Market Update + Spotlight + Mints & Events - Week 21
Quick Market Update: Bluechips (BTC, ETH, SOL), Memecoins, AI Agents and NFTs + Spotlight corner + Upcoming Mints & Events! CW 21/2025
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Quick Market Update
Spotlight corner
Upcoming Mints & Events
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Quick Market Update
Let’s have a quick recap of the week by starting with the @Bitcoin chart. It was another volatile but upward-trending ride — we started the week around $104k, climbed all the way close to $112k midweek, before pulling back a bit. Bitcoin now stabilizes around $107,619, marking a +3.55% gain over the last 7 days despite a slight dip in the last 24h.
Now let’s find out how the rest of the Top 10 performed. A mixed but slightly more positive week than the last one.
Top performers:
Mild winners:
Losers this week:
Overall: a recovery week, with most bluechips posting decent green after last week’s pullback.
But how did the @dogecoin memecoin friends do?
Memecoins had a stronger week, with several names bouncing back into double-digit green!
Top performer:
@Dogecoin (DOG) — the new memecoin on the block — exploded with a +52.05% gain and made it into the top 12 of memecoins, thanks to @krakenfx listing it!
Other big movers:
SPX6900 up a whooping +26.97% as well
@FartCoinOfSOL came back with +12.43%
@dogwifhat (WIF) held strong with +10.26%
@bonk_inu posted +3.58%
@pepecoineth managed a modest +1.95%
Sideways/losers:
@BasedBrett (Based) down -4.89%
TRUMP token down -1.58%
@ShibainuCoin down as well by -0.93%
Overall: A bounce week with notable green moves, especially from under-the-radar and newer tokens.
AI Agents & Infra
This week, the AI ecosystem saw mild recovery — the total market cap moved up slightly from $10.39B to $10.44B, a marginal +0.5% increase.
But 24h momentum is cooling, with -5.52% drop showing signs of volatility returning.
Price changes in the last 7 days:
A powerful week for select AI tokens, while others faded into the red.
Biggest winners:
@cookiedotfun (COOKIE) climbed +83.06% and got a lot of attention due to their SNAP launch and as a InfoFi competitor to Kaito.
@ketfromwyoming (KET) spiked +13.43%
@FartCoinOfSOL grew +12.43%
Losers:
@alchemistAIapp plunged -14.45%
@Macintoshi_ (TOSHI) dropped -11.41%
@truth_terminal (GOAT) with -8.9% this week, again in the losers leaderboard.
Overall: Still a volatile sector, but lots of green shots and heavy standouts, especially among the well known projects.
Last but not least, let’s look into NFTs:
This week in NFTs, the tide shifted once again with more red than green — especially in floor prices.
Top gainers:
@MeebitsNFTs returned strong with +12.54%, making their way into the Top 12 leaderboard!
@cryptopunksnfts climbed +3.72%, holding strong their bluechip position and I guess the IP shift to Node help them as well!
@BoredApeYC up +3.39% while their little brothers MAYC are slightly down -0.21%.
Stable or neutral from the art sector, like Fidenza, and Chromie Squiggles, just Autoglyphs went up by +2.68%
Biggest losers:
@TaprootWizards saw a correction of -10.67%, this after they managed to be at mint price for a short moment.
@MadLads continued its downtrend at -7.53%
@pudgypenguins big ones fell -2.41%, while their lil pudgys fell even more with -5.54%
Overall: While currently sold IPs from the previous @yugalabs and older generative art series held their value well or gained, while newer BTC and SOL collections saw deeper floor pullbacks.
