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The Crypto Minute
Your Weekly Guide to Surviving the Crypto Rollercoaster.
CoinBrain
June 16, 2025 • Reading Time: 12 minutes
Guys, according to the levels of retail interest, we should be in a bear market rn. Do you see any bears? No? Exactly what I thought! 🐻
We keep seeing ATH after ATH. Where this goes, I have no idea, but keep at it! 😁
Catch up with last week’s developments and peek into the future. This is the Crypto Minute by CoinBrain 🧠
⤵️ Today’s Agenda:
Institutions seem to be adopting cross-chain stablecoin infrastructure for its ease of use and robustness.
The stablecoin-focused Plasma Chain ICO sold out in minutes, highlighting the growing demand.
Israel’s bomb strike on Iran shook markets and caused a massive wave of liquidations.
$AURA’s insane 21,100% weekly growth sparks accusations of insider trading.
And more…
📊 Market Snapshot
| $107,100BTC+1.0% | $2,600ETH+4.5% | $3.34TCrypto Market Cap-1% | 50 (Neutral)Fear & Greed Index-5 from last week |
📅 Crypto Events You don’t want to Miss
📌 Wednesday, June 18th, 6:00 pm UTC:
Brace yourself — this is the macro moment of the month. We’re getting a full suite from the Fed:
The Federal Funds Rate is the actual interest rate, and while a pause is widely expected, even a slight surprise can jolt crypto prices.
Economic Projections (aka the “dot plot”) show where the Fed sees inflation, growth, and interest rates heading.
The Statement reveals policy vibes in plain text, and the Press Conference is Powell’s moment to either soothe or spook investors.
For crypto, it’s simple: dovish tone = party time 🎉, hawkish tone = risk-off retreat. Expect volatility, and maybe… opportunity.
🐋Smart Money Tracker
Monday, June 9th: Someone paid 43 $ETH ($108K) in gas fees to successfully deposit 10.17M $USDC into Plasma.
Tuesday, June 10th: Institutions seem to be selling $LDO recently.
Over the past month, several institutional wallets have deposited a total of 48.48M $LDO ($45.6M) to exchanges through wallet 0xC4Db.
On this day, Paradigm Capital transferred 10M $LDO ($8.41M) to 0xC4Db — more selling could be on the way.
Wednesday, June 11th: This trader turned a 90% loss into a $104K (+433%) profit.
5 months ago, trader FvaBFc spent $24K to buy 2.87M $AURA, only to see it crash over 90%.
But on this day, $AURA suddenly surged 35x.
They sold all 2.87M $AURA for $128K, more than recouping his losses and walking away with a $104K gain.
Thursday, June 12th: Andrew Tate doesn’t seem to be good at perps trading.
He has made 76 trades on Hyperliquid, with only 27 wins - a 35.53% win rate and a total loss of $583K.
He's currently long $ETH with 25x leverage.
Friday, June 13th: On this day, 214,270 traders were liquidated for a total of $1.02B!
Among them, a whale was liquidated for $201.31M on $BTC long.
Saturday, June 14th: An Ethereum ICO participant woke up after ~10 years of dormancy and transferred 0.002 $ETH out 44 mins ago.
They received 2,000 $ETH (costing $620, now worth $5.03M) at Ethereum Genesis.
Sunday, June 15th: AguilaTrades, the top trader on Bybit with $77.36M in profits over the past year, recently moved to Hyperliquid.
But his first $BTC long there cost him $12.47M in losses.
Now they are back to long $BTC with 20x leverage, with a position of 1,894 $BTC ($200M).
Source: Lookonchain
📰 News Recap (June 9th - 16th)
🚀 AURA's Insane Resurrection Rally
Remember AURA? That Solana memecoin everyone forgot about?
Well, it just pulled off crypto's greatest comeback story with a mind-melting 21,000% pump in one week! 🤯
$AURA Price Development according to CoinGecko data
The token went from nearly dead (down to $500K market cap) to minting millionaires faster than you can say "diamond hands."
Of course, analysts quickly pointed out that 215 addresses suspiciously bought 30% of the supply for $4M - calling it "totally organic" with maximum sarcasm.
