Meme tokens mostly live by the sword of virality and a dedicated community. A dark security cloud has recently reared its ugly head to shake this dynamic ecosystem. One North Korean hacker, or perhaps several, has made off with more than $1 million. Their bad faith efforts zeroed in on...

The NFT space, though revolutionary and explosive, is not outside of security risks. As we saw with the recent hack of the creator of Pepe the Frog, this is a very real and emerging danger for creators. Significant threats to collectors also occur because of these breaches. These occurrences have...

The gut punch is real. We’re discussing something way beyond just a bad day for crypto, or a hiccup on the NFT front. Otherwise, we’re witnessing a major blow to the hopes of African artists, entrepreneurs and communities. They were excited about decentralized finance (DeFi) and NFTs as the new...

$310,000 gone. Vanished. Stolen. And all due to the fact that someone failed to do their due diligence. Pepe the Frog creator Matt Furie suffered a significant setback recently when his NFT project Replicandy was hacked. One of the biggest hacks this year saw a North Korean hacker penetrate the...

The dust has still not settled, and the smell of betrayal still permeates the air. More than $1 million has been siphoned off of locally-adopted, community-driven projects. These projects, often associated with Pepe the Frog, a meme that morphed into an NFT goldmine, now represent broken trust. For most Africans,...

A few weeks ago, we revealed how North Korean hackers leveraged campaigns related to Matt Furie, creator of Pepe the Frog. They escaped with nearly $1 million. The attack started on June 18th, 2025. It required relinquishing ownership of Furie’s Replicandy project to an externally owned address (EOA). This incident...

Pepe creator and NFT world adversary Matt Furie was… well, put it this way. When a North Korean hacking group snuck onto his project and hijacked his mission, Gov. Furie had previously collaborated and co-founded project Chainsaw to release multiple NFT collections. After their smart contracts were hacked, the project...

Forget the suits on Wall Street. The real revolution is on your smartphone, in your pocket, and it’s Cryptocurrency with dog meme coins. You've probably heard the buzz: Pepe vs. SHIB. Frog versus dog. Can this underdog, a simple green amphibian born from internet culture, actually dethrone the Shiba Inu,...

Although speculative, the excitement is real when a PEPE ETF could be on the cards. Instead, you read headlines promising the next wave of mainstream adoption, the next wave of liquidity, the next rocket ship to the moon. From crypto newbies to seasoned investors, everyone can’t stop talking about it....

The entire meme coin market is highly speculative and subject to volatility. You can lose them just as quickly, as is often the case with technological upheavals! Two of the most notable frontrunners in this space are PEPE and Shiba Inu (SHIB). While SHIB has long been a dominant force,...