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Your Weekly Guide to Surviving the Crypto Rollercoaster.
CoinBrain
March 24, 2025 • Reading Time: 11 minutes
Welcome to a new issue of Crypto Minute by CoinBrain!
Crypto people (especially ETH holders) are celebrating as green candles 🟩 🕯️ appear for the first time in months!
The memecoin season seems to have reached its end (finally 😮💨) and investors are turning to serious technological progress.
What will be the next grand narrative? That’s the million-dollar question - read our emails and find out 😉
⤵️ Today’s Agenda:
US DC Blockchain Summit: Industry leaders gather on Wednesday to blueprint crypto's future 🌐
🌪️ Tornado Cash comeback. The crypto mixer broke free from U.S. sanctions after nearly three years
The Vitalik-backed Ethereum scaling solution promises a mind-blowing 100,000 TPS! ⚡️
🏦 EOS rebrands into Vaulta to blend traditional finance with crypto innovation.
And more…
📊 Market Snapshot
| $88,400BTC+4.9% | $2,100ETH+8.2% | $2.89TCrypto Market Cap+7.4% | 31 (Fear)Fear & Greed Index+9 from last week |
📅 Crypto Events You don’t want to Miss
Wed, March 26, all day - US DC Blockchain Summit 📍
Industry leaders and US policymakers will gather this Wednesday in Washington DC to discuss the future direction of the blockchain industry 🌐⛓️
We can expect some exciting hints as to what to expect in the upcoming year.
Bet the traders will be watching this one very closely 👀
Thu, March 27, 12:30 PM UTC – US Final GDP quarterly
The U.S. will release its final GDP (Gross Domestic Product) numbers, a broad measure of economic health.
If GDP growth beats expectations, markets (including crypto) may get a confidence boost ⬆️
A lower-than-expected number, however, could fuel fears of an economic slowdown, possibly prompting a shift to safer assets ⬇️ 📉
Fri, March 28, 12:30 PM UTC – US Core PCE Price Index monthly
Personal Consumption Expenditures, this is the Fed’s favorite inflation gauge, and it’s a big deal for traders.
A higher-than-expected number could hint at more rate hikes, which often puts pressure on risk assets like Bitcoin ⬇️ 📉
If inflation cools down, though, expect bulls to charge in 🚀
🐋Smart Money Tracker
Tuesday, March 18th: Vitalik Buterin received 5,000 $DHN tokens from the project’s dev team (a practice used to promote or hype up the tokens).
However, Vitalik did not cooperate and immediately sold the received tokens for 65 $ETH 😆
Wednesday, March 19th: A trader turned $809 into $510K in less than 15 hours by trading $szn on #Tron, a 630x return!
They spent 3,600 $TRX ($809) to buy 46.4M $SZN and sold 12.5M $SZN for 400,890 $TRX ($94K), leaving 33.9M $TRX ($416K).
Thursday, March 20th: ETH is back above $2,000, and whales are returning!
On this day, 3 whales withdrew 14,217 $ETH ($29M) from Binance and deposited it into Aave.
They then borrowed 12M $USDT from Aave and transferred it to exchanges, likely to buy more $ETH.
Friday, March 21st: This sniper turned $304 into $482K on $BUBB, a 1,586x return! 🤯
They spent only $304 to buy 43.94M $BUBB and sold 28.9M $BUBB for $122K, leaving 15.64M $BUBB ($360K).
Sunday, March 23rd: CZ made a test trade on APX on this day. He longed $MUBARAK at an entry price of $0.149 and took a profit at $0.165, earning a symbolic $380.
This generated an enormous hype around $MUBARAK 🔥
Source: Lookonchain
📰 News Recap (March 18 to 24)
🚀 BUBB MEMECOIN GOES ABSOLUTELY BONKERS! UP 1,000%!
Bubb, the hot new memecoin on BNB Chain, went to the moon by the beginning of last week 🌙 after Binance co-founder Yi He dropped a mysterious 👁️ emoji on X!
The coin's market cap exploded to a whopping $40M before slowly bleeding out 🩸. Exchanges were practically RACING to list this hot new token:
Bitget ✅
Kucoin ✅
MEXC ✅
And guess what? There's a juicy $140K airdrop happening to keep the party going! Free money, anyone? 🎉 🐸
⚡ MEGAETH TESTNET IS SPEED DEMON AT 20,000 TPS!