Classic memecoin magic! ✨
🌉 Cross-Chain Stablecoin Summer is Here
Cross-chain bridge volume just hit a 5-month high at $17.3B in May, proving that moving crypto between chains is finally becoming less of a nightmare! 📈
Monthly Bridging volume. Source: Artemis Terminal
PancakeSwap just teamed up with Across Protocol for one-click cross-chain swaps, while industry insiders are declaring this "stablecoin summer."
Because apparently institutions and TradFi are embracing stablecoins as better money rails.
Who knew bridging could be this exciting? 🎉
📉 Middle East Tensions Crash the Party
Crypto markets took a brutal beating as Middle East tensions sent everyone running for the exits.
BTC dropped to $102K while ETH sank to $2,550!
The culprit? Israel's major strike on Iran that killed top military leaders, triggering over $1.1B in leveraged liquidations (the biggest since February).
Classic "risk-off" mode activated, but analysts say this looks more like a temporary shakeout than a trend reversal.
🤖 AI Judge Dobby Takes the Bench
EigenLayer is getting experimental (in a good way) by introducing "Judge Dobby."
This AI adjudicator is designed to handle those messy governance decisions that make humans want to pull their hair out! 👨⚖️
Partnering with AI platform Sentient, they're testing whether AI can navigate the gray areas of DeFi governance better than chaotic Discord votes.
With $13B TVL at stake, let's hope this digital judge is wiser than its Harry Potter namesake! ⚡
🌍️ Story of the Week
Stablecoin Mania Takes Over Crypto
Holy moly, what a week for stablecoins! 🚀
💰️ The crypto world just got a massive reality check about where the real demand is, and spoiler alert: it's all about those sweet, sweet dollar-pegged tokens.
Plasma's absolutely bonkers $500M ICO that sold out faster than Taylor Swift concert tickets. We're talking MINUTES, people! 🎫
This Tether-backed "stablechain" (yes, that's apparently a thing now) had crypto whales throwing around $50M like it was pocket change.
Plasma deposits. Source: Dune
One whale literally maxed out their allocation at $50 million 🤯 the median buy was $35K.
These aren't your average DeFi degens - these are high-net-worth individuals and institutions with serious money.
So, what’s this Plasma chain all about?
Source: plasma.to
Designed specifically for digital dollars like Tether’s USDT, Plasma is serving up a mix of:
Zero-fee stablecoin transfers
Ethereum smart contracts
Bitcoin-level security
Plasma is a Bitcoin sidechain that’s fully EVM-compatible, meaning it runs your favorite Ethereum DeFi apps but settles everything with Bitcoin’s legendary security.
DeFi Stablecoin Yields. Source: Dune
Users can pay fees in stablecoins, make instant global payments, build DeFi, and even do big-money institutional transfers.
If Plasma delivers on its promise, it might just be the blockchain stablecoins have been waiting for.
It seems that TradFi giants and institutions are finally waking up to what we've known all along - stablecoins are just better rails for moving money around.
🔒 Major Token Unlocks of the Week
$APE - 2% of the total supply will enter circulation on Jun 17, 2025.
$RARE - 0.6% of the total supply will enter circulation on Jun 17, 2025.
$DESIR - 2.4% of the total supply will enter circulation on Jun 18, 2025.
$NERD - 0.8% of the total supply will enter circulation on Jun 18, 2025.
$PPT - 2.3% of the total supply will enter circulation on Jun 20, 2025.
Explore more unlocks with full vesting details.
🗞️ From our Blog
💡 1 Minute Learning: How Stablecoins Stay Stable
Ever wonder how your USDT or USDC always hovers around $1, even when the rest of crypto is down 50%?
That’s the magic of stablecoin peg mechanisms, and yes, there’s more than one flavor.
The simplest and most popular mechanism — for every token issued, there’s supposedly one real dollar (or equivalent) sitting in a bank account somewhere.
You deposit $1, get 1 token. Redeem the token, get your dollar back.
⚙️ Crypto-collateralized stablecoins (like DAI) take a DeFi twist
Instead of fiat, they’re backed by other cryptocurrencies locked in smart contracts.
To handle crypto’s wild mood swings, you overcollateralize — like putting down $150 in ETH to mint $100 in DAI.
It’s stable-ish… until things get really volatile.
They use pure code-based supply-and-demand tricks to maintain price, minting when price goes up, burning when it goes down.
They are the most decentralized and independent type of stablecoins, although nobody has fully worked out the perfect algorithm yet.
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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.