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After weeks of silence, memecoins are starting to move again. Capital is quietly finding its way back. In fact, it can be argued that the memecoin market has been seeing a clear shift in momentum over the last 30 days. Market capitalization fell steadily through mid-December, sliding from above $42 billion to nearly $36 billion. However, sentiment flipped in early January. Capital rushed back in. As a result, market cap surged sharply from around $38 billion to a peak near $48 billion, before cooling to $44.69 billion. At the same time, the volume expanded aggressively. Trading activity climbed by 17.42%…

Pump.fun, the Solana-based memecoin launchpad, is shaking up its creator-fee system after realizing last year’s Dynamic Fees V1 incentivized coin creation over the trading activity that fuels the platform. Summary Pump.fun is updating its creator-fee structure after Dynamic Fees V1 incentivized low-risk coin creation over active trading, which is vital for platform health. The platform’s creator fee sharing allows teams to split fees across up to 10 wallets, transfer coin ownership, revoke update authority, and assign fee percentages post-launch. Future updates will adopt a market-based approach, letting traders determine whether a token narrative justifies creator fees, rebalancing incentives heading into…

PIPPIN ended its correction phase recently, contrary to other memecoins in the market. As a result, PIPPIN initiated a rebound on the charts, one that saw it rally by more than 46% in just 24 hours. However, the memecoin is yet to fully revert back to its bullish structure. Hence, the question – Will PIPPIN bulls reclaim the trend that started in late November? PIPPIN attempts to reclaim trendline support A look at PIPPIN’s price action indicated that the memecoin had lost the ascending trendline support. At the time of writing, PIPPIN’s price was attempting to reclaim this support level,…

Quick take: A16z said the funds raised account for over 18% of all venture capital dollars allocated in the United States in 2025. The firm believes that for America to win the next 100 years of technology, it begins with winning the key architectures of the future – AI and crypto. It sees those technologies then being applied to the key areas that generate human flourishing: biology, health, defense, public safety, education, and entertainment. Andreessen Horowitz (A16z), the Silicon Valley, CA-based venture capital firm, on Friday said it raised $15 billion in its latest funding secured across five funds.  According…

Quick take: The latest funding brings the total raised to $338 million and comes just four months after its Series B and 10 months after its Series A. The company plans to use the fresh capital to expand its stablecoin settlement infrastructure to new markets and help additional enterprises go live and scale quickly. The company offers an end-to-end payments platform that allows companies to work with a single partner to launch compliant stablecoin cards that work everywhere Visa is accepted. Rain, a stablecoin firm helping businesses integrate stablecoin payments into their systems, has raised $250 million in a Series…

Memecoins appear to be pausing their rally that began earlier this year.  For example, Useless Coin [USELESS] has dropped more than 12% in the past 24 hours, with its price still trending downward at the time of writing. USELESS Coin breaks trendline support The price action charts showed that USELESS broke an ascending trendline support that had been in place since the start of this month. The first week of January 2026 saw the memecoin reach $0.12, but bulls were unable to break past this level. The MACD was bearish over the past two days, though its momentum was weak.…

Quick take: The Open Maoney Stack allows users to “instantly and reliably move money anywhere, and put it to work.” The system enables merchants to send and receive money in their preferred currency, with instant conversion taking place in the background. The Stack is designed to work with different blockchains and can be customized for various applications.  Polygon Labs has unveiled the Open Money Stack, an integrated modular framework for stablecoin payments and global money transfers. The Stack is expected to launch later this year, according to an announcement on Thursday.  Polygon, which started out as a scalable layer-2 blockchain…

2026 kicked off with investors clearly chasing high risk. Nothing illustrates this better than the memecoin market, which has seen a 20%+ rally so far, adding $10 billion in under two weeks. By comparison, the TOTAL3 index (market cap excluding BTC and ETH) jumped 6%. This paints a clear picture of investor sentiment. The crypto index, which has hit a “neutral” zone, is aligning more with capital chasing meme assets rather than altcoins, reflecting strong speculative appetite among traders. Source: TradingView (MEME.C) As a result, this shift in sentiment is showing up directly in price action.  According to CoinMarketCap data,…

Price pushed higher, breaking out of its recent range before slowing down near the $0.15 zone. The rally was backed by a spike in trading volume, so this wasn’t just air. Source: TradingView RSI indicated bullish interest with minimal immediate exhaustion. The MACD flipped positive, so the change in short-term trend after weeks of hesitation is confirmed. That said, Dogecoin [DOGE] remained below its longer-term MAs, so the market is still deciding whether this move will hold. Whales and sellers are all quiet Dogecoin’s rally didn’t fight heavy resistance from large holders. Wallets holding between 100 million and 1 billion…

Quick take: Popular exchange platforms like Coinbase and stablecoin issuers like Tether allow users to swap their Bitcoin for collateral, which means holders lose control of the Bitcoin. Co-founded by Stanford professor David Tse and Fisher Yu, Babylon is introducing an alternative collateralization system to popular systems, like using wrapped BTC. Babylon’s protocol enables collateralization without the user relinquishing control of the Bitcoin. Babylon, a BTC yield-generation protocol, has announced a $15 million funding round from Andreessen Horowitz crypto venture arm A16z Crypto, according to a report by Fortune. The company is looking to disrupt the BTC collateralization industry that…