BLACKROCK'S CEO READY TO PUMP CRYPTO AGAIN! BIG HEDERA HBAR, ETHEREUM, & SOLANA NEWS!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Coinbase and black Rock CEO made very big statements today
about crypto that you need to hear, and Charles Schwab
CEO confirms they're going to launch crypto trading in the
first half of twenty twenty six, and there are big
updates around etherorem Hedera, and Solana that you need to
know about. I'll give you the details. Let's get into it. Hey, everybody,

(00:24):
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Rating and review. Folks.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Today bigcoin touch ninety four thousand dollars. Currently it is
at ninety three four hundred and fifty one dollars, so
we continue to see the upward momentum. Obviously, we need
more confirmation to see how hi this is going to go.
The two scenarios I've been sharing with you all is one.
This is a relief rally that top out somewhere at
one hundred thousand, then roll over into lower lows into

(01:04):
a bear market or this is the continuation of the bullmarket.
But there are conflicting things because on the charts you
have some bear signals, but the macro is setting up
very bullish. So we're gonna have to wait to see
how this plays out. Now, something that's interesting, Bitcoin Bullinger
bands repeat a parabolic bull signal from late twenty twenty three,

(01:26):
So this is one signal that's flashing bullish and could
indicate the continuation of the bull market. So the key
takeaways here are Bitcoin's Bullinger bandwidth indicator offers hope of
a twenty twenty three style bitcoin price surge into the
year end. Bandwidth avoided a red event. Despite the recent
bitcoin price drawdown, traders demand more approof of an enduring

(01:49):
market rebound. In an x thread on Wednesday, macro strategist
Gert Van Lagan presented a key signal from bitcoin's Bullinger bandwidth.
Ballinger bandwidth measures the percentage difference between the upper and
lower bands, which themselves act as a leading indicator for
a bitcoin price volatility on the monthly timeframes. That difference

(02:11):
has never been smaller, per data from sources including coin Telegraph,
markets pro and trading view history shows that bandwidth rarely
drops below one hundred dollars its scale, but each time
it does, the bitcoin price reacts sharply. Historically, every time
this triggers, Bitcoin follows with a direct parabolic leg up.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Van Lagan commented, now.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
We've seen multiple data points, a lot of different things
we can look at, and this is one that is
bullish but doesn't mean that we're headed to all time high.
And this is where again patients is the key here.
But I hope this plays out obviously right that we
go parabolic, we hit new all time highs and I
don't think that's going to happen this month. I think

(02:56):
it happens into January. But let's see, guys. You know,
no one knows at this point, but we can at
least use the data, not our emotions and not guess,
but use the data to get the different probabilities that
could play out here. Now, some positive signs is that
the S and P five hundred, the stock market continues
to look good here. It is continuing to recover. Obviously,

(03:18):
we need to see more confirmation, more strength. Even the
russell is showing a lot of strength here, so you
know we're seeing in the macro once again, including the
stock market, global liquidity to FED ending quantitative tightening. We
got job numbers that came in really bad this morning,
so they're the odds of the rake cut happening this month.
We got the FOMC meeting next week are very high.

(03:40):
So let's see, you know, let's see how the month unfolds.
And we continue to see big players are buying. So
Tom Lee's bitmme they've bought one hundred and fifty million
dollars in ETH, so two fresh wallets just withdrew ninety
two million dollars of ETH from kracking and fifty eight
million dollars from bit go, matching prior bitmind purchase patterns.

(04:02):
So this is interesting. Now, folks, look at this quinbased
CEO Brian Armstrong and Larry Fink, CEO of Blackrock. They
were both on stage today for the New York Times
deal Book and both made some very big statements. First up,
coinbased CEO Brian Armstrong says major banks are piloting crypto
with the exchange. This should come as no surprise because

(04:22):
they've partnered with PNC Bank, JP Morgan and others, and
we've seen those announcements. So I don't think there's any
surprising news here, but it's further confirmation the big banks
are getting ready to offer crypto. They want to use
stable coins, they want to tokenize, and they want to
be able to offer their clients crypto. So for years
I've been telling you guys, you know you will eventually

(04:44):
get the phone call from your local bank. We now
offer crypto. Do you want to be able to purchase
it through us? We'll custody for you, A YadA YadA, Right,
Larry Fink, It's so funny. He was asked by Andrew
Ross Serkin about his statements in a has about bitcoin
being an index of money laundering and used by bad
actors and much more. Let me play a clip here for.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
You called crypto an index for money laundering, black rock
and thieves and thieves. Yes, money waundering and thieves. You
now have the biggest bitcoin etf So what happens here?