MegaETH, the scaling solution backed by crypto legend Vitalik Buterin himself, just launched its public testnet with a jaw-dropping 20,000 transactions per second!
🤯 And they're aiming for an INSANE 100,000 TPS!
Source: megaeth.com
Layer 2s like Arbitrum and Optimism better watch out! 👀 Using some super fancy tech (EigenDA and special sequencers), MegaETH promises lightning-fast processing with barely any waiting time! ⚡ The future is NOW, people! 🔮
🏦 EOS GETS A FANCY MAKEOVER, BECOMES VAULTA!
The classic EOS Network just got a glow-up, transforming into Vaulta - your new Web3 banking bestie! 💰
They're rolling out:
A shiny new token swap! ✨
A Banking Advisory Council full of smarty-pants! 🧠
Integration with Bitcoin scaling solution exSat! 🔗
Source: EOS Network on X
CEO Yves La Rose has big dreams of creating the ultimate TradFi-DeFi love story! 💘 Think wealth management, payments, and insurance - but make it crypto! ✨
📈 INTERNET COMPUTER MAKING BANK WHILE MARKET FLATLINES!
Internet Computer (ICP) is living its best life right now! 💸
Just posted its highest revenue EVER, with a whopping 80% of earnings coming in just the last three quarters!
While other cryptos are throwing temper tantrums, $ICP is showing that blockchain computing might actually be a real business after all!
Who knew? 🤷♀️💼 Smart money says keep an eye on this one! 👀
🌍️ Story of the Week
🌪️ Tornado Cash is Back, Baby!
Tornado Cash has been officially freed from U.S. sanctions after nearly three years in regulatory jail! 🔓
The U.S. Treasury Department finally removed the privacy-focused crypto mixer and its associated wallet addresses from the OFAC specially designated nationals list on Friday.
This comes after an appeals court ruled in November 2024 that OFAC had overstepped its authority, followed by a Texas District Court ordering the sanctions to be reversed in January.
Source: Office of Foreign Assets Control
Remember why it got banned in the first place? 🤔 The U.S. government claimed North Korean hackers (specifically the notorious Lazarus Group) were using Tornado Cash to launder stolen crypto.
These are the same hackers linked to massive exploits like the recent $1.4 Billion Bybit hack and the $600 million Axie Infinity/Ronin heist! 💰💸
🚀 The $TORN token soared on the news as traders rushed to get a piece of this newly-liberated protocol.
Source: The Defiant
What does this mean for privacy coins and mixers? Is this the beginning of a more crypto-friendly regulatory approach?
Or just a one-time legal correction? 🧐 Either way, Tornado Cash users are celebrating this week! 🎊
The question remains: Is it better to limit privacy for the sake of security? No clear answer to this one, folks. Depends on your personal opinions and beliefs.
🔒 Major Token Unlocks of the Week
$SFUND - 7.00% of the total supply will enter circulation on Mar 25, 2025.
$ID - 3.09% of the total supply will enter circulation on Mar 26, 2025.
$ZETA - 2.33% of the total supply will enter circulation on Mar 27, 2025.
$INFRA - 1.73% of the total supply will enter circulation on Mar 28, 2025.
$CO - 6.14% of the total supply will enter circulation on Mar 28, 2025.
Find more unlocks and full details for this week here.
🗞️ From our Blog
💡 1 Minute Learning: Scalp Trading
Ever heard of traders who jump in and out of trades 1000s times a day?
Welcome to scalp trading, the fast-paced, adrenaline-fueled strategy where traders aim to make tiny profits from small price movements, multiple times a day.
Learn how to scalp trade here 🧠
Scalpers don’t care about long-term trends. Instead, they capitalize on micro-price fluctuations in a range of minutes or seconds.
They often use leverage and high-frequency trading strategies to amplify gains (and risks!) 📈 📉
Trading algorithms and bots 🤖 are also very popular in scalp trading. Notable examples include Hummingbot, 3Commas, and Freqtrade.
🎯 The Playbook
High Liquidity, Low Spreads: Scalpers target assets like Bitcoin or ETH, where they can enter and exit positions smoothly.
Technical Analysis Over Fundamentals: Forget deep research—scalpers focus on candlestick patterns, support/resistance levels, and momentum indicators (like RSI or MACD).
Fast Execution & Discipline: Speed is everything! Scalpers use bots, hotkeys, and ultra-fast exchanges to avoid delays.
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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.