β½οΈMessi just made World Cup history becoming the all-time leading goalscorer.
Not only is Messi the most talked about player across the entire world, he is also the most talked about celebrity, outranking Christiano Ronaldo and every single name you can think of on all social media channels right now.
Top celebrities by social engagement:
1 Lionel Messi
2 Christiano Ronaldo
3 Elon Musk
4 Michael Jackson
5 Drake
6 Olivia Rodrigo
7 Taylor Swift
8 BeyoncΓ©
9 Ariana Grande
10 Dua Lipa
Not only is Messi the most talked about player across the entire world, he is also the most talked about celebrity, outranking Christiano Ronaldo and every single name you can think of on all social media channels right now.
Top celebrities by social engagement:
1 Lionel Messi
2 Christiano Ronaldo
3 Elon Musk
4 Michael Jackson
5 Drake
6 Olivia Rodrigo
7 Taylor Swift
8 BeyoncΓ©
9 Ariana Grande
10 Dua Lipa
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The buzz around the $SPCX IPO has sent SpaceX social mentions up to an all-time high followed by a -32.8% decline in just one week.
The most common themes across all social channels over the last week have been:
Positive Themes
Retail FOMO Around IPO
YouTube and TikTok Influencers Amplify SPCX Reach
Broad Positive Audience Growth
Critical themes
Valuation Skepticism Intensifies
Hype-Versus-Value Dynamics
The most common themes across all social channels over the last week have been:
Positive Themes
Retail FOMO Around IPO
YouTube and TikTok Influencers Amplify SPCX Reach
Broad Positive Audience Growth
Critical themes
Valuation Skepticism Intensifies
Hype-Versus-Value Dynamics
Today's top stocks by combined social and market activity are riding one big wave: AI infrastructure.
WhiteFiber (#1), Micron, Super Micro, Credo, and Nokia all feed the data center buildout. Micron is the anchor, with earnings Wednesday and analysts doubling price targets as the memory shortage tightens. Credo just posted revenue up 157% year over year. WhiteFiber locked in new financing for its North Carolina GPU data center.
Outside the chip trade, Apogee jumped 47% after its eczema drug cleared every trial endpoint, with $1.3B from Blackstone and AbbVie reportedly circling.
The rest are small caps running hot on volume and speculation. ADiTx, Sagtec, La Rosa: thin float, fast money, high social heat.
WhiteFiber (#1), Micron, Super Micro, Credo, and Nokia all feed the data center buildout. Micron is the anchor, with earnings Wednesday and analysts doubling price targets as the memory shortage tightens. Credo just posted revenue up 157% year over year. WhiteFiber locked in new financing for its North Carolina GPU data center.
Outside the chip trade, Apogee jumped 47% after its eczema drug cleared every trial endpoint, with $1.3B from Blackstone and AbbVie reportedly circling.
The rest are small caps running hot on volume and speculation. ADiTx, Sagtec, La Rosa: thin float, fast money, high social heat.
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Crypto's loudest names right now, ranked by social mentions.
The conversation is concentrated at the top. Bitcoin pulled 95.1K mentions, more than double the next coin. Solana followed at 44.9K and Ethereum at 34.4K. After that the volume drops off a cliff.
π₯ Bitcoin 95.1K mentions
π₯ Solana 44.9K
π₯ Ethereum 34.4K
4. XRP 8.5K
5. PumpFun 8.1K
6. Hyperliquid 7.7K
7. USDC 5.9K
8. Cardano 4.0K
9. Monad 3.5K
10. Dogecoin 2.8K
11. Elysia 2.5K
12. Bittensor 2.3K
13. Zcash 2.3K
14. Chainlink 2.2K
15. Sonic 2.1K
The conversation is concentrated at the top. Bitcoin pulled 95.1K mentions, more than double the next coin. Solana followed at 44.9K and Ethereum at 34.4K. After that the volume drops off a cliff.
π₯ Bitcoin 95.1K mentions
π₯ Solana 44.9K
π₯ Ethereum 34.4K
4. XRP 8.5K
5. PumpFun 8.1K
6. Hyperliquid 7.7K
7. USDC 5.9K
8. Cardano 4.0K
9. Monad 3.5K
10. Dogecoin 2.8K
11. Elysia 2.5K
12. Bittensor 2.3K
13. Zcash 2.3K
14. Chainlink 2.2K
15. Sonic 2.1K
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You can definitely feel it on the timeline.
