In Bitcoin’s Best Interest - June 2025

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Welcome to In Bitcoin’s Best Interest—our monthly newsletter with a fresh new look and feel, covering the most important events shaping the Bitcoin ecosystem and keeping you up to speed with the latest developments here at Liquidium.

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What’s Trending in Bitcoin? TL;DR:

• Bitcoin traded above $100,000 for 44 consecutive days 

• $DOG finally got listed on Kraken on June 27th

• Bitcoin token launchpad and AMM ODIN•FUN has started including OG Runes 

🔥 What’s new from Liquidium?

First-Ever True Cross-Chain Loans in Crypto 

June 12th marked a historical event and a major milestone for crypto: the Liquidium team has completed the first fully decentralized, truly cross-chain loan. The second part of this momentous event, the repayment, followed seven days later, on June 19th.

More specifically, the user borrowed 30 USDT on Ethereum, collateralized by native BTC on its L1. After a week, they repaid their 30 USDT, again on Ethereum, and had their collateral released.

This marks the first time such functionality exists without intermediaries, centralized bridges, wrapped assets, or external trust — relying solely on the protocol itself.

It’s a foundational leap for DeFi in general, and not just DeFi on Bitcoin or Ethereum, but on a conceptual basis.

Users interested in shaping the future of DeFi with LiquidiumFi can request early access to the cross-chain lending pools demo by submitting a valid email address.

The process is instantaneous, and it is the shortest way to make sure you’re participating in creating DeFi history.

What’s Trending in Bitcoin?

Bitcoin traded above $100,000 for 44 consecutive days 

The price of BTC stayed above $100,000 for a historical record of 44 days between the dates of May 9th and June 22nd, 2025. During that period, BTC also reached its all-time high of $111,970.17 on May 22nd, also known as Bitcoin Pizza Day.

The price broke below the six-digit mark on June 22nd, when it traded at $98,543.6, but it quickly climbed back and reached $100,000 again a day later, on June 23rd.

Source: TradingView

$DOG is finally listed on Kraken as of June 27th

Bitcoin-based memecoin DOG•GO•TO•THE•MOON ($DOG) has started trading on Tier-1 crypto exchange Kraken on June 27th, becoming the first of its kind to be listed here.

On June 26th, Kraken announced on its X profile that the listing would go live, and the price of the $DOG token increased by 13% within the following 24 hours as a result. 

Bitcoin token launchpad and AMM ODIN•FUN has started including OG Runes

ODIN•FUN, the Bitcoin-based platform for meme creation and trading, announced it has started adding the OG Runes projects, including $LIQ, to the platform. 

By June 23rd, they stated that they were around 75% done with adding them, but they were still working on some high supply, high divisibility tokens like PUPS, GIZMO, and LOBO•THE•WOLF•PUP.

Market Analysis 

June saw BTC trading above $100,000 for the majority of the month, with a slight dip to around $98k on June 22nd, but a quick recovery the very next day. At the highest point in the month, on June 10th, the price reached $110,295.68, less than $2,000 below the ATH.

Liquidium has also achieved several significant milestones during the month. 

On June 18th, the loan volume on LiquidiumWTF exceeded 4,200 BTC, marking almost half a billion dollars flowing through this DeFi solution. 

Additionally, the number of total loans during its lifetime exceeded 100,000, while the total volume of Runes exceeded 1,000 BTC.

 👇Key Metrics

• Total Volume: 4,217.6017 BTC

• Total Ordinals Volume: 3,193.1749 BTC

• Total Runes Volume: 1,004.5203 BTC

• Total Number of Loans: 101,103

You can find more data here.

Performance metrics as of June 30, 2025.

🔭 Looking Ahead

Instant Loans for Ordinals Are Coming

After we launched Instant Loans for Runes, we’re excited to announce that users will soon also get Instant Loans for Ordinals as well!

For borrowers, it means Instant liquidity.

For lenders, it means no more cumbersome counter-signatures.

And for LiquidiumWTF, this means more of the same: we’re committed to providing you with the best lending and borrowing experience you’ve ever had.

$sLIQ Is Coming

The time for the launch of our upcoming liquid staking token $sLIQ is coming. Very soon, we’ll launch our new revenue model, based on a staking mechanism.

You’ll be able to lock up your $LIQ tokens and receive $sLIQ, or the staked version, so you can still use it in different DeFi protocols while receiving staking rewards from $LIQ.

For more information, please read the proposal.

Meme(s) of the month

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Source: TheGreatCryptopo

Source: Mr_Meme_Machine

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