Members of the Solana neighborhood and the crypto ecosystem denounced the current surge in inflammatory memecoins on March 22.
Unknown events just lately took benefit of Solana’s token creation characteristic to introduce hundreds of memecoins with racist and antisemitic terminology of their names, some tokens additionally contained anti-China descriptions and different broadly offensive materials.
Solana founder and CEO Anatoly Yakovenko spoke out towards the development on X, merely stating:
“F’ these anti-Semitic racist incels.”
DEX Screener responds
DEX Screener, a preferred third-party service that displays tokens on numerous blockchains, together with Solana, mentioned it will assessment its insurance policies following the excessive charge of offensive memecoin launches in current days.
The corporate mentioned:
“We gained’t be the gatekeepers of what occurs on-chain, however we’re positively not right here to unfold hate.”
The platform’s documentation signifies that every one information is at the moment dealt with in actual time “with none human moderation or intervention.”
As of press time, the development has barely diminished. Nevertheless, it’s unclear whether or not DEX Screener has taken motion towards it.
Molly White of web3isgoinggreat urged that the offensive tokens initially stuffed DEX Screener, few of these tokens are at the moment trending on the platform’s foremost web page. Moreover, memecoins representing backlash towards the dangerous content material are trending, together with “Cease Racism on Solana” and “F— DEX Screener.”
Memecoin frenzy
The crypto business has been gripped by a memecoin frenzy for months now, pushed primarily by the blistering surge in worth seen by BONK and WIF, amongst others.
Solana’s low-cost prices and quick transactions have positioned it as the primary benefactor of the surge in memecoin buying and selling, with a major share of the buying and selling quantity occurring on the community.
SolanaFM just lately reported that greater than 20,000 new tokens are created every day on the community. Solana’s rising token rely is accommodated by its comparatively low transaction charges, which make creating new tokens extra reasonably priced than on different blockchains.
For instance, whereas the typical Ethereum transaction charge is above $9.00, Solana transactions sometimes price a fraction of a cent — although precise transaction prices on every chain could range.
Over the previous 24 hours, all however 5 of the 50 high trending cryptos on DEX Screener circulated, not less than partially, on Solana.
