In Bitcoin’s Best Interest - May 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 reached a new ATH at above $111k on Bitcoin Pizza Day

• Bitcoin devs plan to remove OP_RETURN limit in the software update

• $DOG became the first Bitcoin memecoin to list on a Tier-1 CEX

🔥What’s new from Liquidium?

LiquidiumFi rebrands to LiquidiumWTF

If you’re wondering WTF is happening, we’re here with answers: our P2P Bitcoin lending platform LiquidiumFi has now rebranded to LiquidiumWTF, all to embrace the truly WTF side of Bitcoin, Ordinals, and memecoins.

Everything you’ve come to know and love on the app side stays the same. Don’t worry about loans, collateral and Liquidium points–everything carries over automatically. 

That’s not to say there’s nothing new for our users: we’re bringing you a perk if you refer your friends. 

You’ll get 30% on their first five loans, and they also get a 30% boost! Talk about friendship goals.

And if you want something to look forward to, we’re also bringing Instant Loans to Ordinals (the Runes version is already live!), plus loan extensions.

LiquidiumWTF is separate from LiquidiumFi, which is our new, upcoming product. Read on to learn more about that one as well!

What’s Trending in Bitcoin?

Bitcoin reached a new ATH at above $111k on Bitcoin Pizza Day

Bitcoin’s new all-time high, worth $111,970, happened on May 22nd – exactly 15 years after Bitcoin Pizza Day, when Laszlo Hanyecz spent 10,000 BTC to buy two pizzas in the first such transaction.

In other words, 15 years after the first real-world purchase using BTC, the two pizzas would now be worth more than $1.1 billion.

Bitcoin devs plan to remove OP_RETURN limit in the software update 

Bitcoin Core devs plan to remove the 80-byte size limit that can be included in the OP_RETURN opcode so that more data can be included in Bitcoin transactions in a more efficient way.

Proponents of this code upgrade say it remains in line with Bitcoin’s ethos, which includes simple, transparent rules, and will allow for cleaner UTXOs. 

$DOG became the first Bitcoin memecoin to list on a Tier-1 CEX

DOG•GO•TO•THE•MOON ($DOG) will be listed on Kraken, according to Kraken’s VP of growth, Matthew Howell-Barby. The Bitcoin memecoin listing was announced as part of a longer list of tokens coming to the exchange.

This makes $DOG the first memecoin from the Bitcoin ecosystem to be listed on a leading centralized exchange.

Market Analysis

May has been a bullish month for BTC, which reached its new all-time high of $111,970.17 on May 22nd following a strong upwards trend. Although BTC started the month at around $94,140, news of Trump easing up on Chinese tariffs helped propel it upwards of $100k, and since the all-time high, the cryptocurrency has been consistently trading above $105k.

Liquidium's activity is also up, with the total volume of BTC reaching 4,169.0969 BTC, up from April’s 4,110.6460 BTC and on a steady upwards trend! 

We also hit an all-time high volume for Instant Loans backed by Runes this month, transacting over 1 BTC in lending volume on May 22. 

 👇Key Metrics

• Total Volume: 4,169.0969 BTC

• Total Ordinals Volume: 3,165.6257 BTC

• Total Runes Volume: 983.5647 BTC

• Total BRC20 Volume: 19.9065 BTC

You can find more data here.

Performance metrics as of May 30, 2025.

🔭 Looking Ahead

LiquidiumFi: We’re building a new order! 

At Bitcoin Las Vegas, we announced the launch of the new Liquidium.fi, the world’s first native, decentralized cross-chain lending protocol to allow anyone to borrow beyond borders! 

Liquidium.fi is now becoming the first truly cross-chain lending protocol: you will be able to supply assets like BTC on one chain, borrow native assets like USDT on another, all with one-click access. 

Borrow and lend any asset on any chain – for a true return to the first principles of sovereignty, blockchain interoperability, and open protocols.

External API

Liquidium’s external API is live, perfectly suited for projects that want to enable borrowing and lending for their users directly from their own interface.

Use our API to minimize the number of clicks and redirects, offering a smoother, more intuitive experience.

To learn more, feel free to hit us up on X (formerly Twitter), Discord or Telegram. Let’s work together!

sLIQUIDIUM is launching soon!

If you voted on the sLIQUIDIUM Revenue Sharing & Staking Model, thank you! The new mechanism has passed with strong community support.

This means that very soon, we’ll be launching this model to enable $LIQUIDIUM buybacks from the open market. We intend to use 30% of our revenue on the buybacks.

To catch a sneak peek at the staking part of the new model, here’s our X post showing you what you can expect.

Meme(s) of the month

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