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Odaily News: Pons founder Ozzy posted on X in response to community questions about the PONS buyback and burn mechanism, stating that the burn rate has indeed not yet been adjusted, and that the "Claim" process is still not fully decentralized.He stated that an on-chain contract upgrade is currently underway. The new buyback mechanism plans to execute a Claim every 7 days, then use all claimed funds over the following 7 days to buy back and burn PONS, repeating this cycle to establish a more sustainable buyback and burn mechanism. All buyback and burn operations are now automated. Anyone can trigger the bot and receive a small reward for doing so.He further stated that the previously set buyback and burn rate was 2e per hour, which, combined with the Splitter (fund allocation contract) currently holding about $950,000, matches a 7-day buyback cycle. After funds are claimed, they will also be automatically executed on a 7-day cycle, so buyback funds will appear in two separate sections: one is the Active Buyback Vault currently conducting buybacks, and the other is the buyback funds reserved for the next week.Previously, crypto analyst yyy posted on X stating that Pons had not replenished funds to the buyback distributor for over 5 days, with about $440,000 in pending claimable funds in the escrow account. The analyst believed that untimely fund Claims led to the recent low PONS burn rate, and called for promoting decentralization of escrow account fund claims.
Odaily News: According to on-chain analyst Aunt Ai's monitoring, a certain whale sold 5.338 million PONS at an average price of $0.6779, worth $3.67 million, driving the PONS price down 4% from $0.6968 to $0.6688. PONS was previously the largest on-chain asset of this address, with an entry price of approximately $0.7154. This sale resulted in a loss of about $200,000.
According to an official announcement, Bybit has listed Pons (PONS) for spot trading.
according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale withdrew 2.25 million PONS from Binance and sold them for approximately $1.29 million worth of USDG and ETH; PONS dropped 12% today. Data provided by @nansen_ai.
Odaily News: According to on-chain analyst Aunt Ai's monitoring, Loracle (0xefe...194b), the largest short seller of PONS on Hyperliquid, took profit 22 hours ago on a PONS short position held for over half a month, gaining $1.352 million; simultaneously closed a CASHCAT short position, gaining $1.026 million. Loracle has now reopened a PONS short position of nearly $330,000 and continues to add to it. mlmabc, the captain of the "Whale Hunting Squad Round Two," had previously published a post openly recruiting members.
Odaily reports: Trader Owen shared USELESS, PONS, and MARSCOIN price charts on platform X, and stated, "punted some stuff - warming up still." Owen became active on X again yesterday and has begun sharing his trading moves.
Odaily reports: According to on-chain analyst Aunt Ai, Robinhood (0x2ae...78ae) bought STANDARD at an average price of $0.18707 and is currently up $105,000, a 48.8% return. STANDARD is the seventh token it has actively bought, and its current on-chain holdings rank third, after PONS and CASHCAT, excluding stablecoins.
According to on-chain analytics platform Arkham (@arkham), the on-chain address @0xnobi purchased a total of $2,200 worth of PONS tokens across 22 transactions two months ago. At the time of the first purchase, the token’s market cap was only $2,100, with the smallest buy amounting to just $20. The address has never sold any tokens, and its unrealized profit has reached $1.62 million, reflecting a 736x gain.
Odaily News: Crypto trader Bonk Guy posted on X platform responding to recent controversy surrounding his purchase of EMBER and explaining his position-building logic. Bonk Guy stated that he first noticed the project when EMBER's market cap was around $3 million but did not buy in. After observing for a day, he revisited his research due to the platform's rapid data growth and bought in from around a $7 million market cap all the way up to a $20 million market cap.Bonk Guy said that EMBER is a major Launchpad built on Meteora, supporting SOL, USDC, and over 150 tokenized stocks as pairing assets for token issuance. It utilizes Meteora Dynamic Bonding Curve technology and offers features such as token fee distribution, Daily Jackpots, and DAO governance.According to his disclosure, Ember has recorded approximately $51.7 million in trading volume, $561,000 in fees, and has cumulatively issued 2,041 tokens within 3 days of launch, with over 41,800 unique holder addresses and 149,000 Solana transactions. BonkGuy compared his Ember purchase to his previous PONS trade, noting that he first saw PONS when its market cap was below $1 million, similarly ignored it for a full day, and then started buying at around a $4 million market cap. Rather than whether a trending token has already emerged, what matters more is observing the real usage data underlying the Launchpad.Additionally, Bonk Guy stated that both Robinhood Chain and BNB Chain have multiple successful Launchpads, while Solana's Meme trading ecosystem has been developing for a longer time, so there is no reason to believe that Solana can ultimately only accommodate one successful Launchpad. He also stated that his trades are not based on market consensus. Some of his most successful trades in the past often came from discovering opportunities before the market formed a consensus; by the time everyone agrees, the asymmetric upside potential has usually already been significantly reduced.Regarding the recent controversy, Bonk Guy said that the claim of "EMBER having over 50% Bubblemaps address clusters" has been clarified by Bubblemaps; his earlier statement that Ember was "launched by Meteora" was also inaccurate—a more precise description is that Ember is built on Meteora-related infrastructure and has now been listed on Meteora's ecosystem page. Bonk Guy emphasized that he has no relationship with the Ember team, and EMBER is a personal trade for him.
