Memecoins

UsePaid

2026-09-26 06:30:56

UsePaid says it has sent about $1.536 million to tagged X accounts through X Money as opt-out page goes live

UsePaid, a memecoin fee-sharing tool tied to pump.fun token launches, says it has paid about $1.536 million to tagged X accounts through X Money as of Sept. 26. The system routes 100% of a token’s creator fees to a treasury, converts 80% into U.S. dollars for payout through X Money, and uses the remaining 20% to buy back and burn the platform token, PAID. According to the project’s public ledger, it had collected roughly $2.895 million in onchain fees by 2 p.m. Taiwan time on Sept. 26, while an official X post the same day cited $1.44 million in payouts. The product does not require recipients to register, connect a wallet, or give prior consent. Former X product lead Nikita Bier called the idea a creative hack on X Money, but said users should be able to opt out if they do not want to be linked to a token. UsePaid has since launched an opt-out page. The project’s analytics page also shows about $550,000 spent to burn 36.37 million PAID tokens. DexScreener data cited in the report put PAID’s market capitalization at about $41.3 million, with a 24-hour gain of roughly 350% and about $31.8 million in daily volume on its main PumpSwap pool.

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Visa

2026-09-21 08:22:26

Visa reportedly moves to close merchant code loophole tied to memecoin card purchases

Visa has reportedly told payment providers to stop classifying some memecoin purchases as "digital media" and to route them under merchant categories used for cryptocurrency transactions instead, according to a Sept. 19 report from Crypto In America. The change follows earlier testing by The Block, which found that users buying selected memecoins including dogwifhat (WIF) through Robinhood Wallet and social trading app Fomo, using Crossmint’s checkout with credit cards via Apple Pay or Google Pay, were not shown an additional full KYC identity form during checkout. Those test transactions were reportedly coded as MCC 5815, "Digital Goods Media," allowing users to receive standard card reward points or cash back. Visa’s own Merchant Data Standards Manual says cryptocurrency purchases should generally use MCC 6012 or MCC 6051, with crypto or quasi-cash indicators. JPMorgan Chase also reviewed one tested transaction and said the classification was incorrect, adding that the purchase should not have qualified for rewards under its card rules. Robinhood Wallet was drawn into the issue because part of its card-based crypto purchase flow is powered by Crossmint, not because Robinhood itself set the MCC.

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Visa

2026-09-20 04:12:17

Visa moves to reclassify memecoin purchases, ending credit card rewards tied to a coding loophole

Visa is moving to shut down a rewards loophole that had allowed some users to earn credit card points and cash back on memecoin purchases. According to reporting cited from The Block and the newsletter Crypto in America, certain transactions processed through Crossmint had been coded under merchant category code 5815, a “digital media” classification commonly used for streaming and audiobook purchases. That coding let users on apps including Fomo and Robinhood Wallet receive card perks that would not normally apply to crypto purchases. Visa has now told payment processor Checkout.com to switch those transactions back to the proper cryptocurrency classification. A grace period is expected to expire next week. Once that happens, the purchases will be treated as crypto transactions rather than digital media spending, removing the associated rewards benefits. The issue drew attention from Chase, which told The Block the setup was inappropriate and referred the matter to Visa. Crossmint’s head of strategy, Fonz Olvera, said the company’s reasoning was tied to SEC guidance, arguing that some memecoins could be viewed as collectibles under securities law. The Block also reported that New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office had taken notice of Crossmint’s product and was investigating it.

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Visa

2026-09-20 02:43:38

Visa may tighten memecoin card purchase coding as Crossmint rewards loophole comes under scrutiny

Visa is reportedly preparing to restrict a payment setup that allowed some memecoin purchases made by credit card to earn standard card rewards. The issue centers on how crypto payment processor Crossmint coded certain transactions for apps including Fomo and Robinhood Wallet. According to The Block’s Sept. 1 investigation, those purchases were classified under merchant category code 5815, or digital media, and did not carry a crypto-asset marker. That treatment could let cardholders receive rewards that usually do not apply to quasi-cash transactions. Visa’s own April merchant data standards manual says purchases of cryptocurrency must be coded under MCC 6012 or 6051 and include special condition indicator 7, with quasi-cash indicators attached in authorization and clearing records. The report says the current coding does not match those published requirements. A separate report from Crypto in America, cited by The Block, said a grace period would end next week and the transactions would then need to be processed as standard crypto purchases. Visa declined to comment to The Block, and that timeline has not been independently confirmed by Visa. Crossmint said its position and procedures for digital goods on its platform have not changed.

