Launching a crypto meme coin might seem like the ultimate opportunity to blend fun, finance and fame in a world where Dogecoin and Shiba Inu have transformed jokes into multi-billion-dollar empires.

In just 7 years, Peanut the Squirrel went from being an anonymous street rodent, to a famous influencer, to a billion dollar cryptocurrency. His story is a parable of the modern attention economy.

Image made with elements from Canva. A few days before President Trump’s inauguration, he hosted a “crypto ball” in Washington, D.C. That night, he unveiled his very own meme coin—a kind of digital ...

Meme coins are popular these days with everyone from c-list celebrities to President Trump. Planet Money has the story of how they went from a one-off joke to a speculative frenzy worth billions. What ...

In the crypto world, meme coins are mostly just jokes with no intrinsic value. But the Trump family is parlaying the president’s meme coin into two valuable commodities: serious cash and access to the ...

Like the wild oil booms of the 19th century, meme coins have turned digital traders into modern-day speculators. Previously prospectors poured fortunes into unproven wells hoping to strike it rich, ...

Three days before his presidential inauguration, Donald Trump launched a meme coin, a type of cryptocurrency whose value is buoyed by social media and Internet culture, rather than any sort of ...