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The post PEPE ($PEPE) Leads Top MEME Projects by Social Activity appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. LunarCrush, a known platform for real-time metrics for crypto and Web3 projects, has released the list of rankings of the Top 10 meme projects based on their social activity over the last 24 hours. PEPE ($PEPE) leads to other top memecoins based on social activity. Fundamentally, social activity consists of engaging with posts and interactions with posts. TOP #MEME PROJECTS BY SOCIAL ACTIVITY$PEPE $DOGE $TRUMP $PUMP $APE $SHIB $PENGU #FARTCOIN $GIGA $BONK pic.twitter.com/wgJ4S30fxi — PHOENIX – Crypto News & Analytics (@pnxgrp) October 5, 2025 PEPE ($PEPE) is leading with 35.6K Engaged Posts and 5.8M Interaction-based posts, according to the last 24-hour record on LunarCrush. It can be seen that $PEPE is leading with a minor difference of 0.1K in Engaged Posts to its contemporary project Dogecoin ($DOGE) with 35.5K and 4.3M by Engaged posts and Interactions, respectively.  Phoenix has released this news through its official X account. $TRUMP, $PUMP, and $APE Battle for Attention OFFICIAL TRUMP ($TRUMP) and PUMP. fun ($PUMP) are closely fighting each other with 26.9K and 20.2K Engaged posts and 4.3M and 6.6M with Interactions. This closeness shows a strong competition between these two AI projects based on social activity on different platforms. Furthermore, ApeCoin ($APE) shows 15.0K Engaged posts with 977.5K Interactions, while Shiba Inu ($SHIB) is surviving with 12.1K Engaged posts and 1.3M Interactions. In addition, Pudgy Penguins ($PENGU) is also struggling with 8.1K and 1.8M, as well as engaged posts and interactions through social activity. FARTCOIN Slightly Outpaces GIGA in Engagement Race FARTCOIN ($FARTCOIN) shows 7.0K Engaged posts with 22.9M in Interactions. In the same way, Gigachad ($GIGA) also shows 6.6K Engaged posts and 7.5M Interactions. This negligible difference shows that they are very close to each other, with only a 0.4K difference in Engaged posts. According to the ranking by Top MEME Projects,…

The post Franklin Templeton CEO Dismisses 50bps Rate Cut Ahead FOMC appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Franklin Templeton CEO Jenny Johnson has weighed in on whether the Federal Reserve should make a 25 basis points (bps) Fed rate cut or 50 bps cut. This comes ahead of the Fed decision today at today’s FOMC meeting, with the market pricing in a 25 bps cut. Bitcoin and the broader crypto market are currently trading flat ahead of the rate cut decision. Franklin Templeton CEO Weighs In On Potential FOMC Decision In a CNBC interview, Jenny Johnson said that she expects the Fed to make a 25 bps cut today instead of a 50 bps cut. She acknowledged the jobs data, which suggested that the labor market is weakening. However, she noted that this data is backward-looking, indicating that it doesn’t show the current state of the economy. She alluded to the wage growth, which she remarked is an indication of a robust labor market. She added that retail sales are up and that consumers are still spending, despite inflation being sticky at 3%, which makes a case for why the FOMC should opt against a 50-basis-point Fed rate cut. In line with this, the Franklin Templeton CEO said that she would go with a 25 bps rate cut if she were Jerome Powell. She remarked that the Fed still has the October and December FOMC meetings to make further cuts if the incoming data warrants it. Johnson also asserted that the data show a robust economy. However, she noted that there can’t be an argument for no Fed rate cut since Powell already signaled at Jackson Hole that they were likely to lower interest rates at this meeting due to concerns over a weakening labor market. Notably, her comment comes as experts argue for both sides on why the Fed should make a 25 bps cut or…

The post How Solana Intends to Become an Even Stronger Competitor in the Blockchain Space appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Solana is preparing for a major overhaul that could make its famously fast blockchain even faster — and a lot easier to run. In its “Crypto Monthly Recap for September 2025” research report published Oct. 3, global asset manager VanEck says Solana’s upcoming Alpenglow upgrade marks the biggest change to the network’s core software since launch. The firm calls it “the largest upgrade to Solana’s consensus in its history,” pointing to six key changes that together promise faster performance, lower costs, and greater reliability. For readers less familiar with Solana’s design, Alpenglow essentially changes how the network’s thousands of validators agree on which transactions are valid. That process, known as consensus, is being streamlined so data moves through the system more efficiently and validators can operate with less friction. What VanEck highlighted Faster finality. Today, Solana takes around 12 seconds to finalize a transaction, meaning to confirm it permanently. Alpenglow cuts that to about 150 milliseconds — roughly the time it takes to blink. Faster finality makes trades, payments and app interactions feel instantaneous, bringing Solana closer to web-level responsiveness. Off-chain voting. Validators currently vote on every new block by submitting thousands of small transactions on-chain. That keeps the network secure but clogs bandwidth. Alpenglow moves voting off-chain, letting validators exchange votes privately and later post a single proof. This clears space for regular user transactions and helps keep network fees low. Simpler validator costs. Instead of paying transaction fees for every vote, validators will submit a single Validator Admission Ticket each cycle. This reduces costs and makes it easier for smaller operators to run validators, which strengthens decentralization and network security. Streamlined communication. Solana’s nodes constantly share messages to stay in sync, a process known as “gossip.” Alpenglow reduces this background traffic so validators spend less time and bandwidth…