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$8,000 Invested in Dogecoin 5 Years Ago Would Be $469,320 Today, Here’s the Next DOGE to Buy Now

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TI Partners
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If five years ago, you were a degen Ape scrolling through crypto Twitter when someone joked about Dogecoin. On a whim, you gamble $8,000 on DOGE. Fast forward to today, and that bet could be worth $469,320, depending on the timing and the point at which you bought in. Many estimates suggest that a $1,000 DOGE investment five years ago would now be worth over $60,000, which means $8,000 could’ve ballooned into around $480,000+, for real – that’s mind-melting, degenerate-level gains. DOGE wasn’t just a meme; it became culture, community, and financial rocket fuel all at once. It showed the world that even frens who just love the silliness could come out on top if they held tight.

Meet the New Kid on the Meme-Coin Block: Little Pepe (LILPEPE)??

If that DOGE story gives you FOMO, let me introduce you to Little Pepe (LILPEPE), what might be the next DOGE. This isn’t just another meme coin; Little Pepe is piggybacking the meme energy and building something real underneath. Right now, the presale is deep in Stage 13, with LILPEPE priced at $0.0022 per token. That’s already jumped from earlier stages, and early Apes who came in at Stage 1 saw returns of around +120%. If things go as planned and it lists at $0.0030, current buyers still standing in Stage 13 are looking at a possible 36% open gain, which is before we even discuss what happens after listing.

Why This Isn’t Just Meme Hype

Little Pepe isn’t riding purely on memes; it’s building with purpose. It’s launching on its own Ethereum-compatible Layer-2, meaning ultra-fast transactions, low gas fees, and built-in protection against sniper bots.  Additionally, the presale has generated significant momentum, with over $27.6 million raised to date.  The presale has 19 stages in total, and at Stage 13, we’re very close to sellout.  Plus, the project has been audited by CertiK, which adds an important layer of trust.  It’s also listed on CoinMarketCap, which provides it with even more visibility.  Let’s talk perks: there’s a $777,000 giveaway running – yes, you read that right.  But that’s not all. For APEs contributing in Stages 12 through 17, there’s a Mega Giveaway with over 15 ETH in prizes. Big buyers could win up to 5 ETH, and even random contributors have a shot at 0.5 ETH.

And get this: LILPEPE’s hype is seriously real. Between June and August 2025, searches and chatter around LILPEPE on ChatGPT 5 even surpassed those of DOGECOIN and SHIB in meme-coin volume. That’s not just whales playing, that’s retail frens making noise. Full transparency, Ape crew: this is still a high-risk play. Meme coins are volatile. Things can go parabolic or plummet. And just because there’s a roadmap doesn’t guarantee everything gets delivered. Some frens online have raised concerns, so don’t jump in blind. Do your own research, only play with what you can afford to lose, and don’t let FOMO drive your entire wallet.

Final Thoughts — Is LILPEPE the Next DOGE?

If you’re the kind of degen who looked back at DOGE and thought, “Damn, I missed that rocket ship,” LILPEPE might be your second chance. It’s riding meme-wave momentum plus building real infrastructure. With its current presale price of $0.0022, its CertiK audit, and the strong community plus giveaways, there’s a very real story here, not just a meme pump. If you want to dive in, head to littlepepe.com, check out Stage 13 while it lasts, and decide how much you wish to Ape in. Who knows? Maybe one day you’ll look back and say, “That $8K in LILPEPE turned into my next half-million.”

For more information about Little Pepe (LILPEPE) visit the links below:

Website: https://littlepepe.com

Whitepaper: https://littlepepe.com/whitepaper.pdf

Telegram: https://t.me/littlepepetoken

Twitter/X: https://x.com/littlepepetoken 

$777k Giveaway: https://littlepepe.com/777k-giveaway/

“Time to Create” By Base Sold Out Collection is a Milestone for Digital Procurement

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Paul Ugbede Godwin
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Base, the Ethereum Layer 2 network by Coinbase, recently dropped a limited-edition physical watch called “Time to Create” as their first official merch item. Only 1,500 units were produced.

