PEPE Price Soars 25%: Is $69B the New Black? 🚀💰

2026 started off with PEPE, the meme-based cryptocurrency we didn’t know we needed but apparently have, bouncing up like a kid on a sugar high. On January 2, within hours, PEPE’s price did a little shimmy and shot up over 25%. Traders, clearly bored after weeks of snooze-worthy trading, suddenly remembered that meme coins exist and are still a thing. Who knew?

🚨 Binance’s New Darlings: Four Tokens in the Spotlight! 🚨

One cannot help but wonder if these tokens have been engaging in some manner of financial impropriety, or if they are merely the victims of circumstance. Binance, ever the vigilant guardian, has made it clear that any token failing to meet its exacting standards shall be unceremoniously delisted. A fate most dire, indeed! 😱

2026’s Crypto Storm: $2.2B in Options Explode! 🚀💥

Traders, like restless souls, are alert as more than $2.2 billion worth of Bitcoin and Ethereum options are set to expire on Deribit, marking the first major derivatives week of 2026. This follows a record expiry of $27 billion, settled last week on December 26, a spectacle of greed and fear. 🧨

Chainlink vs. Hyperliquid-Who Will Be King of DeFi by 2026? 🤯

HYPE had his time in the sun, sure. Lord knows he paraded through 2025 like a carnival barker with a megaphone, shouting promises and pulling eyeballs from every corner of DeFi. For a hot minute, he even made poor old LINK look like yesterday’s coffee grounds. But now the music’s stopped, the tents are coming down, and HYPE’s standing there with his pants around his ankles-figuratively speaking, of course. Or maybe not.