Web3 Watch: Hippo-themed ‘Moo Deng’ memecoin soars to $255M market cap

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We’ve seen dogs, cats and even frogs on crypto memecoins before, but not a baby.

MOODENG is the latest memecoin with an animal theme to take over crypto. The coin was inspired by viral internet sensation Moo Deng — whose name translates to “bouncy pig” — a two-month-old pygmy hippopotamus in Thailand’s Khao Kheow Open Zoo. 

MOODENG has become the first memecoin to have a 200 million dollar market cap within recent months. 

It was created by pump.fun, a memecoin creator on Solana. The market capitalization is $255 millions and the trading volume in the past 24 hours has been $64,000,000. The coin is now the 22nd biggest memecoin in terms of market capitalization.

The memecoin inspired the creation of memecoins to accompany Moo Deng’s siblings Moo Waan and Moo Toon, as well as her mother Jonah. Moo Deng has an unofficial fan page on Twitter with nearly 50,000 subscribers, as well as token listings at several CEXs such MEXC and HTX.

Arkham Intelligence claims that an $80-purchase of MOODENG made four hours following the launch by a trader has increased to $3.55 million in just 15 days.

Audius launches pay-to-unlock

Audius has announced the official launch of the Web3 music streaming services Audius on Friday, after almost 11 months in private Beta. “pay-to-unlock” All users can benefit from monetization.

Audius users can now pay for music streaming (or directly purchasing songs) using their credit card. The money is converted to USDC and paid out by the artists.

Audius revenue sharing model: 10% of each payment goes to Audius Treasury for Onchain Governance.

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Audius entered licensing agreements with several independent music publishers. Kobalt is one of them.

A fascinating fact:

  • A domain name for the Ethereum Name service, uber.eth, was purchased at a cost of 13 ETH.

Please note that:

  • Polymarket released an App in the App Store.
  • Chiliz Group is the blockchain-based company that created the Socios reward platform, and the L1 Chiliz Chain, which focuses on fan tokens. It has now launched Chiliz Sports as an independent division, to bring sports and blockchain together.
  • Iggy Azalea has announced Motherland – an online gaming and casino platform which will integrate with MOTHER, her memecoin token.
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