Memecoin Madness Drives Solana to New Highs

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Top Stories

BTC $67,800(+1.9%) | ETH $3,560 (-0.1%) | SOL 206.8$ (+11.4%)

• Solana surges, breaking $200 and overtaking BNB to secure the #4 position in market cap following an enormous $31B dex volume over the last month — This was 3x total dex volume for ALL of 2022

• After only 48 hours $BOME hits a $1.8B market cap, sees a top holder with a $28M bag at the peak, and touches the 8th spot in 24-hour volume across all coins

• The Runestone airdrop concludes, distributing 112.4K tokens to qualified holders and leading Ordinals over the weekend with 590 BTC ($40M) in total volume with a current floor of 0.04 BTC

• Bitcoin Puppets and O.P.I.U.M holders receive Rune Puppets airdrop which are allocated 23% of upcoming $PUPS rune. Remaining 77% to be distributed to $PUPS BRC-20 holders with the price running +200% to $4.75 on the day

• Milady treasury gets hacked, with 110 NFTs dumped into blur bids as low as 1.24 ETH - The floor price dropped 10% but has since rallied 10% above pre-hack level to 3.4 ETH

• Following the success of $BOME, an influx of new presale tokens have emerged over the weekend, with $NAP, $LIKE, $NOS, $SMOLE, and $SHROOM collectively raising $57M

• 0xQuit trolls depositors with a presale, airdropping non-transferable dunce caps to over 18,000 wallets instead of expected tokens before enabling users to withdraw their funds

• Bonk Bot does $133.2M in volume Sunday, setting a new ATH for the fourth consecutive day and driving $BONK up by 7% to a market cap of $2.5B

• Early Monday morning $SLERF developer accidentally burns tokens earmarked for presale airdrop along with LP and with only 500M circulating coins, $SLERF market cap ran to $675M

• The original photo of Achi (dogwifhat) sells at auction for 1210 ETH ($4.3M) to “Gigantic Rebirth Ventures” who defeats Memeland in a heated bidding war

• Gutter Cat Gang reveals plans for revival under new management, moves headquarters to the Cayman Islands, announces the future launch of $GANG token and directs owners to acquire "Gutter Chips" daily – previous owners are eligible for a retrospective airdrop if they repurchase at least one Gutter Cat

• A second Quantum Cat has a gold cape revealed and is subsequently sniped for 0.4969 BTC before being resold at 1.9 BTC – the same price that golden caped Cat 0396 just sold for at Sothebys

• Starbucks announces March 31 sunset of its Odyssey Beta program along with closure of its Discord

• NFT art marketplace SuperRare announces partnership with Gamma to launch their first Ordinals collection “No Brainers” by artist Killer Acid, slated for release 4/11/24

• Grayscale amends its ETH ETF application, boosting optimism for the approval of an ETH ETF in May

• This Thursday 9.55M AVAX tokens, worth around $554M, will unlock and be distributed among the team, foundation, strategic partners, and airdrop recipients

• OMB Orange eyes minted on March 15th and dipped to a local low of 0.35 BTC before climbing back 0.48 BTC – Green eyes are now at a 0.82 BTC floor, down from a pre-mint price of 1.1 BTC

• ETH NFT floor prices have experienced a significant drop, with top collections such as Bayc, Pudgy Penguins, Moonbirds, Captainz, and Clonex all down 15-25% over the last week

Top Movers

ETH

• Parallel Avatars +30% to 1.27 ETH

• Farm Land by Pixels +28% to 1.6 ETH

• BAYC -5% to 13.7 ETH

SOL

• Rubber +120% to 9.37 SOL

• PARCL -14% to 9.1 SOL

• Claynosaurs -13% to 9.8 SOL

BTC

• Bitcoin Puppets +65% to 0.25 BTC

• NodeMonkes +50% to 0.8 BTC  – Flipped BAYC floor price in USD

• Runestone +57% to 0.041 BTC

Crypto

• $YIELD (BLAST) + 41% to $30.5M MC – Native token for Blast game “Crypto Valleys”

• $PRIME (ETH) +23% to $3B MC

• $BOME (SOL) -25% to $920M MC

Upcoming Mints

Today:

• 3/18: Professional Degen (ETH)

  • Supply: 6969

  • Price: FREE

  • Time: AL 12 PM EST // Public 1 PM EST

• 3/18: Memento Mori (BTC)

  • Supply: 206

  • Price: Ranked Auction 0.002 BTC Minimum

  • Time: 1 PM EST – Open 24 Hours

• 3/18 Braindrops "Anthrocinematica" by Chikai

  • Supply: 500

  • Price: 0.1 ETH 

  • Time: 12:30 PM EST AL // 1 PM EST Public

• 3/18: BitMON by DesLucrece (BTC)

  • Supply: 150

  • Price: Free (100% AL)

  • Time: 5 PM EST

Upcoming:

• 3/19: GolfN (SOL)

• 3/20: Lean Into The Wind (ETH)

• 3/21: 0N1 F4LL3N (BTC)

• 3/29: San FranTokyo: Visions (ETH)

• 4/11: "No Brainers" by Killer Acid (BTC)

• TBD: INK (BTC)