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Odaily News: Crypto trader Bonk Guy posted on X platform responding to recent controversy surrounding his purchase of EMBER and explaining his position-building logic. Bonk Guy stated that he first noticed the project when EMBER's market cap was around $3 million but did not buy in. After observing for a day, he revisited his research due to the platform's rapid data growth and bought in from around a $7 million market cap all the way up to a $20 million market cap.Bonk Guy said that EMBER is a major Launchpad built on Meteora, supporting SOL, USDC, and over 150 tokenized stocks as pairing assets for token issuance. It utilizes Meteora Dynamic Bonding Curve technology and offers features such as token fee distribution, Daily Jackpots, and DAO governance.According to his disclosure, Ember has recorded approximately $51.7 million in trading volume, $561,000 in fees, and has cumulatively issued 2,041 tokens within 3 days of launch, with over 41,800 unique holder addresses and 149,000 Solana transactions. BonkGuy compared his Ember purchase to his previous PONS trade, noting that he first saw PONS when its market cap was below $1 million, similarly ignored it for a full day, and then started buying at around a $4 million market cap. Rather than whether a trending token has already emerged, what matters more is observing the real usage data underlying the Launchpad.Additionally, Bonk Guy stated that both Robinhood Chain and BNB Chain have multiple successful Launchpads, while Solana's Meme trading ecosystem has been developing for a longer time, so there is no reason to believe that Solana can ultimately only accommodate one successful Launchpad. He also stated that his trades are not based on market consensus. Some of his most successful trades in the past often came from discovering opportunities before the market formed a consensus; by the time everyone agrees, the asymmetric upside potential has usually already been significantly reduced.Regarding the recent controversy, Bonk Guy said that the claim of "EMBER having over 50% Bubblemaps address clusters" has been clarified by Bubblemaps; his earlier statement that Ember was "launched by Meteora" was also inaccurate—a more precise description is that Ember is built on Meteora-related infrastructure and has now been listed on Meteora's ecosystem page. Bonk Guy emphasized that he has no relationship with the Ember team, and EMBER is a personal trade for him.
Odaily News – Virtuals Protocol has released a comprehensive operational guide for launching AI Agent tokens on Solana, covering processes such as identity setup, immediate or scheduled listing, tokenomics, and advanced configuration. The guide introduces the Automated Capital Formation (ACF) mechanism, which has raised over $6.8 million in total to date. It also supports team pre-purchases, anti-sniper taxes, and the ability to directly link tokens to AI Agents powered by the Economy OS. Once listed, tokens will trade via the Meteora DBC pool, which charges a 1% fee, with 70% of that going to creators. After accumulating 42,000 VIRTUAL tokens, the token will automatically graduate and migrate liquidity, with LP tokens locked for 10 years.
Odaily News - Bitget PoolX has launched a new staking campaign, allowing users to stake BGSOL to share in 180,000 MET. The individual staking cap is 5,000 BGSOL. The staking window opens from 19:00 on August 10 to 19:00 on August 15 (UTC+8). For more details, please refer to the Bitget official platform.
the liquidity protocol Meteora has announced the official conclusion of Season 2 of its "LP Stimulus Plan" on June 30, 2026, marking the transition into the reward settlement phase. The team is currently organizing and compiling data for DLMM and DAMM v2 from this incentive cycle. Specific reward distribution arrangements and related updates will be announced in the near future.
Streamex Corp. announced that its gold-backed, tokenized yield-bearing security, GLDY, is now available for purchase through standard brokerage accounts. The product is distributed by Siebert Financial, a FINRA member broker-dealer, and custodied on the regulated digital securities platform tZERO. Streamex is offering the product to qualified investors. GLDY offers an annualized yield of up to approximately 3.5%, distributed monthly in the form of additional gold. The yield is generated by lending the underlying metal to commercial users such as jewelers, mints, and refiners. Streamex stated that GLDY was launched in February and began 24/7 secondary trading in May on Orca, a decentralized exchange on Solana. GLDY is currently available only to verified qualified investors as a regulated security. Streamex is building a tokenization platform for real-world assets and plans to launch a digital gold product for retail investors, which is expected to be tradable on decentralized exchanges like Jupiter, Meteora, and Orca.
blockchain analytics platform Bubblemaps released an investigation report on the Solana Meme token LIBRA. On February 14, 2025, after Argentine President Javier Milei publicly supported the launch of LIBRA, the token's market cap briefly reached approximately $4 billion in less than two days before rapidly crashing, resulting in investor losses exceeding $250 million. The incident has been dubbed "Cryptogate."Bubblemaps stated that multiple abnormal signals emerged within the first hour of LIBRA's launch:82% of the token supply was concentrated in a single wallet cluster, a stark deviation from typical Meme token issuance patterns;No tokenomics information was provided, with no details on lock-ups, fund allocation, or roadmap disclosed;Abnormally high liquidity pool fees were generated, with over $25 million in fees accumulating within the first hour of trading, far exceeding normal retail trading levels.The investigation revealed that the deployer did not directly dump $LIBRA on the open market. Instead, they added a one-sided liquidity pool containing only $LIBRA on Meteora while simultaneously withdrawing USDC and SOL from the original pool, enabling low-slippage fund transfers. Bubblemaps noted that, by the time the public warning was issued, the team had already extracted approximately $87 million in assets through this mechanism. Subsequently, Bubblemaps discovered a financial link between LIBRA and another controversial token, $MELANIA. Through on-chain evidence such as cross-chain transfers and overlapping exchange deposit addresses, analytic firms suggest both projects may be operated by the same team, which has been traced back to Kelsier Ventures and its head, Hayden Davis.The report indicates that this team has subsequently been linked to multiple Meme token projects, including $HOOD, $TRUST, $KACY, and $VIBES. Their common pattern includes: holding a large concentration of tokens during the deployment phase, using multiple wallets to front-run purchases, rapidly inflating market cap, and then exiting to cash out.Bubblemaps stated that the uniqueness of the LIBRA incident lies not in its technical methods, but in securing the public endorsement of Javier Milei, which amplified a routine Meme token operation into a globally watched event. The firm believes that indicators such as wallet cluster analysis, supply concentration, and on-chain fund flows had already flashed risk signals early on, and it will continue to monitor related address activity in the future.
Odaily News: The cross-chain version of XRP, wXRP, has launched on Solana, enabling holders to participate in the DeFi ecosystem without selling their assets.wXRP is custodied by Hex Trust and achieves cross-chain functionality via LayerZero. It is pegged 1:1 to native XRP and can be redeemed at any time.The asset has been integrated into multiple Solana applications, including Titan, Jupiter, Meteora, and the Phantom wallet, supporting functions such as trading, liquidity provision, and yield generation.This move signifies that XRP, which was originally more focused on payment scenarios, is now further integrating into the DeFi system, expanding its application space in cross-chain and on-chain finance.