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🕵️‍♂️ Ethereum Goes Incognito Mode

🔒 Ethereum Foundation’s "Privacy & Scaling Explorations" squad just hit rebrand mode - now they call themselves Privacy Stewards for Ethereum (PSE).
📜 Their new mission: make privacy the default setting, not an optional add-on.

👉 What’s on the menu:

✍️ Private writes - do your moves on-chain without leaving a billboard of your activity.

👀 Private reads - so no one knows what you’re browsing on-chain.

Private proving - flex your receipts without oversharing everything else.

💡 Vitalik already said it back in April: without strong privacy, Ethereum risks turning into the world’s surveillance blockchain. PSE adds: better upgrade the stealth tech, or users will simply migrate to chains that actually protect their secrets.

😂 Crypto Twitter summed it up: "Ethereum just unlocked incognito tab, VPN, and two-factor invisibility all in one patch."
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Bagwork Leak Madness

🔥 Drake Leak = Meme Coin Rocket Fuel

🎤 Two pump.fun streamers allegedly dropped an unreleased Drake track live to hype their meme coin BAGWORK. The stunt went viral - creator fees hit ~$83K in 2 days.

📈 BAGWORK’s market cap blasted from under $5M up to ~$53M at peak.

💣 But then the crash came - token plunged ~48% in 24h, landing around a $10M cap.

🧊 Drake was not amused - he called in, denied involvement, and publicly roasted the leakers.

When a leak works better than a marketing budget.
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📚 CZ turns the hype around meme coins into free schools

The CZ Giggle Academy raised over $1.3 million in donations in just a few hours - mainly through the new $GIGGLE meme coin, with trading commissions going towards maintaining the school.

⚠️ Some say that 90% of the initial funding came from this one coin.

🚸 The academy offers free K-12 education in finance, artificial intelligence, and blockchain, without politics or history. CZ positions it as a supplement to schools, not a replacement.

🌐 If it catches on, we may see such coins become the next trend in memes and early education.
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🎢 From 10x to -90%: The Meme Coin Standard

🚀 Over the past week, multiple micro-cap memecoins saw insane pumps—some hitting 500%+ intraday gains fueled by influencer hype.
📉 But by the next day, many of those same tokens retraced -60% to -90%, leaving late buyers holding the bag.
🐋 On-chain data shows whales consistently using these rallies to exit, while retail traders are left chasing shadows.

👉 Just a reminder: memecoins remain the ultimate volatility casino—sometimes jackpot, sometimes wipeout.
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💸 Machines Got Wallets Now?!

⚡️ Coinbase and Cloudflare just dropped something wild - the x402 protocol, aka “when your robot stops mooching and starts paying rent.”

👉 Instead of websites throwing “Error 402 - Payment Required” at bots, now AI agents can actually pay up on the spot. Think:

🤖 Trading bots tossing coins per data request.

🛒 AI assistants buying your Halloween costume accessories before you even hit checkout.

💾 Crawlers stacking thousands of pages, then getting billed at day’s end like it’s a bar tab.

📊 Fun fact: bots already account for 70% of stablecoin transfers, and the stablecoin market has ballooned from $4B in 2020 to $280B+ today. Basically, the machines are running DeFi behind our backs.
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💶 Europe Says: “We Want Our Own Stablecoin!”

🤣 Forget USDT – nine European banks just decided to cook up their own euro-backed stablecoin, sett to launch in 2026. UniCredit, ING, DekaBank, and friends are basically saying: “We’re tired of asking Tether for lunch money.”

📊 Right now, euro stablecoins = pocket change ($637M). USD stablecoins = swimming pool full of cash ($173B). But experts think euro coins could moon to €1 trillion someday.

⚡️ Translation: Europe’s finally bringing its own coin to the stablecoin party – fashionably late, but dressed in MiCA compliance.
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🚫💴 Fake Yuan Stablecoin? HK Says Nope!

👀 Twitter was buzzing with rumors that Hong Kong secretly dropped the world’s first offshore yuan stablecoin.
🙅 HKMA came in like: “Chill guys, that’s fake news. Nobody’s minting yuan coins here.”
⚖️ New rules = no license, no coin. And spreading hype about phantom coins? That’s now literally illegal.

So yeah, no surprise yuan coin for your bags just yet. But hey – with HK tightening the stablecoin leash, maybe they’re just setting the stage for a CBDC mic drop later.
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💰 Curve DAO drops $60M bag on new Egorov project

🪙 DAO just signed off on $60M in crvUSD for Yield Basis, Egorov’s new shiny toy.
🤔 Some members screamed “risk! tokenomics! what if it gets hacked?!”
🛡 Egorov replied: “Relax, we’ve had 6 audits and a panic button. We’re good.”
🚀 Plan: three Bitcoin pools, no impermanent loss (at least that’s the sales pitch).

😁So yeah… Curve is basically YOLO’ing its own credit line into its founder’s project. What could possibly go wrong?
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🦄 RedotPay just leveled up to unicorn

💳 $47M fresh funding dropped in from Coinbase Ventures + friends.
🌍 Already 5M users and $10B volume – that’s a lot of coffee bought with stables.
📈 CEO flex: “This proves we’re legit.”
🎯 Next target? Global takeover of payouts and wallets.

Basically, they printed a unicorn out of USDC.
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🔥 BNB went to $1,083, then tripped on its own hype

ATH: $1,083 🚀

Now: chilling under $1K at $991 😬

Trading volumes: down bad, -17% spot, -24% futures 📉

Analyst vibes: “Still bullish long-term, but yeah, maybe cool it with the FOMO.”

