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The Crypto Minute
Your Weekly Guide to Surviving the Crypto Rollercoaster.
CoinBrain
June 30, 2025 • Reading Time: 11 minutes
What a rebound since last week!
For retail, it may be a bear market, but the institutions can’t get enough of the sweet, sweet digital coins 🪙
Let’s unpack what you should know 📦 This is the Crypto Minute by CoinBrain 🧠
⤵️ Today’s Agenda:
The first Solana staking ETF is on the way, getting launched by REX Shares with a regulatory bypass 📜
Bittensor-based Inference Labs 🤖 secured $6.3M in funding for solving the trust issue in AI.
💪 Bitcoin reclaims strong $107K after last week’s dump due to geopolitical conflicts
Stablecoin popularity is rising among internet payments as TradFi companies discover blockchain benefits.
And more…
📊 Market Snapshot
| $107,900BTC+6.5% | $2,500ETH+9.7% | $3.32TCrypto Market Cap+8% | 52 (Neutral)Fear & Greed Index+15 from last week |
📅 Crypto Events You don’t want to Miss
Let’s talk calendars, coffee, and crypto moves, because next week is stacked with market-shaking events.
Here’s what you need to keep on your radar:
📌 Tuesday, July 1st:
🗣️ 1:30 PM UTC – Fed Chair Powell Speaks
The man, the myth, the market mover. Whenever Powell speaks, crypto listens.
🏭 2:00 PM UTC – ISM Manufacturing PMI (June)
This little number tells us how healthy the US manufacturing sector is. Above 50? Expansion. Below 50? Uh-oh. A strong reading could fuel a risk-on rally, while a miss might dampen investor appetite.
📌 Thursday, July 3rd:
12:30 PM UTC – US Jobs Report Drop
Get ready for a data dump with:
👷 Non-Farm Employment Change
💰 Average Hourly Earnings (MoM)
📉 Unemployment Rate
This is the big one. If job growth is hot and wages are rising, markets might brace for tighter Fed policy.
But signs of cooling could boost hopes for rate cuts = Crypto go up 🚀
🐋Smart Money Tracker
Monday, June 23rd: Gambler 0x916E won his bet - they just closed his $ETH long for a $1.27M profit.
Then they opened a 40x leveraged short on $BTC with 1,337 $BTC($135.77M) and won again with $2.69M in profit!
Tuesday, June 24th: Gambler 0x916E was liquidated for 1,057 $BTC($111M) due to the price rebound.
In less than a day, they went from a $3.41M profit to a $3.54M loss.
Wednesday, June 25th: The Melania meme team sold 82.18M $MELANIA (8.22% of total supply) over the past 4 months across 44 wallets, cashing out 244,934 $SOL ($35.76M).
Most of the $MELANIA tokens were sold through adding and removing liquidity.
Thursday, June 26th: Gambler 0x916E was liquidated 3 more times in the past 3 hours, with a total of 668 $BTC($72M) and 16,531 $ETH($41.14M) liquidated.
They have lost more than $10M in just 3 days!
Saturday, June 28th: Whales and institutions are still buying $ETH!
SharpLink Gaming, which previously announced a purchase of 188,478 $ETH($473.6M) at $2,513, bought another 1,989 $ETH($4.82M) via OTC.
Meanwhile, whale 0x1fc7, who bought and staked 3,201 $ETH($8.1M) a week ago, bought another 1,888 $ETH($4.56M) and staked it on this day.
Saturday, June 28th: The Trump Meme Team removed 374,608 $USDC and 749,932 $TRUMP($6.77M) in liquidity 50 mins ago.
Then deposited 2.28M $TRUMP($20.51M) to Binance and OKX on this day.
Sunday, June 29th: James Wynn is back and opened a 40x leveraged $BTC short position.
Current position: 13.9 $BTC($1.49M)
Liquidation price: $108,630
Source: Lookonchain
📰 News Recap (June 23 to 30)
🤖 Inference Labs Raises $6.3M for AI Verification Tech
Inference Labs just bagged $6.3M to solve the "trust me bro" problem in AI!
Their "Proof of Inference" system uses zero-knowledge proofs to verify AI outputs without revealing how the models actually work.
Source: Inference Labs
Built on Bittensor's decentralized network, they're planning a mainnet launch in Q3 2025.
Finally, we can stop wondering if our AI overlords are fibbing! 🔍
💰 Codex Launches Stablecoin-Focused Blockchain
Dragonfly-backed Codex just launched its mainnet with native USDC support – no bridges, no wrappers, just pure stablecoin bliss!
