📊 Total Revenue of SunPump Platform Exceeds $1 Million
As of August 20, 2024, the total revenue of the SunPump platform for launching meme coins on the Tron network surpassed 6.72 million TRX (approximately $1.06 million), according to Dune Analytics. By August 21, the revenue had increased to over 7.68 million TRX (about $1.22 million).
🔼 In the 12 days since its launch, the platform has seen the creation of over 19,425 tokens. The highest number of assets was launched on August 20—6,005 tokens.
🔒 Largest Unlocks for the Upcoming Week:
📌 Avalanche (AVAX) - $198.53 million
📌 Polyhedra Network (ZKJ) - $18.79 million
📌 Merlin Chain (MERL) - $8.24 million
📌 Pixels (PIXEL) - $7.7 million
📌 Worldcoin (WLD) - $7.52 million
📌 SPACE ID (ID) - $6.64 million
📌 Metaplex (MPLX) - $5.86 million
⚠️ A corporate conflict has erupted among the creators of Hamster Kombat, putting the listing on Binance in jeopardy.
The project's co-founders intend to resolve the issues through legal proceedings, including in the jurisdiction of Cyprus, where the company is registered.
✨ Vitalik Buterin has donated half a million dollars to the Animal Protection Fund. He directed all the meme tokens he accumulated over the past year to charity.
In total, the Ethereum founder transferred 200 ETH ($530,000).
✔️Buterin has repeatedly mentioned that memecoins could fill the niche of tokens used for charity. He believes it's now time to fund serious public projects.
"It's 2024, we can start engaging in more serious public funding," Buterin wrote.
💸 Donald Trump earned over $7 million from three NFT collections and holds cryptocurrency worth between $1 million and $5 million, according to his financial disclosure reviewed by the nonprofit organization Citizens for Ethics.
Arkham estimates the U.S. presidential candidate's assets at $3.5 million.
🌐 Malaysia Integrates Worldcoin Iris-Scanning Technology into Digital Infrastructure to Enhance Credential Verification Efficiency
The parties have signed a Memorandum of Understanding. The partnership involves the use of iris-scanning technology for identity verification, meaning the identification of individuals.
🔼 Interest in decentralized trading platforms has reached a record high
The share of trading on decentralized exchanges (DEX) has peaked compared to traditional platforms (CEX).
✔️ The monthly volume on DEX relative to CEX has reached its highest level ever—23.2%.
The previous record was set just a week ago at 14.39%.
💵 The total trading volume on DEX for the first six days of August has reached $40 billion. For the entire month of July, the figure was around $150 billion.
Nearly half of August’s volume is attributed to the Uniswap exchange.
📣 Donald Trump raised $25 million in campaign donations from participants of the Bitcoin 2024 conference
💸 The former U.S. president spoke at the conference on July 27, promising to create a bitcoin reserve in the U.S. and to fire SEC Chairman Gary Gensler if he wins the election.
According to event organizer David Bailey, the money was donated by representatives of the crypto industry as well as veterans and "whales" from the cryptocurrency community.
🔥 The creators of Hamster Kombat will distribute 60% of the tokens to players
The remaining portion, according to the updated game roadmap, will be allocated for liquidity provision on exchanges, partnerships, and other purposes.
🔼 According to the developers, the game is already a profitable business, which allows them not to sell tokens at the start.
✔️ In a comment to The Block, they stated that the airdrop of the game's tokens will be "the largest in cryptocurrency history." They claim to have 300 million users of the game in 190 countries.
Preliminary trading of the HMSTR token is already available on pre-market platforms Bybit and Gate. The token will also become available for futures trading on the OKX exchange.
