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Speaker 1: things are starting to get bloody out there. Bitcoin back
Speaker 1: down again, currently at sixty six, six hundred and eight
Speaker 1: dollars at the time of recording, so we're seeing a
Speaker 1: bit of a fake out from their move. We saw
Speaker 1: up above seventy one thousand dollars, which you know, we
Speaker 1: were looking for some sort of relief rally. Maybe that
Speaker 1: was it, but you know, we're gonna have to wait
Speaker 1: see because there's a lot of uncertainty in the markets
Speaker 1: right now. Even the stock market is seeing some pressure
Speaker 1: where we're seeing the futures are all in the negative.
Speaker 1: So it's starting to get bloody out there, and this
Speaker 1: week could be really bad. Maybe we see a big
Speaker 1: dump for the stock market, the NAS, the SMP five hundred,
Speaker 1: and much more. Some analysts are looking at the charts
Speaker 1: for the SMP five hundred and the NASDAC and it
Speaker 1: is looking bearer. So with the uncertainty with the Iran war,
Speaker 1: oil prices surging over one hundred dollars a barrel and
Speaker 1: much more, we could see the markets take a big hit.
Speaker 1: And of course if the stock market's dumping, we're gonna
Speaker 1: see crypto pull down with it, right, because it's like
Speaker 1: the gravitational pull. What's fascinating is that gold is also down,
Speaker 1: So everything is just down right now. Just oil is
Speaker 1: going nuts, and the VIS the volatility index is spiking,
Speaker 1: So be prepared. This could be a very bloody week,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't mean it's going to last forever. Remember
Speaker 1: that markets are cyclical, right, and we are I think
Speaker 1: near the bottom of this respective bear market because we've
Speaker 1: seen a big downside already. So it presents buying opportunities
Speaker 1: if you have a long term view. Now, if you're
Speaker 1: looking at just the one minute, one hour weekly, it's
Speaker 1: going to drive you nuts and you won't have that
Speaker 1: larger perspective. But again, we've seen many of these type
Speaker 1: of events. Just even in the beginning of last year
Speaker 1: with the tariff announcement, markets dumped significantly, right, It was
Speaker 1: a significant move down. So this is where patients and
Speaker 1: having some sort of dollar cost averaging strategy is important,
Speaker 1: and markets will find your bottom and continue to move
Speaker 1: higher because they will continue to debase the currency in print.
Speaker 1: So this is where you got to play the long
Speaker 1: game by holding assets. And of course crypto is one
Speaker 1: of the fastest horses in the race. Now, not to
Speaker 1: pour salt on the wound here, but around thirty six
Speaker 1: point eight billion XRP are now underwater with unrealized losses
Speaker 1: hitting fifty point eight billion dollars per glass. Note this
Speaker 1: is true from many all coins, right, but I just
Speaker 1: saw this data point and I think it's important to highlight.
Speaker 1: And again, markets don't go in the same direction forever.
Speaker 1: There's going to be a bottom and then an accumulation
Speaker 1: phase and then we hit the next bull market. But
Speaker 1: this is where patients it has to be exer, don't
Speaker 1: look at your portfolio. I'm avoiding looking at my portfolio
Speaker 1: because psychologically I know what that will do, so I
Speaker 1: don't want to focus on it too much, right, so
Speaker 1: I want to look at the buying opportunities. So guys, again,
Speaker 1: expect lots of volativity this week. Now from a macro perspective.
Speaker 1: I love what Brian Armstrong's CEO Coinbase tweeted out today.
Speaker 1: He said crypto will break down barriers around fundraising and
Speaker 1: capital formation. Next, reducing friction around fundraising will increase the
Speaker 1: number of startups in the world, accelerating progress. Every entrepreneur
Speaker 1: knows how time consuming and expensive fundraising can be. So, guys,
Speaker 1: we've seen the model with all coins, even meme coins
Speaker 1: at NFTs right, the ability to crowdsource and raise capital.
Speaker 1: Now we need to put the regulations and the guard
Speaker 1: wills in place. I'm not saying you should launch a
Speaker 1: meme coin to fundraise, but rather you can tokenize yourself
Speaker 1: or tokenize a business and have it go through proper
Speaker 1: institutions that will do the audit and the verifications, and
Speaker 1: it's all transparent on the blockchain and globally distributed, and
Speaker 1: you can raise capital that way. So please understand what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. And I believe eventually the future IPOs and
Speaker 1: companies going public will be on chain. It won't be
Speaker 1: through stocks, you know, on the stock market. It's going
Speaker 1: to be on chain in different ways. So this is
Speaker 1: a paradigm shift, folks, and it does take time for
Speaker 1: the infrastructure to be built for all these things to
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Speaker 1: The United States Department of the Treasury admits crypto mixers
Speaker 1: have legitimate privacy uses on public blockchains. So many of
Speaker 1: you know about the story with Tornado Cash and the
Speaker 1: other crypto mixers. Many governments, including the United States, have
Speaker 1: come out very heavy handed against them, and instead of
Speaker 1: going after the bad actors, they've gone after the people
Speaker 1: who created these platforms and the software. Right, But that's
Speaker 1: not the right approach. You got to go after the
Speaker 1: bad actors. So great to see the Treasury is starting
Speaker 1: to change its tune here, and hopefully the entire US
Speaker 1: government can get behind this and they can put together
Speaker 1: the legislation that's needed to regulate and monitor these platforms
Speaker 1: versus you know, just having a knee jerk reaction. But
Speaker 1: we need to shut it down, and only bad actors
Speaker 1: are using it, right, and even like the founder Tornado Cash,
Speaker 1: took the brunt of it. But you know, these type
Speaker 1: of technologies are going to be very important for the
Speaker 1: future adoption of crypto and speaking of the Treasury. Treasury
Speaker 1: Secretary Scott Bessend tweeted out just on Friday, enjoyed meeting
Speaker 1: with President Naibu Kelly today at the President of the
Speaker 1: United States Shield of America's summit in Dral, Florida. I
Speaker 1: was glad to hear more about President bu Kelly's pro
Speaker 1: market reforms for El Salvador and his efforts to make
Speaker 1: El Salvador a digital assets hub. We will continue to
Speaker 1: work together to advance strategies to strengthen our hemisphere. Very interesting.
