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That’s it. The Bull Market euphoria is in full swing — crypto is being legitimized from every angle:
Traditional firms get back into the space (McDonald’s, Lamborghini, Stripe..)
Companies rush to add BTC to their balance sheet to steal MicroStrategy’s popularity
The soon-to-be president of the United States, arguably the most influential government on earth, is considering a crypto-related role in the White House administration
The first non-crypto friends are coming up to you asking whether it’s the right time to start investing, and which coins they should pick
To me, this doesn’t feel like the top. But euphoria is certainly there. If you stuck around since the bear as this newsletter did, congrats. You deserve these gains ~ however, don’t get shaken out.
As markets gets more and more overheated, everyone starts feeling like a genius. People increase leverage, make rushed decisions, and throw risk management out of the window because “everything’s going up”. This is the perfect way to get rekt while all your friends make life-changing gains during the bull.
Thing is: as prices and euphoria increase, the effective risk does too, usually ending with a nasty leverage flush and a 30% correction. On the other hand, the risk perceived by investors does the opposite, it decreases. Notice that, and adapt accordingly.
Manage risk. Take profits (gains aren’t real until they hit the bank). Take care of your health: sleep enough, eat well, and hit the gym.
This is a marathon, not a sprint. You likely have 6 to 9 months of this frenzy ahead of you. Get the end of it!
Happens on-chain
Tether launches ‘Hadron’, an RWA platform to ‘tokenize everything’ — The Block
The Bonk DAO aims to burn 1T tokens by Christmas — 𝕏/bonk_inu
Coinbase to delist the wrapped version of Bitcoin by BitGo wBTC, as their newly created cbBTC reaches $1.5B market cap — The Block
Traditional rails
SEC is engaging Solana ETF applicants, sparking optimism for approval — The Block
Microstrategy acquires another 51780 Bitcoin for $4.6B, taking holdings to 331200 BTC — The Block
First day of Options Trading for Blackrock’s Bitcoin ETF sees $2B in volume — 𝕏/JSeyff
Trump to meet privately with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong — Cointelegraph
Trump team mulls creating first-ever white house crypto role — Bloomberg
Trump is set to pick a new chair for the SEC, and seemingly 4 people are on the list — The Block
Trump media company in talks to buy crypto exchange Bakkt — CNBC
China expelled head of Central Bank Digital Currency Institute from CCP over alleged corruption through cryptocurrencies — The Block
Bhutan mined $1B worth of BTC, accounting for 34% of its GDP
Switzerland’s 21Shares introduces Ethereum Staking in Ethereum Core ETP — binance.com
Bitcoin mining company MARA to raise $700M for BTC purchases — mara.com
Dogecoin investors drop lawsuit against Elon Musk where they alleged market manipulation — The Block
OpenAI wanted to do an ICO in 2018, but Musk shot it down — The Block
18 U.S. states sued the SEC and Gary Gensler alleging crypto regulatory overreach — Decrypt
Shaquille O’Neal signs $11M settlement for Astral NFTs & Galaxy tokens lawsuit — DLnews
Coinbase Wallet introduces 4.7% APY for USDC holders — The Block
South Korea’s largest exchange UpBit under probe for at least 500K KYC violations — The Block
Shangai court says crypto ownership is legal in china — scmp.com
Bitfinex hacker Ilya Lichtenstein sentenced to 5 years in prison for attempting to launder 120K Bitcoin — The Block
Kraken & Tether backed company Quantoz launches MiCA-compliant stablecoins USDQ, EURQ — The Block
99.3% of Bitcoin holders are in profit. This euphoric phase usually lasts 3-12 months — 𝕏/ki_young_yu
Security & Development
Aptos protocol Thala suffered a $25.5M hack, but negotiated a $300K bounty resulting in a full recovery — 𝕏/ThalaLabs
Lido Co-Founders set to launch WorldCoin competitor ‘Y’, providing alternative to eye-scanning orbs — CoinDesk
Injective launches iAgent SDK to automate blockchain tasks with Ai-powered agents — blog.injective.com
Lead dev Jeffy Yu launches ZerePy framework to launch AI agents, directly competing with AI16Z — 𝕏/jyu_eth
Stripe integrates Aptos as Circle enables native USDC on the chain — CoinDesk
Sui Network faced 2-hours outage — The Block
Where’s the money flowing?
Crypto wallet Deblock raised $16.81M Seed Round — crypto-fundraising.info
Web3 Gamer reputation platform KGeN raised $10M Round led by Aptos — crypto-fundraising.info
Ai16z and Ryze Labs partner to launch AICombinator program, announcing $5M fund — Decrypt
Fixed-rate lending platform Exponent raised $2.1M round led by Rockaway — crypto-fundraising.info
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