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According to DefiLlama data, amid the meme token hype, Robinhood Chain generated $2.61 million in protocol revenue yesterday, with a 7-day total of $22.45 million. As an Ethereum Layer 2 (L2) built on Arbitrum Orbit, Robinhood Chain is required to allocate 10% of its net protocol revenue to the Arbitrum ecosystem. Over the past seven days, Arbitrum, which provides the underlying tech stack, has received around $2.48 million, split between its DAO and developer fund. Meanwhile, Uniswap, a decentralized exchange (DEX) on Robinhood, brought in $609,234 in protocol revenue yesterday, with a 7-day total of $3.36 million. Notably, Ethereum mainnet, as the settlement layer, saw negligible revenue: per growthepie data, Robinhood Chain paid just $1,270 in settlement fees to Ethereum mainnet yesterday, totaling $3,550 over the past seven days. This has sparked widespread debate in the crypto community. Prominent DeFi researcher Ignas pointed out that this structure—where platforms rake in massive profits while the settlement layer receives almost nothing—raises questions about whether this poses a problem for Ethereum. He noted that Ethereum may currently be using low fees to onboard TradFi players into its ecosystem, planning to increase charges once user migration costs become sufficiently high. If Ethereum’s official roadmap does include a strategy of first attracting a large number of L2s, then monetizing Layer 1 (L1) after switching costs rise, this could be positive for ETH, though such an approach is not currently outlined in Ethereum’s roadmap. Arbitrum co-founder Steven Goldfede responded that Robinhood chose Arbitrum to act as a landlord, not a tenant: controlling its own sequencer and keeping most fees for itself.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin Monitoring, a news-driven trader scooped up the Hakimi token within one second of Binance releasing its contract listing announcement. The trader paid a total of 40.8 BNB (≈$31,000) in node bribes and gas fees, then sold most of his position to net roughly $378,000 in profit. The announcement was published at 13:55:12; within that same second, the trader paid 35.3 BNB (≈$26,800) in bribes to the BNB48 Club node, used a private RPC channel to buy 9.89 million Hakimi tokens for 264.7 BNB (≈$200,000) at an average price of ~$0.02 per token, plus an extra 5.5 BNB (≈$4,200) in gas fees. After other traders piled in to drive up the token’s price, the news-driven trader sold most of his position in batches at an average of ~$0.058 per token.

Beating AI News: A new wave of young women in Silicon Valley are marketing startups via selfies, personal charm, and social media presence, with the most prominent example being the "Corgi Girls" from AI insurance startup Corgi. Corgi sells what many dismiss as "boring" corporate insurance, but its team of young female community and growth leads regularly post selfies on X, host events, and manage personal accounts. Community lead Brooke LeBlanc even dubs herself the "Chief Corgi Girl Officer," and Corgi’s official account reposts this content. The Corgi Girls aren’t an isolated case. Mantis CEO Georgia Witchel recently labeled this trend Silicon Valley’s "Hot Girl Renaissance." She observes that more young women are leveraging selfies to promote startups, noting that Silicon Valley once operated as "geeks selling to geeks." Now, vibe coding has lowered the barrier to building software—so mastering complex products alone is no longer sufficient; teams also need charisma. AI dating app Known quickly validated this strategy. It previously pitched a story to *The San Francisco Standard*, which declined coverage. The founder then launched "San Francisco’s Hot List," asking users to nominate the most date-worthy people in San Francisco. The initiative received over 15,000 nominations in 24 hours and sparked media coverage in turn; Corgi’s Brooke LeBlanc was also featured on the list. Silicon Valley once swore by the mantra "the product sells itself," but now it appears the product’s ability to speak for itself is irrelevant—the face behind its promotion just needs to be appealing.

According to TradingBeats’ monitoring, as the PONS token hits new highs and approaches a $1 billion market cap, trader Loracle has been adding to his short positions on PONS. His current short position is worth approximately $23 million, with an average entry price of $0.65, liquidation price of $1.82, and an unrealized loss of around $7 million. Trapped in a deep short, Loracle posted on X that he had developed a fork of the Pons token issuance platform using the Fable 5.1 AI model, named pez.family, which is now live and charges 0% fees. The crypto community speculates that Loracle’s public launch of this 0% fee open-source fork is intended to undermine PONS’ narrative by copying the competitor and launching a price war, in a bid to save his short position and prove the Pons platform is easily replicable. However, the PONS token has remained strong, rendering Loracle’s efforts largely ineffective.

According to GMGN market data, the Solana-based ZEC-linked airdrop meme token ZCAT (Anonymous Cat) has surged past $105 million in market capitalization, hitting a new all-time high. The token has rallied over 404% in the past 24 hours, with a 24-hour trading volume of $5.2 million. ZCAT is a cat-themed meme token built on Solana, drawing inspiration from Zcash’s (ZEC) privacy concept, and features an anonymous cat mascot wearing a brown paper bag over its head. It levies a roughly 3% transaction and transfer tax, which is used to purchase bridged Zcash (ZEC) on Solana, with the acquired tokens airdropped to holders. BlockBeats reminds users that most meme coins lack practical use cases, exhibit extreme price volatility, and caution is advised for investments in such assets.

According to GMGN market data, Robinhood ecosystem meme coin ROBINCAT has rebounded to a market cap of over $13 million, with a 24-hour price increase of more than 45% and trading volume hitting $4.9 million in the same period. ROBINCAT draws inspiration from a teaser video (featuring cartoon imagery) posted on Robinhood’s official account (@RobinhoodApp) with the message “Something new is growing”. The community and traders interpreted the content as tied to the platform’s upcoming cat-themed initiative. The coin’s narrative blends the Robinhood brand with a cat meme, and Robinhood states that holding ROBINCAT automatically grants users USDG (a U.S. dollar stablecoin) rewards. BlockBeats reminds users: Most meme coins lack real use cases and are highly volatile. Please protect your assets and avoid FOMO.