So BNB basically pulled the classic crypto move: moon, flex, dump, repeat.
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🗣 “Hey Nansen AI, make me rich.”

Nansen just launched an AI sidekick that:

Reads wallets like gossip magazines 📰

Explains your portfolio losses nicely 💔

Will soon trade for you 🤯

Justin Sun already simping: “AI agents are the future of trading.”

Well, yeah, ChatGPT but it also judges your degen wallet history.
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🧨Vitalik just dropped Fusaka: Ethereum’s “Turbo Mode”

Launch: Dec 3 🎯

Tech: PeerDAS = validators don’t read the whole book, just random pages 📖

Effect: Ethereum gets swole, gas fees go on a diet 💪

Right now:

2M ETH waiting to exit = 43-day queue

Revenue down 44% = ETH broke but ambitious 🪙

💁🏼‍♂️Vitalik basically said: “Don’t worry about L2 chaos. Mainnet about to flex with math magic.”

⚡️ETH is like Google — runs boring but profitable stuff in the background, while Fusaka makes it lightning fast.
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USDC Wants a “Refund Button” 🔄

Circle’s like: “What if stablecoins worked like credit cards?” 💳

Fraud? Refund.

Wrong address? Refund.

Bad NFT? Maybe refund 👀

Heath Tarbert admits: instant + irreversible ≠ perfect combo. So Circle might add a “counter-payment” layer to make TradFi comfy.

Crypto purists: “This isn’t blockchain anymore.”
Institutions: “Shut up and take my compliance.”
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📅 October = ETF Season
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is set to decide on 16 crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) applications in October, making it a pivotal month for the industry.
🐕 DOGE Day, SOL Sunday, XRP Wednesday… feels like Wall Street is playing bingo with altcoins.
📅 The marathon starts with the Litecoin ETF on Oct 2 and closes with WisdomTree’s XRP ETF on Oct 24.
💡 Analysts whisper about an incoming altcoin rally, but CT just wants to know which coin will moon first.
🤣 Meanwhile, Fidelity and BlackRock are sitting this round out like “we’ll come to the party later.”
🔍 Stay tuned - October might turn into the weirdest crypto calendar ever.
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Got in before she realized how hot she really was😁🔥
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TZUP: Buyback, Bitcoin, and a Dash of Doge 🐶📈

Thumzup’s like:

Spent $1M buying itself ✔️

Launching $10M more ✔️

HODLing 19 BTC & 7.5M DOGE ✔️

Maybe buying a Dogecoin mining farm ✔️

Oh, and Trump Jr. has 350K shares 😂

Stock went +5.7% because apparently, the market loves companies that pay themselves while stacking DOGE.

Some say it’s “strategy.” Others say it’s “stonks cosplay.” Either way: Web3 advertising has never looked more meme-ready.
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👘➡️🪙 From Kimonos to Bitcoin
A 164-year-old Japanese textile giant, Marusho Hotta, is officially rebranding as Bitcoin Japan Corporation.
💼 After Bakkt bought a controlling stake, the firm decided to turn its falling kimono business into a Bitcoin treasury empire.
⚡️ New CEO from Bakkt is already in place, and the company plans to stockpile BTC while exploring new fintech ventures.
🤣 Imagine telling samurai in 1861: “One day your kimono maker will hoard magic internet money.”
🔍 Another sign that Bitcoin adoption is spreading into even the oldest industries.
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🐱 Hypurr NFT Airdrop Turns Into a Fortune
🎁 Early Hyperliquid users hit the jackpot after the Hypurr NFT drop — free cartoon cat avatars are now worth $68K each on average.
💎 One rare Hypurr with “Knight Ghost Armor” sold for a staggering $467K on Sunday.
📈 In just 24 hours, trading volume exploded past $44M across 4,600 NFTs.
😂 CT can’t stop laughing: free cats are suddenly worth more than annual salaries.
🔍 A reminder that early adoption in crypto can lead to life-changing rewards. DYOR.
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🤝 Pakistan x USA: Crypto Diplomacy Edition
🇵🇰 Pakistan’s “Minister of State for Crypto” met Trump’s crypto advisor at the White House to talk blockchain collabs.
💬 Quote of the day: “A remarkable day for Pakistan in Washington.”
🤣 Translation: two dudes with MetaMask wallets discussing world domination through altcoins.
🌍 Saqib also hinted at a possible UN Crypto Resolution. Imagine diplomats arguing over gas fees at the General Assembly.
🔍 CT reaction: “wen joint US-Pak meme coin launch?”
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🤰🏼Crypto Mom Wants To Talk Tokenization
📢 SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, aka Crypto Mom, told the Digital Assets Summit that tokenization could reshape finance by boosting liquidity, efficiency, and cost savings.
⚖️ Of course, she added the classic line: “compliance first.”
🤣 Translation: You can tokenize Wall Street, just don’t forget to fill out 700 forms.
🌍 Global tokenized assets are already worth $31B, with McKinsey predicting growth to $2T by 2030.
🔍 CT reaction: “Cool, but wen ETF for tokenized memes?”
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🐂 Bullish goes U.S. - now officially BitLicensed! 🇺🇸

Crypto exchange Bullish just made a big splash - launching in 20 U.S. states including New York, California, and Florida 🌴 after securing a BitLicense from NY regulators 🏛.

First day? They kicked off spot trading for institutional clients BitGo and Nonco 💼💰.
Zero maker fees , deep liquidity 🐋, and a bold bet on institutional adoption.

Even with all that hype, Bullish shares dipped 4.4% 📉 - but still up 60% since August.
Slow and steady... like a bull in stealth mode 🐂💨.
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