Crypto Markets Writer
Tony Rabbit is a crypto markets writer at DEXTools News covering decentralized finance, on-chain trends, and trading narratives. He turns DEXTools live on-chain data into clear, actionable explanations for everyday readers, with a focus on new token launches, memecoins, liquidity, token safety, and how DEX market structure actually behaves. His reporting leans on primary sources and verifiable on-chain evidence over hype.
1469 articles published
Aave went live on Monad with about $83.5 million in day-one deposits. We pulled the market on-chain: roughly half of it earns nothing, a single token is 43% of the total, and the flagship GHO stablecoin has almost no presence.
The Hinkal privacy protocol was drained of about $820,000 on July 3. We reconstructed the full attack and laundering trail on-chain, down to the single Bitcoin address the funds bridged into.
A wrapped Alphabet-stock token with zero on-chain market was inflated about 78x to drain Edel Finance for roughly $403,000. We traced the exploit transaction and pulled the collateral data that explains why it worked.
Robinhood launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain on July 1, 2026, an Arbitrum-based Ethereum Layer-2 with 24/7 tokenized stocks that plug into DeFi as collateral. Uniswap, Lighter, 1inch and Arcus (from the dYdX team) were live on day one. Here is what launched and why it matters for on-chain trading.
Taiwan passed its first comprehensive crypto law on July 1, 2026, requiring every exchange and virtual-asset provider to obtain a license, mandating that only banks issue stablecoins with 100% segregated reserves, and setting prison terms of up to seven years for unlicensed operators. Here is what the new framework does.
A new 'creator coin' meta peaked on Solana in mid-2026, led by the $ANSEM token, where influencers collect and redistribute the fees on coins built around their name. We explain how it works, weigh the genuine innovation against the real risks, and read the on-chain data behind the headlines, neutrally and with the numbers attributed.
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority published its final crypto rulebook on June 30, 2026, the country's first comprehensive framework. It brings exchanges, custodians, staking and stablecoin issuers into a full licensing regime, cuts the stablecoin capital floor to 1 percent, and sets an authorization window that closes in February 2027.
Crypto content creator ChooseRich said openly, in his own posts on June 30, 2026, that he dumps, or in his words rugs, any unofficial token created in his name after one copycat sent him 60 percent of its supply. It is the clearest example yet of the copycat trap inside the influencer-token meta, and of why buyers get caught.
The $ANSEM token everyone is watching, The Black Bull, touched a market cap near 99 million dollars on June 29, 2026. Live DEXTools on-chain data shows what the hype posts leave out: just 1,455 holders, about 1.2 million dollars of liquidity, a clean but fully renounced contract, and a market cap roughly 80 times its main pool.
DEXTools sampled 215 fresh pump.fun tokens on June 29, 2026. Nearly a quarter showed a bot-like trading burst within 15 minutes of launch, 30% were already dead with zero trades, the median token had just 3 trades, and none had graduated to Raydium at sample time. The full snapshot.
DEXTools sampled live token-launch activity across 18 chains on June 29, 2026. The market is minting on the order of 67,000 new tokens a day, about 76% arrive with negligible liquidity, and only around 1% are still being actively traded a week later. Here is the full on-chain breakdown, chain by chain.
A practical Maestro vs Trojan bot comparison, with Banana Gun added, covering fees, chains, anti-MEV protection, custody risk, and a pick-by-use-case verdict for memecoin snipers.
