3 posts tagged with "liquidity"

The story of the TRUMP, MELANIA, and LIBRA memecoins just got much darker. According to a lawsuit and blockchain analysis, Benjamin Chow, co-founder of Meteora DEX on Solana, has been accused of being the mastermind behind a scheme involving 15 different token scams that generated over $100 million in profits for insiders while retail investors lost billions.

This isn't just another meme coin rug pull-it's a sophisticated technical fraud that exploited the very infrastructure that was supposed to enable decentralized trading.

The launch of the TRUMP memecoin on January 17, 2025, wasn't just another meme token drop. It was a brilliantly executed financial strategy that generated nearly $100 million in trading fees in just two weeks-while small traders collectively lost over $2 billion. Here's how they did it, and why it's a masterclass in value extraction.

Uniswap v4 has arrived, and while adoption is still in its early stages, it's already showing some intriguing behavior for liquidity providers-especially for those running wide-range positions.