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Launderers behind the Binance hack are minting throwaway Elon and animal memecoins to move stolen NEAR, Elliptic says
Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic says North Korea-linked launderers routed about $430,000 of NEAR stolen in the $6.4 billion Binance breach through six throwaway memecoins, reusing a laundering trick from the 2025 Bybit hack.
Analyst ties $18.4M in Robinhood Chain memecoin extractions to one rug-pull operation; The Block verifies the mechanics on 10 launches
Onchain analyst Wazz says a single operation drained at least $18.43 million from 53 memecoin launches on Robinhood Chain since July; The Block confirmed the sniping mechanics on 10 of them but did not replicate the total.
Hunter Biden's LAPTOP token craters 99% on day one; team blames "sniper bots"
Hunter Biden's LAPTOP memecoin spiked above $300 and a nominal $110 billion market cap in its first hour before falling more than 99%, with analysts estimating most traders lost money.
The $LAPTOP Meme Coin Fell 99% in Minutes. Pump.fun and Kraken Promoted It First, Then Deleted the Posts
A meme coin trading as $LAPTOP and invoking Hunter Biden's name collapsed roughly 99% within minutes of its launch, after Pump.fun and Kraken promoted then pulled their support and snipers and a market maker cashed out at buyers' expense.
Hunter Biden's LAPTOP token debuts near $1.6B, then falls 98% inside an hour
Hunter Biden's LAPTOP memecoin peaked at $190.81 within two minutes of its Base debut on September 9, then fell about 98% to under $4 inside an hour, with onchain data showing tokens sent to market makers days before trading opened.
A $1 token factory briefly outearned Pump and Hyperliquid on Robinhood's chain
Pons, an independent memecoin launchpad on Robinhood Chain, generated about $5.95 million in fees in 24 hours as roughly 25,000 tokens launched on September 2, according to DefiLlama data cited by CoinDesk.
Robinhood built a chain for tokenized stocks. Two weeks in, memecoins own it
Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum layer-2 launched July 1 to host tokenized stocks, has drawn heavy early traffic driven mostly by memecoins, with real-world assets making up roughly $13 million of activity.
Robinhood Chain posts big week-one numbers — and its first scam-token warnings
Robinhood's crypto GM touted 17M transactions and $250M TVL a week into Robinhood Chain, as Relay Protocol warned of self-deleting scam tokens hitting buyers on the permissionless network.
BonkDAO says $20M in BONK drained via malicious governance proposal
BonkDAO said an attacker pushed through a malicious governance proposal and drained an estimated $20 million in BONK from its treasury, with Upbit halting BONK deposits and withdrawals in response.