Pi Coin has been on a rollercoaster, fluctuating between $1.30 and $2.00 in just a few days. Over the past 24 hours, it plummeted more than 55% from its all-time high, with trading volumes also taking a sharp hit. Yet, despite the turbulence, Pi Coin has climbed to become the 11th largest cryptocurrency on CoinMarketCap in less than a month since its listing on 20 February.

At the time of writing, Pi Coin trades at $1.41, a modest 1.6% rise in 24 hours. However, volumes have dropped by nearly half to $379.1 million. Its market capitalisation stands at $10.18 billion, but with prices still down 53% from its peak of $2.98 on 26 February, investors are on edge.

March 14: The Make-or-Break Deadline

Adding to the uncertainty is Pi Network’s KYC and migration deadline on 14 March 2025—its sixth anniversary. The project has extended this grace period multiple times to allow as many users as possible to verify their balances. However, this is the final chance for Pi holders to complete the required steps before forfeiting their mobile balances.

Pi Network has long marketed itself as a community-driven digital currency, aiming for widespread adoption. However, delays and unclear timelines have cast a shadow over its long-term viability. The upcoming deadline could be a turning point for the project—either bolstering confidence or sparking mass sell-offs.

Binance Listing: The Big Question Mark

A potential Binance listing has been the biggest talking point in the Pi Coin community. According to a recent Binance survey, an overwhelming 86% of users voted in favour of listing Pi. Despite this, Binance has yet to make an official statement, keeping the market in suspense.

A Binance Crypto PM noted on the platform, “PI has already secured listings on multiple CEXs, but Binance has kept the community waiting.” The note further highlighted that Pi has been on a downward trend, falling 20% to around $1.40 in the past week. However, the analyst added, “A Binance listing could be the game-changer needed to push its price back to $3—or even higher.”Another Binance user, PortableDetective07, pointed out that price predictions for Pi Coin remain uncertain. While some analysts believe it could stabilise between $2-$5, others are more bullish, predicting a surge to $30-$70 by the end of the year—assuming major exchange listings and mass adoption. However, the massive volume of mined Pi coins could also send prices tumbling below $1 if selling pressure outweighs demand.

The Wider Crypto Market: Bitcoin and the Trump Factor

Pi Coin’s price drop coincided with a 10.46% decline in the overall crypto market. This came despite the announcement of the US Crypto Reserve, established by former President Donald Trump. According to CoinSwitch Market Desk, the market’s reaction was negative, as investors had expected the US government to inject fresh capital into cryptocurrencies.

Bitcoin has also felt the heat, slipping amid uncertainty surrounding the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve order and ongoing tariff disputes. While long-term projections remain optimistic, the near-term outlook remains shaky, with traders bracing for further fluctuations.

Pi Network’s Future: Where Does It Go from Here?

Pi Network’s success so far has hinged on its unique mobile mining model, allowing users to earn tokens without expensive hardware. This accessibility has drawn millions of users, creating a vast community eager to see Pi Coin succeed. However, the project’s repeated delays in launching a fully functional mainnet have raised concerns.

According to Fortune India, if Pi Network becomes a widely accepted digital currency with real-world use cases, its price could exceed $500 by 2030. Some experts predict that if Pi surpasses $1.90 with strong volume, it could trigger a rally towards $10. However, failure to break past this level could result in further declines, with analysts warning that support above $1.74 is crucial for a bullish breakout.

The Rise of Lightchain AI: A New Challenger?

As Pi Network grapples with uncertainty, investors are looking for the next big opportunity. One project gaining traction is Lightchain AI, which merges blockchain with artificial intelligence to create a decentralised ecosystem with real-world applications.

Lightchain AI has already raised over $17 million in its presale, attracting significant investor interest. Its ability to process AI computations on-chain sets it apart from traditional cryptocurrencies, offering a scalable and efficient ecosystem for developers and businesses. With AI adoption accelerating, blockchain projects integrating intelligent automation are gaining momentum.

Could Lightchain AI Replicate Pi’s Success?

Pi Network’s rapid rise demonstrated the power of early investment in crypto. Early adopters benefited from its growing popularity, even as the project faced delays. Lightchain AI now presents a similar opportunity—an innovative, early-stage blockchain project with massive growth potential.

Investors eyeing Lightchain AI should research its roadmap and vision. With its advanced AI integration and growing recognition, some believe it could surpass Pi’s success. However, as with any emerging project, risks remain. Strategic early entry and long-term holding could be key to maximising potential returns.

Pi Coin remains one of the most talked-about cryptocurrencies, but uncertainty looms large. Will a Binance listing spark a rally? Will the March 14 deadline trigger a sell-off or renewed confidence? Meanwhile, Lightchain AI is making waves, offering an alternative investment opportunity with AI-powered blockchain solutions.

The crypto market is evolving rapidly, and while speculation drives short-term price movements, long-term success depends on real-world adoption. As investors weigh their options, one thing is clear: the search for the next big crypto success story is far from over.

A newly discovered clipboard hijacking operation dubbed ‘MassJacker’ uses at least 778,531 cryptocurrency wallet addresses to steal digital assets from compromised computers.

According to CyberArk, who discovered the MassJacker campaign, roughly 423 wallets linked to the operation contained $95,300 at the time of the analysis, but historical data suggests more significant transactions.

Also, there’s a single Solana wallet that the threat actors appear to use as a central money-receiving hub, which has amassed over $300,000 in transactions so far.

CyberArk suspects that the entire MassJacker operation is associated with a specific threat group, as file names downloaded from command and control servers and encryption keys used to decrypt the files were the same throughout the entire campaign.

