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A test token created by the BNB Chain team for a tutorial video unexpectedly became the center of a trading frenzy, reaching a market cap of $11.86 million at the press time. The TST token was originally developed for an instructional walkthrough on the Four.Meme platform, a memecoin launchpad on BNB Chain. However, its name was inadvertently revealed in a single frame of the tutorial video, leading traders to pile in, speculating on its potential value. Picks for you Ethereum’s 'most explosive breakout' in the cards as key pattern holds 2 hours ago Donald Trump sends 1,000 ETH to Coinbase hot wallet 2 hours ago Balancer V3 AMM la...

The chief investment officer of the Maelstrom Fund family office and BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes is saying that artificial intelligence (AI) agents and crypto assets are a natural fit. In a Bankless interview, Hayes says that AI memecoins are a “completely new life force” that is entering the cryptocurrency industry. “I think that AI agents will be able to fill all anti-money laundering and know-your-customer forms, so they’re all digitized anyway, right? They can fake an image, they can deepfake s**t, they’ll have big accounts for sure. But again I think … to like [engage in] commerce that’s frictionless, that’s cheap enough for them, crypto makes the most sense. Now, whether they create their own cryptocurrency, I don’t f*****g know but I think this is an interesting way to start. And that’s why I think there’s a lot of hype around these AI meme coins.” According to the Maelstrom Fund CIO, AI agents...

Solana (SOL) co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko believes meme tokens have a role to play in advancing the product-market fit of crypto projects. Yakovenko says on the social media platform X that memecoins offer something unique to the crypto industry. According to the Solana creator, memecoins are getting so much attention from crypto traders that digital asset projects are being forced to deliver something of value in order to stand out. “I think previous cycles were also 90% meme 10% product. My theory is that memecoins today have completely absorbed the meme energy that drove other cycles, like DeFi (decentralized finance) summer. Now each product has to make it purely on value. If that’s the case, it’s a good thing for the industry.”  Yakovenko also offers his counter-argument to investors who believe that meme tokens have no fundamental value. He says the market ultimately decides whether an asset or a product is valuable. “Memecoins and NFTs (...