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Your Weekly Guide to Surviving the Crypto Rollercoaster.
CoinBrain
March 17, 2025 • Reading Time: 12 minutes
Welcome to a new issue of Crypto Minute by CoinBrain! The markets are still red 🔴 BUT the sentiment appears to shift into careful optimism this week (fingers crossed 🤞).
So slow down, relax, and most importantly, don’t let the volatility take away the joy of everyday life.
Let’s tackle the fresh batch of memes and absurdity 🎢
⤵️ Today’s Agenda:
$WOLF Token Crashes 99% - Hayden Davis Strikes Again 🐺
Fed Rate Decision Coming March 19th - Markets on Edge.
Telegram's Pavel Durov Escapes from France to Dubai, TON Price Jumps 20% ⬆️
🇪🇺 The EU is cooking up a new Euro stablecoin, hoping to make the dollar sweat a little.
🤑 Ripple Scores $40B Dubai Market Approval
And more…
📊 Market Snapshot
| $83,200BTC+1.5% | $1,800ETH-8.3% | $2.72TCrypto Market Cap+3.0% | 22 (Fear)Fear & Greed Index+5 from last week |
📅 Crypto Events You don’t want to Miss
Wednesday, March 19th - A super important day, Fed is dropping its latest decision on interest rates 🇺🇸
1. U.S. Federal Funds Rate Decision (6:00 PM UTC)
Eyes on the Fed! 👀 The Federal Reserve will announce its latest decision on interest rates, a key driver of market liquidity and risk appetite.
Traders will be watching closely for hints about future rate cuts — or lack thereof.
Why it matters? ⬆️ Higher rates usually mean ⬇️ tighter liquidity, which can cool down risky assets like crypto.
2. FOMC Economic Projections (6:00 PM UTC)
Right after the rate announcement, the Fed drops its updated economic outlook — think inflation, unemployment, and growth forecasts.
This is where markets get their tea leaves read 🔮: Are more cuts on the table for 2025?
3. FOMC Statement and Press Conference (6:30 PM UTC)
Grab the popcorn! 🍿 Fed Chair Jerome Powell steps up to the mic to explain the decisions and projections.
His tone, whether hawkish 🦅 (tough on inflation) or dovish 🕊️ (more relaxed), can whip crypto markets in real-time.
Pro tip: Listen for phrases like “higher for longer” or “closer to our target” to gauge how long rates will stay elevated.
🐋Smart Money Tracker
Tuesday, Mar 11th: As $ETH dropped below $1,800, this whale's 67,675 $ETH ($121.8M) is now being liquidated.
Despite depositing 2,000 $ETH ($3.73M) and repaying 1.54M $DAI to lower the liquidation price to $1,836.43, the price still dropped below his threshold.
Many other Ethereum whales were in a similar situation by the beginning of the week 🐳 🔴
Wednesday, Mar 12th: This whale has switched all of his long $BTC positions to long $ETH with a 50X leverage.
Later, the same whale got liquidated for 160,234 $ETH ($306.85M)! This a major factor driving the $ETH price down 📉
Friday, Mar 14th: A trader created a new wallet and spent 51.2 $ETH($97.7K) to buy 254.66M $DOGINME on this day.
After Coinbase added $DOGINME to its roadmap today, the price skyrocketed over 150%!
The 254.66M $doginme is now worth $205.7K, with an unrealized profit of $108K (+110%) in just one day!
Saturday, Mar 15th: This sniper 🎯 may have been monitoring Kanye West's posts and automatically bought $YZY, only to lose $465.6K during the next hour.
Sunday, Mar 16th: CZ spent 1 $BNB (just $600 🙄 ) to buy $mubarak and 1 $BNB ($600) to buy $TST 30 mins ago.
Maybe CZ’s up to some good old market manipulation 🎢
Source: Lookonchain
📰 News Recap (March 11 to 17)
✈️ Durov Ditches France (For Now): TON Price Reacts
Telegram’s Pavel Durov has escaped France, temporarily, amid a criminal probe into the messaging app.
Source: newsbit.nl
After being arrested last August and slapped with a travel ban, Durov is now reportedly Dubai-bound.
French authorities suspect Telegram of hosting illegal activities, but Durov’s €5 million bail bought him some freedom.
$TON Price Action. Source: Coingecko
As news broke, $TON price saw a gain of over 20%. Because nothing says “crypto drama” like a billionaire fleeing to Dubai 🌴📈
🇪🇺 EU Panics Over Trump’s Crypto Crush: “Save the Euro!”
Europe’s sweating over Trump’s crypto love affair.
