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🐶 The retail comeback starts here — on BNB

PLUS: 70% of BNB meme traders are in profit, 40 new millionaires minted, and retail energy is roaring back. Solana’s losing mindshare, Dubai’s tokenizing gold, Russia’s betting on $250K BTC, Solana reports $2.85B in revenue, and S&P launches a crypto index on-chain.

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October 08, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes

Meme season is heating up and now it’s the turn of Binance to blaze.

Based on on-chain analysis from Bubblemaps, over 70% of BNB meme traders are in profit, and more than 100k wallets have been swept up in the craze over the last few weeks.

An estimated 40 traders graduated to the millionaire tier, but one whale allegedly left holding more than $10 million in wanton profits.

Even those CZ tweets, sometimes playful and cryptic in nature, have contributed to fueling the rallies behind tokens like BROCCOLI, PUP, and GIGGLE.

The result: The price of BNB reached $1,300, making it briefly ascend over XRP and USDT to become the third-largest asset by market cap.

The BNB meme machine

But as Solana’s memecoin mania dissipated, BNB hit a frenzy of on-chain activity.

They include tokens such as Four (4), PUP, PALU, and 币安人生 , which produced the highest number of millionaires — including Four (4) minting 21 new million artisans.

BNB’s memecoin share has now reached 11.4% of all meme action, just a hair below Ethereum’s 12%, which would put Binance’s ecosystem in the running to be the new major home for speculative capital.

“BNB meme season is in full swing,” Bubblemaps observed. “The profitability is good, the engagement is skyrocketing, and mindshare has shifted from Solana to Binance.”

It was Solana proving it last quarter; now BNB’s proving it again. It is quite often meme seasons precede the return of retail energy, the rocket fuel that, in time, will spill over into broader altcoin and NFT cycles.

📘 Quick Explainer: Why Meme-manias are important

It’s not just hype, they’re on-chain liquidity engines. Each meme mania jacks up network fees, injects token volumes, and resurrects trader activity.

Beyond the chaos and humor is something larger:

Still, the return of BNB isn’t just about memecoins, it’s about ecosystem reinvigoration and narrative monopoly.

But if Solana’s memecoin mania rebranded it as the “people’s chain,”
BNB’s wave just might make it the new retail capital of crypto.

📊Market Watch

🇷🇺 Russia’s VTB Bank Calls $250K Bitcoin

Analysts at VTB My Investments, the brokerage arm of Russia’s second-largest bank, see BTC climbing to $200K–$250K in the medium term after hitting a new all-time high above $127K.

🏛️ Dubai moves to Tokenize Gold and Commodities

DMCC and VARA are launching pilot projects to tokenize gold, diamonds, and other high-value commodities using blockchain infrastructure. The initiative aims to build a secure, transparent framework for real-world asset trading and expand global market access.

⚡ Solana prints $2.85B revenue

A new report by 21Shares suggests Solana is raking in $2.85 billion in fees annually, a 220× increase from 2023 and miles ahead of Ethereum’s early cycle numbers. Trading platforms accounted for 30 percent of that, with DEXs, memecoins and DeFi tools at the top.

👀 Are you watching this?

S&P 500’s crypto cousin went live.

S&P Dow Jones Indices, the group behind the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average, has officially launched the S&P Digital Markets 50 Index, a first-of-its-kind benchmark mixing 15 major cryptocurrencies and 35 crypto-related stocks.

Built in partnership with Dinari, the index brings together companies and coins driving blockchain innovation, from miners to exchanges. It’s also getting its own tokenized version via Dinari’s dShares platform, letting investors trade the index directly on-chain by year’s end.

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📣 Calls for the Future

YZi Labs has established a $1 billion Builder Fund to address the specific needs and challenges faced by founders in the BNB ecosystem, thereby enhancing its support for their growth and innovation.

The initiative also aims to invite more long-term founders to focus on BNB-based innovations, particularly in areas such as trading, RWA, AI, DeSci, payments, and wallets, which are integral to the ecosystem's growth.

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