Priced at 70 USDC each onchain payment on Base. Total cost including shipping and fees came to around $118 for many buyers. The drop launched via shop.base.org. It sold out in hours some reports say minutes, with high demand causing queues and rapid depletion.

This “phygital” (physical + digital/onchain) collectible features a retro-style digital design with functions like dual time, stopwatch, alarm, and water resistance. It’s branded with Base’s aesthetic and numbered.

The quick sell-out highlights strong community enthusiasm for Base—people weren’t just buying a cheap watch, but a symbol of the ecosystem, brand loyalty, and onchain culture. It’s a smart move blending merch, exclusivity, and crypto-native payments.

The drop sold out in minutes despite queues and high demand, showing intense enthusiasm for Base. People weren’t just buying a retro-style digital watch—they were acquiring a symbolic collectible representing the ecosystem’s “Time to Create” ethos.

This highlights a highly engaged, loyal community that “votes with their wallets,” as one observer noted. It’s a clear signal of cultural resonance in crypto, where exclusivity drives FOMO.

Boost to Onchain Commerce

Payments were made exclusively in USDC on Base, contributing to a new daily high in USDC-settled commerce ~$89K on drop day. This demonstrates real-world utility for Base as a Layer 2: seamless, low-cost onchain transactions for physical goods “phygital” items.

It validates Coinbase’s push for Base as a consumer-friendly chain and could encourage more merchants to adopt onchain payments. Labeled as “Drop 01,” this is Base’s first official merch, blending nostalgia (retro design) with crypto-native elements (numbered editions, onchain purchase).

The hype generated massive organic buzz on X, amplifying Base’s visibility. It positions Base as a lifestyle brand beyond just tech, similar to how other projects use merch/NFTs to build identity. Expect more drops, potentially escalating community participation. Some community members speculate about rewards for buyers, though nothing is confirmed.

The limited supply creates scarcity, turning watches into potential collectibles. Early signs show quick deliveries and positive unboxings, reinforcing satisfaction. As of now there’s little evidence of widespread reselling on eBay or crypto marketplaces.

This suggests most buyers are holders keeping them as memorabilia rather than quick flips—unlike many NFT drops. Resale could emerge later if perceived as “onchain history.” This is a bullish signal for Base: proof of vibrant, action-oriented community in a competitive L2 landscape.

Base aims to onboard 25 million users and secure $100 billion in assets by year-end 2025, leveraging Coinbase’s distribution for seamless access. This could integrate more phygital experiences to drive adoption.

Q2 2025 enhancements targeted 200ms block times, 50 Mgas/s blockspace, and improved privacy, enabling faster, more secure onchain interactions—ideal for future merch drops or dApps. Hiring country leads in seven regions accelerates localized growth, potentially including region-specific merch or partnerships to broaden the user base.

As an L2 leader, Base emphasizes developer tools, DeFi integrations, and AI-onchain projects via partners like DataHaven or Zama seen in community discussions. Future paths may involve token launches or deeper Coinbase ties for L2 strategies.

It underscores how simple, well-executed ideas can drive real engagement and commerce. Keep watching for Drop 02—demand will likely be even higher.

Jarett Dunn Sentenced in the UK Amid PUMP on Multi-Dimensional Low

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Paul Ugbede Godwin
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A London court sentenced Jarett Dunn, a former senior developer at Pump.fun the popular Solana-based memecoin launchpad, to six years in prison two concurrent six-year terms for fraud by abuse of position and transfer of criminal property.

He stole approximately $2 million worth of Solana (SOL) from the platform in 2024, shortly after joining for just six weeks. Instead of keeping the funds, Dunn distributed them to thousands of random wallet addresses and publicly confessed on social media, attempting to frame it as a “whistleblower” act to expose the platform’s risks.

The judge rejected this defense. Dunn, a Canadian national, had pleaded guilty earlier but tried to withdraw it, leading to delays. He received credit for time served including remand and electronic tagging.

