Morning Minute | Solana Flips ETH in Volume

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📈 Solana DEX Volume Bests Ethereum

It was a wild weekend in the memecoin streets.

Marked by spaces, surprise phone announcements and major personalities launching tokens.

And Solana was the big winner.

What Happened?

Solana saw more trading volume on DEX's (decentralized exchanges) than Ethereum for 4 days in a row this past week & weekend.

This was highlighted by Solana capturing a whopping 50% of DEX volume on Saturday to the tune of $2.9B (ETH saw $1.85B).

The driver?

Memecoins.

Celebrity and "culture" memecoins to be precise.

After Iggy Azalea's token hit $200M in market cap last week, other big personalities have jumped in.

Andrew Tate launched a few memecoins on Saturday which drove the huge volume spike, with his tokens alone seeing $600M+ in volume.

Then later in the day, Alex Finn (formerly NFT God) hosted a spaces titled "Memecoins" featuring Tate, Donald Trump Jr., Dan Bilzerian, Wall Street Bets and more.

That spaces saw 15k concurrent listeners and 250k+ plays.

Safe to say - memecoins are hot.

And they run on Solana.

Why It Matters

Many believe that memecoins are the NFTs of this cycle and that they're here to stay.

Well, Solana has proven to be the early leader in this sector.

• Celebs are choosing to launch on Solana over other chains.
• Pump dot fun (the leading memecoin launchpad) lives on Solana.
• And now Solana is finally besting ETH in onchain volume.

And if new entrants want to play in the memecoin casino - well they have to buy SOL.

It's bullish for the SOL token, without even factoring in all the other Solana ecosystem developments.

It's also bullish for the Solana memecoin leaders. It's hard to imagine a memecoin cycle that runs on Solana not drive one of its memecoins to top 10 in overall market cap.

Solana is winning - time to pay attention if aren't already.

🚚 What else is happening in NFTs?

Here is the list of other notable headlines from the day in NFTs:

• ETH led NFT trading volume with $9.2M on the day (+120%); BTC was next with $6.5M and then Solana with $2.2M (+13%) 
• ETH NFT leaders were red with BAYC -1% to 11.58 ETH, Pudgy -3% at 9.86, Azuki +1% to 3.92 and Milady -1% to 4.34
• Kaiju Kingz and Sproto Gremlins were notable outperformers on the day
• BTC NFT leaders rebounded on the day; Puppets +16% at 0.17 BTC, NodeMonkes +5% 0.244,  OMB even at 0.27 and Quantum Cats +2% at 0.306
• The Runes board was red to start the week with DOG -3% ($700M mc), RSIC -7% ($190M) and PUPS -7% to $159M
• The Runes Pup token migration deadline passed with 18% of the total supply set to be potentially burned
• Solana NFTs were mixed; Mad Lads -1% at 66 SOL, SMB Gen 2 even at 24, DeGods even at 26
• Blast NFTs were mixed with Apollo +15% and Mystery Box +18% leading 
• Luca Netz teased Season 2 of "Building In Public" coming soon
• Memeland launched Stakeland Air starting with YOLO Games
• Grant Yun partners with US Dept of State to feature his art in Embassies

💰 Token, Airdrop & Protocol Tracker

Here's a rundown of major token or airdrop news from the day:

🌎 Around Crypto and Web3

A few other Crypto and Web3 headlines that caught my eye:

• Crypto majors are mixed this morning; BTC even at $69,370; ETH -0.4% at $3,670, SOL +0.5% at $160
• Memecoin majors are mixed as well with DOGE -1%, PEPE +3%, WIF +2%, BONK -1%; BYTE, NORMIE, KENDU outperform
• BTC ETF inflows are shown to be increasingly delta neutral plays and not simple longs
• Trump branded himself as the "crypto president" at a San Francisco fundraiser
• Alex Finn held a memecoin space on Saturday featuring Donald Trump Jr., Tate, Bilzerian & more
• The GME related tokens all sunk on Friday after the Roaring Kitty stream largely disappointed, then rebounded slightly yesterday after another cryptic tweet
• Iggy Azalea announced a new phone dropping later today, purchaseable with $MOTHER and Sol, and the fact that she runs a Telecom company

🚀 Memecoin Movers 

• $BYTE (+160%, $19M market cap, ETH)
• $BIRDDOG (+90%, $16M market cap, ETH)
• $NORMIE (+50%, $40M market cap, Base)
• $KENDU (+35%, $190M market cap, ETH) 
• $CHOMP (+37%, $66M market cap, Base)

📈 NFT Floor Price Increase (ETH)

• Kart Party (54%, 0.5 ETH Floor)
• Kaiju Kingz (50%, 0.18 ETH)
• bythen chip (42%, 0.63 ETH)
• Sproto Gremlins (19%, 0.91 ETH)
• Topia Worlds (12%, 0.78 ETH)

🗓 Upcoming NFT Mints and Reveals

Today is a slower day of mints and events to start the week.

Timmboslice is the meme card artist and Developer is on deck for Onchain Summer.

The highlight is likely the Fantasy Top next round of tourneys that launch today at 5 pm - the first in this new style.

See the full list and dive in for more details with Swizzy's daily mint monitor. 

• Memes by 6529 (11:00 a.m. ET)
• Developer x Prohibition - Onchain Summer (12:00 p.m. ET)
• RalenArc - Matrix (3:00 p.m. ET)
• Fantasy Top tourney start (5:00 p.m. ET)

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