However, the operation could still be following a malware-as-a-service model, where a central administrator sells access to various cybercriminals.

CyberArk calls MassJacker a cryptojacking operation, though this term is more often associated with unauthorized cryptocurrency mining leveraging the victim’s processing/hardware resources.

In reality, MassJacker relies on clipboard hijacking malware (clippers), which is a type of malware that monitors Windows clipboard for copied cryptocurrency wallet addresses and replaces them with one under the attacker’s control.

By doing so, victims unknowingly send money to the attackers, though they meant to send it to someone else.

Clippers are simple but very effective tools that are particularly hard to detect due to their limited functionality and operational scope.

Technical details

MassJacker is distributed via pesktop[.]com, a site that hosts pirated software and malware.

Software installers downloaded from this site execute a cmd script that triggers a PowerShell script, which fetches an Amadey bot and two loader files (PackerE and PackerD1).

Amadey launches PackerE, which, in turn, decrypts and loads PackerD1 into memory.

PackerD1 features five embedded resources that enhance its evasion and anti-analysis performance, including Just-In-Time (JIT) hooking, metadata token mapping to obfuscate function calls, and a custom virtual machine for command interpretation instead of running regular .NET code.

PackerD1 decrypts and injects PackerD2, which eventually decompresses and extracts the final payload, MassJacker, and injects it into the legitimate Windows process ‘InstalUtil.exe.’

MassJacker monitors the clipboard for cryptocurrency wallet addresses using regex patterns, and if a match is found, it replaces it with an attacker-controlled wallet address from an encrypted list.

CyberArk calls the cybersecurity research community to look closer into large cryptojacking operations like MassJacker, as despite the perceived low financial damages, they could reveal valuable identification information on many threat actors.

Since the infamous October 7 attacks, antisemitism has exploded and adapted in its virus-like tendencies, finding new ways to achieve popularity by infecting and leeching onto other elements of emerging pop culture. Cryptocurrency, as explained below, is just the latest example. 

As cryptocurrency platforms ascend in popularity, they must exercise better moral clarity to avoid becoming a petri dish for bigotry and violence, particularly against Jews.

Cryptocurrency remains a relatively new phenomenon, yet one that is becoming increasingly integrated into monetary markets around the world. 

In 2021, El Salvador became the first country to adopt a cryptocurrency as legal tender when it embraced Bitcoin as a source of official currency. As Bitcoin has risen to prominence, other cryptocurrencies have emerged into the mainstream conscience, including meme coins.

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While some meme coins are relatively harmless (such as the world-famous Dogecoin), others have sought to capitalize on blatant antisemitism, racism, and violence in their titles and accompanying thumbnails. Also concerning is that some of these coins are even receiving heightened exposure from large platforms such as pump.fun, which reportedly commands a net valuation estimated at over a billion dollars.

Pump has clear terms and conditions that prohibit abusive and obscene messages and reserve the company the right to remove such content. Nevertheless, it continues to platform it. Normalizing malign antisemitism, racism, and violence has severe and deadly consequences. As one of cryptocurrency’s largest trading platforms, Pump has a moral duty. It must discontinue its practice of capitalizing off tokens that normalize bigotry and violence. 

According to Article 3.2 of Pump’s Terms and Conditions, users “must not post, upload or publish to the Pump Platform any abusive, defamatory, dishonest, or obscene message” and may face “termination of or restrictions on the availability of the Pump Platform” for any violations. Article 20.2 also affords Pump the “sole and absolute discretion to remove, modify, or reject any content.”

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Despite having the mandate and authority to combat bigotry and promotions of violence on its platform, Pump is arguably helping monetize them. Many of its controversial tokens have achieved King of the Hill (KH) status. Tokens with KH status are tokens with the highest market cap. As a result, Pump rewards KH tokens with heightened visibility, featuring them on its homepage.

Tokens with antisemitic conspiracies

Many tokens that have appeared on Pump’s homepage with KH status include antisemitic themes and conspiracies. These include the following: “JewNazi” (accompanied by a thumbnail of a Star of David and a swastika inside), “Dirty F***ing Jew” (accompanied by a thumbnail of the Happy Merchant on a coin); “Jews did 911;” and “Jew” (captioned with Jews in Control). 

Other tokens deploy Hinduphobic themes. One token, for example, titled “Jews vs. Hindus,” appears alongside a thumbnail of two Happy Merchants – one dressed in Jewish attire and the other in purported Hindu garb with a Nazi armband – chained to one another. The token is captioned with the following description: “They’re both literally the same, they s*** on everything, invade everything, destroy the economy and housing.” 

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Racism expressed against Black people is also prevalent throughout the platform. Multiple tokens explicitly invoke the “N-word,” and some call for the death of Black people or call upon users to “pump” tokens to kill them. 

Other coins, such as “Monkey Wars,” employ other derogatory, anti-Black themes. Some coins even glorify the Ku Klux Klan, bearing thumbnails depicting a clansman alongside a description, “We are still here to protect you. Protect yourself and support us today.” The effect of these coins is clearly to gamify, glorify, and even normalize expressions of violence against black people.

Pump has also platformed tokens that appear to promote extortion and torture. One token, for example, reads, “LIVE REAL TORTURE UNTIL 100M MC (TORTURE).”

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By allowing such tokens to feature on its platform, and occasionally on its very homepage, Pump has become tacitly complicit in promoting their obscene messaging. As one of the biggest cryptocurrency trading platforms, Pump must clear its portfolio once and for all of the bigoted and violent content, especially antisemitic vitriol, within its ranks.

The writer is an attorney and the director of policy education at StandWithUs, an international nonpartisan education organization that combats antisemitism and misinformation about Israel.