The incident occurred when Pump.fun was still emerging, but the platform has since generated nearly $1 billion in revenue. Regarding $PUMP. It has been under pressure recently, with reports of a -32% decline over the past week and significant outflows.

The token is trading near multi-month lows amid broader market weakness and renewed scrutiny on Pump.fun including an ongoing U.S. fraud lawsuit alleging insider manipulation.

The sentencing news has circulated widely in crypto communities, potentially contributing to sentiment-driven selling. The sentencing news resurfaced old controversies around Pump.fun’s security and governance. Combined with broader crypto market weakness and whale selling like major dumps reported in mid-December.

$PUMP has traded near multi-month lows, down significantly in recent weeks reports of -30% weekly drops and over 50% YTD declines in some analyses. While not a new all-time low it amplified selling pressure and contributed to bearish momentum.

Crypto X discussions largely view the event as closure on a 2024 incident, with some ironic commentary like Dunn’s “whistleblower” defense failing while Pump.fun thrived. No major FUD spike, but it reminded holders of past risks.

The 2024 theft occurred when Pump.fun was nascent, with ~$44 million lifetime revenue. Since then, it has generated nearly $927-930 million in total revenue per Dune and multiple reports as of December 2025, becoming one of Solana’s top protocols. This highlights the memecoin sector’s growth despite incidents, underscoring robust demand for easy token launches.

The quick recovery and subsequent improvements show platforms can survive insider threats. However, it reinforces the need for strong internal controls in DeFi. A six-year sentence concurrent terms, with credit for time served signals growing real-world accountability for crypto crimes, even non-traditional ones— Dunn distributed funds rather than pocketing them.

This could deter similar abuses in fast-growing projects. Pump.fun faces a major U.S. class-action lawsuit alleging fraud, insider manipulation via MEV tools, and securities violations naming co-founders, Solana entities, and Jito Labs.

Recent developments include court approval for amended complaints with new evidence (leaked chats). If successful, it could lead to damages, regulatory scrutiny on memecoin launchpads, or precedents classifying certain tokens/activities as securities—potentially chilling innovation on Solana.

Pump.fun remains dominant in Solana memecoin launches, but revenue has cooled from 2025 peaks like monthly highs >$100M early year, dropping later amid memecoin slowdowns. $PUMP’s utility ties to platform growth, so sustained activity could support recovery, but legal overhang poses downside risk.

Overall, the sentencing closes a chapter positively for Pump.fun’s narrative of survival and growth, but the active lawsuit represents the bigger existential threat.

A Look At U.S. November CPI Report and How It Is Impacting U.S. Housing Market’s Mindshare

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Paul Ugbede Godwin
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A detached three-bedroom apartments are pictured at Haggai Estate, Redeption Camp on Lagos Ibadan highway in Ogun State, southwest Nigeria on August, 30, 2012. The high cost of living and the massive urbanization of Lagos, the largest city and the economic capital of Nigeria, has engineered a migration of residents mostly middle class and the poor to neighbouring towns in Ogun State, both in southwest part of the country in search of cheap accommodations. Estate developers are quick in exploiting the high cost and scarcity of accommodation leading to emerging new towns, modern estates to accommodate the spillover in Lagos. AFP PHOTO/PIUS UTOMI EKPEI (Photo credit should read PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/GettyImages)

US Core CPI for November 2025 dropped to 2.6% year-over-year, the lowest level since March 2021 and well below economist expectations of around 3.0%.

Headline CPI came in at 2.7% y/y, also cooler than the forecasted 3.1%. This report released recently, combined with data for October and November due to a prolonged federal government shutdown that disrupted October price collection by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

No separate October CPI was published, and monthly changes for November alone weren’t calculated—instead, a two-month— September to November change of about 0.2% was reported for both headline and core indexes.

The shelter category, which makes up over 40% of core CPI, showed an unusually sharp slowdown: essentially flat or up only ~0.2% over the two months. Prior to this, shelter had been rising ~0.3% monthly on average through the first nine months of 2025.

