In Bitcoin’s Best Interest - February 2025
Mar 5, 2025
GM, legends!
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.
LFG! 🚀
What’s Trending in Bitcoin? TL;DR:
🍻$ODINDOG hits $24M market cap as Odin.fun's First Bonded Bitcoin memecoin
💔Bitcoin drops to $78,000 before recovering to mid-$80,000s
😨Crypto unites in response to the $1.46 billion Bybit ETH hack
💪DOG•GO•TO•THE•MOON is now also available on Solana as Operation $DOG domination kicks off
🔥What’s new from Liquidium?
🫶Meet Quid: Liquidium’s New Mascot
Let’s give a round of applause 👏 to welcome Quid, our new mascot at Liquidium that will represent our brand.
Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm7VMtk1knA
Mascots aren’t just for sports teams or cereal boxes. Quid will create a sense of identity, make complex ideas more approachable, and turn abstract concepts into something our community can rally around.
Quid also has an AI-driven X (Twitter) account to keep our community engaged and share important brand information and updates. Click here to follow Quid on X!
🎨Custom Loans
We’ve created “gallery-style” Custom Loans for over a month now.
Whether you're borrowing or lending, you can now craft personalized loan offers on your terms—more flexible, no limits.
Our interactive platform makes the process seamless, giving you the freedom to initiate and customize every step.
Since launching our custom loans, users have already created 100+ custom loans, exceeded a total volume of 10 BTC, and as of today, 60+ available loan offers.
Click here to start exploring our custom loans
📹 Need help getting started? Check out our tutorial videos.
📖 Want more details? Dive into this article for the full breakdown!
🫡 Pitching at Consensus Hong Kong
We were at Consensus Hong Kong’s Pitch Fest, where we became one of the four projects selected for the finals (out of several hundred!)—proving we are among the top 1️⃣% DeFi startups of our time.
📣Say LFG with me for 3 times:
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✊ Liquidium Swap: Selling has gone live!
You’ve probably already been using Liquidium Swap to buy Runes with BTC, so you’ll be happy to know you can now also sell Runes for BTC.
Liquidium teamed up with Sats Terminal 🤝 to launch Swap—your go-to feature for better trades!
Why Liquidium Swap?
• Intuitive UI: Clean design with a purple/orange gradient and a blue checkmark for Runes, helping you verify the correct tokens when swapping.
• Best Token Value: By aggregating liquidity from various pools, Sats Terminal ensures you get the best price and maximum tokens for your swaps.
• Transparent Quotes: See the exact Rune amount after the swap for easy comparisons.
We’ve introduced selling on Liquidium to help you take full control of your bitcoin portfolio.
💡 Bonus: Earn 1.5x Amber Rewards when using Liquidium Swap!
📖 Learn more here: Help Desk Article
👀What’s Trending in Bitcoin?
🍻$ODINDOG hits $24M market cap as Odin.fun's First Bonded Bitcoin memecoin
ODINDOG, a memecoin on the Bitcoin meme token launchpad Odin.fun, hit a $24 million market cap and became the first bonded token.
Odin.fun came out as an alternative to Solana-based Pump.fun for launching and trading Bitcoin memecoins, offering a similar user-friendly experience but tailored to the Bitcoin ecosystem.
The platform lets you easily create, trade, and speculate on Bitcoin-based memecoins, tapping into the growing demand for assets on the number #1 blockchain.
With a seamless experience and low entry barriers, Odin.fun wants to replicate the viral success of Solana’s Pump.fun while taking advantage of Bitcoin’s security and growing token infrastructure.
💔Bitcoin drops to $78,000 before recovering to mid-$80,000s
The bull market appears to be taking a breather, with bitcoin dropping below the $80,000 mark in February after the concerns over the impact of planned U.S. tariffs affected markets across the board, with tech stock and crypto taking the biggest dives.
The Trump administration wants to implement a 25% import tariff on goods from Europe, Canada and Mexico, after already imposing a 10% import tax on Chinese goods at the start of February.
A tit-for-tat tariff war among some of the world’s largest economies would likely impact the global economy, with fears of rising inflation being one of the biggest concerns.
😨Crypto unites in response to the $1.46 billion Bybit ETH hack
The crypto industry demonstrated unwavering support for the industry as companies, investors, and users united in response to the $1.46 billion Bybit ETH hack. Their collective effort played an important role in containing the fallout of the hack and reducing its impact.
In the aftermath, Bybit took to X to express gratitude to its partners, security teams, and the wider crypto community for their rapid action and support.