Speaker 4 (05:24):
I have very strong views, but that doesn't mean I'm
not wrong. But by having strong views, you have to
test yourself and ask yourself. And you know, in my role,
I see, you know, thousands of clients a year I have,
you know, governmental leaders and we have these conversations that
my thought process always evolves, and this is a very

(05:46):
glaring public example of a big shift in my opinion.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
So there you have it, right, further confirmation Larry's bullish
on bitcoin and crypto, and black Rock is the world's
largest asset manager. They actually use coinbase for their services,
the trading and the custody and much more. So. We've
often seen when Larry goes on TV, it's usually about
time for the markets to start ripping.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Right.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
I don't make the rules. This is just what we've seen.
Doesn't mean it's gonna happen again. But when he's doing
the media tour, right, I mentioned this many times. So
I like to watch with how these guys operate. And
at this point we're seeing a lot of big news.
Yesterday we got news of Bank of America. You know,
they're telling their wealth advisors to start investing in crypto. Right,

(06:33):
and Van Guard just recently capitulated, and look at this
a black Rock they put out of report saying the
US national debt will accelerate crypto adoption.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
So seeing the.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Narrative change here, which is very bullish, even if this
is just a relief rally, like I've been saying, or
it's the start of the move to the new all
time highs now here's some more bullish news. We had
heard rumors and statements, you know, earlier this year that
Charles Schwab is getting into crypto game and they would
launch something in twenty twenty six. Well, their CEO spoke

(07:04):
today and said they will definitely launch bitcoin and ether
spot trading in the first half of twenty twenty six
with a gradual roll up. So you know they're gonna
start with bitcoin in ether and then they're going to
add the other assets, right, folks. So the CEO, Rick Worster,
express openness to also mergers and acquisitions and including potential
deals in the crypto space. Now, one of the discussion

(07:26):
points I've been having with some of the interviews I've
been doing is that once the Claritiac passes, you're going
to see a lot of these traditional financial players coming
in and buy up crypto native firms and startups. So
you're going to see a lot of mergers and acquisitions, folks.
That's gonna boom and skyrocket. So a lot of these folks,
or these TRAT five folks, they don't want to go
through the years of building when they could just go

(07:48):
buy right. So that's going to be pretty incredible to
see who buys who. And look, there are going to
be acquisitions of crypto native firms acquiring trat five firms.
Just look at what Ripple did with Hidden Road and
there's been some.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Others as well.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
So and also with the Clarity Act passing, I don't
think market makers and Wales would let that landmark moment
pass without having that buider rumor sell the news event.
And that's like a setup for a perfect blow off
top would you retail euphoria and much more so. We
shall see, folks, we shall see. Despite the uncertainty here,

(08:26):
the macro is just setting up beautifully here for a
massive run. But hey, you know, there's no guarantee that
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(09:32):
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I was just talking about crypto MNA and look at this.
Crypto MNA deals hit an all time high in twenty
twenty five, blowing past eight point six billion dollars. So
this should come as no surprise. As trad five is
coming in, we're getting more clarity in the industry. The

(09:53):
Genius Act was passed the market structure bill is in
the Senate. So we're gonna see a lot of folks
build and expand and buy up companies and try to
expand their footprint.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Across the globe.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
So crypto merger and acquisition activity in twenty twenty five
reach eight point six billion dollars in November, with companies
closing a record one hundred and thirty three deals, making
an all time high in both deal count and total value.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
The total dollar.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Amount of the business deals exceeded the combined total of
the previous four years, according to Bloomberg, citing pitchbook data.
Coinbase led the m and A activity with six acquisition
deals completed in twenty twenty five, including the two point
nine billion dollar purchase of deribit, one of the largest
crypto derivatives marketplaces. And look, folks, if the bull market