Headlines of the week:
(h/t @BoDoggosENT)
Moody’s downgraded US credit rating for the first time in history
The trade war restarted with 25% tariffs on foreign-made IPhones and a potential 50% tariff on the EU
Circle in talks with Coinbase and Ripple for a $10B+ acquisition
Kraken announced xStocks, a tokenized equities trading platform built on Solana
Bitcoin set new all time highs on back-to-back days — ETFs recorded $2.75B of weekly net inflows
Texas Senate passed the Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and Investment act
Bitcoin community debated the BIP-177 proposal to rename “Satoshis” to “Bitcoin” with 100M Bitcoin equal to 1 BTC
Big banks announced joint venture into stablecoins
The US Senate voted to move forward with GENIUS stablecoin bill after vote failed last week
Crypto perps trading could be coming to the US
Succinct Labs made a breakthrough with real-time Ethereum proofs
OKX launched xBTC a 1:1 backed wrapped BTC token on Solana
Trump held memecoin dinner with over 100 people protesting outside — Maxine Waters introduced the “Stop TRUMP in Crypto Act” that would bar a sitting President from profiting off of crypto
FIFA partnered with Avalanche to launch L1
Season 1 of Fantasy Top ended and new heroes entered the platform
Virtuals updated Genesis points system to reward agent token staking
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Spotlight corner - @JamesWynnReal
Now you may ask who is this guy and why do I put him into the spotlight?
And before I answer that I want to clarify that this is NFA and I do not recommend to trade with leverage especially not with the amounts you will be seeing in the next few posts.
So it all started with him taking an extreme long on BTC
Entry price: $108,916
Leverage: 40x
Liquidity price: $105,179
Position value: $1.26B
Just to close it today and go all in the other direction with a $1B short, right after he made a good loss of round about $10m on the long:
Entry price: $107,077
Leverage: 40x
Liquidity price: $110,448
Position value: $1.01B
He either knows something and is soon going to cook hard or just about to repeat another big loss?!
Only hours later this happened, yet another 13.4m loss on the short!
So if you ever think about trying it or learning it, never ever go above a 2-5x leverage and only play with amounts you can afford to lose and have proper Stop Losses in place or it will get expensive.
Upcoming Mints & Events
We did a quick recap on the week, checked the highlights, even did a Spotlight or multiple spotlights, but this is all just looking back.
Let's now find out what's ahead of us, this week has some nice Mints and events waiting for us, some are also further ahead, but this will give you a chance to prepare yourself.
Check them out and get ready.
Mints I am watching this week or getting ready for…
26th May 2025 - @punk3700 x @CryptoEternalAI - CryptoAgents the CryptoPunks for Agents!
--> Caution with this one, just to be clear, here is why:26th May 2025 - @cydr x @bagdelete x @fellowshiptrust - The Rare Fish Market (Mint Link)
26th May 2025 - @PlaySpaceRush - Relic Genesis
27th May 2025 - @0xdgb x @monaverse - artificial surveillance
27th May 2025 - @OnchainHQ - Onchain Founding Membership
27th May 2025 - @Richi0118 x @NFCsummit x @alienintelai - Who The Frank Is This?
29th May 2025 - @Claynosaurz - Popkins coming to @SuiNetwork
30th May 2025 - @espressoFNDN x @RariChain - The Composables
4th June 2025 - @Jen_Stark x @avant_arte - Driptych I & II (Mint Link)
5th June 2025 - @RichardNadler1 - ArchiTextures
10th June 2025 - @rvig_art x @MSF_Suisse x @artblocks_io - Field Impact (Mint Link)
11th June 2025 - @refikanadol x Lionel Messi - Messi's favorite career goals
TBD (9th June 2025) - @Pizza_Ninjas x @TO - More Pizza Ninjas
TBA - @moonsheepverse - 404 nft/coin hybrid on Abstract ($SHEEP)
TBA - @fimmonaci - Meganacci (MegaETH Mainnet, as soon as launched)
TBA - @NeuraADND - AI NFT art agent project (Presale SoldOut)
Other Crypto related Events:
28th May 2025 - @sophon - SOPH 0.00%↑ token launch
30th May 2025 - FTX - 2nd wave of distribution is go out, that's $5b
4th August 2025 - @solanamobile - Seeker phone & $SKR token
TBA - @RaydiumProtocol - Hints at airdrop for LaunchLabs users (looks like it's happening soon...)
TBA - @blackmirror_xp - Black Mirror Token is coming, probably very soon
TBA - @megaeth_labs - Mainnet launch (keep using the testnet!!!)
TBA - @MyriadMarkets - $MYR is coming…
TBA - @opensea - $SEA. token launch
TBA - @visitsugartown - $WIN token launch (Wallet Checker) —> NFT minted!
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Disclaimer: The content covered in this newsletter is not to be considered as financial advice. It is for informational and educational purposes only. I own some of the mentioned assets myself for full transparency.