Crypto Digest 49 (July 2025)
New token design for Goblintown memecoin
This token design takes aim at all the usual token killers: snipers, MEV bots, misaligned incentives between team and token holders, investor allocation dumps, pump-and-dumps, whale dumps, unchecked supply, lack of reinvestment, etc.
The NFT Airdrop Mistake
Give your entire NFT community a fully-vested token allocation, with liquidity, on day one.
Solution: vesting the NFTs, not the wallets
This means that tokens accrue in the NFT itself, so whoever owns the NFT retains the right to receive them. Sell the Goblin NFT, and the tokens (unclaimed) will go with it. This is done to give people a clear reason to join Goblintown (and the wider Truth community) as a long-term holder.
Next, they vest allocation over 30 months, accruing them every second with the option of weekly claim. This distributes the pressure to sell and instantly changes the mindset of the community.
For example, suppose you sell your Goblin in the third month of a 30-month vesting period. The buyer receives all future rights — the next 27 months (the first three months will depend on whether they were claimed or not. If the tokens were not claimed by the seller, the buyer will receive them as well).
This is if you are simply a passive holder. Active community members will have countless opportunities to earn more $gob over time.
Launching at a low market cap with tight supply
Just ~10% of $gob will be available on day one. And at no point will more than 1% unlock in any single week.
Snipers, Dumps & Whales
Often, when new tokens are launched, snipers grab the early supply and dump it on everyone, or they turn into whales and destroy the price action.
Unfortunately, there is no perfect solution to this problem that would simultaneously comply with legal norms and ensure compatibility with exchanges.
Interestingly, this problem was solved in 2021 with the help of whitelists for NFTs.
A complete solution would be to implement whitelists for memecoin launches. Usually, the first few minutes are crucial for protecting your token from fatal damage. During this short period of time, you allow only accounts that own your NFT to buy, and you limit the amount they can buy for each collectible item they own. After a predetermined time has elapsed, you open access to the public.
But now only 80% of this is possible, so the team looked for other ways.
New approach: No pre-announcement for the token. Snipers have no time to plan.
Only ~10% of the total token supply is available at launch, which ensures that even if someone gets a large number of tokens, it will not be much in terms of the total supply on the first day.
The combination of these factors doesn't solve the problem completely, but it should solve it to a large extent.
This isn't an ideal solution, but it is the best one available at the moment.
Protecting the LP
Poor liquidity management is the #1 silent killer of tokens. Once the liquidity of a token starts decreasing, its market cap collapses.
Solution: A Smart, Balanced Token Tax
2.5% total tax on every $gob transaction:
- 1.0% → Liquidity Management Fund (for LP replenishment)
- 1.0% → Ops & Marketing (listings, campaigns, etc.)
- 0.5% → Buy & Burn (deflationary + pressure)
Instead of accumulating in $gob and partially dumping it later in order to balance an additional LP provision, at the time of each transaction they instantly and automatically swap the full 2.5% into USDC/SOL.
Then when it's time to LP or burn, they buy $gob on the market - generating bonus buy pressure - then LP or burn it. The more volume, the more is added to LP or burned.
Goblintown isn't inventing any new mechanisms here, but they are among the first to combine them.
New token standard by Drip.Trade HyperEVM NFT exchange
Vaulted NFTs are a new standard where NFTs are directly collateralized with underlying tokens.
Imagine if an NFT wasn’t just art, but a vault, that could hold any token in it.
Every NFT now has its own NAV (net asset value). Any ERC20 or HYPE can be locked inside.
How does Vault work?
- When an NFT is "vaulted," a specific amount of tokens is deposited into a smart contract associated with that NFT. This process is irreversible until the next step is triggered.
- The smart contract ensures that anyone can initiate this token deposit into the vault, and the tokens are tied to the NFT’s unique identifier.
- The value of the NFT now includes the market value of the locked tokens, in addition to its intrinsic or collectible value. For example, if an NFT has $100 worth of $HYPE locked in its vault, the NFT’s total "net asset value" (NAV) increases by that amount.
- This creates a tangible, on-chain value floor for the NFT, which can be verified by anyone, enhancing its appeal and utility.
- The only way to retrieve the locked tokens is to "burn" the NFT, permanently destroying it on the blockchain. This is a deliberate design choice to maintain scarcity and align the interests of token holders and NFT owners.
- When burned, the smart contract releases the tokens to the burner’s wallet, but the NFT is gone forever, making this a high-stakes decision. After the NFT is burned, the vaulted tokens are withdrawable only by the address that burned the NFT, which prevents possible attack vectors.
Vaults benefits:
- raises the floor of that collection (each jpeg now holds value you can see on-chain)
- aligns the value of the token and the NFT
- provide a way for founders to distribute their tokens to the right community
This will kick off with @Ramen_HL & @ReverseUnitBias
Compare DAO types, from monolithic councils to modular
MetaDAOs act as parent DAOs coordinating a network of specialized subDAOs. These subDAOs may issue their own tokens or remain internal teams, but all operate under a shared umbrella to accelerate experimentation and resource-efficient growth. This structure allows a unified treasury to scale execution through independent subDAOs, each focused on a distinct function.
