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Speaker 1: we have some very big news being reported here by
Speaker 1: Michael Saylor. So apparently Michael Saylor and multiple crypto executives
Speaker 1: are going to meet with the US lawmakers tomorrow to
Speaker 1: advance the strategic Bitcoin reserve build. This is really great
Speaker 1: because we know Trumps signed an executive order to establish
Speaker 1: a strategic bitcoin reserve with the bitcoin they have confiscated
Speaker 1: over the years. But there was also the part of
Speaker 1: looking into how to fund the ability to buy bitcoin.
Speaker 1: So let's see what comes out of this. This could
Speaker 1: be really big and if the United States is able
Speaker 1: to buy bitcoin, needless to say, that would be very
Speaker 1: bullish and huge for the market and could really kick
Speaker 1: off a massive FOMO around bitcoin and other crypto assets
Speaker 1: because we've seen other countries follow the United States lead
Speaker 1: and it seems like the direction we're heading in is
Speaker 1: that bitcoin will sit alongside gold and other assets as
Speaker 1: a reserve via different central banks. So it will happen
Speaker 1: in time. But let's see if they come up with
Speaker 1: anything interesting here, and this could be a huge narrative
Speaker 1: for the bull market. All right, Moving ahead, PayPal is
Speaker 1: introducing a new peer to peer payment system. Here's a quote.
Speaker 1: Crypto will soon be directly integrated into PayPal's new P
Speaker 1: to P payment flow in the app. This is huge.
Speaker 1: We continue to see payment companies, banks, stock exchanges, and
Speaker 1: the largest financial institutions integrate crypto in many ways, and
Speaker 1: this move by PayPal is huge. I think this is
Speaker 1: a game changer because they have a big ecosystem. They
Speaker 1: also have Venmo, and if they roll this out, you
Speaker 1: know it's going to be open to millions of customers.
Speaker 1: So let me give you some details here. PayPal, the
Speaker 1: global payments giant with over four hundred million active accounts,
Speaker 1: is adding cryptocurrency to its peer to peer payments, enabling
Speaker 1: users to send and receive digital assets directly, a step
Speaker 1: that could accelerate mainstream adoption beyond investment and training. On Monday,
Speaker 1: the company unveil PayPal Links, a personalized one time link
Speaker 1: generated in the PayPal app that could be shared across texts, email,
Speaker 1: or chat. The feature will first launch in the US
Speaker 1: before expanding to the United Kingdom, Italy and other international
Speaker 1: markets in the near term. Users will be able to
Speaker 1: send cryptocurrencies and stable coins directly through paypals P to
Speaker 1: P feature, both to PayPal and Venmo users, as well
Speaker 1: as to compatible digital assets. The supported cryptocurrencies include Bitcoin,
Speaker 1: etherorem and PayPal stable coin p USD. Incredible news here, folks,
Speaker 1: And as the article mentioned, this could help boost adoption
Speaker 1: because if you can easily send people crypto assets without
Speaker 1: having to worry about you know, long wallet addresses and
Speaker 1: complicated things and putting the wrong thing, and you have
Speaker 1: this kind of Web two setup, but it's powered by
Speaker 1: Web three. This is what's needed for mass adoption. Now
Speaker 1: you can imagine PayPal's competitors are going to build similar stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, Robinhood's probably going to do it and the
Speaker 1: other folks, But huge move by PayPal here. I'm going
Speaker 1: to try to get someone from PayPal on the podcast again.
Speaker 1: I had interviewed PayPal CTO if I'm not mistaken, in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. His name is Edwin Aoki and we
Speaker 1: talked a bit about, you know, what they were doing
Speaker 1: with cryptos. So I think it would be a good
Speaker 1: time to get someone on the pod from PayPal to
Speaker 1: talk about this. And by the way, Paxo's the issuer
Speaker 1: of the PayPal stable coin p y USD their CEO.
Speaker 1: I interviewed and I publish that interview earlier today, so
Speaker 1: check it out, guys. It's a good conversation where we
Speaker 1: dive into the future of payments and much more. So
Speaker 1: huge news here now look at this and s one
Speaker 1: for bit wise is avalanche Avax ETF just drop and
Speaker 1: we're set to get some SEC decisions next month. So
Speaker 1: the ETF all coin ETF applications are piling up here.
