51 Insights - Weekly Briefing
148: Half of Japan0:00/2001× 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
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147: Everyone has a stablecoin0:00/2001× 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
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146: Vanguard + 401(k)s0:00/2001× 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
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145: SEC goes all-in on crypto0:00/2001× 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
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144: NASDAQ goes on-chain0:00/2001× 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
51 Insights - Weekly Briefing
143: Bad Databases0:00/2001× 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
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142: Mastercard. Google. Onchain.0:00/2001× Hey, it’s Marc. “Ethereum is the Wall Street token.” That’s not crypto Twitter talking. It’s Jan van Eck, CEO of VanEck. His point is simple: every bank will need rails for stablecoins, and they’ll ask where to build them.