Solana ecosystem briefly shut down, is Binance Alpha really Alpha? | What is meme hyping today?
In recent days, the transaction volume of meme on the chain has been relatively low, and the hot spots mainly remain on AI agent related tokens. Last night, the PENGU token was launched on Solana, igniting market sentiment. The highest market value of PENGU at the opening reached 12.6T, and the 24h trading volume reached 1.1B. Subsequently, a large number of related tokens and imitations emerged. Today, Fat Penguin still leads the trading hotspot on the Solana chain. In addition, with the expansion and continuation of the popularity of the AI agent platform, the trading volume of the Base ecosystem and the Hyperliquid ecosystem remains at a high level, and the popularity continues to rise. With the popularity of the Binance Alpha platform, the related concept tokens have experienced price incentives.
SOLANA Ecosystem
In the past 24 hours, the total transaction volume on the Solana chain was 5.425B, and the number of active addresses was 5.67M, both of which remained at a high level. The hot memes on the chain are mainly concentrated on the concepts of PENGU and AI agent. Among them, PENGU's 24-hour transaction volume is as high as 1.1B, accounting for 20% of the entire solana ecological transaction volume. At the same time, the popular trading currencies include UFD, which symbolizes the recognition of cryptocurrency, ARC, an AI agent development platform, and RIF, which has risen and fallen sharply due to the Biance alpha spotlight projects oolong incident.

PENGU
PENGU is the official token of the Pudgy Penguins NFT series, which collects 8,888 unique cute penguin cartoons. Pudgy Penguins is one of the largest NFT collections on the Ethereum blockchain. Although it is not the first large NFT project to issue a native token, it has withstood the NFT winter and has become the second largest NFT project by market capitalization, second only to CryptoPunks. With its strong global community, and its enduring and lovable characters, which have been made into toys, the Pudgy Penguins brand has been launched into the wider world outside the crypto space.
PENGU was first launched on Solana at 21:00 on December 17th, and was listed on Binance and OKX an hour later (22:00), aiming to expand its community and further expand the influence of Pudgy Penguins. According to the official release announcement of Pudgy Penguins, the total supply of PENGU is 88,888,888,888. These tokens will be minted on the Solana blockchain at the time of the Token Generation Event (TGE).
PENGU attracted great attention after its launch, with a peak market value of 12.6T at the opening, but subsequently showed a trend of opening high and closing low, falling rapidly to 11B within 5 minutes, and its current market value has dropped to around 3B.

Highest market value: 12.6T
Current market value: 2.5B
24h trading volume: 1.1B
Today 12AM (GMT+8) buy the highest profit: 1.74%; current profit -7.14%

UFD
The issuer of UFD is 54 years old and was born in the baby boom generation. He has always believed that silver and gold are the real form of currency, and has been updating videos about gold, silver and other precious metals on his YouTube channel for a long time. After knowing that Fartcoin's market value reached 500 million, he decided to create his own memecoin "Unicorn Fart Dust" (UFD). If this meme coin can become popular, he will change his prejudice against cryptocurrency.
UFD is a symbol of a cryptocurrency being gradually recognized by traditional asset investors, and a symbol of the crypto spirit breaking through the circle again. Once released, it attracted widespread attention, reaching 30M within 3 hours, and after a slight correction, it reached a new high of 40M, standing out among the "PENGU craze".

Highest market value: 45.1M
Current market value: 33.6M
24h trading volume: 94.6M
Today 12AM (GMT+8) buy the highest profit: 111.74%; current profit 57.75%

ARC
The ARC team has built a platform that promotes the development of AI agents through a modular and lightweight Rust framework (called RIG), as a tool for the AI field, suitable for AI applications that require high optimization and high performance.
RIG is well-known in the Web2 field and has attracted a lot of attention from developers with its efficient performance and robust design. Currently, the framework has received 260 stars on GitHub, showing good community recognition. ARC has brought new possibilities to the LLM technology ecosystem, promoted the application and development of the Rust language in the field of large models, and has strong technical endorsement.
ARC has started to pull back since hitting a peak of 161M on the 16th, and is currently fluctuating at the 100M level.

Highest market value: 161M
Current market value: 101.6M
24h trading volume: 30.3M
Today's 12AM (GMT+8) highest profit: 7.87%; current profit -26%

RIF
After Binance labs announced its investment in BIO Protocol to ignite the new concept of DeSci, Rif, as the leader of the Desci concept, has generated a thousand-fold wealth effect. As the Desci concept gradually cooled down, the trend of Rif also gradually became flat. However, the Binance alpha spotlight projects blunder on December 18th caused Rif's market value to experience ups and downs. Rif was on the list of 5 alphas released by the TG group announced under Binance's official Twitter account. As soon as the news came out, the 5 currencies on the list rose rapidly, but then the list was deleted. Binance said that the TG group was not an official group, and Rif's market value fell accordingly.
Highest market value: 272.6M
Current market value: 59.4M
24h trading volume: 27.4M
The highest profit of buying at 12AM (GMT+8) today: 77.32%; current profit 28.29%

Base ecology
In the past 24 hours, the total transaction volume on the Base chain was 1.817B, with a total of 1.21M active addresses, including 8335 new addresses. The popularity of the Base ecological chain continues to rise.

Clanker
Clanker is a social meme issuance platform that simplifies the operation process. Users only need to initiate a simple request on Farcaster to easily complete the deployment and distribution of tokens, which greatly reduces the technical threshold and allows anyone to participate in the creation and dissemination of Meme tokens. Currently, Clanker has created multiple Meme tokens with a market value of over 10 million US dollars. The token $Clanker is the first meme coin issued by the platform.
At around 14:30 this afternoon, according to the countdown on the Binance Alpha page, the first batch of 5 projects will be announced at 18:00 Beijing time on December 18, and a notification will be sent 10 minutes before the launch. These will include 3 BNB Chain ecosystem projects, 1 Solana ecosystem project, and 1 Base ecosystem project. Clanker, as a top-level project on the Base chain, has become a hot topic predicted by netizens, and its market value has risen sharply due to this.
Highest market value: 143.62M
Current market value: 64.66M
24h trading volume: 2.5M
Today's 12AM (GMT+8) highest profit: 36.17%; current profit 34.43%

AIXBT
Aixbt is one of the intelligent entities created by Virtuals based on the Base platform. It monitors Crypto Twitter and market trends through intelligent analysis tools to provide users with valuable market insights. Its rising logic is consistent with CLANKER, both of which are pulled up by the expectation of being selected into Binance Alpha, and finally AIXBT was selected into the first batch of lists.
Highest market value: 3.7B
Current market value: 272.4M
24h trading volume: 11.6M
Today 12AM (GMT+8) buy the highest profit: 30.76%; current profit 17.52%

Hyperliquid Ecosystem
In the past 24 hours, the total transaction volume of hyperliquid was 567.67M, which still maintained a high level of popularity. Among the mainstream tokens of the Hyperliquid ecosystem, HYPE, HFUN and PURR have all experienced a certain degree of pullback, and the trading volume remains at a high level.
HYPE
Highest market value: 9.67B
Current market value: 8.47B
24h trading volume: 412.9M
Today's 12AM (GMT+8) buy-in highest profit: 0.1%; current profit -2.31%

PURR
Highest market value: 413.03M
Current market value: 294.15M
24h trading volume: 47.7M
Today’s 12AM (GMT+8) purchase has the highest profit: 2.99%; current profit 0.82%

HFUN
Highest market value: 299.15M
Current market value: 230.31M
24h trading volume: 22.6M
Today’s 12AM (GMT+8) purchase has the highest profit: 5.62%; current profit 1.91%

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