Crypto: 10th June 2025
Published 10th June 2025
📣 Headlines
• Dogecoin dropped 10% following the public feud between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, highlighting how Musk's influence continues to drive volatility in the meme coin's value (futurism.com).
• Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is planning to invest in a US startup specializing in CRISPR embryo editing technology, expanding his investment portfolio beyond cryptocurrency into genetic engineering (technologyreview.com).
• Sony launched 'Soneium For All,' a Web3 gaming incubator backed by the Sony Innovation Fund, targeting startups building on its Ethereum Layer-2 blockchain with financial and technical support (venturebeat.com).
• Several major fintech companies including Circle could go public in 2025, as the market for financial technology and crypto startup IPOs continues to thaw (crunchbase.com).
• America added 562,000 new millionaires in 2024, with high-net-worth individuals increasingly turning to alternative investments including cryptocurrencies alongside traditional assets (qz.com).
🏛️ Politics, Markets & Regulatory Landscape
Bitcoin Scandal Triggers Czech Government Crisis (occrp.org, 2025-06-03). Czech Prime Minister Fiala faces pressure following a bitcoin donation scandal involving a convicted criminal, leading to the resignation of Justice Minister Pavel Blažek and sparking a potential no-confidence vote from opposition parties
Issue 85 – All the President’s tokens (citationneeded.news, 2025-06-05). Trump's crypto ventures face chaos as his family disavows a $TRUMP wallet project; confusion erupts amid regulatory concerns and legal actions, paralleling events of the 2008 financial crisis
Real-World Assets Are Changing Global Finance: A Complete Research Deep Dive (bitquery.io, 2025-06-06). Real-World Assets (RWAs) utilize blockchain technology to tokenize bonds, stocks, and real estate, enhancing accessibility and liquidity in global finance while bridging traditional finance with decentralized platforms
These Outlets Shaped Bitcoin’s Narrative in May. (bitcoinperception.com, 2025-06-09). In May 2025, narratives on Bitcoin varied significantly by outlet, with CNBC and Forbes presenting bullish views while outlets like The Guardian and NBC News highlighted crime and systemic risks, impacting investor perception
🛠️ Technical Development & Infrastructure
Our Succinct explanation of jagged polynomial commitments (blog.lambdaclass.com, 2025-06-06). Jagged polynomial commitments enable compact representation of tables for Ethereum block verification, utilizing multilinear polynomials and the sumcheck protocol, demonstrating significant improvements in proving time and resource efficiency
Tezos Activates Data Availability Layer to Boost Scaling Efforts (cosmicmeta.io, 2025-06-08). Tezos has launched its Data Availability Layer (DAL), enhancing blockchain scalability by increasing bandwidth for layer 2 rollups by 20 times, while promising future upgrades targeting a 4000x increase in available bandwidth
What are Onchain Agents: An Introduction to Autonomous, Agent-Driven Web (blog.quicknode.com, 2025-06-09). Onchain AI agents combine blockchain trustlessness with cognitive capabilities, utilizing frameworks like AgentKit, Virtuals Protocol, and ElizaOS for decentralized, autonomous operations, reshaping blockchain interactions and driving the future of decentralized systems
A Developer's Guide to Monad: EVM-Compatible L1 Architecture and Implementation (blog.quicknode.com, 2025-06-09). Monad introduces a layer 1 blockchain with full EVM compatibility, fast finality, and features like MonadBFT consensus, asynchronous execution, RaptorCast propagation, and MonadDB, enabling high performance and developer-friendly applications
Build with Confidential Transactions on Aptos (medium.com/aptoslabs, 2025-06-04). Aptos introduces Confidential Transactions (ACTs) to enhance privacy in blockchain, leveraging Additively Homomorphic Encryption and Zero-Knowledge Proofs for secure, compliant transactions while allowing auditability for regulatory purposes
Rust on a Diet (blog.veeso.dev, 2025-06-07). Memory bloat in Solana Validator caused by Vec cloning was resolved by adopting Cow and Arc types, ultimately utilizing the Bytes crate for efficient, zero-copy operations on transactions to reduce memory consumption significantly
💭 Personal Perspectives & Philosophy
Chorus: An Experiment in Vibe Coding (soapbox.pub, 2025-06-04). Chorus, built on the Nostr protocol, empowers activists with eCash fundraising and community groups. Developed in five days using AI tools like Goose and MKStack, it exemplifies rapid app development in decentralized platforms
