Tether, the company behind the $USDT stablecoin, announced plans to launch $USDT on Bitcoin’s base layer and the Lightning Network.

That’s big, big news – $USDT carries a $140B market cap in the stablecoin sector, which itself accounts for some $224B of the $3.7T total crypto market cap.

Now, Tether wants to combine $USDT with Bitcoin, the biggest name in crypto, to provide faster and more reliable solutions for remittances, payments, and other financial applications.

By leveraging Bitcoin’s base layer and the Lightning Network, Tether aims to improve transaction efficiency involving $USDT. $USDT is already integrated with a number of other important chains – including Ethereum, Tron, Solana, and Binance Smart Chain – but adding Bitcoin via the Lightning Network would be huge, with far-reaching implications.

As Bitcoin looks set to expand with $USDT, hype for the next 100x meme coins grows. Here’s our list of ones you need to keep your eyes on.

1. Solaxy ($SOLX) – Brilliant Solana Layer-2 Upgrade with 240% Staking

Solaxy rides a pure meme coin wave – but there’s real utility here, also. Solaxy aims to combine Solana’s speed with Ethereum’s reliability for a multi-chain solution and Solana upgrade.

And memes, of course. The $SOLX token is a meme coin with added utility, including 240% staking for users who purchase and stake $SOLX during the presale period. Staking rewards will be disbursed over the course of three years after the presale ends.

The tokenomics of the project reserve significant numbers of tokens for protocol development (30%) and rewards for early adopters (25%).

With over $16.6M raised in the presale, there’s a genuine opportunity for early supporters to see major returns on their investment. Solana climbed 136% in 2024; can $SOLX do 100x?

To learn more, or if you’d like to buy some Solaxy, check out the $SOLX presale page.

2. MIND of Pepe ($MIND) – Crypto’s Green Frog Gains AI Superpowers

MIND of Pepe combines AI with Pepe to give you an all-knowing green frog.

The $MIND token is currently in presale, but the techmap outlines plans for an AI agent launch on X, AI-powered market analysis and insights, and exclusive alpha for token holders.

Eventually, the MIND of Pepe will understand the crypto market enough to market and deploy its own tokens.

That’s a lot of power invested in Pepe, but his $MIND is big enough to handle it. And a fully autonomous AI with the power to dominate the meme coin market could make big gains for early investors.

$MIND token holders can stake their tokens at a current rate of 488%, another incentive to join one of the best crypto presales early. Tokens are currently worth $0.0032273 in the ongoing presale, which has raised $4.5M so far.

Learn more about $MIND on its presale page.

3. Catslap ($SLAP) – Slap-to-Earn in Token Airdrop

Everyone loves a good airdrop, and everyone loves cats. Catslap adds a simple game to the mix – Slap-to-Earn. Connect your wallet (Best Wallet integrates smoothly) and start slapping. At the end of the game’s season, accumulated $SLAP tokens are distributed in a Slapdrop (airdrop).

The Catslap project regularly burns $SLAP tokens to keep deflationary pressure on the token’s price, an important feature for anyone wanting to make a long-term crypto play. $SLAP currently trades on a number of DEXs, and investors can purchase tokens there, on the presale website, or earn them by slapping.

Catslap combines memes and cats, the original source of all memes, for a fun project with a strong and growing community. Can the project expand from here? Never count a cat out.

Visit Catslap here.

4. Fartcoin ($FARTCOIN) – Terrible Name, Fantastic Meme

Despite a name only a degen could love, $FARTCOIN is up 14% for the month. That’s great – but on the year, Fartcoin is up 1,700%. That’s incredible and shows just how fast the best new meme coins can grow when conditions are right.

Fartcoin provides no real utility; it’s a meme coin, pure and simple. Despite that limitation, Fartcoin was one of the biggest winners of 2024, setting an example for other new meme coins to follow.

Could it go on another run? Don’t count it out.

5. SPX6900 – Pure Meme Coin Madness with Incredible Growth

One of the few tokens to improve on Fartcoin’s performance, SPX6900 – a meme coin spin on the S&P500 – is up a whopping 74,751% in a year.

That’s mind-blowingly impressive, the kind of big gains most meme coins dream of.

And yet, there’s always room for further growth.

SPX6900 sports a $1B+ market cap and ranks in the top 100 cryptos, demonstrating how fast – and how far – meme coins can go.

Bitcoin Gets Bigger, Tether Expands – Meme Coins Set To Explode in 2025

The biggest crypto of them all looks set to benefit from $USDT’s integration, and that bodes well for both projects.

Do your own research before investing in any of the above tokens; this is not financial advice. But with two giants of crypto coming together, meme coins stand to benefit. Will one of these projects go another 100x?

Asset manager Grayscale has announced the launch of its Dogecoin Trust, a fund that will provide institutional investors with exposure to the foremost meme coin DOGE. This move has also raised the possibility of the asset manager filing for a DOGE ETF at some point.

Grayscale Launches Dogecoin Trust

In a press release, Grayscale announced the creation and launch of its Grayscale Dogecoin Trust. The asset manager stated that this fund will offer investors the opportunity to gain exposure to DOGE, the native coin of the Dogecoin network.

The firm further remarked that it believes the top meme coin has transitioned from a meme coin of a Shiba Inu to a tool for “global financial inclusion, grassroots activism, and a viable means of payment.” The asset manager added that due to its widespread accessibility, affordability, and rapid transaction speeds, DOGE has gained significant adoption worldwide.

Grayscale mentioned that the Trust is now open for daily subscription by eligible individual and institutional accredited investors. The firm noted that the fund functions like its other single-asset investment trusts and is solely invested in DOGE, the native coin of the Dogecoin network.

Meanwhile, this launch comes just a day after the asset manager filed for a Spot XRP ETF with the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The firm plans to convert its XRP Trust to an ETF, which will list and trade on the NYSE.

A Spot ETF Next?

Grayscale’s launch of the Dogecoin Trust has raised the possibility of the asset manager filing for a Spot DOGE ETF at some point. In an X post, Nate Geraci, the President of the ETF Store, also predicted that the firm would file for this DOGE ETF.

He asserted that the “obvious plan” here is to ultimately convert the Trust to an ETF. He added that the launch of the Trust allows the asset manager to test out demand and get a head start on accumulating assets.

Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas also agreed with Geraci, stating that the move is an attempt for the asset manager to “cut line,” in terms of trying to get an approval from the SEC for a DOGE ETF.

It is worth mentioning that Grayscale has taken this approach with all the Spot crypto ETFs it currently offers and prospective ones. The asset manager simply convert its Bitcoin and Ethereum Trust to spot ETFs. Meanwhile, the firm is currently looking to convert its XRP, Solana, and Litecoin Trusts to spot ETFs.

In the meantime, REX Shares and Bitwise remain the only asset managers to have filed to offer a Dogecoin ETF with the US SEC. REX Shares submitted its application last week while Bitwise just filed its S-1 for this fund three days ago.

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