Bitcoin has fallen 12.65% over the last three months while social mentions have declined by 12.4% over the same time.
BTC social posts are overall, seeing 21.9% less engagement than just three months ago.
Bottom line: As Bitcoin price goes lower, the timeline has gotten increasingly more quiet.
Bitcoin has fallen 12.65% over the last three months while social mentions have declined by 12.4% over the same time.
BTC social posts are overall, seeing 21.9% less engagement than just three months ago.
Bottom line: As Bitcoin price goes lower, the timeline has gotten increasingly more quiet.
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Always question the data you see. https://x.com/LunarCrush/status/2069502210803966274
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LunarCrush (@LunarCrush) on X
@WatcherGuru With such rapid growth, you'd think more of the community would be talking about Binance on social channels. Creators posting about Binance are down -23.3% during that same timeframe. A huge divergence vs. what we've seen historically.
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β½οΈ Does social media predict the World Cup?
We ran six years of data against real results. The findings:
Raw buzz picked the 2022 knockout winner just 45% of the time. Worse than a coin flip.
Social volume is a rear-view mirror. It peaks AFTER matches, not before.
Sentiment is the real signal. It matched the bookmakers at 73% and caught the two biggest upsets the market missed.
Our 2026 board: France, Spain, England, Norway, Portugal.
Social longshots the market sleeps on: Norway + Portugal.
Fade the hype: Croatia, top of the social-only board and already bottom of their group on zero points.
Full analysis + charts π
https://lunarcrush.com/blog/world-cup-social-prediction
We ran six years of data against real results. The findings:
Raw buzz picked the 2022 knockout winner just 45% of the time. Worse than a coin flip.
Social volume is a rear-view mirror. It peaks AFTER matches, not before.
Sentiment is the real signal. It matched the bookmakers at 73% and caught the two biggest upsets the market missed.
Our 2026 board: France, Spain, England, Norway, Portugal.
Social longshots the market sleeps on: Norway + Portugal.
Fade the hype: Croatia, top of the social-only board and already bottom of their group on zero points.
Full analysis + charts π
https://lunarcrush.com/blog/world-cup-social-prediction
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AI has stolen crypto's thunder, at least in terms of attention and mindshare across social.
1 Year Engagements:
CRYPTO
Bitcoin +0.4%
Ethereum β41.3%
Tether β83%
BNB β61%
XRP β62%
Solana β39%
TRON β50%
AI
Anthropic +2,502.9%
OpenAI +81.5%
Alphabet +92.3%
NVIDIA +92.2%
Perplexity +14.9%
Micron +673.5%
DELL +76.3%
1 Year Engagements:
CRYPTO
Bitcoin +0.4%
Ethereum β41.3%
Tether β83%
BNB β61%
XRP β62%
Solana β39%
TRON β50%
AI
Anthropic +2,502.9%
OpenAI +81.5%
Alphabet +92.3%
NVIDIA +92.2%
Perplexity +14.9%
Micron +673.5%
DELL +76.3%
It's the weekend but crypto never sleeps. The top mentioned coins across all major social networks includes two major new insights.
1) Solana is substantially outpacing Ethereum at one of the highest rates ever.
2) $ANSEM has joined the list, outpacing Dogecoin.
1 Bitcoin $BTC
2 Solana $SOL
3 Ethereum $ETH
4 PumpFun $PUMP
5 $XRP
6 Hyperliquid $HYPE
7 $USDC
8 Cardano $ADA
9 The Black Bull $ANSEM
10 Dogecoin $DOGE
1) Solana is substantially outpacing Ethereum at one of the highest rates ever.
2) $ANSEM has joined the list, outpacing Dogecoin.
1 Bitcoin $BTC
2 Solana $SOL
3 Ethereum $ETH
4 PumpFun $PUMP
5 $XRP
6 Hyperliquid $HYPE
7 $USDC
8 Cardano $ADA
9 The Black Bull $ANSEM
10 Dogecoin $DOGE
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The 10 most talked-about coins in crypto right now, ranked by social mentions over the last 24 hours.
