Meme Coins
DeFi News
Memecoin Trading Bot Maestro is Raking in Millions
Maestro Telegram bot has generated $4.5M in fees in May
Crypto News
NFT Collector Turned Memecoin Creator Nets $7M in Sketchy Presale
PSYOP Token Launch Has Been Repeatedly Delayed
Markets
Memecoins Continue to Dominate DEX Volumes As Crypto Market Slides
Data Shows Rug Pulls On The Rise
Crypto News
PEPE Rallies 500x As Investors Pile Into New Wave Of Memecoins
Single MEV Bot Accounts For 7% Of Daily Ethereum Gas Usage
DeFi News
Vitalik Tweet Spurs Flurry Of Meme Coins
Nearly 200,000 Trades Were Conducted On Uniswap In the Past Day, Highest Since June 2021
DeFi Videos
2020 DeFi Recap (So Far)
This is The Defiant x Harmony, a weekly series brought to you by Harmony Protocol’s Creative Director, Robin Schmidt, and Camila Russo, the founder of The Defiant, to explore DeFi’s most important stories and demystify this exciting emerging financial space.
DeFi News
Vitalik Whiplashes Holders of SHIB Meme Coin and Sells Tokens for Charity
ETH’s and BTC’s impressive recent growth had nothing on dog-based meme coins ––at least until Ethereum’s creator, Vitalik Buterin, stepped in to sell a large chunk of the token’s total supply to give the proceeds to charity. GameStop stock and Dogecoin have proven memes have real market power. But the thing about meme coins is…
DeFi News
Dissecting the Memenomics of Dogecoin
Another week, another wild, Elon Musk-tweet driven, Dogecoin gyration. The latest one has chart arrows pointing down. But beyond what’s behind the most recent swing, let’s look at what’s driving the whole pendulum: hype. Irrational speculative manias have been present as long as there have been markets; they’re a part of human nature. But at…
DeFi News
"It Was Exciting But Also Terrifying:" Yam Finance's Backstory
In this week’s interview, I spoke with Dan Elitzer and Clinton Bembry, who were part of the founding team of Yam. Yam Finance is an experiment in rebasing cryptocurrencies, plus token incentives, plus full on-chain governance, plus a DAO-like treasury managed by token holders. It’s also testing the power of the emoji and opened the...
DeFi News
Was it a Pump and Dump? Few Will Ever Understand
A leaked Telegram chat has the DeFi community decrying that some of the space’s most well-known influencers were orchestrating a pump and dump scheme around a token called $FEW, an accusation the crypto personalities involved deny. The question is whether the group was created with the specific purpose of leveraging the members’ follower base to…
Byte
YAM Finally Finds Fertile Ground After Succesful Rebase
Yam Finance’s first successful monetary exercise yesterday marks a new start to DeFi’s original food-based token YAM is an experiment in rebasing cryptocurrencies, plus token incentives (aka yield farming) to drive liquidity, plus full on-chain governance, plus a DAO-like treasury managed by token holders. It’s also testing the power of the emoji. Its Aug. 11…
DeFi News
Hypebeast Culture Drives MEME Rally Amid Market Bloodbath
It was a sea of red in the market yesterday. But while Ether slid by almost 10% and all DeFi tokens plunged even deeper, one project astonished the crypto world accelerating the 10x increase it had seen in the last seven days: $MEME A ticker most would pass off as a pump and dump. But…