It seems markets missed the vacation memo this year, because the bull is back, and charts are raging. Bitcoin has once again broken ATHs, and this time Alts are included in the conversation, with notable pumps on pretty much all fronts.

It's raining new launches too; Pumpfun's ICO, Base's revamp, $MET airdrop, Hylo, FantasyTop... Once again crypto reminds us there really is no time to take die. Let's jump into it then!

Pump it: PumpFun's ICO

As you all know, Pump.fun's rise to fame and becoming Solana's very own memecoin factory happened in early 2024. Last month, they announced long-anticipated native token: $PUMP.

The $PUMP ICO kicked off July 12, 2025, with huge success, raising $500 million in just 12 minutes, selling a whopping 150 billion tokens at $0.004 each, cementing the platform’s valuation close to $4 billion on paper.

The airdrop came in clutch for Pump.fun, as they have been slowly losing marketshare to newer, flashier launchpad such as Bonk Launchpad. The tokenomics is nothing crazy, with a decent chunk allocated to a potential airdrop

Speaking of airdrop? Well it's nowhere to be seen. The launch might have been rushed as a way to capitalize on BTC's pump and favorable market conditions, but at the time of writing, $PUMP has been live for a week, and the airdrop hasn't been mentioned by the team yet.

Airdrop or not though, is $PUMP a good buy? Well, some data would suggest so.

Since November of last year, Pump.fun's revenue has been nothing short of astronomical, with them consistently bringing in over $2M a day, and up to $7M in January.

This brings their annualized revenue to $600M per year, which for perspective, is only 30% away from what Hyperliquid has been bringing in, while $HYPE trades at over 10x $PUMP's FDV.

This revenue will prove to be extremely important as buybacks step in. For instance, in $PUMP's first week alone, pump.fun bought back over $30M worth of tokens through their treasury wallets.

And this is coming from a company who raised tens of millions in their infancy, made $600M last year, and raised $500M last week. These guys are absolutely loaded right now, and that money (Besides being spent on yachts and mansions) will be spent to expand the protocol.

$PUMP might not go to the moon now, hell it might just go to 0, but from a fundamental point of view; it makes sense. It will be interesting to see how $PUMP develops. We might see a nice dip when the airdrop comes around but who knows.

But until then, as Alon (The CEO by the way) proudly said:

Stay Based: Base Chain's Latest Revamp

Coinbase’s Base just hit refresh with a full-fledged rebrand to Basechain, and it’s not just a name change; it’s a full-on ecosystem glow-up.

At the “A New Day One” event, the team dismantled the old setup and stitched together a cohesive three-layer architecture: Basechain ( The main network), Base Build (The dev toolkit), and Base App (For the consumer experience)

One of the highlights of the upgrade is Flashblocks; slashing Ethereum Layer‑2 block times from the usual ~2 seconds down to 200 milliseconds. That’s a tenfold speed boost, designed to support everything from rapid trading to social feeds and even AI-powered mini‑apps for the consumer side.

Coinbase Wallet also saw a facelift into the Base App, which aims to be crypto's “everything app.” Now it boasts social networking, in-feed NFT/tip minting through Zora, encrypted chats, mini‑apps, and trading, all unified on a sleek interface.

Coinbase also announced the launch of Base Pay, which will be Base's USDC payment method including partnerships with retail industry titans such as Stripe and Shopify.

The market’s reaction? Coinbase’s stock surged ~56%, riding on excitement over the speed improvements and new consumer‑facing features

Overall a huge facelift which is clearly designed to appeal to the masses, and onboard the next wave of retail to crypto. Not everything is live just yet, but definitely get on the waitlist to be one of the first to try the new features out.

The onboarding page's moto literally reads "It Pays To Be Here", so safe to say, beta users might see some $BASE tokens hit their accounts down the line. Register here, it's free.

Decentralization Is Key: Hylo

I'll be honest, Solana hackathon's winner: Hylo is one of Solana’s most intriguing new projects.

Essentially, Hylo is building a decentralized stablecoin and leverage ecosystem on Solana, anchored by two main products: hyUSD, a synthetic USD-pegged stablecoin backed by liquid-staked SOL (like JitoSOL), and xSOL, a non-liquidatable leveraged SOL token that offers 2–4× exposure without margin calls or funding fees

Technologically, Hylo stands out by plugging into Solana’s liquid staking ecosystem. hyUSD leverages protocol-native yields, while xSOL uses algorithmic balance mechanisms to safeguard users from liquidation cascades

The yield comes from 2 main sources: Protocol fees when users leverage their $SOL with $xSOL, and native yield that comes from Solana's emissions.

All pools are of course over collateralized to avoid any systemic risks should we see huge market drawdowns.

Hylo just launched their 4th private testing phase with incentives and of course, a point system.

It's worth noting that Hylo; while being in theory very safe, can still be subject to malfunctions and exploits. The product is extremely new, and only has about 3000 users with $2M in TVL.

However, if all goes to plan, using their products to trade can be very rewarding and might net us a juicy airdrop at the end of the day. We are very early.

If you would like to be a part of this, you can use code "8IUO3Z" here to join.

Hylo is still in it's infancy stage, but it pays to be early. Only allocate money you can risk, and enjoy stacking rewards.

[All topics are meant to be educational only. None of it is financial advice, please do your own research.]