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Robinhood Cha

2026-09-19 12:01:01

Robinhood Chain fees plunge 97% while transaction counts remain near peak levels

Robinhood Chain’s fee income has collapsed even though on-chain activity has not fallen nearly as fast. According to CoinDesk, the network’s memecoin-driven boom has cooled sharply, cutting daily fees by 97% from their peak, while transactions remain close to record highs. The shift is notable because it points to a cheaper network rather than an abandoned one. At its early-September peak, Robinhood Chain generated about $8 million in fees from 13.1 million daily transactions, or roughly $0.64 per transaction. By Sept. 16, that had dropped to about $230,000 across 8.9 million transactions, or just 2.6 cents each, based on growthepie data. Over the latest seven-day period, average fees fell 82% and transaction counts slipped 6%, while roughly $1.5 billion per day continued to move through the chain. Weekly trading figures also complicate the idea of a broad user exodus. CoinDesk calculations using DeFiLlama show Robinhood’s decentralized exchanges handled about $12.8 billion to $13 billion in the seven days through Sept. 16, up 5% from the prior week, while stablecoin supply dipped only 1% to around $1 billion. Even as launchpad Pons cooled, overall DEX activity on the chain stayed firm.

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Circle

2026-09-19 03:06:40

Circle’s Arc logs 7.83 million day-one transactions, while USDC transfers reach only 624,000

Circle’s new blockchain Arc opened with heavy activity but little evidence that its intended payment use case has arrived. In its first 24 hours, the network processed 7.83 million transactions, yet USDC transfers totaled only about 624,000, according to Arc’s Blockscout explorer. The chain also added roughly 400,000 new accounts, saw more than 73,000 contracts deployed, and recorded average fees rising fourfold to $0.03. Most of the traffic, the report said, came from memecoin trading rather than enterprise payments. That mismatch has sharpened questions around Arc’s positioning. Circle launched the network with 11 founding validators, including BlackRock, Visa, Mastercard, and DTCC, and CEO Jeremy Allaire called it the company’s most important release since USDC. Still, day-one trading on decentralized exchanges reached only about $82 million, far below the memecoin activity previously seen on Robinhood Chain. Native token valuations on Arc have also remained modest, while several memecoins posted steep declines. Criticism also turned toward Circle after Arc Vice President of Product Rachel Mayer shared an AI-generated post promoting the memecoin DUKE. The post drew about 1 million views and prompted backlash from users who questioned whether Circle was pushing tokens to bootstrap activity on its own chain. Circle had not responded to inquiries at the time of publication.

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Bitcoin

2026-09-10 10:24:14

Bitcoin slips to $78,111 as most CoinDesk 100 constituents decline

Bitcoin fell 2% over the past 24 hours to trade at $78,111, while losses spread across most of the broader crypto market. According to CoinDesk, 95 of the 100 tokens in the CoinDesk 100 index moved lower. The report said memecoins and smaller-cap tokens were leading the retreat, and that most of the selloff took place during overnight trading. The move left bitcoin hovering near the $78,000 level as weakness extended well beyond the largest token.

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Robinhood Cha

2026-09-09 15:03:56

Memecoin Trading Sends Robinhood Chain Past Solana and BNB Chain on Fees

Robinhood Chain, launched on July 1, is now generating trading fees at a pace that has put it ahead of Solana and BNB Chain over recent periods, according to comments from Franklin Crypto’s Chris Perkins, a Bernstein note led by Gautam Chhugani, and DefiLlama data cited in Unchained’s report. Bernstein told clients on Tuesday that it kept an Outperform rating on Robinhood Markets and a $160 price target, while describing the chain as an earnings contributor with daily trading fees of $2 million to $4 million. Over the prior 15 days, the network produced roughly $33 million in fees, compared with about $11 million for Solana and close to $9 million for BNB Chain. The report said nearly 90% of that revenue remains with Robinhood, with around one-tenth going to Arbitrum, whose technology underpins the chain, and less than 1% flowing to Ethereum. DefiLlama data showed Robinhood Chain brought in $23.8 million over the last seven days out of $33.5 million over 30 days, meaning about 71% of its monthly fees were generated in the most recent week. The activity was described as being driven largely by memecoins linked to thinly traded stocks. On Bits + Bips, host Austin Campbell pointed to FARMI, a Nasdaq-listed Chinese dried mushroom seller with 15 employees, whose shares rose 350% on Wednesday with 720 million shares traded after a memecoin using its ticker began trading on Robinhood Chain. Perkins said that kind of activity was "a game" rather than an investment.

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