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Memecoins take top spot for crypto investor interest in 2024: CoinGecko

Memecoin interest in 2024 was largely directed toward Solana-based tokens, followed by those on Coinbase’s blockchain Base, according to a CoinGecko study.

Memecoins took the top spot for mindshare in the crypto space this year with almost a third of investor interest focused on the highly speculative tokens, a CoinGecko study found.

“The most popular crypto narrative in 2024 was by far the memecoin narrative,” Lim Yu Qian, a research analyst at crypto data aggregator CoinGecko, wrote in a Dec. 23 report.

Lim said a study of site traffic to CoinGecko’s token categories from Jan. 1 to Dec. 21 found that memecoins and related categories captured nearly 31% of investor interest.

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Pump.fun weekly revenue drops 66% after livestream controversy

Pump.fun’s weekly revenue peaked at $33 million in November before dropping to $11 million the following week.

Solana memecoin launchpad Pump.fun saw its weekly revenue drop after disabling its livestream feature in response to reports of harmful content being broadcast. 

The Solana memecoin generator’s revenue began November with an upward trajectory before it peaked in the fourth week. 

From Nov. 18–24, DefiLlama data shows the memecoin launchpad generated $33.83 million in revenue for the week. This represents a 60% increase compared to the previous week and an almost 400% increase compared to the start of the month. 

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Is the scrapping of SAB 121 a poisoned chalice for Bitcoin?

Ronaldinho joins Messi in promoting water-themed Solana memecoin

Water Coin spiked nearly 40% one hour after Ronaldinho mentioned it in an Instagram post, but it has since settled below its pre-pump price.

Ronaldinho Gaúcho is the latest soccer legend to promote the Solana token Water Coin (WATER) on Instagram following a similar post from Lionel Messi’s X account yesterday.

A July 9 Instagram story to his 76.6 million followers showed a photo of him with Water Coin’s mascot peeping over his shoulder, which tagged the token’s Instagram account.

WATER rallied 38.8% to $0.0012 one hour after Ronaldinho’s post but has since dropped below $0.00083, CoinGecko data shows. Its price is now down 71% from its June 26 all-time high.

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Is the scrapping of SAB 121 a poisoned chalice for Bitcoin?

Memecoin launcher pump.fun claims ex-employee behind $1.9M exploit

Pump.fun said its smart contracts are safe and impacted users will receive “100% of the liquidity” that it previously had within the next 24 hours.

Solana memecoin creation tool pump.fun has claimed a former employee exploited the firm for nearly $2 million through a “bonding curve” attack.

The ex-employee used their “privileged position” to access a “withdraw authority” and compromise the protocol’s internal systems, pump.fun alleged in a May 16 X post.

About $1.9 million was stolen from the total $45 million held in pump.fun’s bonding curve contracts.

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