🌶️ SpicyBlock is back. Hope for a long time!

Time flies too quickly, really. This year in crypto feels like 10 years in a normie’s life. But we hope SpicyBlock is back for good and will not disappear for another few months or more. With this optimistic and bullish mood, let’s see what has happened on the first day of autumn, which currently, sadly, looks quite bearish or at least uncertain.

Here is what you’ll find in today’s edition:

• Trump’s family launches a new token (again)

• Linea TGE soon?

• The Binance Chain user was scammed for $13.5 million

• Fear & greed index shows “fear” after a while

• and more…

📰 Crypto & Finance News

• World Liberty Financial ($WLFI) launched yesterday with an initial FDV of $36 billion. The token is officially backed by Donald J. Trump. 24.6 billion $WLFI tokens were unlocked.
  
  World Liberty Financial proposed using all protocol fees to buy back and burn $WLFI tokens to reduce supply and support prices, after WLFI fell 30% following a major token unlock.

• Avalanche and Toyota to cooperate on creating support for autonomous robotaxi fleets and mobility services.

• Trump holds a press conference after being out of sight for a few days. Speculations and rumors about his death or a harsh medical condition were refuted.

🪂 Airdrops & Opportunities

• Binance lists Linea/USDT perpetual contract, hinting that the Linea TGE is imminent.

• 10 airdrops you supposedly should farm by a fellow Pudgy Penguin - Ignas DeFi.

• Monad cards Wave 2 is live. Check if you are eligible for it.

• Join Watchoor waitlist. No wallet connection required.

🤡 Degen Section

• Pump Fun presents Dynamic Fees V1 and faster CTO Creator Fee applications processing.

• California Governor Gavin Newsom to launch a memecoin just to troll Donald Trump. The coin could be called “Trump Corruption Coin” according to the governor on Pivot last Friday.

🔒 Security

• Recap of the top 10 hacks and exploits of the 2025 summer, led by Nobitex, that lost $82 million during a hot wallet hack.

• A family in Oslo, Norway, was attacked by a gang of robbers who demanded cryptocurrencies. Presumably, they were ordered by someone who was familiar with the family.

• A Binance Smart Chain user lost $13.5 million in a phishing scam. Recovery efforts are ongoing. Security experts say Venus Protocol was not hacked; the victim's wallet was compromised by scammers linked to North Korea.

🦁 Alpha & Insights

• Fear & Greed index is back to “Fear”. Often, it means that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are undervalued.

• Bitcoin’s price is being held back by two large holders selling, according to David Bailey. Clearing these sales could push Bitcoin to $150,000, with some analysts predicting even higher prices by year-end.

• Remora launches tokenized stock trading on Solana. Users can trade Nvidia, Tesla, Circle, and so on.

• Jito launches its app for the Solana Mobile Seeker phone. It directly connects to the native Seed Vault Wallet.

📈 Other Metrics & Numbers

• Solo miner hits a jackpot by mining $370,000 worth of Bitcoin. It’s a one in a million chance.

• Prediction market protocol Myriad surpassed $10M in USDC trading volume and 500,000 users, aiming to make information tradable and prediction markets a major DeFi segment.

• Strategy purchased 4,048 Bitcoin for $449.3 million last week, bringing its August total to 7,714 BTC. The company’s Bitcoin buying pace slowed.

• Pudgy Party has been downloaded more than 250,000 times.

😶‍🌫️ To Cheer You Up

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