Pierre Gramegna of the European Stability Mechanism warned that U.S. support for dollar-backed stablecoins could wreck Europe’s monetary mojo.
Source: European Stability Mechanism
The ECB is racing to launch a digital euro by Q2 to fend off a potential USD stablecoin invasion.
Meanwhile, Trump’s out there planning a crypto reserve that less than 10% of voters actually want or support 🏦
🤑 Ripple Strikes Gold in Dubai: $40 Billion Market Unlocked
Ripple just hit the jackpot in Dubai, scoring regulatory approval to dive into the UAE’s $40 billion cross-border payments market.
Source: ripple.com
The Dubai Financial Services Authority gave Ripple its first Middle East license, and CEO Brad Garlinghouse is already dreaming of instant settlements and stablecoin adoption.
Oh, and 20% of Ripple’s global customers are in the Middle East.
Meanwhile, whispers suggest Ripple’s SEC battle might finally be ending. XRP to the moon? 🚀
🧙♂️ Taproot Wizards Unleash Bitcoin NFTs: “Magic Internet Money” Returns
Bitcoin’s favorite wizards, Taproot Wizards, are now selling their NFT collection to the public.
Starting March 25, whitelisted folks can grab a wizard for 0.2 BTC, while the rest go in a Dutch auction.
Source: taprootwizards.com
The collection features 2,121 wizards, including nods to Bitcoin legends and even a McDonald’s reference.
Co-founded by Udi Wertheimer and Eric Wall, Taproot Wizards is all about “Bringing back the whimsy of magic internet money”, they proclaim 🪄
🌍️ Story of the Week
The $WOLF That Got Caught in Its Own Trap 🐺💸
Remember Hayden Davis, the guy behind the LIBRA token drama that entangled Argentina's President Milei? Well, he's back with another memecoin misadventure! 👀
This time, Davis apparently thought he could pull off another scheme with a token called "WOLF of Wall Street" ($WOLF).
$WOLF Price Action. Source: Dexscreener
The irony? It was styled after Jordan Belfort, the real Wolf of Wall Street, who once said memecoin creators "should go to jail." Talk about tempting fate! 😬
The $WOLF token launched on March 8 and quickly skyrocketed to a $43 million market cap. But the party didn't last long...
Within just TWO DAYS, the token crashed 99% to a measly $530,000. Ouch! That's not just a dip – that's a full-on crater! 💥
The blockchain analytics platform Bubblemaps did some serious detective work and traced the $WOLF token back to – you guessed it – Hayden Davis.
Source: Bubblemaps
"Starting with the $WOLF creator 6MsuHd, we followed funding transfers back across 17 addresses and 5 cross-chain transfers," Bubblemaps revealed.
"All led to a single address: OxcEAe...The same one owned by Hayden Davis!" Nice try at covering those tracks, Hayden! 🤦♂️
Insider Alert! ⚠️
Analysis shows that a whopping 82% of the $WOLF token supply was controlled by the same entity.
This launch follows the same concerning pattern we saw with Davis's other tokens (LIBRA and MELANIA) – massive insider allocations, pump and dump, retail investors left holding the bag.
Meanwhile, Davis's legal troubles are mounting.
Just days after the $WOLF launch, an Argentine prosecutor asked a judge to issue an Interpol Red Notice for Davis over his role in the LIBRA scandal.
Moral of the story: If you're thinking about jumping on the next hot memecoin, remember - not all wolves hunt in the wild, some are hiding right in the trading platforms, waiting for unsuspecting investors! 🐺
🔒 Major Token Unlocks of the Week
Find more unlocks and full details for this week here.
🗞️ From our Blog
💡 1 Minute Learning: Perpetual DEXs
If you’ve heard of perpetual futures on Binance or Bybit, meet their on-chain cousins: Perpetual DEXes (Decentralized Exchanges)!
These are platforms that let you trade perpetual contracts, crypto bets with no expiry date, but without ever trusting a centralized exchange.
The magic? Smart contracts manage all the trading, collateral, and liquidation automatically.
You stay in control of your funds, and no shady exchange can freeze or steal them.
Source: napkin.ai
🚀 Why is this cool? Because perp DEXes like dYdX, GMX, and Level Finance give you leverage, advanced trading strategies, and passive yield — all on-chain.
And as traders move away from centralized platforms (finally 🙏 🙏 ), on-chain perps are becoming the next big thing.
So if you want to trade like a pro but sleep at night knowing you own your keys — perp DEXes are your jam!
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DISCLAIMER: None of this is financial advice. This newsletter is strictly educational and not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or make financial decisions. Always do your own research and stay safe out there.