Economists widely attribute this to distortions from the shutdown: BLS couldn’t collect survey data for October and couldn’t retroactively gather most of it. For missing data, prices were likely “carried forward” imputed as unchanged, creating a downward bias.

Data collection resumed only mid-November, potentially capturing more holiday discounts and missing earlier price trends. Analysts describe the report as “noisy,” “downwardly biased,” “Swiss-cheese,” or warranting “the entire salt shaker” of skepticism.

Many expect a rebound in the December CPI due January 13, 2026, with clearer, undistorted data. Despite the low reading, shelter y/y still rose 3%, contributing significantly to remaining core inflation pressures. Apparently, while markets reacted dovishly boosting rate-cut odds, the Federal Reserve is likely to downplay this report and focus on upcoming cleaner data.

The shelter component is one of the largest parts of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), accounting for about one-third around 33-40%, depending on exact weighting of the overall basket and over 40% of core CPI which excludes food and energy. It includes: Rent of primary residence actual rents paid by tenants.

Owners’ equivalent rent (OER) estimated rental value of owner-occupied homes, the biggest subcomponent. Lodging away from home e.g., hotels. Shelter has been a persistent driver of inflation in recent years, often rising faster than other categories due to lagging effects from the post-pandemic housing market.

The November 2025 CPI report showed an unusually sharp slowdown in shelter inflation: the shelter index increased just 0.2% over the two-month period from September to November 2025 averaging ~0.1% per month. This was far below the typical ~0.3% monthly pace seen in the first nine months of 2025.

This slowdown was largely artificial and stemmed from data collection disruptions caused by the prolonged U.S. federal government shutdown. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) could not collect survey data for October 2025, as field staff were furloughed. These survey data especially for rents and OER, which rely on in-person or phone surveys of landlords and tenants cannot be collected retroactively.

Per standard BLS procedures, missing prices were handled via carry-forward imputation: October prices were assumed unchanged from the last available data often from September or earlier periods, such as April for some rent samples.

This effectively set shelter price changes to zero for October in many cases. Data collection only resumed on November 14, 2025, covering roughly half the month and potentially capturing more end-of-month discounts around Black Friday. As a result the two-month shelter increase was biased downward.

Primary rents rose an implausibly low ~0.06-0.1% on average over the two months. OER rose ~0.14%. Economists widely view this as “noisy” or “downwardly biased” data. Private-sector measures like Zillow, Apartment List showed ongoing rent growth during this period, inconsistent with near-zero BLS readings.

Shelter’s heavy weight amplified the distortion, contributing to the surprisingly low core CPI reading of 2.6% y/y, lowest since March 2021. Many analysts from Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Harvard’s Jason Furman expect a rebound in shelter inflation in upcoming reports, particularly December 2025 CPI, which will have full-month undistorted data.

Some lingering effects may persist until the missed October sample is fully replaced potentially into spring 2026. The shelter slowdown reflects methodological necessities due to the shutdown, not a genuine sharp drop in housing costs. Cleaner data in future reports should provide a more accurate picture.

SoFi Technologies Launches SoFiUSD to Drive Stablecoin Acceleration

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Paul Ugbede Godwin
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SoFi Technologies announced the launch of SoFiUSD, a fully reserved U.S. dollar stablecoin issued by its nationally chartered bank, SoFi Bank, N.A.

Launched initially on Ethereum, a public, permissionless blockchain, with plans to expand to other chains over time. Backing: 1:1 fully backed by cash reserves held at the Federal Reserve, ensuring immediate redemption and no credit or liquidity risk.

SoFi claims this makes it the first U.S. national bank to issue a stablecoin on a public blockchain distinguishing it from private/permissioned ones like JPMorgan’s JPM Coin.

Primarily for faster, 24/7 settlements in payments, remittances, crypto trading, and enterprise use. It positions SoFi as a “stablecoin infrastructure provider,” allowing other banks and fintechs to white-label their own interoperable stablecoins or integrate SoFiUSD directly.