Bitcoin
$BTC
Saylor's Strategy unveiled a new Digital Credit Capital Framework today to grow its Bitcoin stack, keeping institutional buying front and center.
Solana
$SOL
A Solana token called ANSEM ran roughly 630x in a day, and the community is treating it as proof SOL has the deepest culture in crypto.
Ethereum
$ETH
Airdrop buzz around Aligned $ALIGN and "Ethereum is ready to eat finance" talk has ETH holders fired up.
PumpFun
$PUMP
Traders smell a long-awaited PUMP airdrop, and a whale dormant for over a year just spent $358K buying back in.
The Black Bull $ANSEM Ansem's personal token blew up after he started airdropping around $7M to holders, with one fan tattooing "Ansem To 1B" on his forehead.
XRP
$XRP
A report that XRP is now connected to X Money through Cross River Bank reignited the payments-rail narrative.
Hyperliquid
$HYPE
Arthur Hayes called for a Hyperliquid options DEX to t
Bitcoin
$BTC
Saylor's Strategy unveiled a new Digital Credit Capital Framework today to grow its Bitcoin stack, keeping institutional buying front and center.
Solana
$SOL
A Solana token called ANSEM ran roughly 630x in a day, and the community is treating it as proof SOL has the deepest culture in crypto.
Ethereum
$ETH
Airdrop buzz around Aligned $ALIGN and "Ethereum is ready to eat finance" talk has ETH holders fired up.
PumpFun
$PUMP
Traders smell a long-awaited PUMP airdrop, and a whale dormant for over a year just spent $358K buying back in.
The Black Bull $ANSEM Ansem's personal token blew up after he started airdropping around $7M to holders, with one fan tattooing "Ansem To 1B" on his forehead.
XRP
$XRP
A report that XRP is now connected to X Money through Cross River Bank reignited the payments-rail narrative.
Hyperliquid
$HYPE
Arthur Hayes called for a Hyperliquid options DEX to t
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π§1 YEAR PRICE PERFORMANCE COMPARISON
$BTC -43.17%
$ZEC +1,020.57%
$1,000 invested in Zcash 365 days ago would be $10,589 today.
$1,000 invested in Bitcoin 365 days ago would be 0.0092 BTC and a dollar value of $553. That same amount invested in Zcash would be worth 0.176 BTC.
Put differently, Zcash appreciated about 19x against Bitcoin over the last year.
$BTC -43.17%
$ZEC +1,020.57%
$1,000 invested in Zcash 365 days ago would be $10,589 today.
$1,000 invested in Bitcoin 365 days ago would be 0.0092 BTC and a dollar value of $553. That same amount invested in Zcash would be worth 0.176 BTC.
Put differently, Zcash appreciated about 19x against Bitcoin over the last year.
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π Social magnitude β seismic magnitude.
In April 2024 a M4.8 earthquake hit New Jersey. Zero deaths. It pulled 70% more social engagement than a M7.4 in Taiwan two days earlier that killed 19 people.
We mapped 39.15B "earthquake" engagements since 2020 to the quakes behind every spike. The feed reacts to proximity, not power.
The biggest spike of the decade came from the M8.8 in Kamchatka, which killed almost no one. The deadliest quake in the data, the M7.8 in Turkey and Syria, ranks dead last.
Full breakdown and the social seismograph π
https://lunarcrush.com/blog/when-the-earth-shakes-the-social-feed-erupts
In April 2024 a M4.8 earthquake hit New Jersey. Zero deaths. It pulled 70% more social engagement than a M7.4 in Taiwan two days earlier that killed 19 people.
We mapped 39.15B "earthquake" engagements since 2020 to the quakes behind every spike. The feed reacts to proximity, not power.
The biggest spike of the decade came from the M8.8 in Kamchatka, which killed almost no one. The deadliest quake in the data, the M7.8 in Turkey and Syria, ranks dead last.
Full breakdown and the social seismograph π
https://lunarcrush.com/blog/when-the-earth-shakes-the-social-feed-erupts
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