.8% and Chainlink down 3.7%. SOL is up 17.5% over the past week to $125.32, but down 2.8% month-over-month. It's now down a...
Apr 16, 2025

Business
UK House Leader’s X Account Hacked to Promote Fake ‘Commons Coin’
Hackers took aim at Westminster on Tuesday, commandeering British Leader of the House of Commons Lucy Powell’s verified X account to promote a bogus crypto token branded as the “House of Commons Coin (HCC).” The compromised account, followed by nearly 70,000 users, tweeted a now-deleted message claiming the HCC token was “a community-driven digital currency bringing people’s power to the blockchain.” The posts, which featured the official House of Commons logo, were quickly removed after Powell’...
Apr 15, 2025

Business
Publicly Traded Company Janover Boosts Solana Treasury Stash to $21 Million
Real estate financing platform Janover has purchased an additional $10.5 million worth of Solana, marking its latest push to adopt Strategy's crypto-stashing playbook, with a twist. The company's purchase of 80,567 tokens marks its third Solana acquisition under its new digital asset treasury plan, enacted on April 4, according to a company statement released on Tuesday. Solana is trading at $128, as of writing time, down less than 1% in the past day, according to CoinGecko data. The uplift fo...
Apr 15, 2025

Markets
XRP ETFs Likely Next to Get SEC Approval, Beating DOGE and Solana: Kaiko
An XRP-focused exchange-traded fund is more likely to receive approval than other recently proposed spot funds tracking other major altcoins, market research firm Kaiko said in a report released Monday. XRP's front-runner position comes because of the underlying token's high liquidity, said Kaiko. Spot volume for XRP on American exchanges recently hit its highest level since before a long-running lawsuit in 2020 led to delistings, Kaiko noted in its report. XRP is the fourth-largest cryptocurre...
Apr 15, 2025

Business
OpenSea Adds Solana Trading Ahead of SEA Token Launch
As part of its ongoing effort to reshape OpenSea, the current leading Ethereum NFT marketplace is now offering Solana token trading to some of its closed beta users. OpenSea’s trading platform now lets some OS2 closed beta users trade Solana tokens, including the popular meme coins Fartcoin (FARTCOIN) and Dogwifhat (WIF). While currently limited to select closed beta users, the platform aims to roll out access to more wallets in the coming weeks. It will also reestablish support for Solana NFTs...
Apr 15, 2025

Long Reads
Bitcoin Has a DC Policy Institute, So Does Solana. Where's Ethereum?
The popular line in D.C. these days is that 2025 is the most important year crypto policy will ever have. Federal agencies are reshaping their digital asset policies at a mile a minute; foundational crypto bills are sprinting through both chambers of Congress; meanwhile, the president continues to enact policies the industry has craved for years. In response, backers of the world’s biggest blockchains have rushed to set up specialized shops in Washington, to make the most of crypto’s big moment...
Apr 15, 2025

Gaming
'Wolf Game' Halted After Solana Relaunch Prompts Backlash
Wolf Game first launched in 2021, garnering a die-hard player community over its four-year lifespan across both the Ethereum mainnet and eventually layer-2 network Blast. But players aren’t happy with last week’s 2.0 relaunch on Solana, with some saying the move destroyed everything they’d grinded years for due to new “confusing” mechanics. In response, Wolf Game 2.0 was halted on Monday, liquidity was removed from its recently launched Solana token, and the CEO behind the game said that he has...
Apr 15, 2025

Markets
Canada to Launch 'World First' Spot Solana ETFs With Staking This Week: Balchunas
Canada plans to launch a number of spot Solana (SOL) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) with staking capabilities on Wednesday, according to Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas. In a post on X, Balchunas cited a circular from Toronto-Dominion Bank stating that the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), which oversees the Toronto Stock Exchange, has approved four asset managers to list the new products. "The OSC today gave the go-ahead to ETF issuers, including Purpose, Evolve, CI, and 3iQ, to l...
Apr 15, 2025