Currently used for internal settlements; rollout to SoFi members is coming soon. This follows SoFi’s recent re-entry into crypto trading and aligns with clearer U.S. regulations like the GENIUS Act passed in July 2025.

The introduction of SoFiUSD by SoFi Bank marks a significant milestone as the first stablecoin issued by a U.S. national bank on a public blockchain like Ethereum. This development has broad implications for the financial sector, blending traditional banking with decentralized technology under evolving regulations like the GENIUS Act of 2025.

SoFiUSD operates under strict oversight from the OCC, FDIC, and Federal Reserve, ensuring 1:1 backing with cash reserves held at the Fed. This eliminates credit and liquidity risks associated with non-bank issuers, positioning it as “regulated bank money” rather than a pure crypto asset.

It aligns with the GENIUS Act’s requirements for reserve backing and federal supervision, potentially paving the way for more banks to enter the space without facing the same hurdles. However, it also highlights a potential fault line in crypto governance, where bank-issued stablecoins could enable greater regulatory control, such as freezing accounts or blocking transactions, raising concerns about centralization versus individual sovereignty.

SoFiUSD intensifies competition in the $200B+ stablecoin market, challenging dominant players like USDT and USDC with its bank charter advantage—direct Fed reserve access reduces liquidity risk and builds a “regulatory moat.

By offering “stablecoins as a service,” SoFi enables white-label issuance for other banks, fintechs, and enterprises, lowering entry barriers and potentially expanding the overall stablecoin ecosystem. This could democratize access, turning stablecoins into standard infrastructure rather than niche crypto tools.

It bridges traditional finance (TradFi) with decentralized finance (DeFi) by providing bank-grade infrastructure on permissionless blockchains. This facilitates applications like crypto trading within SoFi’s platform, remittances via SoFi Pay, and enterprise settlements through partners like Galileo.

For SoFi, it enhances economics through trapped deposits, better margins, and new revenue streams from fees and reserve yields, while boosting user engagement and cross-selling.

Broader implications include accelerating crypto adoption now at 10-12% of global population by offering FDIC-insured, yield-bearing options that appeal to risk-averse users. SoFi can monetize its balance sheet as on-chain infrastructure, handling stress scenarios like mass redemptions through robust reserves.

It reframes stablecoins as “internet-native money rails” for B2B settlements, potentially evolving into a serious settlement layer via API integrations. While bullish for SoFi’s stock and operations, it’s seen as more about efficient bank plumbing than a “crypto revolution.”

This launch validates on-chain finance, signals institutional bridging, and could spur more banks to follow, but it underscores tensions between compliance-driven efficiency and decentralized ideals. SoFiUSD enhances liquidity by injecting trusted, regulated USD equivalents into digital ecosystems, enabling faster capital flows and deeper market participation.

Fully backed by Fed reserves with immediate redeemability, it minimizes issuer risks, encouraging adoption and increasing the pool of stable USD assets on Ethereum. White-labeling allows partners to issue interoperable stablecoins, expanding supply without regulatory burdens, which amplifies overall market liquidity.

Unlike traditional rails like SWIFT with T+1/T+2 delays, SoFiUSD offers near-instant, low-cost transfers, improving liquidity in payments, remittances, and trading by allowing constant capital movement.

This is key for crypto trading; on/off-ramps and enterprise uses like B2B flows. Interoperability with public blockchains enables DeFi applications like lending and yield farming, drawing institutional capital for better market depth and reduced volatility.

Regulated status attracts risk-averse entities, enhancing liquidity through higher volumes and partnerships. Reserves generate yield 4% on $1B float yields ~$40M annually, which can be passed to holders, incentivizing holding and circulation.

For partners, it streamlines liquidity management with transparent, programmable money. In essence, SoFiUSD drives liquidity by making USD more fluid and accessible in digital realms, fostering a more efficient, interconnected financial system.

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