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

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<v Speaker 1>April fourteenth, twenty twenty six. Bitcoin hit seventy five thousand

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<v Speaker 1>dollars today. Ethereum had its best single day in months,

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<v Speaker 1>and somehow the funds were actually selling. Let's get into it,

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<v Speaker 1>but first a quick word from our sponsor. Okay, So

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<v Speaker 1>here's what's happening. Bitcoin touched seventy five thousand dollars today

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<v Speaker 1>for the first time since early February. Ethereum jumped about

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<v Speaker 1>eight percent in a single day. Total crypto market cap

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<v Speaker 1>climbed back above two point six trillion. Big numbers, green candles,

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<v Speaker 1>good vibes, right accept Spot ETFs posted two hundred and

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<v Speaker 1>ninety one million dollars in net outflows last week. That's

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<v Speaker 1>the part that should make you stop scrolling. The textbook

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<v Speaker 1>says fund inflows drive bitcoin price higher. Last week, the

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<v Speaker 1>opposite happened. Funds were net sellers and price ripped anyone.

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<v Speaker 1>So who's buying Probably a mix of spot market buyers,

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<v Speaker 1>over the counter desks, and retail stepping back in after

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<v Speaker 1>months on the sidelines. And here's the tell. Bitcoin dominance

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<v Speaker 1>held steady at fifty seven percent through the entire move,

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<v Speaker 1>which means this wasn't a broad rush into alt coins.

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<v Speaker 1>It was targeted someone wanted bitcoin specifically. There's a having

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<v Speaker 1>cycle angle here too. We're past the halfway point and

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<v Speaker 1>price gains are trailing prior cycles at the same stage.

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<v Speaker 1>Either the cycle is playing out slower, or the old

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<v Speaker 1>playbook has changed, maybe both. Quick picture of where things stand,

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<v Speaker 1>Bitcoin at seventy five k, Ethereum up, Big dominance flat

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<v Speaker 1>at fifty seven percent, so alt coins moved in lockstep

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<v Speaker 1>rather than leading. On the narrative side, Meme tokens are

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<v Speaker 1>up twenty one percent on the week. The highest risk

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<v Speaker 1>corner of the market is outperforming everything with actual utility.

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<v Speaker 1>Game five is the surprise second at six sixteen percent

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<v Speaker 1>when those two lead. Retail is usually back and feeling confident,

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<v Speaker 1>and prediction markets are telling a very different story than

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<v Speaker 1>the price action. Less than one percent probability on bitcoin

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<v Speaker 1>hitting eighty two thousand by tomorrow, only six percent odds

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<v Speaker 1>on a theory of reaching seventy five hundred by year end,

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<v Speaker 1>even after today's move. The takeaway is the market is

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<v Speaker 1>treating this rally as a balance, not a new leg.

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<v Speaker 1>Two FED rate cuts this year. Prediction markets put that

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<v Speaker 1>at about fourteen percent. The macro ceiling is real. Let's

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<v Speaker 1>start with the SEC, because this one has legs. SEC

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<v Speaker 1>staff issued a bulletin exempting crypto interface providers, including wallets,

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<v Speaker 1>front ends, and aggregators, from mandatory broker registration. Why this matters.

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<v Speaker 1>Regulators drew a legal line between the tool you use

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<v Speaker 1>and the transaction itself. That's the distinction the industry has

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<v Speaker 1>been fighting for since twenty twenty two. Every fintech building

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<v Speaker 1>on crypto rails can now stop compliance uncertainty as a

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<v Speaker 1>reason to stay out. The door is open, but there's

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<v Speaker 1>already a second fight. Forming Circle CEO is pushing back

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<v Speaker 1>on liability questions following the drift Haack, asking where the

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<v Speaker 1>line sits between interface provider and custodian. That fight will

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<v Speaker 1>shape the next wave of defied product design. Watch whether

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<v Speaker 1>Meta Mask, Phantom or coinbase wallet announce new features in

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<v Speaker 1>the next week. If they do, the ruling is already

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<v Speaker 1>being put to work next. Deutsche Burr Zoo and Kraken,

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<v Speaker 1>Germany's mainstock exchange operator, is buying a stake in Kraken

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<v Speaker 1>for two hundred million dollars. Think of Deutsche Burr Zoo

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<v Speaker 1>as the company that keeps European stock markets running behind

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<v Speaker 1>the scenes, the plumbing for trades, settlements and safekeeping of assets.

