# $INK Catalyst Posts & Social Intelligence Recap — July 08, 2025 > **Asset:** $INK > **Date:** 2025-07-08 (July 08, 2025) > **Canonical URL:** https://cryptitalk.com/tokens/ink/2025-07-08 > **Token Profile:** https://cryptitalk.com/tokens/ink.md > **Market Rankings:** https://cryptitalk.com/rankings.md --- ## Curated Viral Posts & Community Evidence ### Post #1 by @vertex_protocol > **Author:** Vertex ([@vertex_protocol](https://x.com/vertex_protocol)) > **Metrics:** 279 likes · 66 retweets · 118 comments · 66.0K views > **Posted:** 2025-07-08T14:09:06+00:00 > **Source Link:** [https://x.com/vertex_protocol/status/1942586747365548295](https://x.com/vertex_protocol/status/1942586747365548295) > **Video Content:** Sample video description 22 > > "A New Chapter – Vertex Joins the Ink Foundation! We're thrilled to announce that Vertex has entered an agreement to join @inkonchain , bringing our core infrastructure and team to the Ink ecosystem. This marks a major milestone for both Vertex and Ink as we power the next" ### Post #2 by @DefiIgnas > **Author:** Ignas | DeFi ([@DefiIgnas](https://x.com/DefiIgnas)) > **Metrics:** 123 likes · 7 retweets · 36 comments · 25.1K views > **Posted:** 2025-07-08T14:26:20+00:00 > **Source Link:** [https://x.com/DefiIgnas/status/1942591083684454449](https://x.com/DefiIgnas/status/1942591083684454449) > **Video Content:** Sample video description 35 > > "$INK will airdrop 1% of the token supply to $VRTX holders. Instead, Vertex will stop trading on all current EVM chains to launch a new protocol version for Ink. Weirdly, Vertex was a founding-member protocol on Polygon's new Katana chain. As an Opinionated DeFi chain, Katana" ### Post #3 by @news_no_mori_ > **Author:** あつまれ クリプトの森 cryptonomori ([@news_no_mori_](https://x.com/news_no_mori_)) > **Metrics:** 34 likes · 3 retweets · 0 comments · 3.5K views > **Posted:** 2025-07-08T03:51:45+00:00 > **Source Link:** [https://x.com/news_no_mori_/status/1942431385693872570](https://x.com/news_no_mori_/status/1942431385693872570) > **Visual Note:** Sample image description 28 > > "突然出てきた ink @inkonchain (Kraken)の新プロダクト "inky" ベータテスト中とのことで触ってみた 手軽なモバイルのトレードアプリで、xStockも購入可能 リンクとpasswordは引用に" ### Post #4 by @naruto11eth > **Author:** Naruto11.eth ([@naruto11eth](https://x.com/naruto11eth)) > **Metrics:** 34 likes · 4 retweets · 10 comments · 1.5K views > **Posted:** 2025-07-08T03:40:41+00:00 > **Source Link:** [https://x.com/naruto11eth/status/1942428600730370134](https://x.com/naruto11eth/status/1942428600730370134) > **Video Content:** Sample video description 40 > > "just tried inky by @inkonchain loved the UX, colors, fast sign up. huge fan of swiping coins left or right like tinder and then buying/adding them to fav. now you can lose money just by swiping. degenery max. gg work @ak47ink @networkspirits" --- *Generated by Context Pilot Social Intelligence Engine.*