🚀Ethereum explodes, investors rush in
Welcome to the Thursday, June 12, 2025 Daily Tribune ☕️
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Today is Thursday, June 12, 2025 and as every day from Tuesday to Saturday, we summarize for you the news from the last 24 hours that you shouldn't miss!
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A quick look at the market…
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24h crypto recap! ⏱
🚀 Ethereum records a wave of investments
Ethereum accumulates $66.6B of locked value, or 61% of the DeFi market, with $136.8B of DEX volume in the rollups Base, Arbitrum, Unichain and Polygon.
Ethereum ETFs have welcomed $837M since May and the active supply on platforms remains limited to 16.33M ETH.
🍏 Michael Saylor invites Apple to invest in Bitcoin
Michael Saylor criticizes Apple for choosing share buybacks ($110B) instead of adding Bitcoin as a strategic asset.
He presents Bitcoin as a store of value superior to traditional stocks.
🛠️ Tether will release an open-source Bitcoin mining software
Tether will make its Bitcoin Mining OS (MOS) software available as open-source before the end of 2025.
Projects and individuals will be able to adopt it to manage their own mining infrastructure with the integration of an AI tool (QVAC).
📊 Bernstein maintains its $200,000 target for Bitcoin
Bernstein, an asset manager ($800B), reconfirms a Bitcoin price target of $200,000 by the end of 2025.
This forecast is based on institutional growth, spot Bitcoin ETFs ($120B) and technological integration around blockchains.
Crypto of the day: Optimism (OP)
🧠 Technology and innovation
Optimism is a layer 2 solution based on the Ethereum protocol, which uses optimistic rollups to execute transactions off-chain while guaranteeing their validity through proofs on the main chain. This enables increased scalability, significantly reduced fees, and security ensured by Ethereum.
Compatible with Solidity contracts, Optimism facilitates the migration of existing applications without major redesign. The network is designed to evolve toward next-generation rollups (fault-proofing) and offers a decentralized sequencer currently being implemented to strengthen system resilience.
💰 OP Token – Utility & distribution
The OP token plays a strategic role:
Governance: holders vote on network developments;
Incentives: rewarding users, developers, and validators in the ecosystem;
Security: via staking, supporting sequencer operation.
Distribution includes an airdrop to Ethereum users, as well as allocations for the DAO, the team, and investors.
📊 Market data (as of June 12, 2025)
Current price: ~0.685 USD
24h change: approximately –4.5%
Market capitalization: ~1.17 billion USD
CoinMarketCap rank: #66
Circulating supply: ~1.714 billion OP (out of max 4.294 billion)
24h trading volume: ~310–327 million USD
"The decade of economic abyss has begun": World Bank warns
A silent but decisive turning point is taking shape in the global economy. According to the World Bank, the decade beginning could be the weakest in growth for over six decades. This warning reflects a deep structural shift in the global development model, deeply hit by geopolitical fragmentation, the exhaustion of traditional growth drivers, and a loss of confidence among economic actors.
What the Washington institution now calls the "decade of the abyss" promises to be a cycle marked not only by latent stagnation but also by the inability of advanced economies to meet investment, productivity, and multilateral coordination challenges. Modern economic history offers few precedents for such a combination of global slowdown and systemic tension.
Structural slowdown of global growth: context and key figures
The report paints a stark picture: nearly two-thirds of countries have revised their growth forecasts downward. The World Bank anticipates average global growth of only 2.3% in 2025, compared to a previous forecast of 2.7%. The anomalies are numerous:
Persistent trade tensions: by imposing global tariffs of up to 10%, the United States under the Trump era reignites an economic climate threatening the global supply chain.
Crowding-out effect on investments: companies and governments slow or suspend their projects, driven by distrust of an uncertain geopolitical horizon.
Decline in consumption in advanced economies, partly linked to latent inflation and declining confidence of households and businesses.
The report warns of potential consequences: reduced international mobility, decline in trade, and increased risk of outward-looking recession in certain areas.
A geographical asymmetry: China in contrast
While the West falters, China maintains its growth outlook. Beijing benefits from a financial system considered more stable and an economic model rebalancing towards domestic demand and industrial strategy.
Although Chinese growth forecasts of 1.8 to 2% are not exceptional, their maintenance is significant: in a gloomy global environment, China becomes an anchor point of stability. This contrast creates a gap between a struggling Europe and United States and a People’s Republic in a position of relative strength.
The World Bank report outlines the contours of a global economic cycle change. The era of frenzied globalization is coming to an end, replaced by trade fragmentation, increased political polarization and a resurgence of protectionist policies. The world enters a decade of structural instability, where growth will be slow, irregular, and unevenly distributed.