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<v Speaker 1>When they buy into a crypto exchange, they're buying a

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<v Speaker 1>foothold in crypto infrastructure before the two worlds fully merge,

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<v Speaker 1>which means this isn't a bed on token price is

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<v Speaker 1>it's a bet on market structure. Same playbook as Visa

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<v Speaker 1>backing Stripe's Tempo blockchain. Here's the detail that really got

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<v Speaker 1>me though. Kraken just disclosed an extortion attempt and a

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<v Speaker 1>data breach affecting roughly two thousand clients. Someone at Deutsche

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<v Speaker 1>bur Zoo saw that headline and still wired two hundred

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<v Speaker 1>million dollars. That tells you how serious the strategic intent

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<v Speaker 1>is on Tempo. Visa and Standard Chartered are now validators

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<v Speaker 1>on Stripe's blockchain. Validators are basically the engines keeping the

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<v Speaker 1>network honest. They're not just users, they're running the infrastructure itself.

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<v Speaker 1>The takeaway is this is what institutional adoption actually looks like,

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<v Speaker 1>not conference announcements, banks running nodes. And then there's the

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<v Speaker 1>security story, which is not great. Web three hacks cost

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<v Speaker 1>four hundred and sixty four million dollars in Q one alone.

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<v Speaker 1>That pace could rival twenty twenty two, one of the

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<v Speaker 1>worst years on record. And Hyperbridge got exploited just under

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<v Speaker 1>two weeks after posting an April Fool's Day hack prank.

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<v Speaker 1>You can't joke about getting hacked and then actually get

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<v Speaker 1>hacked without that becoming the story. As cross chain bridges

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<v Speaker 1>and automated protocols multiply, the attack surface grows faster than

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<v Speaker 1>the defenses. A few quick hits, Tether launched a self

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<v Speaker 1>custodial wallet supporting Tether, bitcoin, and tokenized gold, going direct

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<v Speaker 1>to users and cutting out the exchange middleman. The DOJ

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<v Speaker 1>opened a forty million dollar compensation process for one coin

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<v Speaker 1>fraud victims, a reminder that enforcement timelines in crypto are

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<v Speaker 1>measured in years, not quarters. And Starkware fired staff after

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<v Speaker 1>stark net revenue collapsed ninety eight percent, not a correction,

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<v Speaker 1>a near total evaporation of activity on the network. All right,

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<v Speaker 1>before we get into the risks, quick word from our sponsor. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>we're back. Let's talk about what to watch for. Three

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<v Speaker 1>things on my radar. First, this rally happened while fun

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<v Speaker 1>flows were negative. If the buyers here are retail and

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<v Speaker 1>leverage traders, which means one bad macro headline could unwind

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<v Speaker 1>things fast. Watch whether fun flows turn positive in the

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<v Speaker 1>next few days. Second, prediction markets are not celebrating less

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<v Speaker 1>than one percent on bitcoin above eighty two k by tomorrow,

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<v Speaker 1>six percent on ethereum at seventy five hundred by year end,

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<v Speaker 1>fourteen percent on two FED cuts. The people betting real

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<v Speaker 1>money are pricing a stall, not a continuation. Third, four

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<v Speaker 1>hundred and sixty four million dollars in hacks in three months.

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<v Speaker 1>Every new bridge and cross chain integration is a new

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<v Speaker 1>attack surface. The gap between what's being built and what's

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<v Speaker 1>being protected is still wide. Two things to watch this

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<v Speaker 1>week the Deutsche Burzu and Kraken deal. If we see

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<v Speaker 1>any announcement about operational collaboration beyond the equity stake that

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<v Speaker 1>confirms the strategic intent and probably triggers copycab moves from

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<v Speaker 1>other traditional finance institutions, and the SEC wallet exemption follow through.

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<v Speaker 1>Watch whether major wallet providers actually move on it with

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<v Speaker 1>new features or market entries in the next seven days.

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<v Speaker 1>If nothing moves, the ruling has less immediate commercial impact

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<v Speaker 1>than the headline suggests. If you want the full written

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<v Speaker 1>breakdown with charts, source links, and the complete prediction market data.

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<v Speaker 1>make sense of the market. It really does help the

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<v Speaker 1>show grow. This is educational content, not investment advice. Always

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<v Speaker 1>do your own research. I'm Alex, See you next time.