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<v Speaker 1>Tuesday, August fourth. If you've been away from the desk

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<v Speaker 1>for a week, here's what you missed. Blackrock just launched

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<v Speaker 1>two treasury funds on ethereum, a major bank is staking

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<v Speaker 1>ether for yield, and cold Card just told users to

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<v Speaker 1>move their bitcoin. This isn't a rerun. You're catching up

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<v Speaker 1>on the real story and it's moving fast. 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>Blackrock just put two treasury funds on Ethereum, Strategies sold

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<v Speaker 1>Bitcoin below its cost basis, and cold Card is telling

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<v Speaker 1>users to move their funds. Now, Bitcoin's holding around sixty

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<v Speaker 1>three thousand, up a few percent, Ethereum's near eighteen seventy,

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<v Speaker 1>Solana's bounced to about seventy four. Total market caps hovering

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<v Speaker 1>near two point two trillion, with bitcoins still dominating at

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<v Speaker 1>about fifty eight percent. DeFi total value, locks flat and

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<v Speaker 1>stable coins supply barely budged in the past day. But

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<v Speaker 1>here's the thing. Fear and greed is sitting at twenty

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<v Speaker 1>five extreme fear. That's a big gap from the price action.

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<v Speaker 1>Markets are calm, but people are nervous, which means the

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<v Speaker 1>calm might not last first, Blackrock launched two tokenized treasury

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<v Speaker 1>funds on Ethereum BSDTLLL and BRSRV. This is a big

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<v Speaker 1>deal because it's a major asset manager using blockchain for

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<v Speaker 1>real world finance. The funds are already drawing interest, and

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<v Speaker 1>one's up nearly thirty percent. Why this matters. It shows

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<v Speaker 1>institutions are starting to treat ethereum not just as a

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<v Speaker 1>trading platform, but as a backbone for global finance. That

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<v Speaker 1>could change how people think about the network. Second, Strategies

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<v Speaker 1>sold over one thousand, six hundred bitcoin below where they

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<v Speaker 1>bought it around sixty four thousand per coin. That's like

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<v Speaker 1>a landlord selling their house for less than they paid.

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<v Speaker 1>They use the cash to fund dividends and buy back

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<v Speaker 1>STRAT shares. Bird stocks up twenty four percent from its

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<v Speaker 1>June low. But here's the signal. Selling spot to sport

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<v Speaker 1>paper is a red flag, not a strategy. If Bitcoin

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<v Speaker 1>stays under sixty four thousand and STRAT slips under eighty,

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<v Speaker 1>the story starts to unravel. Third, Cold Card is warning

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<v Speaker 1>users to move their funds a flaw in its twenty

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<v Speaker 1>twenty one firmware has drained over one hundred and fifteen

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<v Speaker 1>million dollars from self custodied wallets, about one thousand, six

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<v Speaker 1>hundred bitcoins stolen from thousands of addresses. This is the

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<v Speaker 1>self custody equivalent of finding out your safe has a

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<v Speaker 1>master key under the doormat. Hardware wallets were supposed to

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<v Speaker 1>be the bunker. Now they're the breach, the takeaway. If

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<v Speaker 1>your wallet hasn't been updated, move your coins. Trust is broken. Fourth,

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<v Speaker 1>Italy's largest bank, in Tessa San Paolo, tripled its staked

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<v Speaker 1>ether ETF position to about seven million dollars. It's cutting

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<v Speaker 1>back on bitcoin ETFs. This isn't a huge dollar move,

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<v Speaker 1>but it's a canary in the coal mine. When banks

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<v Speaker 1>start chasing staking yield, they're not betting on price, They're

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<v Speaker 1>betting on ethereum as a productive asset. If more Eurozone

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<v Speaker 1>banks follow, it could shift the whole ethereum versus bitcoin narrative. Fifth,

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<v Speaker 1>a Dubai exchange tied to Iran sent binance nearly seven

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<v Speaker 1>hundred million dollars. Reuters traced it to unlicensed flows, including

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<v Speaker 1>access to Iran's central bank and a massive gambling network.

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<v Speaker 1>This is the crypto version of a smuggler using a

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<v Speaker 1>flagship bank as a mail drop regulatory heat on exchanges.

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<v Speaker 1>Just got a fresh log to throw on the fire.

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<v Speaker 1>If Binance faces new compliance probes in the next month,

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<v Speaker 1>expect frozen corridors or delistings. Six South African lawmakers propose

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<v Speaker 1>draft rules to regulate cross border crypto. Think of it

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<v Speaker 1>as building a customs checkpoint on the blockchain highway. It

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<v Speaker 1>could legitimize adoption, or it could add friction that pushes

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<v Speaker 1>volume to peer to peer. The takeaway watch for public consultation.

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<v Speaker 1>If it happens, exchanges will adjust. If it stalls, nothing changes,

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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. First, fear and greed is at twenty

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<v Speaker 1>five extreme fear, yet bitcoin rows a few percent in

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<v Speaker 1>market state calm. That split usually resolves with a sharp move. Second,

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<v Speaker 1>stable coin supply barely changed over the past week, trimming

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<v Speaker 1>available cash while DeFi total value lockeds flat, less AMMO

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<v Speaker 1>for a rally. Third, buyers are picky because stable coin

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<v Speaker 1>liquidity is shrinking and trust in self custody took a hit.

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<v Speaker 1>That flips if tokenized fund inflows broaden, and fear and

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<v Speaker 1>greed climbs above forty five in the next week. The

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<v Speaker 1>takeaway is this the calm is thin, one broken trust,

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<v Speaker 1>one bad flow, and it's over. First, fallout from the

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<v Speaker 1>US Japan yen intervention could hit in the next seven days.

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<v Speaker 1>Joint action may spike bond yields and pull liquidity from

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<v Speaker 1>risk assets like bitcoin, watch USD pairs. Second, the coal

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<v Speaker 1>cart exploit may have a fourth wave near one hundred

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<v Speaker 1>and thirty million dollars If confirmed by Friday, expect a

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<v Speaker 1>wave of hardware wallet migration to exchanges. Third, Federal Reserve

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<v Speaker 1>press signals in the next week could reset risk appetite.

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<v Speaker 1>Any talk of rates or liquidity changes will ripple through crypto.

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<v Speaker 1>We've added new filters to the signal score dashboard. You

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<v Speaker 1>can now track institutional flows in real time, including ETF's

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<v Speaker 1>and tokenized fund and flows. It's live in the discord

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<v Speaker 1>and in the newsletter. By the way, if you want

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<v Speaker 1>dot com. 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.