Odaily reports: On-chain analyst Ai Yi posted on X that Donut AI CEO and founder Chris held PUMP for several months, accumulating profits exceeding $936,000. He also traded Robinhood trending tokens for 30 days, gaining over $130,000, with PONS reaching a market cap of $600 million at the time of his exit, which has since fallen back to $440 million.Chris also built a position in STONK at a low point when its market cap was $89 million. His unrealized profit is currently around $180,000, representing a return of over 170%. The token's current market cap is approximately $240 million.Chris stated that Robinhood is primarily an incremental game driven by new retail capital inflows, while Solana is a stock game of existing SOL capital rotating within the ecosystem. He is more bullish on the future development of the Solana ecosystem.
Odaily reports: According to on-chain analyst Aunt Ai's monitoring, the queen @XXAntiWar (0xfe5...d850) closed a long position of 4,765,432 PONS today, with a position value of $2.943 million, yielding a profit of $87,000; closed a short position of 3,478.95 ZEC, with a position value of $4.078 million, yielding a profit of $27,000. Combined with yesterday's $660,000 profit on ZEC, @XXAntiWar has made $774,000 in profit on Hyperliquid since her comeback, and has used another address (0x0c4...5d516) to deposit $2 million in margin.
Odaily reports: According to on-chain analyst Aunt Ai's monitoring, @XXAntiWar (0xfe57...d850) has initiated the third trade since his comeback:1. Long NiuLai: Accumulated spending of approximately $1.787 million, with an average entry price below $0.086. If not sold, estimated profit exceeds $750,000;2. Short ZEC: Shortened 5,199.97 ZEC at $1,273, with a position value of approximately $6.62 million, and closed at $1,145.4, realizing a profit of $660,000;3. Long PONS: Longed 4.7654 million PONS at $0.5984, with a position value of approximately $3.15 million, currently showing unrealized gains of $308,000.
According to data tracked by on-chain analytics platform Arkham (@arkham), an address associated with @sickassdude69 began opening positions the day after PONS launched in July, when the token's market cap was only around $628,000. The address purchased PONS in 73 transactions totaling $249,400, has already realized $509,400 in profits, and continues to hold $2.55 million worth of PONS. With total unrealized gains reaching $2.81 million, the investment return stands at approximately 12.3x.
According to on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain (@lookonchain), market maker Cumberland bought another 2.7 million $PONS three hours ago, worth approximately $1.55 million. Its total holdings now stand at 11.2 million tokens, valued at around $6.76 million.
According to disclosures from Arkham, Loracle holds a $16.3 million short position in PONS on Hyperliquid, accounting for 17.5% of PONS' total open interest. The position was established around $0.44 nine days ago and saw continued additions as PONS rallied to its all-time high of $0.97, at which point it incurred an unrealized loss exceeding $8 million. Currently, the short position has turned into an unrealized profit of $2.18 million.
According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), the 27.75 million $PONS short position held by prominent on-chain trader Loracle, which previously reached an unrealized loss exceeding $11 million, has now successfully turned positive, with an unrealized profit of approximately $86,800. However, its XYZ series positions remain at a loss: • $SNDK: Unrealized loss of $4.28 million • $MU: Unrealized loss of $1.59 million • Total unrealized loss: Approximately $3.8 million
Prominent trader Bonk Guy (@theunipcs) announced in a post that the Robinhood Chain ecosystem protocol $PONS recorded a single-day revenue of $1.34 million today, with current annualized revenue at approximately $202 million, a market cap of roughly $434 million, and a buyback wallet balance of $3.7 million that continues to grow. The protocol will continuously repurchase $PONS tokens on the open market via TWAP.
Odaily News: DeFi researcher Ignas posted on X platform stating that current stock and Meme coin narratives essentially depend on trading volume and transaction fees to function. If trading volume dries up, rewards and buybacks will also disappear, thereby weakening token-holding incentives and ultimately leading to sell-offs.He cited examples: STONK, PONS, and CASHCAT all use platform fees for token buybacks or burns; INDEX uses transaction fees to purchase tokenized stocks; ZCAT funds ZEC rewards through transaction taxes. Additionally, SHROOM reinvests fees generated by the LP network back into liquidity.Ignas used Coinbase's previous cycle as an example, noting that its quarterly trading volume dropped from $547 billion in Q4 2021 to $145 billion a year later, a decline of approximately 74%, and pointed out that Meme coin trading volume could see an even more pronounced drop after the hype fades. Therefore, directly extrapolating these projects' annual revenue or yield rates based on current high trading volume and fee levels may overestimate their sustainability.
Odaily News: According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a trader bought 1.497 million PONS tokens over 9 days, spending approximately 378.23 ETH (around $936,000), and subsequently sold all of them, receiving approximately 473 ETH (around $1.17 million). The profit amounted to about 94.77 ETH (around $234,800), with a return rate of 25.06%.
According to monitoring by on-chain analytics platform Arkham (@arkham), the on-chain address @heylittlechef made four combined purchases totaling $2,600 worth of PONS on the token's launch day, when the market cap stood at just $160,700. Approximately two months later, as PONS's price surged roughly 500 times, the address had already cashed out $77,400 and continues to hold a PONS position valued at approximately $1.08 million, bringing total unrealized profits to over $1.2 million.