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46:57

The crypto playbook for 2026, with Matt Hougan, CIO...

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2025/12/03

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.51insights.xyzHi, it’s Marc. ✌️“Zero is crazy because it means you’re just completely against the market... The starting point is about 2% of the size of the equity market and that should be the neutral starting point.”That’s Matt Hougan, CIO of Bitwise Asset Management, on Bitcoin allocation. His point isn’t that one needs to be a crypto evangelist or a “laser-eyed” maximalist. It’s simply that in a world where Harvard is tripling

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48:39

Europe’s $11 trillion stablecoin opportunity, with...

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2025/11/13

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.51insights.xyzHi, it’s Marc. ✌️“Fiat needs to move 24/7. And that’s what blockchains are built for.”That’s Sveinn Valfells, co-founder of Monerium, one of Europe’s oldest and largest stablecoin players – and one of the few people in Europe who’s not just talking about on-chain finance but actually building the regulatory-compliant rails to make it happen.In this episode, we talk about how Sveinn helped write the stablecoin playbook

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8:12

151: Forget tokens

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2025/10/31

Hey, it’s Marc. When JPMorgan tokenizes private equity, Circle launches a blockchain with 100+ Wall Street partners, and Mastercard drops $2 billion on a crypto infrastructure deal, the signal is clear: We’re in a race to own the rails of the next financial system.Some are building them (JPM, BlackRock, Stripe, IBM, Circle), others are buying them. 2025 has quietly become the year of crypto M&A:* Stripe → Privy* Coinbase → Echo, Deribit* Mastercard → ZeroHash* Robinhood → Bitstamp* Ripple → Hidden

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7:28

150: Same Game, New Rails

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2025/10/24

Hey, it’s Marc. J.P. Morgan just did what no major bank had dared: it will now lend against Bitcoin and Ethereum. That single decision pulls crypto into the global credit system. This is a small step for JPM, but a big step for crypto, particularly Ethereum (more below).In the same week, Aave launched Horizon, letting institutions borrow stablecoins against tokenized Treasuries and funds on-chain. Read that together: banks are accepting crypto as collateral while DeFi starts accepting bank-grade

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8:45

149: The Great Repricing

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2025/10/17

Hey, it’s Marc. When gold outperforms Bitcoin, BlackRock starts building on-chain infrastructure, and JP Morgan invests $1.5T in U.S. infrastructure, something is cooking (we’ll unpack all of this below and in our CEO Notes).“We need to be tokenising all assets, especially assets that have multiple levels of intermediaries.” — Larry Fink, BlackRock CEO“Bitcoin is likely to become a reserve asset for central banks. Alongside gold, by around 2030.” – Deutsche BankThe signal is clear: Smart money is

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51:04

Ethereum's Endgame: Why Credible Neutrality Beats...

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2025/10/15

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.51insights.xyzHi, it’s Marc. ✌️“You cannot build a reputation based on what you are going to do. Trust must be earned over time. The track record matters.”William Mougayar on why Ethereum’s 10-year record matters more than competitor speed claims.William Mougayar, an early internet pioneer and one of the first to recognise the potential of Ethereum, has been in the technology business for nearly four decades. He met Vitalik Buterin in

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9:29

148: Half of Japan

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2025/10/10

Hey, it’s Marc.Today, major news broke that G7 banks are about to launch a stablecoin. They’re coming for Tether and Circle. More on that below. Another story that caught my eye: Luxembourg’s sovereign wealth fund allocated 1% of its portfolio ($9M) to a BTC ETF. That’s first state-level Bitcoin investment in the Eurozone. But did you know that Norways and Switzerland’s Central Bank already hold 100s of millions in Strategy shares for indirect Bitcoin exposure? Wild. The most conservative financial

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36:19

How Stablecoins Are Eating Payments, with Chris...

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2025/10/07

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.51insights.xyzHi, it’s Marc. ✌️“Money should travel at the speed of the internet. Stablecoins make that possible.”— Chris Harmse, Co-founder & CBO of BVNKBVNK, a leading stablecoin payment infrastructure provider, just hit $20 billion in annual transaction volume with 320 employees.In May, they partnered with Worldpay, which processes $2.3 trillion annually for 1M+ merchants, to enable stablecoin payouts across 180+ countries.🚨 We

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9:07

147: Everyone has a stablecoin

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2025/10/03

Hey, it’s Marc.Token2049, the world’s biggest crypto event, just wrapped in Singapore and this year felt different: stablecoin rails, tokenized treasuries, and prediction markets. Meanwhile, SWIFT just picked Ethereum to build a blockchain with 30+ global banks. The same network that moves $150T a year is admitting crypto rails are the future.Stripe just launched stablecoin-as-a-service. Every fintech, exchange, and enterprise can now mint its own stablecoin in a few lines of code. We’re heading

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35:41

Inside Pantera’s $500M Solana Treasury Play, with...

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2025/09/29

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.51insights.xyzHi, it’s Marc. ✌️“Solana is just faster, cheaper, and more accessible.It maps perfectly to the same consumer demand cycle that made Amazon unbeatable.”— Cosmo Jiang, General Partner at Pantera Capital🚨 We just opened new sponsorship slots for our podcast. Want to reach 35k+ digital asset leaders? Contact us here. 🎧 Jump to the best parts* (10:56) → Why “NAV per share” is the new “free cash flow per share: Cosmo

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10:17

146: Vanguard + 401(k)s

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2025/09/26

Hey, it’s Marc.“There is room for both gold and Bitcoin to coexist on central bank balance sheets by 2030.” — Deutsche Bank, in a new report released this week. Did you know that Norwegian and Swiss National Bank already have $700M+ of Bitcoin exposure by owning Strategy stocks? PS: Upgrade to Pro for our daily CEO Notes & market signals. Then: Citi came out with a new report and estimated the stablecoin market size to grow up to $4T by 2030. [Full report]🚨 We just opened new sponsorship slots for

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55:19

Stable Fees, Infinite Scale with Matt Sorg, VP of...

