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We sweep the chain for the things worth your attention: credible airdrops with honest status labels, fresh exchange listings with real dates, and news that says plainly what happened. Sources cited on every page. Scams called out by name.

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Plume Network
LivePlume (own L1)

Plume Network (PLUME)

Plume's Season 2 distribution is in its final stretch: the claim opened in late May 2026 for wallets that registered before the May 27 deadl

AFX (Anti-Fragile Exchange)
ConfirmedAFX L1 (own chain)

AFX (Anti-Fragile Exchange) (AFX)

AFX, a perpetuals exchange on its own chain, has run a points program since May 25 with three earning channels: trading, an LP vault and a G

Grass
ConfirmedSolana

Grass (GRASS)

The two questions that hung over Grass Stage 2, the date and the currency, are both settled by an official Grass post: rewards pay in USDC,

Base
SpeculativeBase (Ethereum L2)

Base

Base, Coinbase's Ethereum L2, spent years saying no token was planned, then shifted to publicly exploring one. Nothing is committed: no toke

Hyperliquid
SpeculativeHyperliquid L1

Hyperliquid (HYPE)

Hyperliquid's November 2024 genesis drop sent 31 percent of HYPE to users, with zero VC allocations, and became the benchmark airdrop. A lar

Jupiter
SpeculativeSolana

Jupiter (JUP)

Jupuary was the rare airdrop with a calendar: Jupiter distributed JUP every January for three years. Then the DAO passed the Net-Zero Emissi

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Solstice (SLX): OKX Ran the Ladder Backwards, Perps First, Spot Later
ListedSLX

Solstice (SLX): OKX Ran the Ladder Backwards, Perps First, Spot Later

OKX opened SLX/USDT spot trading on July 10, 2026 at 12:00 UTC. The unusual part is the order: OKX had already listed SLX perpetual futures

Derive (DRV): Korea Doubles Up on an Ethereum Options Rollup
ListedDRV

Derive (DRV): Korea Doubles Up on an Ethereum Options Rollup

Upbit opened DRV trading against KRW, BTC and USDT at 17:00 Korea time on July 14, and Bithumb added a won pair the same day. Derive is the

Metaplex (MPLX): Solana's Token Factory Lands on Korea's Big Boards
ListedMPLX

Metaplex (MPLX): Solana's Token Factory Lands on Korea's Big Boards

Upbit announced Metaplex (MPLX) on July 2 and opened trading on July 3, with Bithumb adding a KRW pair the same day. MPLX is the governance

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Red candle chart breaking down through a dotted moving average line
Jul 17, 2026

Bitcoin Loses $63,000 as a Third Iran Strike Meets a New China Headache

The shrug ran out. Bitcoin slipped below $63,000 on Friday, trading at $62,907 after a third round of US airstrikes on Iran and a

Stacked allocation bar splitting into labeled segments above a trading floor motif
Jul 17, 2026

T. Rowe Price Launches TKNZ, the First Actively Managed Multi-Token Crypto ETF

A $1.9 trillion asset manager just put a stock picker in charge of a crypto basket. T. Rowe Price's Active Crypto ETF, ticker TKNZ

Two price lines diverging, the upper one marked ETH pulling away from a flatter BTC line
Jul 16, 2026

Ether Outruns Bitcoin as ETF Money Comes Back Through One Door

The CPI pop had a next chapter, and it is lopsided. Ether reached $1,920 on Thursday, up 11 percent on the week while Bitcoin mana

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Crypto Wallet Security Basics: the Setup Nobody Regrets

Crypto Wallet Security Basics: the Setup Nobody Regrets

Wallet security is four decisions: where your seed phrase lives (offline, paper or metal), what signs your transactions (hardware for anything serious

How Exchange Listings Work, and What They Really Do to Price

How Exchange Listings Work, and What They Really Do to Price

A major exchange listing gives a token distribution and liquidity it cannot get anywhere else, which is why announcements move price violently. But th

How to Farm Airdrops Safely: a Setup That Survives Mistakes

How to Farm Airdrops Safely: a Setup That Survives Mistakes

Farm airdrops from a dedicated wallet that never holds more than you are actively using, keep your main funds on a hardware wallet that never touches

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