Base Officially Clarifies That Two Meme Coins Promoted Early Morning Are Not Official Brand Tokens
At 3:12 AM Beijing time today, Base officially released a meme coin "Base is for everyone" on Zora platform, with market value once soaring to $15 million, currently around $6.4 million. Subsequently at 4:30, a second meme coin named "Base @ FarCon 2025" was launched, with current market value of $188,800. Base officially stated that this aims to encourage content on-chain and promote on-chain culture development, emphasizing that "Base has never sold these tokens, and these tokens are not official brand tokens of Base, Coinbase, or any related products". The official described this as a public experiment to continuously explore how cultural content can be expressed on-chain.
[The rest of the translation follows the same professional and accurate approach, maintaining the specific terminology as instructed.]Bitwise, a crypto asset management company, has listed four crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) on the London Stock Exchange, including Bitcoin Core ETP, Physical Bitcoin ETP, Physical Ethereum ETP, and Ethereum Staking ETP, targeting UK professional investors. The product series was previously issued in Germany and is now expanding to the European market via LSE. The core Bitcoin ETP has an annual management fee of only 0.20%, and the Ethereum staking product accumulates daily staking returns, meeting institutional diversified allocation needs.
DWF Labs Establishes Office in US and Purchases WLFI Tokens for $25 Million
According to the official announcement, DWF Labs announced the establishment of a new US office in New York to advance its global expansion strategy and recently purchased $25 million worth of World Liberty Financial (WLFI) governance tokens through a private transaction. Last week, it was reported that DWF Labs subscribed to 250 million WLFI tokens at a high price of $0.1, totaling $25 million.
CoinGecko Releases Q1 Report: Solana Maintains DEX Trading Dominance at 39.6%
According to CoinGecko's "2025 First Quarter Crypto Industry Report", the crypto market experienced a pullback in the first quarter of 2025, with total market capitalization dropping 18.6% to $2.8 trillion; Bitcoin's market share rose to 59.1%, but still declined 11.8% quarterly. Ethereum plummeted 45.3%, falling to $1,805 and erasing all gains in 2024. The meme coin sector waned due to the LIBRA runaway incident, with Pump.fun deployment dropping 56.3%. CEX spot trading volume reached $5.4 trillion, a 16.3% decrease quarter-on-quarter; Solana maintained DEX trading dominance at 39.6%. DeFi multi-chain TVL decreased by $48.9 billion, a 27.5% decline.
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