Share this article
Weekly Recap: Circle Scores Big on IPO Fever
USDC stablecoin issuer leads what is likely to be a summer of IPOs for crypto companies.
Updated Jun 6, 2025, 6:23 p.m. Published Jun 6, 2025, 5:09 p.m.
It was a week of fortunes made, and fortunes lost, at CoinDesk.
On the one hand, we had Circle, long a leading crypto company, hurtling to IPO and making bank. Its shares were priced at $110 at press time (up from $31 Wednesday), leading many to expect a summer and fall of crypto-themed IPOs.
On the other, we saw HyperLiquid trader James Wynn go from having a $100 million BTC position one day to a massive loss the next. (Kids, beware the big, bad leverage monster).
Most of the market portents looked good, though. Crypto money-raising season was in full swing.
Groups doubled-down on the Bitcoin Treasury Strategy, not least Metaplanet, Japan’s answer to Michael Saylor’s Strategy. Pump.Fun, Solana’s memecoin juggernaut, said it was lining up $1 billion at a $4 billion valuation. One of its children, Fartcoin, surged on rumors of a Coinbase listing.
Crypto technology continued to get integrated into mainstream products. Prediction markets from Polymarket are coming to X and xAI. Uber, Apple, Airbnb and others said they were hoping to combine stablecoins into their payment offerings. Revolut said it would soon offer derivatives. And so on.
Still, Trump and Musk dominated coverage as normal (probably to an unhealthy degree). On Thursday, Trump’s media company Truth Social said it would launch its own Bitcoin ETF. (By Friday, it was set to issue more shares as well.)
The Trump-Musk feud, which also broke this week, highlighted the U.S.’s precarious debt situation (a key driver for bitcoin’s existence). But so far bitcoin, and dogecoin, prices are down on the news. Really anything is possible in the weeks ahead.
More For You
What to know:
- As of October 2025, GoPlus has generated $4.7M in total revenue across its product lines. The GoPlus App is the primary revenue driver, contributing $2.5M (approx. 53%), followed by the SafeToken Protocol at $1.7M.
- GoPlus Intelligence's Token Security API averaged 717 million monthly calls year-to-date in 2025 , with a peak of nearly 1 billion calls in February 2025. Total blockchain-level requests, including transaction simulations, averaged an additional 350 million per month.
- Since its January 2025 launch , the $GPS token has registered over $5B in total spot volume and $10B in derivatives volume in 2025. Monthly spot volume peaked in March 2025 at over $1.1B , while derivatives volume peaked the same month at over $4B.
Mais para você
U.S. Hours Account for Nearly All of Bitcoin’s November Losses
BTC drifts or stabilizes during Asia trading hours, softens slightly during the European handover and then absorbs most of its losses once U.S. equity markets open.
O que saber:
- Bitcoin's November selloff is primarily occurring during U.S. trading hours, aligning it more with tech stocks than with other cryptocurrencies.
- U.S. trading sessions have seen nearly a 30% decline in Bitcoin, while Asian and European sessions have remained relatively stable or slightly negative.
- The market volatility is driven by concerns over U.S. monetary policy, with both Bitcoin and tech stocks affected by expectations of Federal Reserve actions.
Top Stories