(10:42):
continues into twenty twenty six, we could see this number
or a new record set here for deals total volume
and even value. So let's see, let's see. You know,
twenty twenty six is going to be interesting. I think
a lot of people are going to be paying attention
right because everybody wants to know will discontinue or are you
going to see IPOs in twenty twenty six, the SEC

(11:05):
saying they want to open up IPOs, so lots at
steakhare folks all right? Moving ahead? Georgia eyes on chain,
property rights and tokenization with Headera partnership. So many of
you know, I'm an h BAR token holder. H bar
is the native token on the Hidera blockchain, and I'm
bullish on this project. I've been a token holder for
a while. So Georgia's Ministry of Justice has signed a

(11:29):
memorandum of understanding with the public blockchain network Cadera as
it considers moving the country's land registry on chain and
tokenizing real estate. See where we're headed, folks. You're seeing
countries and jurisdictions around the world launching stable coins, tokenizing,
providing crypto rules and regulations. So, according to a Monday

(11:51):
announcement from the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, the government
signed an MoU with Hidera, a public blockchain with permission
node operation. At a meeting between the Minister of Justice
of Georgia, Patasalia and a representative of Hidera, the two
parties discussed the potential integration of blockchain technology into public infrastructure.

(12:13):
What have I been beating the drum and saying for
a long time the future government's economies and markets will
all run on blockchain rails. So the Georgian officials said
they are considering transferring data from the National Agency of
Public Registry to the blockchain network, hoping this would ensure
even greater protection of property rights, transparency and reliability of processes.

(12:37):
Incredible adoption news here for Adera. Now Etherorem's Fusaka upgrade
goes live. So that was scheduled to go live today
and it is officially live, and you know, some of
the benefits is this is supposed to slash fees, boost
data capacity and paves the way for a faster experience
on the Ethereum network. Is eth of course, not the

(12:59):
fastest block chain out there. I would say it's one
of the most secure. It has great security and that's
why a lot of institutions build on it. But we've
seen over the years a lot of layer twos have
been built to solve the speed and fee issue. So
great to see that this is happening. You know, it's
not going to do much to the price right now
because of the volatility the market has been experiencing. So

(13:21):
this is a reminder. Positive news does not equate to
the coin pumping. Eventually it will be priced in if
it hasn't been priced in already, but I would say
it hasn't because the market has been in a downturn
for a long time. So let's see what this news
and brings as far as adoption. And it's great though
that these these upgrades are being made now. Speaking of

(13:43):
etherorem eth, Zilla takes steak in Karros to tokenize AI
modeled auto loan portfolios. So crypto treasury company Zilla has
taken a strategic step into on chain credit with the
acquisition of a twenty percent full diluted stake in automotive
finance AI startup Caros. The ten million dollar deal includes

(14:07):
three million dollars in cash and seven million dollars in
eat Zillo stock, and will allow the company to integrate
Caarros's underwriting AI models into its blockchain stack to issue
tokenized auto loan portfolios.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Very interesting.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
So, according to Wednesday's announcement, Carros's decisioning engine is trained
on more than twenty million historical auto loan outcomes and
has evaluated over five billion dollars in loans at origination,
giving eat Zilla a pre model data set to structure
AI segmented pools with on chain settlement. The first tokenized

(14:46):
portfolios are slated for early.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
Twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
So you're seeing the merging convergence of AI and blockchain
with tokenization, and you know, as a treasury company, this
is pretty creative what they're trying to do here. So
let's see how it works out. But we're clearly seeing
the real world application of blockchain here, which is amazing.