Source: Codexlabs
The team raised $16M earlier this year and is tackling the real bottleneck in crypto adoption: making it actually easy to move between fiat and crypto.
With features like instant swaps and atomic off-ramps coming by late 2025, Codex wants to be where the $250B+ stablecoin future actually happens. 🏦
🎯 Polymarket Closes $200M Round at $1B+ Valuation
The prediction market that correctly called the 2024 election is about to get even richer!
Polymarket weekly volume. Source: DeFiLlama
Polymarket is reportedly closing a $200M funding round led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, pushing their valuation past $1 billion.
With weekly volumes still hitting $200-300M and their recent X partnership, they're proving that betting on the future never goes out of style 📈
📱 PumpFun Launches Mobile SuperApp
The memecoin casino is now in your pocket!
PumpFun just dropped their "SuperApp" for iOS and Android, complete with news feeds, live streams, and all the degeneracy you could want on the go.
Pump Fun 2.0 is HERE
the easiest way to DOMINATE the trenches, with
- the movers feed
- tap-to-ape for the FASTEST execution across ANY mobile app
- the news section, showing you the top trending coins in the ecosystemand much more!
download the app NOW on iOS & Android 👇🏻
— pump.fun (@pumpdotfun)
2:43 PM • Jun 27, 2025
With 60% of onchain traders already using mobile devices, founder Alon Cohen says this is "the superapp that fixes" the mobile trading experience.
RIP productivity! 🚀
🇷🇺 Russia Delays CBDC Launch to 2026
Moscow's CBDC plans are getting the classic Russian treatment – delayed until 2026!
Originally set for mid-2025, the digital ruble rollout is now planned as a phased launch through 2028, starting with big banks first.
The delay reportedly stems from struggles ditching Oracle software due to sanctions and figuring out how to handle power outages.
Turns out building state-controlled money is harder than expected! ⚡
🌍️ Story of the Week
📜 Solana Staking ETF Ready to Launch!
REX Shares is about to drop the first-ever Solana staking ETF in the US, and analysts are saying it's basically ready to go live any moment now! 🚀
Source: REX Shares on X
This feels like the crypto ETF holy grail that the industry has been waiting for.
Unlike regular ETFs that just sit there looking pretty, this bad boy will actually stake your Solana and generate yield while you sleep.
BlackRock's Robbie Mitchnick even admitted back in March that their Ether ETF felt "less perfect" without staking.
Well, REX Shares said "hold my beer" and figured out how to make it happen! 💰
REX pulled off what analysts are calling "the regulatory end-around" by using an incredibly rare c-corp structure that bypasses the usual 19b-4 filing process.
The SEC initially wasn't thrilled about this creative approach, but apparently they've warmed up to the idea.
Source: Eric Balchunas on X
ETF analysts Eric Balchunas and Nate Geraci are practically vibrating with excitement, saying "all systems go" and that it looks like the SEC has resolved their concerns.
REX even teased on Friday that "the first-ever staked crypto ETF" is coming soon, complete with a "new era of yield-generating crypto exposure" tagline. 🎯
If this launches successfully, it could open the floodgates for staking ETFs across other cryptocurrencies and send SOL price soaring as inflows pour in.
🔒 Major Token Unlocks of the Week
Explore more unlocks with full vesting details.
🗞️ From our Blog
💡 1 Minute Learning: Hard vs Soft Fork
Let’s untangle one of crypto’s spiciest spaghetti terms - forks.
No pasta here, just protocol upgrades. But what’s the real difference between a hard fork and a soft one?
🔧 Soft Fork – Backward-Compatible Tweaks
Think of it like updating your phone’s OS without breaking your apps.
A soft fork makes rules stricter, but old nodes (computers running the blockchain) still recognize the new rules.
Everyone stays on the same chain—no dramatic split. Clean, smooth, non-intrusive.
📌 Example: Bitcoin’s SegWit upgrade in 2017.
⚔️ Hard Fork – Blockchain Breakup
This is the protocol equivalent of a messy divorce.
A hard fork introduces new rules that old nodes can’t follow.
That creates two separate blockchains - each with its own coins and community. Sometimes it’s peaceful, sometimes it’s total chaos.
📌 Example: Ethereum vs Ethereum Classic, born from The DAO hack fallout.
TL;DR:
🛠️ Soft fork = upgrade within the family.
🪓 Hard fork = chain split, new coin, possibly new drama.
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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.