Law and Order
Phantom Wallet Sued Over $500K Meme Coin Theft Linked to Alleged Security Flaw
A lawsuit filed Monday against Phantom Technologies alleges that security vulnerabilities in its crypto wallet, Phantom, led to the theft of over $500,000 worth of Wiener Doge (WIENER) tokens from a developer's account. A cybercriminal "hacked into Liam's personal computer and exported Liam's private key to his Phantom wallets from his web browser's working memory," a copy of the court document obtained by Decrypt reads. The attacker gained "unrestricted access to all of the funds in Liam's thre...
Apr 13, 2025

Law and Order
From the Crypto Trenches to the Hill: Why Solana Is Making a Big Push in Washington
When Solana debuted in 2020, it set out to dominate decentralized finance. Now, five years and more than eight billion transactions later, supporters of the so-called Ethereum killer have assumed a far more ambitious undertaking: conquering the halls of Congress. However, advocating for Solana on Capitol Hill—where DeFi still suffers from its association with money launderers and hackers, despite a growing embrace of crypto—won’t be easy. Enter the Solana Policy Institute. Founded in March, the...
Apr 11, 2025

Markets
Why Fartcoin Is Blasting Off Again Amid Crypto Market Chaos
Crypto traders are leaning into absurdity during a time of tariff volatility and broader market uncertainty, catalyzing the recent surge around Fartcoin and other Solana-based meme coins inspired by topics like flatulence and anatomical features. Fartcoin is up 30% in the last 24 hours to $0.96, marking a 97% gain in the last seven days and nearly 250% jump in the last 30 days, according to CoinGecko. During a time when major coins have taken hard hits and some remain well down—Ethereum is down...
Apr 11, 2025

Markets
Will Trump's Solana Meme Coin Pump or Dump After 40 Million Tokens Are Unlocked?
U.S. President Donald Trump’s Solana-based meme coin is fast approaching its first token unlock, with the project’s team set to receive around 40 million Official Trump (TRUMP) next Friday. Based on TRUMP’s current price, around $320 million worth of tokens will hit the market on April 18, according to crypto analytics platform Tokenomist. From that point on, around $4 million worth of TRUMP will be unlocked per day until the project’s next unlock event in July. How will this first unlock impact...
Apr 11, 2025

DeFi
New 'Black Mirror' Episode Focuses on Pump.fun-Like Livestream Stunts
A desperate man commits an act of self-inflicted violence on a livestreaming site in the hopes of collecting a windfall of digital money from strangers. Sound familiar? No, we’re not talking about outrageous exploits related to meme coin trading sensation Pump.fun. Or well, not explicitly. We’re outlining the plot of an episode in the latest season of “Black Mirror.” The first installment of the hit Netflix sci-fi series’ latest season, which debuted Thursday, centers on a plot that appears rip...
Apr 10, 2025

Coins
Guns N' Roses Guitarist Slash Quits X After Solana Meme Coin Hack
Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash has permanently abandoned X (formerly known as Twitter) on Tuesday, citing "repeated hacks" that used his account to promote a meme coin. The decision came just a week after hackers compromised his verified account to promote a Solana-based meme coin called GUNS, falsely positioning it as an official Guns N' Roses crypto project. "This was a considered decision after repeated hacks, and it reflects a shift in how I'd like to stay connected moving forward," Slash tol...
Apr 9, 2025

Markets
XRP, Solana and Dogecoin Lead Altcoin Comeback After Trump Tariff Pause
A trio of the top crypto assets by market cap jumped nearly 10% in an hour after President Donald Trump elected to hit pause on his aggressive tariff plan for the next 90 days. The Ripple-linked XRP, Solana (SOL), and Dogecoin (DOGE) all gained at least 7.5% with XRP leading the pack, jumping 10% on the day to $2.04. SOL and DOGE are now up 12.5% and 10.5% in the last 24 hours, respectively, trimming their weekly losses to less than 10% according to CoinGecko. “I have authorized a 90-day PAUSE...