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<v Speaker 1>Hey, it's Alex with the Token Metrics daily Pulse from

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<v Speaker 1>March twenty fourth, twenty twenty six. Got a lot to

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<v Speaker 1>cover today. Wall Street just made a move that's bigger

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<v Speaker 1>than the headlines are giving it credit for. But first,

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<v Speaker 1>a quick word from our sponsor. Okay, so here's what's happening.

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<v Speaker 1>The New York Stock Exchange just tapped Securitize to build

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<v Speaker 1>a twenty four to seven tokenized securities platform. And look,

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<v Speaker 1>that sentence might sound dry, but sit with it for

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<v Speaker 1>a second. The NYSE, the actual New York Stock Exchange,

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<v Speaker 1>not a fintech startup, not a crypto native firm, the

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<v Speaker 1>institution that has been the symbol of traditional finance for

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<v Speaker 1>over two hundred years, just decided that blockchain native markets

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<v Speaker 1>are the future. And here's the thing that really got me.

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<v Speaker 1>This isn't the first move this week. Two of the

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<v Speaker 1>world's biggest exchanges, same week, same direction. That's not a coincidence,

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<v Speaker 1>that's a race. The parent company of the NICY inter

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<v Speaker 1>Continental Exchange has been cautious about crypto for years. When

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<v Speaker 1>the cautious ones start running, something has shifted underneath. And

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<v Speaker 1>the twenty four to seven angle that's the part people

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<v Speaker 1>are sleeping on traditional markets. Close crypto doesn't. The firm

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<v Speaker 1>that cracks always on equities doesn't just win a product category,

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<v Speaker 1>It rewrites how global capital allocates around the clock. So

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<v Speaker 1>where does that leave prices right now? Honestly pretty quiet.

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<v Speaker 1>Bitcoin is sitting just under seventy one thousand dollars, basically flat,

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<v Speaker 1>up less than half a percent on the day. Ethereum

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<v Speaker 1>is up less than one percent. Solana is the quiet

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<v Speaker 1>out performer, up about one and a half percent. Nothing dramatic.

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<v Speaker 1>Total market cap is around two and a half trillion.

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<v Speaker 1>Bitcoin dominance is holding at about fifty seven percent. Now

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<v Speaker 1>here's where it gets interesting, because while the majors are

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<v Speaker 1>flat lined, the narrative tokens are doing something completely different.

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<v Speaker 1>Deep pin tokens are up nearly thirty percent over the

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<v Speaker 1>last seven days. AI tokens are up over twenty five percent.

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<v Speaker 1>The broader market is barely breathing, and these categories just

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<v Speaker 1>posted their best week and months. That divergence is telling

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<v Speaker 1>you something. We'll get into what exactly in a minute.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, so what's actually driving all this? Let's start

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<v Speaker 1>with the AI and dpen surge because it's the most

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<v Speaker 1>interesting price story of the week, Bittenser led the charge

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<v Speaker 1>as a short squeeze amplified gains across AI alt coins

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<v Speaker 1>dpen up nearly thirty percent and seven days, AI tokens

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<v Speaker 1>up over twenty five percent and Bitcoin up less than

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<v Speaker 1>half a percent. When all coins rip while the base

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<v Speaker 1>asset flat lines, that's what a narrative rotation looks like

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<v Speaker 1>before it becomes obvious. The Nvidia GtC conference last week

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<v Speaker 1>gave AI tokens a fundamental hook. The short squeeze gave

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<v Speaker 1>them the fuel. Those two things together are how twenty

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<v Speaker 1>five percent weeks happen. The question is whether this is

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<v Speaker 1>genuine rotation or a leverage flush that borrowed from next

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<v Speaker 1>month's gains. If AI narrative market cap holds above twenty

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<v Speaker 1>three billion and deep In stays above nine billion through

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<v Speaker 1>the weekend without a sharp reversal, the rotation has legs.

