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FOMO's Cofounder Celebrates Record Revenue While Most Users Are Reportedly In Loss
There's a specific kind of tone-deaf moment that happens when a company like FOMO posts about hitting a milestone, and the replies underneath tell a completely different story than the one being celebrated. That's exactly what's playing out right now. The app just beat Pump.fun to become Solana's top revenue-generating protocol over a 24-hour stretch, and it…
ZachXBT Called Hardware Wallets "Garbage", Trezor Just Proved He Was Being Too Generous
Back in July, when ZachXBT called every hardware wallet on the market "complete garbage," the crypto community pushed back hard. Fast forward to September, and Trezor just quietly confirmed that a breach it originally described as affecting roughly 13,700 people actually touches more than 80,000, with some of the exposed records nearly seven years old. I don…
The NordVPN Dark Web Alert Everyone Mistook For a Hack
NordVPN login alerts, password reset warnings, and people swearing they'd just been hacked turned my timeline into a wall of panic within the space of an hour. The common thread running through nearly every one of those posts was the same three words: NordVPN Dark Web Monitor. I'll admit, my first reaction scrolling through it was the same one everyone else…
5 Places To Search For New Crypto Tokens To Buy In 2026
If you've spent any time in crypto, you already know the frustrating truth: by the time a token is trending on social media, the easy money is usually gone. The people who made 10x, 50x, or more weren't guessing, they found the project early, did their research, and got in before the crowd.The good news is that 2026 is actually a great time to be an early-st…
HEMI Just Jumped 29% in a Day After a String of August Announcements
Most sub-cent tokens, including HEMI, which was co-founded by a former Bitcoin Core developer, don't have a nine-figure TVL number sitting on their own homepage and a chart that just went vertical on the same week the team published a root-cause fix for a bug that had been dogging the network since June. The timing of what's landed on its own blog over the l…
The Quiet Concentration Reshaping Euro Stablecoins
I keep coming back to the euro stablecoin sector because it's one of the few corners of crypto where the numbers are still small enough to read like a story rather than a blur of zeros. This week's euro stablecoin data is a good example.Out of the ten largest euro-pegged tokens on the market, almost all of the fresh money that came in over the past seven day…