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PUMP.FUN DOUBLES DOWN ON MEMECOIN CRAZE BY STARTING MOBILE APP AS NEW TOKEN LAUNCH HITS RECORD

Memecoin launchpad Pump.fun has announced a new mobile app allowing users to create Solana-based tokens easier than ever, despite facing a recent class-action lawsuit over securities law violations. CoinGecko COO Bobby Ong reports that there were 600,000 token launches in January, a 12-fold increase from the previous year, and attributes this surge to platforms like Pump.fun. The proliferation of new tokens has raised concerns about market fragmentation, with Ong warning that the increasing dispersion of liquidity and trader attention could prevent significant price movements typical of previous market cycles.

EVALUATING A TOKEN SALE: A PRACTICAL GUIDE

This guide to evaluating token sales breaks down the assessment into four areas: product analysis, team expertise, tokenomics, and community metrics. The methodology assigns scores from 0-5 to each criteria, and uses Kinto's upcoming launch as an example. According to the framework, projects below 3.5 warrant cautious investment, while scores above 4.0 indicate strong potential. Only 30% of January's token sales achieved positive ROI.

LIMITATIONS OF SCALING BLOCKCHAINS AND WHICH VMS ARE THEORETICALLY THE FASTEST

The Sonic (formerly Fantom) team discovered that database optimization yielded an 800% performance increase, while parallel transaction execution only provided a 30% improvement even under perfect theoretical conditions. The findings challenge common assumptions about blockchain scaling, revealing that single high-throughput servers (like Solana and Megaeth) can achieve superior performance compared to multi-server consensus systems. Sonic deliberately optimizes for mesh networks to facilitate intercommunicating programs, and the research concludes by suggesting that traditional performance assumptions about blockchain scaling methods may need reassessment.

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