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- 0:06SPEAKER_01: Happy Wednesday, everybody.
- 0:07SPEAKER_01: Let's get into what's been happening over the past 24 hours
- 0:10SPEAKER_01: because Bitcoin reclaimed $87,000 after briefly touching $85,000 and
- 0:17SPEAKER_01: the institutional money just keeps pouring in.
- 0:20SPEAKER_01: BlackRock and And other Bitcoin ETF issuers recorded a combined $714.75 million
- 0:27SPEAKER_01: in inflows,
- 0:28SPEAKER_01: following nearly $1 billion into spot Bitcoin ETFs the prior day,
- 0:32SPEAKER_01: which was the largest since October 2025.
- 0:36SPEAKER_01: Calamos Investments,
- 0:37SPEAKER_01: with $50 billion in AUM,
- 0:40SPEAKER_01: said Bitcoin is becoming an allocation in most portfolios,
- 0:43SPEAKER_01: including sovereign wealth funds, and called it a great investment.
- 0:47SPEAKER_01: UTXO Management said we are at the start of what could be a nice Bitcoin bull run,
- 0:53SPEAKER_01: with price potentially in the mid-90s to low $100,000 range within three
- 0:59SPEAKER_01: to six months.
- 1:00SPEAKER_01: Here's an interesting historical note.
- 1:02SPEAKER_01: Bitcoin to gold bear markets have historically lasted about 14 months.
- 1:07SPEAKER_01: That mark is now passed and Bitcoin is rising.
- 1:11SPEAKER_01: Coinbase now offers fixed rate Bitcoin backed loans.
- 1:15SPEAKER_01: And Russia's Moscow Exchange launched perpetual Bitcoin futures trading,
- 1:19SPEAKER_01: so the infrastructure continues to expand globally.
- 1:23SPEAKER_01: On the macro front,
- 1:25SPEAKER_01: US money supply grew 5.7% over the last year,
- 1:27SPEAKER_01: the biggest With the biggest year-over-year increase since June 2022,
- 1:33SPEAKER_01: which is fuel for hard assets,
- 1:35SPEAKER_01: markets were pricing in two Fed rate cuts at the start of 2026.
- 1:39SPEAKER_01: But after last week's 25 basis point hike, markets are now pricing in
- 1:47SPEAKER_01: Bank stocks were among the weakest with Schwab falling 6.6%,
- 1:50SPEAKER_01: JP Morgan 3.7% and Citigroup about 3% as the 2-year to 10-year Treasury spread
- 2:00SPEAKER_01: Narrowed and pressured lending margins.
- 2:02SPEAKER_01: President Trump said the Iran relationship is developing and that he thinks
- 2:06SPEAKER_01: a settlement will be reached which could ease some geopolitical tensions.
- 2:11SPEAKER_01: He also called to ban US diesel exports, noting the US is the world's largest diesel exporter.
- 2:18SPEAKER_01: In AI news,
- 2:19SPEAKER_01: BlackRock said AI Compute could be tokenized in the future and
- 2:23SPEAKER_01: that AI agents will drive major demand for crypto stablecoins
- 2:27SPEAKER_01: and blockchain payments.
- 2:29SPEAKER_01: OpenAI introduced GPT-6sol and Luna,
- 2:32SPEAKER_01: expanding the Elon Musk said AI will beat all fields by the end of next year or 2028
- 2:36SPEAKER_01: at the latest.
- 2:48SPEAKER_01: And Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale said, AI will make everyone really wealthy.
- 2:55SPEAKER_01: Shopify rose about 7% after integrating ShopPay with Meta's Muse AI Assistant,
- 3:01SPEAKER_01: and Unholding jumped about 13% after unveiling 2029 targets and
- 3:04SPEAKER_01: a $1 billion share buyback.
- 3:09SPEAKER_01: On the altcoin side,
- 3:11SPEAKER_01: Canada's six biggest banks launched a joint tokenized deposits project
- 3:16SPEAKER_01: to enable 247 blockchain base payments.
- 3:20SPEAKER_01: Sofibank and Mastercard launched a crypto stablecoin settlement payment network
- 3:25SPEAKER_01: and Binance invested $100 million in USDC issuer circle.
- 3:31SPEAKER_01: Hyperliquid's Hype token broke $97 for the first time and Zcash broke $1600.
- 3:38SPEAKER_01: The Bitwise Solana staking ETF recorded a new all-time high in AUM of more than 1.2%.
- 3:45SPEAKER_01: Panic Drop is where we find the truth.
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