Trump EO authorizing 401k plans to hold crypto. Great little history lesson by Ryan Rasmussen on how we got here. Crypto can take a victory lap, but the real winners are the retirees.

Now imagine Monopoly where piles and piles of new cash magically appear each year …. inflating asset prices beyond where those $200 earners already cut off couldn’t possibly ever get there. Reality is much worse than the game.

FIRST THEY FIGHT YOU, THEN THEY THANK YOU.. Private Equity and other "Alts" have been trying to get into 401k's for more than a decade. It took the technology of web3 to make it happen. Private equity braces for a strange bedfellow in 401(k) order: crypto

Good to see S&P Global rating Stablecoin projects…. A B- rating suggests we should be getting 7-10% yield when engaging with these products. As comparison- BlackRock iBonds 2029 HY fund IBHI - has yield of 6.89% (300bps over treasuries) and holds over 400 Corp bonds with

US wealth platforms have a very long way to go. Early. Nice report by Tephra Digital LLC

🤯 dial up sound was computers talking to each other

Excited about this research paper we just released. We advocate for selling your bonds and buying crypto. Lots of ways to Get Off Zero. Read on

The DATs are absolute MACHINES

What percentage of an investment portfolio should be allocated to crypto?

#GetOffZero applies to $ETH too. FWIW. $27 Billion of dry powder being raised from DATs - to come into this asset class. It’s not too late to be early.

JUST IN: $124,000 Bitcoin 🚀

Update from richwidmann.eth of Google

The Deribit acquisition is complete.... full spectrum of trading inbound

.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is right: a budget-neutral path to building SBR is the way. We cannot save our country from $37T debt by purchasing more bitcoin, but we can revalue gold reserves to today’s prices & transfer the increase in value to build SBR. America needs the BITCOIN Act.

Thrilled that Coinbase Asset Management is supporting liquidity onchain. We're unlocking entirely new markets for stablecoins and RWA. Read on

The deadline for 13-F filings (2Q25) was yesterday (Aug 14) for all firms managing more than $100M. Interestingly, the latest data shows that the share of spot BTC ETF's institutional holders declined last quarter despite the number of entities increasing. The answer: retail 🧵👇

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I’m not sure I understand Governor JB Pritzker. 102 House Dems and 18 Senate Ds voted for the GENIUS Act, and 78 House Ds supported CLARITY, and they did this to support bad bills written by crypto bros? The Democratic Party is making important strides to correct the mistakes of the ‘24

Wow! 🤩 Slow then fast

A lot of room for credit to grow this cycle.