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<v Speaker 1>If both categories give back more than half their weekly

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<v Speaker 1>gains by Friday, clothes it was a squeeze, not a trend.

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<v Speaker 1>Watch that closely. Now, coinbase drops something that deserves more

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<v Speaker 1>attention than it's getting. They're calling it the second wave

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<v Speaker 1>of institutional crypto adoption, and this time it's not about price,

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<v Speaker 1>it's about yield. The first wave was institutions buying bitcoin

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<v Speaker 1>for treasury exposure, simple directional. The second wave is different.

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<v Speaker 1>Institutions want yield, staking lending, structured products the full DeFi menu,

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<v Speaker 1>but with compliance guardrails. This is exactly how traditional finance

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<v Speaker 1>ate every other asset class. First they buy it, then

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<v Speaker 1>they financeize it, then they own the infrastructure. Coinbase isn't

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<v Speaker 1>just observing this shift, they're positioning to capture it. The

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<v Speaker 1>firm that builds the institutional yield layer for crypto doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>just win customers, it becomes the prime broker for the

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<v Speaker 1>next decade. On the bitcoin side, two stories worth separating strategy.

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<v Speaker 1>Sailor's firm just gained access to another forty four billion

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<v Speaker 1>dollars to buy bitcoin. That's a committed buyer with a

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<v Speaker 1>publicly stated mandate and access to capital markets. That's structural.

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<v Speaker 1>Then there's Bernstein, the Wall Street broker calling the bottom

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<v Speaker 1>and holding its previously published year end price target. Now

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<v Speaker 1>Wall Street analysts do what Wall Street analysts do. They

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<v Speaker 1>justify numbers they already published. But here's the second order read.

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<v Speaker 1>When a firm with Bernstein's institutional client base holds its

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<v Speaker 1>target through a drawdown, It signals those clients aren't being

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<v Speaker 1>told to reduce exposure. That's the part that matters. Bitcoin

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<v Speaker 1>is sitting just under seventy one thousand right now. The

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<v Speaker 1>gap between here and Bernstein's published target is large enough

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<v Speaker 1>that someone is going to look very wrong by December.

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<v Speaker 1>One more story that's flying under the radar. Parafi Capital

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<v Speaker 1>just raised one hundred and twenty five million dollars for

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<v Speaker 1>a new fund during a crypto downturn. That brings their

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<v Speaker 1>total assets under management to roughly two billion. And look,

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<v Speaker 1>the fund size isn't the signal. The timing is the

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<v Speaker 1>signal when sophisticated limited partners can make capital during drawdowns.

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<v Speaker 1>They're not trading sentiment, They're expressing a multi year view.

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<v Speaker 1>Parafy isn't hedging its bets here. This is a firm

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<v Speaker 1>leaning in at exactly the moment most allocators are pulling back.

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<v Speaker 1>Watch where they deploy this capital over the next thirty days.

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<v Speaker 1>If early positions are in DeFi infrastructure or real world

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<v Speaker 1>asset protocols, it confirms the institutional yield thesis. Coinbase was

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<v Speaker 1>talking about quick hits before we get to risks. Bitcoin

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<v Speaker 1>saw a rare two block reorganization as foundry overtook antpool

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<v Speaker 1>in the mining race. It's unusual but reflects normal network

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<v Speaker 1>behavior nodes adopt the chain with the most cumulative proof

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<v Speaker 1>of work. It's a reminder that mining poll concentration risks

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<v Speaker 1>worth keeping an eye on. The Financial Stability Board flagged

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<v Speaker 1>dollar denominated stable coins as an outsized risk for emerging markets,

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<v Speaker 1>warning they could accelerate dollarization in economies that really can't

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<v Speaker 1>afford it. That's a regulatory collision setting up between stable

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<v Speaker 1>coin growth and sovereign monetary policy. Bitgo and Susquehanna launched

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<v Speaker 1>institutional over the counter access to prediction markets, quietly legitimizing

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<v Speaker 1>the asset class. If large allocators can get clean execution,

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<v Speaker 1>volume and liquidity in these markets will look very different.

