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Markets are cooling, but the bigger picture still looks constructive.

A strong US August jobs report shifted Fed expectations, pulling $BTC ( โ–ผ 0.91% ) below $82,000 and capping $ETH ( โ–ฒ 0.25% ) under $2,500. All eyes are now on upcoming CPI/PPI data and the Sept FOMC.

Fear & Greed sits at 69, still in โ€œGreed,โ€ but down from 73. So sentiment is bullish, just a little less reckless.

Hereโ€™s what we got for you today:

  • ๐Ÿ‘€ Ready to level up your crypto income?

  • โญ Biden vs. Trump, now in memecoins?

  • โญ Are IPOs finally moving onchain?

  • ๐Ÿ”ฅ Burning hot takes for the road

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๐Ÿ’ป HUNTER BIDEN TO LAUNCH $LAPTOP AND AIRDROP TRUMP MEMECOIN BAGHOLDERS

Crypto politics just got even stranger.

Hunter Biden, the son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, says he plans to launch a new memecoin called $LAPTOP ( 0.0% ) on Base on September 9, and part of the token distribution is aimed directly at traders who lost money on Donald Trumpโ€™s $TRUMP ( โ–ฒ 0.24% ) memecoin.

Yes, bros. We now have a Biden-linked memecoin taking shots at a Trump-linked memecoin. And the tokenomics are just as wild as the headline.

1/ $LAPTOP is built around the Hunter Biden meme

The name comes from the laptop controversy that followed Hunter Biden during the 2020 election cycle.

The project will reportedly launch with a 1 billion token supply:

  • Around 30% goes to the founding team, including Hunter Biden, with a six-month lock followed by a two-year vesting schedule.

  • Another 20% is set aside for airdrops, including users connected to Hunter Bidenโ€™s Substack and potentially investors who lost money holding $TRUMP.

Then there is the burn mechanism. Up to 30% of supply could be burned if certain milestones happen, including:

  • Bitcoin hitting a new all-time high

  • Democrats winning the 2028 U.S. presidential election

  • $LAPTOP reaching a higher FDV than $TRUMP

That is not exactly standard tokenomics.

2/ The $TRUMP airdrop is the real attention grabber

Nearly 1 million $TRUMP investors reportedly lost money, with estimated losses around $3.81 billion. $TRUMP itself once reached close to a $15B market cap after launch before falling dramatically.

$LAPTOP is now using those losses as part of its launch story. But there is already one big technical question.

โ†’ $TRUMP lives on Solana, while $LAPTOP is launching on Base. That makes identifying eligible wallets across both ecosystems much more complicated than a normal onchain airdrop.

$TRUMP memecoin price performance over the past 24 hours. Source: CoinGecko

Some details about exactly how those users will receive tokens are still unclear.

3/ Crypto Twitter is already calling top signal

Some traders see another celebrity memecoin as a warning sign that speculation is getting overheated again.

Others are questioning the 30% team allocation, the unusual burn conditions, and whether the project is mostly political theater packaged as a token.

There is also speculation that $LAPTOP could expand beyond Base using LayerZero infrastructure and potentially become multichain.

๐Ÿง  My take

$TRUMP already showed how powerful a political identity can be when turned into a token. Now $LAPTOP is trying to build momentum by directly targeting the people burned by that trade.

That is brilliant attention marketing. But attention is not the same thing as value.

With heavy insider allocation, unclear airdrop mechanics, and a narrative built almost entirely around politics, this looks like the kind of trade where FOMO can arrive much faster than fundamentals.

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๐Ÿ“ˆ CZ SAYS IPOs ARE MOVING ONCHAIN. WALL STREET MAY BE NEXT

Changpeng Zhao says IPOs will eventually move onchain, and the idea is already starting to look real.

Tokenized stocks now hold about $2.9 billion in onchain value, up roughly 14% in one month. That is still small compared with global stock markets, but the infrastructure is clearly moving forward.

1/ What actually changes when stocks move onchain?

Tokenized shares could trade 24/7, settle faster, and be split into smaller fractions.

That could make public markets more accessible while reducing some of the friction created by traditional intermediaries.

The trend has already started. The NYSE now allows tokenized versions of certain large-cap stocks to trade alongside traditional shares, while Europe has already seen a regulated onchain IPO.

โ†’ So CZ is not really betting on whether this can happen. He is betting on how big it gets.

2/ But putting a stock onchain doesnโ€™t remove the SEC

The SEC has made clear that tokenizing a security doesnโ€™t suddenly make securities laws disappear. Registration, disclosures, and investor-protection requirements still apply.

There is another catch too: not every โ€œtokenized stockโ€ gives you actual shareholder rights.

Some products only track the price of the underlying share.

So before aping into anything labeled โ€œonchain stock,โ€ you still need to know exactly what you own.

๐Ÿง  My take

I think CZโ€™s call makes sense, but I wouldnโ€™t frame it as โ€œIPOs are about to leave Wall Street.โ€

What looks more realistic is the infrastructure underneath Wall Street slowly becoming blockchain-based.

If stocks can trade around the clock, settle faster, and move globally with fewer layers in between, crypto rails start looking much less like an alternative financial system and more like financial infrastructure.

And if even a small slice of the trillions sitting in global equities moves onto those rails, RWA tokenization could become one of the biggest crypto narratives of the next cycle.

๐Ÿ”ฅ BURNING HOT TAKES FOR THE ROAD

$ZEC ( โ–ผ 4.45% ) just crossed $1,000 for the first time in nearly a decade, leaving at least 3 big whales badly positioned as the privacy coin rally keeps squeezing bears. Read more

Fomo just overtook pump(.)fun in daily revenue on Solana after topping 625K users, $4B+ in trading volume, and 110M+ social interactions. Read more

Ethereumโ€™s EIP-8141 could let users pay gas in stablecoins with zero $ETH ( โ–ฒ 0.25% ), with the feature targeted for the 2027 Hegotรก upgrade. Read more

Harmony is shutting down its Layer-1 blockchain and pivoting into an AI video platform, marking a major end for $ONE ( โ–ฒ 11.21% ). Read more

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