memecoins
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Robinhood Chain Daily Transactions Fall From 10.8m to 6.2m
Daily activity on Robinhood Chain has dropped more than 40 percent since mid-September as memecoin trading cooled, CoinDesk reported, even as Robinhood continues to cover network fees on customer swaps.

Robinhood Chain Memecoin Volume Peaked at $443m a Day, Then Fell 96 Percent
Crypto Briefing reports that daily memecoin trading on Robinhood Chain reached $443m before collapsing by 96 percent. The chain's overall figures tell a steadier story: total value locked set a record of $1.05bn today.

California Makes It Illegal for Its Own Officials to Launch a Memecoin
Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2409 as part of an anti-corruption package. It bars public officials from issuing memecoins and restricts crypto firms from offering officials' tokens to Californians, for tokens issued from 1 January 2027.

Ten Pons V2 Launches Shared One Trick: Wallets Exempted From the Anti-Sniping Tax
An onchain analyst has tied $18.4m of extracted value on Robinhood Chain to a single operation that used Pons' own anti-sniping tax as a filter, according to The Block.
The Robinhood Chain memecoin fell from $0.090 to $0.0032 on Thursday afternoon when 799 addresses sold 24 percent of the supply in 75 minutes with nothing in the way. Take the same token, the same sellers and the same afternoon, and launch it through Mosh instead: 71 percent of the supply sits in a vault nobody can sell from, the sellers would have needed 83 percent of the float, and the only large holder is a capped market maker.
A chain publishes its transfers one at a time. The Hoods, a live map presented by UGLY, draws them all at once: 3.28 million transfers between 60,263 addresses in six hours, each coin's crowd in its own neighbourhood, with the newest trades running across the screen as they land. What it shows, where the figures come from, and what a community can do with it.

On Robinhood Chain, a Healthcare Stock Is Now a Trading Pair for a Memecoin
Traders on Robinhood Chain are pairing memecoins directly against tokenized equities rather than against stablecoins, Cointelegraph reports, building a corner of DeFi where the quote asset is a share.

Pump.fun Now Lets You Price a New Coin in Tesla, and 93 Pairs Are Live
The launchpad opened quote assets beyond SOL and USDC on Wednesday, including tokenized Nvidia, Tesla and the S&P 500. Half the revenue from the new pairs is routed to a buyback-and-burn contract.

Traders Are Pairing Memecoins Against Tokenized Shares, and the Pools Are Swallowing the Float
A token called BONER ended up holding half the tokenized Hims & Hers shares in existence on Robinhood Chain. The pattern has spread, and it turns thin equity floats into memecoin liquidity.

The Token That Moved a Nasdaq Stock Was Never a Stock Token
FAMI, the asset traded against the Money Mushroom memecoin on Robinhood Chain, was minted in one transaction with a supply close to Farmmi's entire share count. Farmmi's Nasdaq listing then traded roughly 90 times its usual volume.

Memecoins Bought on a Credit Card, Coded as Digital Media
Test purchases through Robinhood Wallet and Fomo were classified as digital media rather than crypto, which earned card points on transactions the networks restrict.

A Memecoin Pool Holds Half the Tokenized Hims & Hers Shares in Existence
The BONER/HIMS pool on Robinhood Chain holds 31,198 of the 58,714 tokenized Hims & Hers shares that exist, and with the NYSE shut the token printed $132.64 against a $28.84 Friday close.

Robinhood Chain Out-Earned Ethereum on Fees, and Almost None of It Came From Stocks
The two-month-old layer 2 recorded 5.52 million transactions and $2.66m of revenue on 30 August, with memecoin trading tools taking most of it. TVL is at a record $726.4m and daily DEX volume at $1.40bn.

Pons Sets an All-Time High and a $270m Market Value, Forty-Eight Days After Its First Pool
PONS reached $0.397065 at 19:36 UTC and is worth $270m, which puts a token with no product and seven weeks of history 140th by market value on CoinGecko's list. It is up 80 percent on the day and 625 percent on the week.

Ninety-Eight Per Cent of the Tokens Born on Robinhood Chain Are Dead Within a Fortnight
The chain has made 360,648 tokens in 59 days, about 6,100 a day. Of those more than a week old, 1.55 percent traded yesterday: about one in sixty-five. Half of everything born here stops trading before it is twelve hours old.

A Death Notice Became a Token Launch Within Hours, and Then a Rug Pull
A cluster of memecoins referencing Dolly Parton appeared after news of her death, with buyers hit by rug pulls, according to Crypto Briefing. The playbook is now fast enough to be automated.

Two Memecoins Traded 92% of the Volume of All 196 Tokenized Stocks on Robinhood Chain
Robinhood Chain lists 196 tokenized equities. 148 of them did not trade at all in 24 hours. Two memecoins on the same chain traded 92 percent of the volume of the entire tokenized stock market, and one of them out-traded NVDA by 1.8 times.

The Animal Trade Reaches Robinhood Chain
Cash Cat, a memecoin on Robinhood's Layer 2, rose more than 50% in a day as a broader rally pulled money into small animal-themed tokens, some of which doubled over the week.

A Denied Token Rumour Came Wrapped in an Unverified Robinhood Chain Wallet Claim
Eric Trump said no new coin is launching. The rumour that moved TRUMP 38% had leaned on an unconfirmed claim about a 290 ETH wallet on Robinhood Chain.