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2025/09/24

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.51insights.xyzHey, it’s Marc. ✌️“Solana’s built to be the internet’s capital market fast, decentralized, and ready for the future.”We sat down with Matt Sorg, VP of Technology at Solana Foundation, for an insightful look into why Solana’s high-speed, low-cost blockchain is redefining how value moves globally.From his days leading AI at Unity to steering Solana’s tech vision, Matt’s journey reflects the cutting edge of blockchain

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11:16

145: SEC goes all-in on crypto

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2025/09/19

Hey, it’s Marc.The SEC approved “generic listing standards” that cut crypto ETF approvals from 240+ days to just 75. What this means: instead of only Bitcoin and Ethen reum ETFs, we could see 100+ new ETFs (Solana, XRP, DOGE, you name it) in the next 12 months. [More]On top of that, the Fed cut rates to 4.0–4.25% and signaled two more this year to support jobs: “Federal Reserve doesn't feel the need to move quickly on interest rate cuts.”— Jerome Powell, Chair of the Federal Reserve of the United

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34:37

The $1.6B Solana Treasury Bet, with Kyle Samani,...

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2025/09/16

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.51insights.xyzHey, it’s Marc. ✌️“Solana is the foundation for Internet Capital Markets. And we’re building the most on-chain public company in the world to prove it.”We sat down with Kyle Samani — co-founder of Multicoin Capital, early Solana backer, and now Chairman of Forward Industries — a newly launched $1.65B Solana treasury company backed by Multicoin, Galaxy Digital, and Jump [RELEASE]. 📈 NASDAQ: FORD"We are now the largest

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10:57

144: NASDAQ goes on-chain

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2025/09/13

Hey, it’s Marc.This week felt like a turning point. Nasdaq tokenizing stocks, Tether entering the US, Fidelity moving Treasuries onchain, Franklin Templeton plugging into Binance, and then, this: “Crypto’s time has come. Most crypto tokens are not securities, and we will draw the lines clearly. We must ensure that entrepreneurs can raise capital on-chain without endless legal uncertainty.” — SEC chair Paul AtkinsWow. On top of that, we’ve all been glued to the Hyperliquid showdown and why Circle is

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14:16

America’s bid for digital dollar dominance

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2025/09/11

Hey, it’s Marc. Russia just accused America of weaponizing crypto to "erase its $35 trillion debt." Washington will "shove debt into stablecoins, devalue it, and reset the system."They're not wrong.July 18 was the day the U.S. stopped playing defence and went all-in on digital assets: President Trump signed the GENIUS Act [The law], America's first federal crypto law. The House passed the CLARITY Act 294-134. Together, these laws transform stablecoins into a private-sector engine that funds U.S

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46:10

The New Entertainment Economy

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2025/09/10

Hey, it’s Marc!“There are only two ways to make a film today: pitch a studio and give up all the upside – or find a rich guy on a yacht. We’re building the third way.” – Marc Iserlis, RepublicEntertainment hit $2.9T in 2024, yet 96% of creators can't make a living. The global music market is a $29.6B industry, yet less than 4% of its 200M creators earn a sustainable income. While streaming revenue topped $20B, artists still earn $0.003 per play. The industry is drowning in middlemen, trapped in

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34:12

The 500M BNB Treasury Company, with David Namdar, CEO...

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2025/09/08

Hi, it’s Marc. ✌️“BNB is the most overlooked blue-chip crypto asset in the space. It’s tied to the largest company in crypto, and yet Western investors still don’t fully get it.”We sat down with David Namdar — hedge fund veteran, Bitcoin OG, Galaxy Digital co-founder — now CEO of BNB Network Company (BNC), a $500M digital asset treasury betting big on BNB.David has been in crypto for more than a decade. From attempting one of the first Bitcoin ETFs at SolidX, to building Galaxy Digital with Mike

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9:01

143: Bad Databases

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2025/09/06

Hey, it’s Marc.The big story this week: Stripe is launching its own “blockchain for payments.” Circle has Arc. Google has GCUL. Who's operating the nodes? How decentralized is this? How do the validator economics look like?Here’s the truth: these aren’t blockchains. They’re databases with extra cryptography and political and legal overhead. Meanwhile, the real progress is happening in open protocols: Ondo moving stocks on Ethereum, Galaxy putting its equity on Solana, and Aave turning RWAs into

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7:06

Forget Bitcoin. Jack Ma buys ETH

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2025/09/02

Today, Jack Ma's Yunfeng Financial Group bought $44M of ETH.Coincidence? No. 10 years ago, Maja Vujinovic, blockchain pioneer and CEO of FG Nexus (NASDAQ: FGNX), launched the first trade finance deal between J.P. Morgan and General Electric on Ethereum.She brought in Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum & Chairman of SharpLink, to execute on her vision: "Ethereum will be the backbone of tomorrow's financial system. Smart contracts will be our future."This is playing out now. Today, Joseph Lubin,

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