Speaker 1: So notice you mentioned their digital assets hub. So Alsavadro
Speaker 1: could be a key partner to the United States as
Speaker 1: it relates to crypto and blockchain technology. We're going to
Speaker 1: have to wait and see how that plays out, but
Speaker 1: we know President Bukel they've been buying bitcoin al Savado
Speaker 1: right in their reserve, and they've embraced bitcoin and crypto
Speaker 1: in many different ways. So very interesting. Now here's some
Speaker 1: more news from the government as it relates to crypto.
Speaker 1: Trump's cyber strategy vows to support the security of cryptocurrencies
Speaker 1: and blockchain. So great update here. It's no secret that
Speaker 1: President Trump's administration is very pro crypto so that Trump
Speaker 1: Administration's new cyber strategy prioritizes the security of cryptocurrencies and
Speaker 1: blockchain technology to maintain US leadership in emerging tech. This
Speaker 1: place is blockchain security in the context of national technology competition,
Speaker 1: alongside AI and quantum computing. The strategy aligns with the
Speaker 1: administration's ongoing support for crypto, including past pledges to make
Speaker 1: the US the crypto capital and create a strategic bitcoin reserve.
Speaker 1: So again, all the moving parts and components, the bells
Speaker 1: and whistles, are being set up here for the adoption
Speaker 1: at crypto. Obviously, the many institutions want to see the
Speaker 1: governments give their rubber stamp of approval in many different
Speaker 1: ways so that they can use the technology to build
Speaker 1: and invest and do a lot more. So this is
Speaker 1: very good news. Okay. Moving ahead, tokenized assets exceed twenty
Speaker 1: five billion dollars after nearly quadrupling in a year, So
Speaker 1: the token economy is growing. We are seeing a lot
Speaker 1: of assets go on chain, from fiat currency to gold,
Speaker 1: to real estate, to money market funds and equities and
Speaker 1: much more. Guys, it's really really incredible. So tokenized real
Speaker 1: world assets excluding stable coins have surged more than twenty
Speaker 1: five billion dollars on chain, nearly quadrupling in a year,
Speaker 1: with six categories now exceeding one billion dollars each. Much
Speaker 1: of the growth reflects larger, infrequent institutional allocations rather than
Speaker 1: active secondary trading, as issuers prioritize capital formation and fundraising
Speaker 1: efficiency over liquidity. Only about twelve percent of the roughly
Speaker 1: eight point five billion dollars in RWA back stable coins
Speaker 1: is deployed in D five, leaving most assets siloed behind
Speaker 1: compliance barriers and raising questions about whether tokenization will integrate
Speaker 1: with permission less finance. So this is just the tippity iceberg, right.
Speaker 1: The billions that we're hitting here is almost next to nothing.
Speaker 1: When you think about there's trillions of dollars of assets
Speaker 1: around the globe. So eventually we're going to get to
Speaker 1: that one trillion market. It's going to be a combination
Speaker 1: of different jurisdictions and countries around the world putting large
Speaker 1: assets like real estate and gold and much more on chain.
Speaker 1: So the ball is rolling here, guys, and as always,
Speaker 1: they're doing this on blockchain networks. So this is where
Speaker 1: we want to keep monitoring and see which blockchain networks
Speaker 1: are getting adoption. You know, a great website I've talked
Speaker 1: about many times is RWA dot xyz where you can
Speaker 1: verify or view, i should say, the data around different
Speaker 1: blockchains that are getting adoption and how much of tokenized
Speaker 1: assets are WA tokenized assets are on those chains. So
Speaker 1: this is updated on a daily basis, and you can
Speaker 1: see what's happening with the different blockchains like Ethereum, Solana,
Speaker 1: Canton Network and much more. It's all there, you know.
Speaker 1: You can look at the data and see what's being
Speaker 1: built on which blockchains and much more so, things are
Speaker 1: moving in the right direction here, guys, this is very
Speaker 1: very bullish. Okay, folks, that's the news. Let me know
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