A prominent stablecoin depegged from the US dollar Wednesday morning after it was alleged that its Hong Kong-based issuer was bankrupt

In a new thread on the social media platform X, crypto billionaire and Tron (TRX) founder Justin Sun urged his followers to “take immediate action” to protect any assets they held in FDUSD, a stablecoin managed by First Digital Trust (FDT).

Sun also called for regulators to step in and take action to prevent further losses and save Hong Kong’s reputation as a financial power.

“First Digital Trust (FDT) is effectively insolvent and unable to fulfill client fund redemptions. I strongly recommend that users take immediate action to secure their assets.

There are significant loopholes in both the trust licensing process in Hong Kong and the internal risk management of its financial system.

I urge regulators and law enforcement to take swift action to address these issues and prevent further major losses. Hong Kong’s reputation as a global financial center is at stake, and similar financial fraud incidents must never happen again.”

FDUSD dipped to about $0.949 earlier in the day but has since recovered and is trading for $0.982 at time of writing, a decrease of 1.27% during the last 24 hours.

In response, the FDUSD has denied Sun’s claims and will pursue legal action to defend its reputation.

“The recent allegations by Justin Sun against First Digital Trust are completely false.

This dispute is with TUSD and not with FDUSD. First Digital is completely solvent.

Every dollar backing FDUSD is completely, secure, safe and accounted for with US-backed T-Bills. The exact ISIN numbers of all of the reserves of FDUSD are set out in our attestation report and clearly accounted for.

This is a typical Justin Sun smear campaign to try to attack a competitor to his business. As we told the reporter at CoinDesk, we have not yet had the opportunity to defend ourselves and instead of letting the TUSD matter be dealt with in court, Justin has instead resorted to a coordinated social media effort to try to damage FDUSD as a business competitor.

FDT will pursue legal action to protect its rights and reputation.”

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Investor Chris Burniske says the recent controversies surrounding memecoin launches have created an ideal opportunity for traditional financial (TradFi) firms to penetrate the crypto market.

The venture capitalist tells his 324,400 followers on the social media platform X that TradFi firms are about to launch crypto-focused products and tokens and show the industry how to effectively raise and preserve capital.

According to Burniske, memecoin launches are notoriously bad at capital preservation, which is the total opposite of how TradFi firms operate.

“Don’t despair that our worthless memecoins were bad at capital formation, the entire world of capital formation is coming to a blockchain near you… 

And for what it’s worth, memecoins were remarkable at capital formation, it was the capital preservation that most lacked. Perfect moment for TradFi to onboard their ‘trusted assets’ onto blockchains and have these RWAs (real-worth assets) appear sexy and trustworthy. Not good or bad, just inevitable.”

RWA is a nascent crypto asset sector where firms or projects bring off-chain assets such as properties, commodities and bonds into the blockchain to be tokenized. Tokenization makes the trading of real-world assets more accessible and transparent.

While Burniske says that most memecoins don’t have lasting power, he thinks that a handful will have a bright future instead of going to zero.

“Though some memecoins will persist… In a select few, I’m a believer.”

At time of writing, the memecoin market cap stands at $52.819 billion, an over 26% decline from last month’s valuation of $71.487 billion, according to data from the crypto exchange Kraken.

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A closely followed crypto strategist believes that the native asset of a layer-2 scaling solution could witness an over 3x rally this year.

Pseudonymous analyst Inmortal tells his 231,000 followers on the social media platform X that he’s bullish on Mantle (MNT), noting that he believes the altcoin has already printed a 2025 bottom at around $0.6.

According to the trader, a 279% rally for MNT this year is a high-probability scenario.

“Starting to feel like bottom is in.

Big players have been buying over the last few weeks, and it shows.

$3 in 2025 is very likely, high-conviction play for me.”

Based on the trader’s chart, he seems to predict that MNT will surge to $1.30 in the coming months.

At time of writing, MNT is worth $0.79.

Turning to Bitcoin, the trader unveils a potential path for BTC to print a durable bottom this year. According to Inmortal, BTC could temporarily drop below $70,000 before igniting the next stage of the bull market en route to a new all-time high of $135,000.

“They will try to shake you out, but this is the bottom.

Save the tweet.

BTC.”

At time of writing, BTC is trading for $82,374.

As for Ethereum, Inmortal predicts that the price of ETH may plummet below $1,500 before sparking a short-term rally toward $2,000.

“Expansions lead to retraces. Retraces lead to bounces.

Bounce soon.”

At time of writing, ETH is trading at $1,822.

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