Speaker 1: We are seeing a lot being laid on the desk
Speaker 1: of the SEC. But I want to remind everybody there's
Speaker 1: no futures market for AVAX, not to say there won't
Speaker 1: ever be. I'm just saying right now, I believe x
Speaker 1: RP and Salona are the ones that are going to
Speaker 1: get approved because they have the futures in place. And
Speaker 1: I will be interviewing SEC Commissioner Hester Perse in a
Speaker 1: next week actually, and I will ask her the details
Speaker 1: around this, you know, is the future still required? I
Speaker 1: assume it still is, and I'll ask her about, you know,
Speaker 1: the timeline for these all coin ETF approvals. All right, folks,
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Speaker 1: this The Theorem Foundation forms AI research team to blend
Speaker 1: blockchain in AI. And this comes as no surprise because
Speaker 1: you see a lot of different blockchains and projects are
Speaker 1: trying to suppor AI agents. We know AI agents are
Speaker 1: going to be used by a lot of folks. There's
Speaker 1: going to be many of them, and you want to
Speaker 1: make sure you can support them and people can build
Speaker 1: on your blockchain and be able to use payments with
Speaker 1: your currency and even stable coins on your blockchain. So
Speaker 1: David Krappi, is a research scientist from the Foundation, said
Speaker 1: Monday that the new team will focus on developing an
Speaker 1: AI economy on Etherorem and a decentralized AI stack for developers.
Speaker 1: Here's a quote. Etherorem makes AI more trustworthy, and AI
Speaker 1: makes etherorem more useful, he said on x. The more
Speaker 1: intelligent agents transact, the more they need a neutral based
Speaker 1: layer for value and reputation. Etherorem benefits by becoming that layer,
Speaker 1: and AI benefits by escaping lock into a few centralized platforms.
Speaker 1: So folks see the direction things are headed in here,
Speaker 1: and AI is going to be a big part of
Speaker 1: the economy, and obviously it complements blockchain in many ways,
Speaker 1: and blockchain complements AI in many ways. In fact, it
Speaker 1: will be used the police AI. Eventually all of our
Speaker 1: content uploaded on social media platforms, things that we generate
Speaker 1: on social media, will be blockchain power, so we know
Speaker 1: the source and we can tell what's a de fake,
Speaker 1: what's real, what's not, because that's going to be a
Speaker 1: very messy world when AI fakes get sophisticated where you
Speaker 1: can't tell the difference that's coming. That is a scary thing.
Speaker 1: But at least we have blockchain to help solve the
Speaker 1: transparency and trust factor. Okay, moving ahead, the SEC Gemini
Speaker 1: Trust reach agreement over crypto lending dispute. So many of
Speaker 1: you know, Gemini had a big issue with the company
Speaker 1: it was doing to earn service through and that was
Speaker 1: so messy, but thank goodness, it got resolved. So we
Speaker 1: got an update here from the SEC. So the SEC
Speaker 1: and Gemini Trust company filed a status update in court,
Speaker 1: letting a federal court know they had reached a resolution
Speaker 1: principle to resolve a securities case stemming from a twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three complaint. In a Monday filing with the US
Speaker 1: District Court for the Southern District of New York, the
Speaker 1: SEC and Gemini Trust said subject to review and approval
Speaker 1: by the Commission. The two parties requested that all litigation
Speaker 1: in the case be indefinitely stayed. So this is really great. Gemini,
Speaker 1: of course, just did an IPO last week on Friday,
Speaker 1: they got listed on the NASDAC, so great to see
Speaker 1: some of these legacy issues being resolved here. Moving ahead,
Speaker 1: Robin Hood seeks SEC approval for venture fund accessible to
Speaker 1: retail investors, So this is really great. They're trying to
Speaker 1: open up private equity to the masses and they should, right.
Speaker 1: The accreditation laws are so outdated and I'm going to
Speaker 1: talk to Hester Purst about this. You know, why should
Speaker 1: only high net worth individuals be able to access these
Speaker 1: things and not in individuals, especially when you have more
Speaker 1: knowledge about markets. You have the Internet, everybody has the
Speaker 1: wealth of information on their phones and their compute or
Speaker 1: now with AI which can be as an assistant and
Speaker 1: even educate you, right to help you to learn along
Speaker 1: the process. So I understand the accreditation laws maybe forty
Speaker 1: fifty years ago, but now there's no need for that.
Speaker 1: Come on, right, So great to see Robinhood is doing this.
Speaker 1: And if you guys recall when I interviewed Vlad Tene,
Speaker 1: CEO of Robinhood. We talked a bit about this, so
Speaker 1: make sure you check out that interview. They are really
Speaker 1: trying to open up as much investment opportunities to folks
Speaker 1: around the world. So brokerage firm Robinhood is planning a
Speaker 1: close end fund that would give retail investors access to
Speaker 1: its venture capital portfolio, a space traditionally reserved for institutions
Speaker 1: and high net worth individuals. The brokeridge disclosed Monday that
Speaker 1: it has filed a Form and two with the SEC
Speaker 1: to register shares of Robinhood Ventures, one which will be
Speaker 1: managed by its new subsidiary, Robinhood Ventures THEE. So, if approved,
Speaker 1: shares of our will be listed on the New York
Speaker 1: Stock Exchange where they can be bought and soul through
Speaker 1: participating brokerage platforms. This is great, folks, and I think
Speaker 1: it will also have an impact on tokenized securities, so
Speaker 1: certain things that were not accessible to once again retail.
