Crypto Pumps, Memecoins Pump Harder

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GM Dogs 🐶,

We’re back with all of today’s top crypto stories and top movers, but first, we announced yesterday our second merch drop: Blind Bone Skate Decks.

All Bodoggos and/or Portal holders get 1 raffle entry to win one of our sweet decks, such as this one:

To enter, go to shop.bodoggos.com - the draw closes Friday at 10 AM EST!

Full details and the first episode of Dog Boys of Bone Town are in the post on X below:

Top Stories

• During a day with volatile Bitcoin price movement, the total BTC ETF volume set a new record, almost touching $8B in trading volume. The "New Nine" ETFs doubled their previous record

• Memecoin mania over the last 24 hours with DOGE +30%, SHIBA +25%, WEN +20%, and BONK leading up over +50%

• Portal Coin has launched on Binance, with $PORTAL currently trading at $2.50 giving it a fully diluted market cap of $2.5B. Staking launches tomorrow to gain access to token presales and NFTs.

• Blast mainnet is going live today at 1pm PST, where $2B+ in liquidity gets unlocked

• Backpack (Exchange, Wallet, Mad Lads) raises a $17M strategic series A round, led by Placeholder VC, at a $120M valuation

• Coinbase faced an outage yesterday due to a “greater than 10x surge in traffic”

• Speculations build around an airdrop in March for Marginfi, the defi liquidity layer on Solana

• Zeta Markets, the Solana trading platform, teased that PYTH stakers may be eligible for their confirmed airdrop in April

• Wormhole ($W) will be the first project to be listed on Bybit for pre-market trading, starting 1st March

• Apes are coming home to Bored Ape Island, the first Otherside map where ape holders will can now inhabit their 3D ape avatar. The North America launch event is today at 8PM EST

• Publicly listed Marathon Digital Holdings announced they are creating Anduro, a multi-chain layer-two network on Bitcoin

Top Movers

ETH

• Sappy Seals -22% to 1.17 ETH

• Chiblings -15% to 0.22 ETH

• Redacted Remilio Babies +19% to 1.07 ETH 

• Persona -12% to 0.32 ETH

• Kanpai Pandas - 14% to 3.25 ETH

SOL

• Mutantmon -33% to 2.6 SOL

• Famous Fox Federation -7% to 14.3 SOL

• Sharx by Sharky.fi -15% to 6.7 SOL

• Okay Bears -12% to 9.8 SOL 

• Marms -15% to 1.25 SOL

• Ghost SPL22 +25% to 2 SOL

BTC

• Budgies up 150% 0.075 BTC after inscription #2 sells for $1.4M

• DMT Nattributes at 0.003 BTC on 10BTC of volume after minting 10K for free over the last day

• Quantum Cats down 10% to 0.275 BTC

CRYPTO

• Arweave +26% (+126% L7D) to over $30

• DOJO (Dojoswap on Injective) + 21% to $1.17

• TON (partnering with Telegram) +25% to $2.68

If you weren’t feeling bullish enough on crypto, this thread will help:

Today’s Mints

• Puppet Maxi Biz (BTC)

  • Derivative of OMB + Bitcoin Puppets by MKUltra

  • Supply: 10,000

  • Mint Price: Free for Puppets/OMB, 0.0002 BTC for collabs/public

  • Link

• Blast Runners (BLAST)

  • Received an honorable mention in the Big Bang competition

  • Time: Minting after Blast mainnet goes live

  • Supply: 5000

  • Price: 0.04 ETH

  • Link

• Blastonauts (BLAST)

  • Cute art, Bodoggos got an allocation

  • Supply: 4444

  • Mint Price: 0.01 ETH AL // 0.015 ETH Public

  • Mint time: TBD

  • Link

• FxHash Genesis Base Project (ETH)

  • “Buso” by patakk

  • Free to mint

  • 1000 iterations

  • Opens 12pm EST

  • Link

Upcoming Mints

• 3/1: Blast Penguins

• 3/4: New Blast City

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