Both centralized and decentralized exchanges moved quickly to implement protective measures.
Commenting on the incident, Bybit CEO Ben Zhou called it a testament to the crypto industry's resilience and unity in challenging times.
💪DOG•GO•TO•THE•MOON is now also available on Solana as Operation $DOG domination kicks off
DOG•GO•TO•THE•MOON, the leading Bitcoin memecoin, is now available on Solana after expanding its reach beyond Bitcoin L1.
But that’s just the start. $DOG plans to be everywhere.
While perfecting the Bitcoin L1 trading experience remains a priority, expanding to L2s and new L1s opens up even more opportunities for $DOG holders.
Next up after Solana are three more bridges—to Hyperliquid, Ethereum, and Cardano.
💡Community Spotlight
😎Meet Ordinal Maxi Biz (OMB): The first Ordinals Collection to Offer 30-day Term Loans
OMB has cemented itself as the top-performing 🫡 Ordinals collection on Liquidium this year, setting new records and redefining what’s possible in the Bitcoin Ordinals lending space.
Since the year started, OMB has facilitated over 350 loans and generated approximately 60 BTC in trading volume.
Ordinal Maxi Biz (OMB) is a collection of 5,141 hand-drawn, one-of-one PFP Ordinals. Created by ZK Shark and artist Tony Tafuro, each piece features distinct eye color traits determined by the block it was inscribed on.
A new and exciting addition to the OMB ecosystem is Black ⚫️Eye —a sub-collection that strengthens OMB’s reputation. It brings fresh opportunities for the community and ties into Liquidium’s updated loan structures, reinforcing OMB’s leading position in Bitcoin Ordinals lending.
🧙Magic Internet Money (MIM) is Now Live
Now you can borrow and lend bitcoin with Magic Internet Money (MIM) as collateral.
MIM is a Runes token created by the Bitcoin Wizards Community. It started out as the BRC-20 token, Bitcoin Wizards ($WZRD). $WZRD was created to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the original Bitcoin Wizard artwork by the digital artist ‘mavensbot.’
The iconic Bitcoin Wizard image, titled “Magic Internet Money,” first appeared on February 18, 2013, in a subreddit and has since become one of the most popular symbols in the Bitcoin community.
Currently, the $WZRD token is migrating from BRC-20 to Runes under the new name and ticker, Magic Internet Money (MIM).
🤔Market Analysis
February has been a volatile month for bitcoin holders, with the price of BTC dropping all the way down to around $78,000 before recovering in the mid-$80,000s.
Bitcoin memecoins–along with the rest of the crypto market–experienced significant price drops, with some tokens down 40% or more 😢 versus last month.
But despite this volatility, activity on Liquidium has been on the rise, with this month’s total volume surpassing 4,000 BTC🎉🥳🎊👏🍾!
👇Key Metrics
Total Volume: 4,011.0919 BTC
Total Ordinals Volume: 3,041.5101 BTC
Total Runes Volume: 949.7511 BTC
Total BRC20 Volume:19.8307 BTC
You can find more data here.
🔭 Looking Ahead
⚡️Instant Loans Alpha
We've been dropping hints, and now it’s time for the big reveal!
Instant Loans Alpha is our newest upgrade–will be available in alpha testing to $LIQ token holders–that lets you borrow native bitcoin assets in just a few clicks using Runes as collateral.
Thanks to the upgrade, borrowers will gain instant liquidity, allowing them to act on market opportunities the moment they arise. Lenders, freed from the need for manual countersignatures, benefit from greater efficiency, ensuring funds are always in use without missing potential loan opportunities 🤜🤛
Institutions with large BTC reserves also stand to gain by implementing Liquidium's instant loans to enhance their yield strategies effortlessly.
We’re rolling out Instant Loans gradually to guarantee a smooth and optimized experience for everyone.
🧑🍳 Connect to Our Third-Party APIs
Liquidium is actively developing external APIs to enhance accessibility and streamline lending and borrowing processes.
By integrating these APIs, partner projects can allow their users to access Liquidium’s lending services directly from their own websites. This creates a faster, more convenient, and seamless experience without requiring users to navigate away.
If you are interested in collaborating or integrating Liquidium’s API into your project, we would love to connect 🙌!
Please feel free to reply or send a DM on X (Twitter), Discord, or Telegram. Let’s work together to bring Bitcoin-based lending to a wider audience!
Meme(s) of the month
Source: Naiive
Source: Naiive
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