Speaker 1: This you know, if they change the accreditation laws across
Speaker 1: the board, it will really help tokenize assets. Now, final
Speaker 1: news item, which is very bullish, London Stock Exchange launches
Speaker 1: blockchain platform for private funds again, look who's involved, the
Speaker 1: London Stock Exchange, right, and Microsoft is also part of this.
Speaker 1: So this is a very bullish news item and I
Speaker 1: actually share this on the live stream this morning. So
Speaker 1: the London Stock Exchange Group launch a blockchain based infrastructure
Speaker 1: platform for private funds, making it the first major global
Speaker 1: stock exchange to use such a system. And let me
Speaker 1: give you some updates here. They're not going to be
Speaker 1: the last, right, and they're not going to be the
Speaker 1: only ones. More are going to follow. So the platform,
Speaker 1: called Digital Markets Infrastructure, supports the full life cycle of
Speaker 1: digital assets, from issues and tokenization to post trade settlement.
Speaker 1: It was developed with Microsoft and runs on Microsoft Azure.
Speaker 1: The exchange set on Monday. So the London Stock Exchange
Speaker 1: Group said the system was designed to provide interoperability between
Speaker 1: distributed ledger technology and traditional financial systems as part of
Speaker 1: its goal to become the first global exchange group to
Speaker 1: support clients across the full funding continuum. So, folks, you're
Speaker 1: seeing the bridge being built here from the traditional system
Speaker 1: to the new system, which is blockchain base. Incredible, and
Speaker 1: again look at the names and the folks who are involved.
Speaker 1: I started the podcast talking about PayPal, right, and now
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the London Stock Exchange. We're talking about
Speaker 1: Robinhood as well. It's incredible what's happening. So this is
Speaker 1: why I am so bullish on this news. So private
Speaker 1: funds are the acid class to go live in or
Speaker 1: on the DMI, with plans for additional asset classes as
Speaker 1: part of the initial offering. Private funds on the DMI
Speaker 1: will be discoverable by workplaces users, enabling general partners to
Speaker 1: interact with professional investors on these platforms. Capital management from
Speaker 1: members CAP and London based Archacks, a Financial Conduct Authority
Speaker 1: regulated crypto exchange where the first clients on board. Members
Speaker 1: CAP conducted the platform's debut transaction, with Archacks acting as
Speaker 1: a nominee for the Cardono Foundation. So Cardana holders, that's
Speaker 1: some very interesting news here. But man, look who's involved.
Speaker 1: Look at what they're building, folks. Again, I know I
Speaker 1: say this a lot. I'm not just bullish on this cycle,
Speaker 1: but when the bear market comes, I'll be buying and
Speaker 1: loading up and getting ready for twenty twenty eight to
Speaker 1: twenty thirty. Something to keep in mind, we are now
Speaker 1: getting crypto legislation. We're waiting on the Clarity Act to pass.
Speaker 1: It's going to start taking place soon, and it's going
Speaker 1: to take time for that legislation to make its way
Speaker 1: throughout the economy and getting accepted by people and reviewed
Speaker 1: by people, and then they have to build. And usually
Speaker 1: the building happens in the bear market. So you can
Speaker 1: see here once again you can position yourself very well
Speaker 1: for the next bull market. So things are moving in
Speaker 1: the right direction. We are seeing incredible adoption here. So
Speaker 1: I'm just blown away by the participants and the people
Speaker 1: who are building here. And I don't think a lot
Speaker 1: of people out there realize what's going on. I still
Speaker 1: see comments that Crypto's spot a ponzi, cryptos a scam, right,
Speaker 1: because people are not educated and they've often chang is
Speaker 1: hard for human beings, and sometimes you know, your initial
Speaker 1: reactions like, oh this doesn't seem real. You know, oh,
Speaker 1: how can this be currency? How can this work this way?
Speaker 1: But this is where you have to go beyond that
Speaker 1: and educate yourself so that you understand is what I've
Speaker 1: seen on headlines real is it a or is it legit?
Speaker 1: People haven't gone that next step, so count yourself lucky
Speaker 1: if you have, because this is the next layer on
Speaker 1: top of the Internet. And you know, these news items
Speaker 1: are not making major headlines on Fox or CNN and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Right, So the majority of mainstream media
Speaker 1: is not telling you this. They just push their narratives
Speaker 1: versus sharing the facts. Who's building, who's investing, who's getting
Speaker 1: patents and actually doing things right facts. There's no spin here,
Speaker 1: there's no opinion piece per se. It's just hey, look
Speaker 1: at what the London Stock Exchange is dealing with Microsoft, right,
Speaker 1: Here's what PayPal is doing, straight up facts. Right. So again,
Speaker 1: count yourself lucky that you're here early and if you
Speaker 1: bought the bloody bear market and the dips and your
Speaker 1: position to get an incredible return. So, folks, stay patient.
Speaker 1: Things are moving in the right direction, all right. A
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