Solana has achieved a new all-time high price in the wake of President-elect Trump’s memecoin launch on Friday.Solana-based exchange Jupiter’s token has seen a 30% price jump in the wake of the memecoin’s launch, which also sent Solana-based memecoin launchpad Moonshot to the top of the Apple App Store charts.

Memecoin launchpad Moonshot has become the top finance app on the US App Store, and the #7 most popular free app overall, in the wake of President-elect Trump’s memecoin launch. The launch “crushed fiat onramp records by orders of magnitude,” Moonshot said. 

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, in a post on X, said “large changes” to the leadership structure of the Ethereum Foundation (EF) are underway.Buterin outlined goals of improving communication and better supporting Ethereum’s developer community, but said the EF’s core mission will not change. The post comes as fellow Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin called for new leadership at the EF, floating two names to replace current director Aya Miyaguchi. 

Just a minute after Trump posted about his new memecoin on Truth Social, a trader bought $1 million of the token.With the memecoin’s rapid rise and a few sales along the way, the trader is now sitting on more than $90 million.

President-elect Trump’s X and Truth Social accounts have promoted an ‘Official Trump Meme’ memecoin, which reached a market cap of over $9 billion within three hours of launch. The memecoin appears to be associated with the same entity that launched Trump’s NFT trading cards, which will receive 80% of the tokens over 3 years, with only 10% reserved for a public distribution. Industry leaders celebrated Trump’s imminent inauguration at a ‘Crypto Ball’ in D.C. on Friday night. 

Vivek Ramaswamy plans to announce a bid for Ohio governor “shortly,” a source close to Ramaswamy said, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported on Friday. During his presidential campaign, Ramaswamy said he would block the regulation of self-hosted wallets and allow for the “freedom to innovate without regulatory overreach.”

EVAA Protocol provides lending, borrowing, leveraged staking and other decentralized finance services for the TON ecosystem.It aims to use its financing to eventually launch its own token, with the overall goal of expanding TON’s DeFi landscape.

Two LA-based criminals reportedly attempted to steal over $100 million during a home invasion, according to the Justice Department.Adam Iza, who called himself the “Crypto Godfather,” and Eric Chase Saavedra, an LAPD officer, pled guilty to crimes involving intimidation, extortion and tax fraud.Saavedra would improperly use his authority as a cop to obtain search warrants and feed Iza confidential information of his “enemies.”

Some expect a Solana ETF to be approved by the end of the year thanks to a pro-crypto Trump Administration.Defining if Solana will be classified as a commodity or security will play a major role in the ETF approval process.JPMorgan analysts projected that Solana ETFs could bring in between $2.7 billion and $5.2 billion, cumulatively, during their first months of trading. 

Sen. Ted Cruz plans to introduce a Congressional Review Act resolution on Tuesday a month after Internal Revenue Service finalized a rule that garnered criticism from the crypto industry.Cruz has been one of the most vocal congressional advocates for crypto over the years.

Trump-themed memecoin MAGA has a $152 million market cap, rising 25% over the past seven days and 107% over the past month.The overall PolitiFi market cap is $986 million, a 5.2% change in the last 24 hours according to CoinGecko.

Publicly traded Bitcoin mining company MARA hashed a portrait of President-elect Donald Trump into a Bitcoin block using a strategy of ordering transactions it invented.The move, which earned the firm $443,148 in fees and block rewards, comes ahead of Trump’s inauguration on Monday.

The SEC said that one of Genesis’ largest borrowers was asset hedge fund Three Arrows Capital and said on June 13 that the fund “failed to meet a margin call.”“Digital Currency Group negligently engaged in conduct that misleadingly downplayed the impact of that default,” the SEC said in a filing on Friday.  

Coinbase Prime has seen an increase in USD inflows, indicating a rise in over-the-counter (OTC) bitcoin trading by institutional investors, according to CryptoQuant. This increase in institutional demand coincides with growing market volatility and news of potential regulatory changes under a second Trump Administration.

XRP derivatives activity is surging, with a rising interest in call options implying a bullish sentiment.XRP futures open interest has surged since Monday to hit an all-time high, signaling heightened market anticipation, according to Coinglass data.