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The Crypto Minute
Your Weekly Guide to Surviving the Crypto Rollercoaster.
CoinBrain
September 01, 2025 • Reading Time: 11 minutes
Another week, another Crypto Minute!
Before you start reading, take a guess at which blockchain network is growing the fastest. 🤔📈 I was really surprised — we’ll cover it in Story of the Week. 📖✨
On top of that, Binance glitched, Gavin Newsom announced his own shitcoin, and much more. 🚀
⤵️ Today’s Agenda:
Avalanche surges with 66% transaction growth as US posts GDP on-chain.
Gavin Newsom drops his own shitcoin.
Binance futures freeze after a glitch, chaos for a moment.
Ethereum Foundation pauses open grants to go curated.
Flash crash shakes Bitcoin and alts, but recovery talk follows.
And more…
📊 Market Snapshot
| $108 429BTC-4.4 % | $4 476ETH-5.8 % | $3.86 TCrypto Market Cap±0 % zhruba | 48 (Neutral)Fear & Greed Index-5 z minulého týdne |
📅 Crypto Events You don’t want to Miss
📌 Tuesday, Sep 2nd: US ISM Manufacturing PMI will drop.
This is a key survey of purchasing managers that shows whether the US factory sector is growing (>50) or shrinking (<50).
Traders treat it as an early health check of the US economy.
📌 Friday, Sep 5th: US Average Hourly Earnings m/m comes out.
It shows how much workers are getting paid on average each month.
Higher numbers can signal wage inflation and push the Fed toward hawkishness.
📌 Friday, Sep 5th: US Non-Farm Employment Change.
It will show the monthly increase or decrease in the number of jobs across all sectors except farming.
A lower reading can raise concerns about slowing momentum.
📌 Friday, Sep 5th: US Unemployment Rate will be released.
It measures the percentage of the labor force that is unemployed and actively seeking work.
A rising rate signals weakness, as you probably know.
🐋Smart Money Tracker
Monday, Aug 25th: A whale that pocketed $1.72M swing trading $LINK two years ago has resurfaced, scooping up 663,580 $LINK ($16.85M).
Source: Lookonchain
Tuesday, Aug 26th:
Bitcoin ETFs saw net inflows of 1,673 $BTC ($184.02M). Fidelity led the pack with 589 $BTC ($64.76M), bringing its total holdings to 199,803 $BTC ($21.98B).
Ethereum ETFs recorded net inflows of 104,498 $ETH ($470.24M). iShares (BlackRock) stood out with 69,889 $ETH ($314.5M), now holding 3,633,858 $ETH ($16.35B).
Source: Lookonchain
Wednesday, Aug 27th: Three whale wallets went long on $XPL, pushing the price to $1.8 and brutally liquidating other traders’ positions, pocketing almost $38M in less than an hour. Crazy profit.
Source: Lookonchain
Thursday, Aug 28th: Tether (USDT) just printed another 1B $USDT, making it 2B minted in the past 24 hours. Full-on Fed cosplay.
Source: Lookonchain
Friday, Aug 29th: An Ethereum ICO wallet “0x42D3” just woke up after 10+ years, moving 0.001 $ETH as a test. The address received 158 $ETH from a $49 ICO purchase, now valued at $694K (14,177x).
Source: Lookonchain
Saturday, Aug 30th: Unlucky trader. The “buy-high-sell-low” whale strikes again. As the market dipped, wallet 0x3c9E panic-sold 7,800 $ETH ($34M) at an average price of $4,363.
Source: Lookonchain
Source: Lookonchain
📰 News Recap (Aug 25 to 31)
📉 Flash crash alert!
The market started to snap. Bitcoin dropped over 4.2% during the week. Most altcoins followed their king, as they often do.
There are several potential reasons:
A whale could have unloaded and triggered a wave of stop-losses.
Liquidations piled up, order books got cleared 💀📉
Nevertheless, most people agree that crypto will soon recover. 🔄✨
💸 Gavin Newsom announces his own shitcoin
California governor Gavin Newsom made headlines this week by announcing his own memecoin.
