Selected week丨China-US tariff war eases, crypto market rebounds; AI track leads the way, Meme launch platform war begins
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05/17/2025·26DPANews Editor's Note: PANews has selected high-quality content for a week to help everyone use weekend time to check for omissions and fill in the gaps. Click on the title to read.
Meme launch platform war
On May 14, a striking showdown was staged in the MEME market. The MEME coin named Glonk was launched on two major Launchpad platforms, Pump.fun and Letsbonk.fun. The founders of the two platforms personally took the stage to build momentum. This traffic battle not only quickly ignited market enthusiasm, but also revealed the increasingly fierce competition trend of MEME issuing platforms.
Believe is experiencing a backlash in traffic. With the sharp pull-up of the platform currency LAUNCHCOIN, the successive appearance of the 10 million speed-through market and the appeal of a number of Web2 entrepreneurs, Believe once seized the C position of the topic in the recent Launchpad melee and became the focus of traffic. However, behind the excitement, with the gradual emergence of problems such as high pumping on the platform, frequent "scrapers" and the lack of sustainable narratives, the community's FUD sentiment has rapidly heated up.
The number of Pump.fun graduation tokens has been overtaken by LaunchLab. Can the Meme release track be reshuffled?
The traffic battle begins, taking you to deeply dismantle the 5 hit Memecoin launch trenches
Nowadays, there are so many Meme coins launch platforms and so complex models. Let’s take a look at how we disassemble each advantage and disadvantage, and get started quickly.
The initial project Aster (AST) is a decentralized perpetual contract trading agreement and has received investment from YZi Labs.
Macro perspective
In recent days, Ethereum has strongly pulled out a big positive line, causing the morale of the "E Guard" to rise sharply, and the market's bullish sentiment has quickly heated up. This strong pull-up not only brought about a comprehensive recovery of the Ethereum ecosystem, but also further heated up the market's expectations for the pledge function of Ethereum spot ETFs, especially related pledge projects have become a hot spot for capital pursuit.
On May 13, the market value of stablecoins reached US$242.821 billion, and Tether's USDT market value exceeded US$150 billion for the first time, accounting for 62%. In recent months, there have been continuous trends about stablecoins in the crypto market. In this article, PANews compiled the development trends of stablecoins for major technology and financial companies, bringing a panoramic observation to the track.
At a time when the global asset tokenization wave is sweeping, Hong Kong is becoming a key test site for on-chain asset layout. According to PANews, many domestic companies holding physical assets have also heard about it, seeking to put their assets on the chain and carry out tokenized financing. The most common compliance solution is to confirm the rights of domestic assets on the alliance chain, then set up a main controlling domestic assets in Hong Kong, and then issue coins to finance. Currently, Hong Kong's RWA industry is still crossing the river by feeling the stones.
Coinbase's latest monthly outlook: Global monetary system shifts, Bitcoin begins to perform on stage
Against the backdrop of the accelerated trend of de-dollarization, Bitcoin is gradually becoming a global alternative asset with sovereign neutrality and stored value functions.
SEC Chairman Paul Atkins called for a comprehensive modernization of the U.S. Crypto asset policy and outlined a three-part strategy for issuance, custody and transaction regulation reforms.
From Meme Coin to CSGO skin: Speculation never sleeps
The market that is hyped is fragile. How will these skins that look like NFTs and fall as fierce as Meme coins attract its followers and what will they bring?
Kidnappings occurred in 22 months, and crypto-wealth caused"killing intention"
The violent wave of kidnapping, coercion and coin demand may be more serious than we imagined.
AI and Meme
Virtuals has the strongest speed and popularity maintenance. Although CreatorBid executes slowly, its vision is clear and focuses on the Bittensor intelligent agent ecosystem, and its long-term potential is promising.
The Virtual Geneses points model is an over-subscription model that determines the investment ratio based on the proportion of points. The proportion of tokens that can be obtained is based on the ratio of the invested points/total points. The upper limit of the investment of a single wallet is 566 $Virtual tokens.
From a practical perspective, cryptocurrency enables us to achieve the atomicity of payments through service proof, which means that all work must be verified and completed before AI agents can be paid.
L2 is powerless to turn things around? Looking at future development from Metis' AI strategy
Recently, Metis released the strategic roadmap of All in AI. Can this alternative choice break the current dilemma of layer2?
PANews' account [MEME Daily] will select daily hot Memes for readers to understand the track situation. Click here to view.
Capture the first opportunity
Most people are still underestimating Solana, isn’t that a good thing?
Alpha opportunities are still there, and we will sort out DePIN 's investment logic from scratch
This article attempts to sort out the investment logic of DePIN from scratch, including why DePIN is an investment track worthy of our attention, and propose a simple analysis framework.
Viewpoint: Why is FRAX the best investment target for stablecoin narrative?
Frax has evolved into a full-stack monetary system built around regulatory clarity, institutional collaboration and vertical integration.
What 's happening with Web3
Binance Alpha points intensify, but the truth is not really good
Under this seemingly winner-takes-all feast, one view believes that its huge traffic is "overflowing" to other ecology such as Sui and Solana, injecting vitality into it. However, what is the real situation of this spillover? What kind of profound impact will this "hair-pumping" carnival ignited by Binance Alpha eventually bring to the industry?
Can the Adventure Island Chain Game NXPC be launched with strong support to drive GameFi to recover?
The chain game industry is back, and it is revived by the Koreans?
Bitcoin ecosystem is gradually recovering, and a new round of "protocol war" is about to begin
The Bitcoin ecosystem has officially entered the 2.0 era from 1.0, and the agreement has also entered the DeFi era from Token issuance. The three major narratives of the Bitcoin 2.0 ecosystem: OP_CAT, BRC2.0, and Runes2.0 are eager to try, and they have all entered the infrastructure period. The exciting drama of the Bitcoin ecosystem has kicked off.
In this round, the DePIN concept emerged, once again setting off a narrative climax in the Web3 circle. However, when we look at the actual implementation and economic model of these projects, we find that in the current DePIN market, more than 60% of the equipment suppliers are from Shenzhen Huaqiangbei, and these equipment prices are often 30-50 times the wholesale price of Huaqiangbei, and almost all hardware investors have lost all their money.
The top ten truths under the RWA demonic wind: Who is waving the sickle, who is harvesting leeks?
From the blockchain circle to the financial circle, from self-media to investment groups, it seems that RWA has become synonymous with financial freedom overnight.
"There are people in the court who are easy to do things", this sentence is particularly applicable to the Trump family's crypto projects. According to incomplete statistics, the stablecoin USD1 has rapidly expanded and integrated more than 10 protocols or applications. Binance's $2 billion financing from MGX is also paid through USD1.
Key information
China will suspend the 24% tariff on U.S. goods for 90 days, retaining the remaining 10% tariff
Guangzhou Nansha will build a platform for integrating blockchain and digital assets
