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From Meme to Mainstream: Why This Week Could Redefine Crypto
Tracey Plowman
August 06, 2025
This Week in Crypto
🔥 This week’s episode of Crypto Curious is anything but boring.
👉🏼 First up, Kraken is making waves, planning a monster $500 million raise at a jaw-dropping $15 billion valuation. That’s right, the OG crypto exchange is gearing up for something big. 👀
👉🏼 Then… hold onto your private keys. The SEC just dropped "Project Crypto", a bold new plan to drag U.S. markets on-chain. Is this the beginning of Wall Street 2.0 or just another power move from the suits in Washington?
👉🏼 And that’s just the start! We’ve got a stack of short, sharp news bites lined up to keep you in the loop and ahead of the curve.
Let’s get into it 🚀For the video lovers ❤️our YouTube is here.
Markets at a glance.
X marks the spot.
Good articles.
After failing to retrieve a hard drive with 8,000 BTC, James Howells is turning the lost coins into the basis of a new DeFi project.
The Bitcoin miner started stacking ETH just 35 days ago.
US President Donald Trump is moving ahead with a plan to target banks that cut off customers over politics or crypto. His team is expected to issue an executive order within days.
Things you didn’t know (or did you?).
Meme coins. Is the joke on us?
Meme coins are cryptocurrencies that have been produced as a lighthearted joke. Nevertheless, some meme coins have ballooned in value, gained multibillion-dollar market caps and garnered celebrity endorsements.
While these characteristics suggest that meme coins offer some underlying utility or value, the truth is that nearly all of them lack anything like fundamental value or unique use cases.
Instead, crypto investors often buy meme coins to be part of a community or for entertainment value. The sole use case for most meme coins is pure speculation.
But now we have plush meme toys - and suddenly, we are not only buying meme coins digitally but now physically too? Meet Ponke, a Solana meme coin with a viral social media following, that is set to release a plush toy with a blunt to match (at US $69 a pop!).
The adult toy will feature an NFC chip that grants rewards and validates proof of ownership, a removable helmet, a magnetic blunt, and magnets in its hands and feet.
It begs the question…which meme will come next?
In Other Crypto News!
Press play.
SBF Loves Coldplay? Crypto and AI Leaders' Spotify Playlists Leaked.
Brian Armstrong, Sam Bankman-Fried, Sam Altman, and many other tech leaders have had their Spotify accounts leaked.