For example, under Sky’s (Previously MakerDAO) Endgame plan, several subDAOs will be spun out from Sky, each is effectively a subset of the Sky ecosystem with its own mandate, the idea is that Sky becomes a MetaDAO ecosystem, and the new units are subDAOs specializing in distinct roles.
Despite their advantages, MetaDAOs create significant challenges in terms of coordination, governance, and operational activities.
Trends in the development of the MetaDAO model:
- Multi-Chain Capital Allocation. In this model, MetaDAOs act less like static protocols and more like dynamic investment DAOs, able to allocate liquidity, incubate teams, and expand influence
- Economic Networks. When suDAOs are structured to return value via, fee sharing, or liquidity pipelines, they form recursive loops of reinforcement. This can lead to an emergent economic network, where activity in one subDAO benefits the others, and where the ecosystem's treasury and token holders collectively benefit from ongoing innovation.
- Evolving Governance models. MetaDAOs push forward the ongoing evolution of DAO governance. By separating capital strategy (at the MetaDAO level) from execution and specialization (at the subDAO level), they offer a more modular and scalable governance architecture. This structure minimizes governance bloat, reduces voter fatigue, and enables contributors to focus on areas where they have the most context and impact. It also opens the door to experimentation: subDAOs can trial alternative governance methods, tokenomics, and incentive models, without exposing the parent DAO to systemic risk.
News
Introducing Studio Azuki, a joint anime studio with COMISMA and Xenotoon to develop, produce, and distribute anime globally.
Also the Studio has formed a strategic partnership with Westbrook Inc. By combining Studio Azuki’s production capabilities with Westbrook’s deep Hollywood network and expertise in global entertainment, the partnership aims to bring anime to audiences worldwide.
OpenSea announced its acquisition of Rally, a social-centric mobile crypto wallet.
SEC has officially acknowledged Canary Capital’s filing for a PENGU ETF. PENGU is the native token of the Pudgy Penguins brand.
Farcaster's cast can now be collected as 1/1.
- Creators earn from their audience and not through rewards.
- New creators can earn on their first day
- Users get to collect a unique piece of Farcaster history into their wallets.
Anyone you’ve blocked won’t be able to collect your casts through the auction. You can also disable collecting for all your casts in settings.
Farcaster collectibles are ERC-721 on Base. See Github: https://github.com/farcasterxyz/collectible-casts
How Farcaster collecting works
When a cast is collected, it starts an auction. If the cast is less than 24 hours old, the auction lasts 24 hours from the first collect. If the cast is older than 24 hours, the auction lasts 1 week from the first collect.
The highest bidder during this window wins the collectible at the end of the auction. The collectible is onchain and bids are made in USDC. There are a few rules for bidding:
- The opening bid must be at least $1.
- Subsequent bids must be at least $1 or 10% higher (whichever is greater) and a round amount in dollars.
- A bid in the last 15 minutes of an auction extends the auction by 15 minutes.
- The auction process is restricted to Farcaster users and bids are authorized by an offchain auction service. Once the auction completes, the collectible is minted onchain and can then be freely transferred.
When the auction completes, 90% of the highest bid goes to the cast author; the remaining 10% goes to the protocol. All lower bids are returned to other bidders. The cast will now appear in the highest bidders profile in the collectibles tab.
Market
Disclaimer. To date, analytical tools are still evolving and provide only approximate data that do not cover all chains, DAG systems and other types of distributed ledgers, as well as NFTs or less common types, such as utility or financial.
Global NFT Markets (30D). All the data has decreased.
- NFT Sales Volume is over $588 millions.
- NFT Transactions is over 5,5 millions.
Since nftpulse.org lacks data on a large number of blockchains, we are temporarily excluding data from this service in order to provide our readers with the most objective information possible.
One big deal sparked new interest in CryptoPunks when an anonymous wallet bought 45 NFTs for 2,082 ETH. On July 21, 2025, an anonymous Ethereum wallet, identified as 0x1bb351c5410b2f6bae36a74aa6b38a9800ae72d6, acquired 45 CryptoPunks NFTs. This transaction, executed on the OpenSea marketplace, amounted to 2,082 ETH, valued at approximately $5.87 million at the time. The wallet, created on July 18, 2025, had no prior NFT history and was funded from Coinbase exchange.The purchase was part of a broader surge in NFT activity, with CryptoPunks seeing increased trading volumes and floor price movements. Specifically, the floor price increased by 20% following this acquisition, peaking at 47.50 ETH from a previous level of 41 ETH.
So, CryptoPunks Floor Price Hits 3-Year High of $208,000 ans the collection saw highest trading volume since March 2024.
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