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Promote with Leviathan NewsFollowing a highly publicized July 26 hearing of the U.S. House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), crypto developers rapidly launched more than 50 extraterrestrial‑themed memecoins within about 24 hours. The hearing featured testimony from former military officials, including ex–Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch, who alleged under oath that the U.S. government is running a “multidecade” UAP program and possesses non-human biological material from crashed craft, helping drive a surge in public interest around UFOs and aliens. As the session went viral and dominated search and social trends, token creators attempted to capitalize on the attention with new coins referencing aliens, UFOs and other space or disclosure motifs. Most of these newly issued tokens saw little trading activity and remain highly speculative, but the broader alien‑narrative theme provided a modest boost to a handful of existing projects already associated with extraterrestrials. Established tokens such as Alien Worlds’ TLM, UFO Gaming (UFO) and AlienFi (ALIEN) recorded single‑digit percentage gains in the day following the hearing as traders rotated into assets matching the news cycle. The episode illustrates how quickly meme-driven segments of the crypto market respond to mainstream political or cultural events—especially those with strong internet‑culture appeal—while also underscoring the risk profile of such assets, which are often launched opportunistically around trending topics and may include scams or extremely short-lived liquidity.
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