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Nick Shirley, creator of the recent viral exposé of fraud in Minnesota has launched potentially the biggest Base content coin yet.
Nick Shirley went viral over the weekend, gaining over 116 million views on X for his 42 minute Minnesota fraud video.
Surprising the crypto community, Nick also launched a creator coin on Zora, Base’s top tokenized content platform, called $THENICKSHIRLEY.
His creator coin reached an ATH market cap of $9.02M, and is paired with each piece of content he launches on Zora, like his Quality Learning Center picture that has earned him over
$10K in creator fees.
Combined, Nick has earned over $75K in fees alone since his content was launched on Zora on Sunday.
Base has been pushing creator coins throughout 2025 and has struggled to win both talent and price action. Nick Shirley could be Base’s biggest creator, arriving just two weeks after the Base App launch.
Flow Stopped Flowing
The Flow blockchain was compromised over the holiday weekend
by a bad actor who minted and sold millions of dollars of $FLOW tokens. Quick action showed the resilience of the chain and team.
On 12/27 an attacker minted $FLOW tokens worth over $3.9M, leading to the Flow blockchain being halted.
All assets on the Flow chain were safe and unaffected by the exploit, though were not tradable during the downtime.
Flow services were restored yesterday, while their EVM side will come back online later this week.
The team initially planned to restore the blockchain at a previous checkpoint, but community feedback drove the decision to restart the network at its current point, but restrict accounts involved in the attack.
The attacker moved the stolen funds offchain via Celer Bridge, deBridge, Relay Bridge, Stargate, along
with attempts on Thorchain and Chainflip. The Flow team has reached out to CEX/DEX and stablecoin providers to freeze the stolen funds.
Peep the charts
AI
The AI market is down -0.01% in the past 7 days to a $5.39B market cap. Top token movers include PIPPIN (+30.24%), ALCH (-24.08%), REKT (-13.3%), TOSHI (-8.92%), and DCAI (+6.25%).
Neox launched its yield infrastructure platform token last week on Virtuals, reaching a $2.4M market cap.
Virtuals is betting big on robotics next year, and plans to have robots connected to the ACP
soon.
The founder of ai16z, Shaw, has returned to X ahead of new product launches (decentralized cloud for agents), elizaOS, and their new ai powered game called Babylon.
David Sacks calls AI job loss a hoax, referencing a report from Vanguard that shows AI leading to
more productive occupations.
The $PIPPIN ai memecoin is getting a Robinhood listing, exposing that insider info may be what
led to its $500M+ market cap this month.
NFTs
The NFT market fell to its 2nd lowest level since Feb 2021, with sales down -7.41% to $61.53M.
Transactions were +3.11% (819K), average sales price -10.20% ($75.11), sellers +13.17% (112K), buyers +1.44% (137K), and trade profits -3.81% to -$11.89M.
Loss harvesting continued throughout the NFT market over the past week with a Meebit selling for
$82K (prior sale was over $1.08M), Bean 1257 for $4.9K (previously $189K), and Doodle 1099 for $50.3K (previously $168.4K).
Yuga Labs has acquired the Unreal Engine-based creator platform that powers their Otherside
metaverse from Improbable.
Rekt Drinks teased their latest partnership of a limited edition drink release with
WorldstarHipHop.
The Subber NFT whitelist platform and Bored Closet are shutting down after the NFT market failed to bring revenue generating momentum this year.
Pudgy Penguins officially took over the Las Vegas sphere last week and released a special snow
globe in their online shop to celebrate the occasion.