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<v Speaker 1>In six months, moonpay launched an open source wallet standard

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<v Speaker 1>for AI agents, meaning an AI agent that can hold

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<v Speaker 1>and spend crypto autonomously. That's a different kind of user

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<v Speaker 1>than a human. If this standard gets adopted, it creates

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<v Speaker 1>an entirely new demand surface for on chain transactions. And finally,

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<v Speaker 1>Zama and t rex Network launched a privacy layer for

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<v Speaker 1>tokenized assets targeting institutional adoption. Bank grade privacy on public

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<v Speaker 1>blockchains is the missing piece most institutions site when passing

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<v Speaker 1>on DeFi. If this works at scale, it removes one

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<v Speaker 1>of the last structural objections to on chain institutional participation.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, before we get into the risks, quick word

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<v Speaker 1>from our sponsor. Okay, we're back. Let's talk about what

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<v Speaker 1>to watch for. So what should you actually be worried about?

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<v Speaker 1>Three things on my radar. First, that deep in and

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<v Speaker 1>ai surge up twenty nine to twenty five percent in

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<v Speaker 1>a week sounds great until you check what Bitcoin is doing.

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<v Speaker 1>Barely moving when all coins rip while the base asset flatlines,

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<v Speaker 1>it often means leverage is rotating, not new money entering

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<v Speaker 1>short squeezes borrow from future gains. If if this week's

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<v Speaker 1>move reverses hard into the weekend, it confirms the rally

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<v Speaker 1>was positioning, not conviction. Second, the NYSESE and Nasdaq both

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<v Speaker 1>moving on tokenized equities in the same week is structurally significant,

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<v Speaker 1>but it also means regulators are about to have opinions,

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<v Speaker 1>two competing platforms, two potential regulatory frameworks, and a market

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<v Speaker 1>that hasn't priced in the possibility that one of them

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<v Speaker 1>gets blocked or delayed. Third Bitcoin cleared seventy one thousand

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<v Speaker 1>yesterday on an Iran news pause. Today it's sitting just

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<v Speaker 1>below that level. The geopolitical bid that pushed it higher

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<v Speaker 1>hasn't been replaced by fundamental buying. If Iran headlines flip

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<v Speaker 1>negative again, the asset that went up on the newswire

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<v Speaker 1>goes back down on the newswire. That's not a crypto thesis.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a macro risk wearing a crypto costume. Looking ahead

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<v Speaker 1>to the next few days. Three things worth watching. March

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<v Speaker 1>PCEE inflation data is due this week. Inflation data is

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<v Speaker 1>the single variable most likely to move Bitcoin in either

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<v Speaker 1>direction right now. A hot print kills rate cut hopes

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<v Speaker 1>and pressures risk assets, while a cool print gives the

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<v Speaker 1>bowl case real room to breathe, and those two outcomes

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<v Speaker 1>lead to very different weeks. Strategy could file a bitcoin

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<v Speaker 1>purchase disclosure any day this week. With forty four billion

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<v Speaker 1>in newly accessible capital. Any purchase filing near current price

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<v Speaker 1>levels signals the corporate treasury bid is actively absorbing supply.

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<v Speaker 1>Around seventy thousand. Silence at these prices is its own signal,

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<v Speaker 1>and keep an eye on the NYSC Securitized Partnership for

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<v Speaker 1>any development update, a live pilot announcement, a named equity issuer,

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<v Speaker 1>or a regulatory filing would give the real world asset

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<v Speaker 1>tokenization narrative its most credible institutional anchor to date. That's

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<v Speaker 1>the Daily Pulse for March twenty fourth. If you want

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<v Speaker 1>to keep up with what's actually moving in crypto. It

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<v Speaker 1>really does help us grow. This is educational content, non

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<v Speaker 1>investment advice. Always do your own research. I'm Alex. See

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<v Speaker 1>you next time.