(15:11):
Now some very big Solana news. Solana Mobile to launch
SKR token in January with ten billion supply, So this
is interesting. They got the mobile phone. I've not used it,
by the way, and they're gonna launch a token. I
don't know if that's good or bad. You know, why
not just use the soul token, But let's see. Solana
Mobile has released new details Wednesday about SKR, the forthcoming

(15:35):
native token for its Seeker smartphone ecosystem. The company said
SKR will launch in January twenty twenty six, forming the
economic and governance backbone of its decentralized mobile platform. According
to an ex post from Solana Mobile, SKR will have
a fixed total supply of ten billion tokens. So let's

(15:56):
see guys, and again, look at the timing of the launch. Right,
some people are saying, hey, we're entering to.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
A bear market.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
I don't think people would have laun be launching this
in a bear market. So you know, this is not
a guarantee that the bullmarket continues. But again, it's just
if we're weighing this on a scale, it's more evidence
going towards the bull market continuing or some sort of
all season. Maybe Bitcoin is top and all season is
going to follow. We shall see, folks. This is the

(16:25):
uncertainty we are facing here in the market. Look at
this sports apparel giant Fanatics launches prediction market with Crypto
dot Com. So Fanatics is a big name in the
sports apparel world, folks, So this is a huge win
for Crypto dot com.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
So.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Fanatics, one of the largest global sports apparel companies, announced
Wednesday to launch of a fan led prediction market platform
through a strategic platform with.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Crypto dot Com.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
Like industry leaders Polymarket and Calshi, Fanatics Markets will let
users trade contracts forecasting the outcomes of real world events.
Fanatics Markets will launch in two phases, according to a
news release. Phase one is live today with event contracts
where sports, finance, economics, and politics. Phase two will launch
earlier next year and see fanatics markets expand into event

(17:13):
contracts related to crypto, stock, slash IPOs, climate, pop culture, tech,
slash ai and movies and music.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
So very interesting, guys.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
The race is on for prediction markets, tokenization, ETF stable coins,
but competition is healthy. It is very healthy for us
as investors as well as consumers. So we'll see how
all these things play out. Look at this taiwan I's
twenty twenty six stable coin launch as crypto legislation advances, folks.

(17:45):
You know, if you've been a subscriber to this podcast,
we've covered news from Hong Kong to Thailand to Kazakhstan,
all the countries out there. We just talked about Georgia
and what they're looking to do with Hadera.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
So we are seeing the.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
Global adoption of this technology. I hope you recognize it.
It's so important because sometimes we can have tunnel vision
of everything that's happening in the United States, but this
is a global asset class. This technology is very democratized,
so to speak, that anyone you know in these public
blockins can start building, so incredible stuff.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Again.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
The future economies, governments, and markets will all run on
blockchain rails. So Taiwan could see its first stable coin
launch as early as the second half of twenty twenty
six as lawmakers advance new rules for digital assets, according
to one of the country's financial regulators. According to a
focused Taiwan report on Wednesday, Financial Supervisory Commission Chair Peng

(18:46):
Jin Lawn said that based on the timeline for passing
related legislation, a Taiwan issued stable coin could enter the
market in the second half of twenty twenty six, should
the Virtual Assets Act pass in the country's next legislative session,
and accounting for a six month buffer period for the

(19:06):
law to take effect, it would lay the groundwork for
the launch of the Taiwanese stable coin. Every country, the
dominoes are following guys across the globe. Incredible stuff here. Now,
final news item here. Finn which is the name of
the company, has landed a seventeen million dollar funding for
stable coin payments app built by ex Citadel team. So again,

(19:30):
more stable coins being built, capital being raised, and you're
seeing Tradify alumnis building this stuff here. They're entering crypto,
so it's incredible. So former Citadel engineers Ian Kratinski and
Ashik Diraj have raised seventeen million dollars to launch Finn,
a stable coin powered payments app designed for high value

(19:53):
cross border transactions. According to Fortune and Wednesday, the startup,
previously known as Tippling, closed around with back with the
backing from Pintera Capital, Sequoia, and Samsung Next, Finn plans
to pilot the app within the next month, targeting import
export businesses that often move hundreds of thousands of dollars

(20:14):
at a time. Smart niche to target here, and you're
going to see stable coin apps and platforms targeting specific
industries being built, folks. So built around stable coin rails,
Finn will enable users to send funds to other payment apps,
bank accounts, and crypto wallets, aiming to reduce costs compared

(20:36):
to traditional wire transfers. Guys, I hope you see the
direction that Puck is heading here. A lot of building happening,
a lot of investments, a lot of big trad fi
tech alumni now building in crypto. Very bullish news. All right, folks,
that's the news. Let me know what you think. Leave
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