Value Glitch (paragraph.com, 2025-06-03). Exploring the complexities of value in economic systems, RM argues that play and randomness may foster new paradigms amid the limitations of traditional metrics, crypto, and concepts like hyperobjects and decentralization
Nearing the End of Studying Wang Yin's Computer Science Video Course (en.smallyu.net, 2025-06-08). The author reflects on learning Rust in Wang Yin's Computer Science course while considering career challenges and future study plans in blockchain technology, highlighting the value of foundational knowledge in technical development
Beyond Net Worth: How Technology Could Enable Value Systems That Actually Value What Matters (tushardadlani.com, 2025-06-03). Exploring how nested digital currencies and blockchain technology can realign economic incentives with community values, addressing the misalignment crisis faced by value creators like small farmers through innovative currency systems
🔬 Academic Research & Analysis
When Blockchain Meets Crawlers: Real-time Market Analytics in Solana NFT Markets (arxiv:cs, 2025-06-03). A web crawler based on Solana blockchain utilizes Selenium and Scrapy for NFT market data analysis, employing time series analysis and mean-variance optimization to offer market insights and investment strategies
A Preference-Driven Methodology for High-Quality Solidity Code Generation (arxiv:cs, 2025-06-03). PrefGen is a framework that utilizes Direct Preference Optimization to improve Solidity code generation by integrating blockchain-specific metrics for evaluating functional correctness, gas efficiency, and security, achieving significant advancements in smart contract quality
Transforming Automatically BPMN Models to Smart Contracts with Nested Collaborative Transactions (TABS+) (arxiv:cs, 2025-06-03). TABS+ enhances BPMN model transformation into smart contracts by supporting collaborative transactions among multiple actors, automating synchronization and transaction mechanisms, thus simplifying developer tasks while focusing on independent tasks with clear inputs and outputs
Combating Reentrancy Bugs on Sharded Blockchains (arxiv:cs, 2025-06-06). Reentrancy bugs in sharded blockchains like ICP, NEAR, and MultiversX are analyzed, revealing a high incidence of vulnerability. New Rust and Motoko patterns, alongside TLA+ for formal verification, are proposed to address these issues
Becoming Immutable: How Ethereum is Made (arxiv:cs, 2025-06-05). Analysis of Ethereum blocks on December 3, 2024, reveals 85% of fees from exclusive transactions, many user transactions delayed, and arbitrage bots price trading USDC/WETH and USDT/WETH better than Binance prices
Solsmith: Solidity Random Program Generator for Compiler Testing (arxiv:cs, 2025-06-04). Solsmith is a Solidity test program generator that uncovers compiler defects by generating valid, diverse programs and employing unique strategies to enhance compiler testing through differential testing, revealing four confirmed defects
Automated Mechanism to Support Trade Transactions in Smart Contracts with Upgrade and Repair (arxiv:cs, 2025-06-04). A methodology for repairing smart contracts, using BPMN models and the TABS+R tool, enables the transformation and amendment of contracts that face unanticipated completion issues, ensuring consistent data and logic transitions
Properties of UTxO Ledgers and Programs Implemented on Them (arxiv:cs, 2025-06-06). Trace-based properties are analyzed in UTxO ledgers using topology, graph, and category theory, defining valid execution traces and their relation to stateful programs, with safety properties proven within this framework
Hybrid Stabilization Protocol for Cross-Chain Digital Assets Using Adaptor Signatures and AI-Driven Arbitrage (arxiv:cs, 2025-06-06). A hybrid stabilization protocol employs stabilization futures contracts, AI-driven arbitrage, and zkSNARKs to maintain stablecoin value, enhance cross-chain liquidity, and ensure compliance with AML regulations without compromising user privacy
PulseReddit: A Novel Reddit Dataset for Benchmarking MAS in High-Frequency Cryptocurrency Trading (arxiv:cs, 2025-06-04). PulseReddit is a dataset aligning Reddit discussions with high-frequency cryptocurrency data, enhancing Multi-Agent Systems that leverage social sentiment for trading, achieving superior performance in bull markets and adaptability across market regimes
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