Author: WebDesk

This part of the world has given me some of my favorite travel memories, full stop. South Korea meant late nights on soju and endless rounds of Korean BBQ that I still think about years later. Japan delivered a full cultural immersion, and a handful of meals there still sit in my personal top ten of all time. In 2013, I spent a month training kung fu at a monastery in Wudangshan on mainland China, followed by a stretch of travel across the mainland itself. Macau has pulled me back for a visit almost every year since, a habit I…

Pump fun just dropped one of its biggest updates since the $PUMP token sale. It lands right in the middle of the stock-paired memecoin wave we have been covering for weeks. In a single announcement, the platform introduced Holder Rewards, killed Cashback mode, and rolled out Custom Pairs with tokenized stocks. It also burned roughly $370M in $PUMP and locked in one year of programmatic buybacks at 50% of revenue. That is a lot to unpack, so let’s go through it piece by piece. At the end, I will share the first trade I placed on this news.What Are Pump…

Gm from the 5am desk. Yesterday we spent the day in the trenches with ZCAT and the STONK vs PONS launchpad battle, so today we swing back to the big boards. Hyperliquid printed a fresh all-time high of $89.60 on September 6 while I was still on my Netherlands trip, and since then the chart has done exactly what I positioned for. HYPE now trades around $79.6, sitting right on the support area that decides what comes next.I promised more trading content when I got back, and this is part of that. Full transparency on the position, the levels I…

I remember getting airdropped Stellar for holding Bitcoin. OMG landed in my wallet for holding ETH. $APE and $PENGU showed up because I held Bored Ape and Pudgy Penguins NFTs. Now I’m getting airdropped SpaceX for holding a meme about Mars.Holder airdrops, the original airdrop format, never really disappear. Every cycle revives them inside whatever niche is trending at the time: hard forks and exchange drops in 2017, a smaller wave in DeFi, then NFT communities last cycle. This round, the trend is impossible to ignore, because holders are collecting Zcash, Bitcoin, S&P 500 exposure, and pre-IPO tech stock for…

There’s a Dutch crypto exchange called Knaken that I’ve known about almost since it started.Not because I was a big user.Back in 2018, Knaken had an office close to the AirdropAlert office in the Netherlands.I bicycled past it almost every day.At the time, crypto exchanges were popping up everywhere. Some became enormous international companies. Others disappeared.Knaken stuck around.Fast-forward to 2026.A friend messaged me because he had funds sitting on Knaken and suddenly couldn’t withdraw them.He asked me what I thought was going on.I immediately knew it was probably bad news.My first assumption was regulatory trouble. Europe’s MiCA rules had changed…

Two days ago, in our ZEC flips HYPE post, I promised a full breakdown of the cat memecoin that airdrops ZEC to its holders. Here it is. The token is called ZCAT, short for Anonymous Cat, and in less than a week it has become the most talked-about memecoin on Solana. It pumped from zero to a $170 million market cap, paid out millions of dollars in real Zcash, and even earned a brief mention on Bloomberg as one of the catalysts behind Zcash’s monster run.Let’s break down what it is, how the ZEC airdrop actually works, and whether the…

The launchpad wars found a new main character this week. StonkFun’s STONK token overtook PONS in daily protocol revenue, barely five weeks after the Solana platform went live. Both projects run aggressive buyback-and-burn machines, both flipped Pump.fun in daily revenue this month, and both sit at the center of the stock-paired memecoin meta we have covered all summer.So which one actually wins the STONK vs PONS fight? Let’s put the dashboards side by side.StonkFun RevenueSTONK vs PONS: How We Got HerePons drew first blood. The Robinhood Chain launchpad went live on July 14 and needed only seven weeks to flip…

Imagine being able to open Warren Buffett’s brokerage account and see what he just bought.Not three months later.Not in a quarterly filing.Right now.Crypto gives us something surprisingly close to that.Blockchains are public, which means we can watch wallets buy tokens, sell positions, bridge funds, deposit crypto onto exchanges and sometimes build enormous positions in real time.That’s created an entire category of crypto whale tracking.And increasingly, traders aren’t simply watching whales.They’re copying them.Copy trading has become popular across crypto exchanges, while a new generation of onchain apps can automatically identify profitable wallets and show you exactly what they’re trading.Some even let…

Bybit just showed its hand in Europe. In an exclusive CoinDesk interview, founder and CEO Ben Zhou revealed the Bybit super app plan: one regulated application combining crypto trading, bank-style accounts, regulated derivatives, and tokenized stocks. The foundation is an electronic money institution (EMI) license from Austria’s Financial Market Authority, granted on August 4 and made public by Zhou this week. A MiFID license should follow in roughly two months.For European users, this is bigger than another exchange feature drop. Zhou described the end state himself: something like Revolut, plus everything Bybit already offers, fully regulated.What Ben Zhou Actually AnnouncedThree…

It has been two weeks since our last crypto news update. The reason was simple: we were traveling through the Netherlands on a family trip, and family trips mean family time. I spent less time staring at charts and headlines and more time with the kids.That doesn’t mean we disappeared. We kept the content flowing, covered the important airdrops and crypto events, and stayed on top of the opportunities that actually mattered. If you followed some of our recent meme coin and Robinhood Chain content, I’m sure quite a few of you made a little side money in August as…