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Rapper Kanye West introduced the meme token YZY on Solana, which immediately caused a rapid price rise reaching a $3 billion market capitalization within the first 40 minutes, followed by a roll-back to around $1–1.3 billion. Since launch, daily trading volume exceeded $386 million to $512 million, with the top 6 addresses controlling over 90% of the supply, raising suspicions of insider selling. The platform introduced an “anti-sniper” mechanism with 25 contracts, one of which was randomly selected, but on-chain analysts show insiders still accessed the correct address. Risks and Outlook 1. Insider selling and pump-and-dump risk. 2. Regulatory uncertainty: centralized contract control allows changes to key parameters and supply. 3. Lack of real ecosystem: without integration into payment systems and partnerships, price will depend solely on hype.
The meme coin market suffered the most: PEPE, SPX6900 and Fartcoin fell more than 10%. The sector’s overall decline was 8.62% in 24 hours. Over 216,000 traders were liquidated.
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Bitcoin plunges below $67,000 amid intensified crypto market sell-off Bitcoin has dropped to its lowest level in over 14 months as heavy outflows from institutional ETFs and growing macroeconomic uncertainty triggered a broad cryptocurrency sell-off. Deutsche Bank analysts reported that U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $3 billion in outflows this January, following $9 billion withdrawn over the previous two months. Ethereum slid below $2,000, while Solana hit a two-year low, dragging the total cryptocurrency market capitalization down by roughly $2 trillion.