What started as political trolling quickly turned into a crypto talking point. 🐸
The token is meant as a jab at Trump’s growing presence in the space, parodying the “crypto empire” narrative. 🤷♂️
💻 Binance glitch got people on their feet
On August 29th, Binance suddenly halted futures trading after a system glitch. Traders panicked, positions froze, and social media lit up. ⚡️
Within hours, the platform was back online, claiming all was fixed 🏦
For a moment, the entire market held its breath. 💀 If I were watching my 40× leverage position freeze, I would panic as well.
🚦 The Ethereum Foundation hit pause on grants
Buterin has been pumping money into the blockchain to move it forward. 💸🚀
Now, after handing out over $32M in grants in Q1 2025, the Ecosystem Support Program is moving to a curated model 📑
Funding won’t stop, but future grants will target specific priorities.
The announcement was made on the Ethereum Foundation webpage.
🌍️ Story of the Week: Avalanche Enters the Big Leagues
Avalanche had its strongest week in a long time. 🚀 Transactions shot up 66%, more than any other blockchain.
That’s 11.9 million tx from over 181,000 active wallets, according to Nansen 📊🔥
The big driver? On Thursday, the US Department of Commerce announced it will start posting GDP data directly on public blockchains. 🏛️
Not just Bitcoin or Ethereum, Avalanche made the list alongside Solana, Tron, Polygon, Arbitrum, and Optimism. 📈
The Department called it a “landmark effort” and a “proof of concept for all of government.”
The idea: blockchain makes reports immutable, transparent, and globally accessible.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick put it bluntly: “We are making America’s economic truth immutable… cementing our role as the blockchain capital of the world.” 🔒🌍
Registration of the Grayscale AVAX fund has been filed.
For Avalanche, it’s a huge signal. Pair that with Grayscale’s new S-1 filing for a spot Avalanche ETF, and suddenly AVAX has institutional spotlight again. 💡
But it’s not only hype. Luigi D’Onorio DeMeo, chief strategy officer at Ava Labs, said much of the growth is organic 🌱
More Avalanche L1s are launching, stablecoin payments are climbing, and DeFi transactions on the C-Chain are rising. 💳
Competitors also showed life. Starknet grew 37%, Viction 35%, and Base saw over 64 million transactions — the most of any network.
Still, Avalanche outpaced them all in percentage growth. 🥇📊
Avalanche Offers Something Different
The timing could not be better.
Ethereum is battling congestion,
Solana is pitching speed,
and BNB is holding retail loyalty.
Avalanche is carving out its lane with scaling, utility, and now a direct tie to Washington. 🏛️🔥
🔒 Major Token Unlocks of the Week
$PROMPT - 1.10% of the total supply will enter circulation on Sep 1, 2025.
$ORBR - 1.55% of the total supply will enter circulation on Sep 2, 2025.
$AGLD - 1.61% of the total supply will enter circulation on Sep 2, 2025.
$IMX - 1.23% of the total supply will enter circulation on Sep 5, 2025.
$G - 1.01% of the total supply will enter circulation on Sep 5, 2025.
Explore more unlocks with full vesting details.
💡 1 Minute Learning: Restaking Maze
In crypto, nothing just sits staked. It gets restaked, rehypothecated, looped, and farmed until no one remembers where the yield even started. 🔄
EigenLayer kicked the door open: stake ETH → restake → secure new networks → earn more rewards.
Then came liquid restaking tokens (LRTs), so you can stake your stake, then farm it again.
Why it’s hot 🔥
One deposit, multiple streams of yield
Protocols fighting to “own” your collateral
Feels like infinite capital efficiency in a bull run
LRTs trade like liquid candy, so you can lever up while you farm
But risk stacks fast. Each layer adds smart contracts, slashing conditions, and counterparty exposure. One bug or cascade and your “risk-free ETH” becomes exit liquidity. 💀
Things to keep in mind 🧠
Trace where your ETH goes — many don’t
Stacked APRs look sexy, but ask: who’s paying?
Don’t park your whole bag in one LRT, diversifying matters
Remember: the more yield paths, the more failure points
It’s yield on yield, but also risk on risk. There is no free lunch in crypto. If you want to learn more about the trend, check out this article! 🚀
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