In today's Unchained Daily newsletter:
🔥 Strategy's MSTR shares fell below $100 for the first time since March 2024
🎯 Kalshi is in talks to raise at a $40 billion valuation, as its CEO hints at near IPO
🏠 Trump refused to sign a popular bipartisan housing bill containing a CBDC ban
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I sat down with @ColeMacro of @Strive after he called last week the most difficult in digital credit's history.
📉 He argues the STRC drop was a leverage liquidation, not a broken model. I pushed him on whether the critics of Strategy are right. 🎧
Timestamps:
🎙️ 02:07 What Strive is, and why Matt calls SATA the company's main product
🏦 10:16 Could Strive cut SATA's 13% yield without breaking par?
👥 15:45 Who is actually buying SATA, and the one buyer Matt says he's never met
📣 25:15 Fidelity: Explore crypto careers and make the decision that could change your future at crypto.fidelitycareers.com
🔒 25:58 Cape: Use code unchained for 33% off at cape.co/unchained
💧 27:28 What Matt thinks really drove last week's STRC drop, and why SATA didn't follow
🏛️ 31:28 Why Matt won't fault Saylor for selling, and the S&P rating he calls a joke
⚖️ 50:53 Is buying SATA un-Bitcoin? Matt answers the Mallers vs Saylor critique
1/ Strategy's STRC Bitcoin-backed preferred stock can't seem to find its way back to its par value of $100.
A Bitcoin rebound surprisingly did not help. Strategy's move to bi-monthly dividend payment cycle has not helped and neither has the company's addition of $300 million to its cash reserves, bringing it to $1.4 billion. What gives?
"Nobody knows this, but I'll share it on this podcast." Pudgy Penguins' @LucaNetz just disclosed that Igloo built an instrument to list crypto tokens directly on the Nasdaq or NYSE, structured as a security so protocols can pay revenue back to holders. 🐧
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'If you want just Bitcoin unlevered, why not buy an ETF?'
@austincampbell does the math on the latest @bitsandbips: owning Strategy's common stock pencils out to a ~9% funding cost just to hold Bitcoin.
Full episode with @ramahluwalia and @perkinscr97: 🎧
Timestamps:
💣 02:24 What caused crypto's worst week since the FTX collapse
🌍 09:08 Why retail still drives crypto volatility and why Chris thinks the market misread incoming Fed chair Warsh
🤖 17:55 AI tools discovering critical crypto vulnerabilities faster than devs can patch them
🐛 23:47 How Claude Opus 4.8 found a live counterfeiting bug in Zcash's Orchard pool
₿ 30:24 Austin on whether Bitcoin's Lindy effect survives the quantum-refactoring problem
💼 32:04 Fidelity: Explore crypto careers that could change your future at crypto.fidelitycareers.com
📱 32:46 Cape: Get 33% off your first six months at cape.co/unchained
🏦 33:45 Strategy's preferred problem and the math on 32 BTC sold and 1,550 bought
📊 37:25 Ram on Minsky's three market phases, and why Strategy was built for the riskiest one
⏰ 43:22 Why Austin says introducing preferreds turned Strategy from a Bitcoin play to a clock
🇺🇸 52:18 Is Hunter Biden’s crypto interest genuine conviction or attention play
A $480 billion asset manager just bought ENA, put USDe in its treasury, and is exploring regulated crypto ETPs for its clients 👀
Which firm? Janus Henderson.
TradFi is diving in 🏊
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In today's @Unchained_pod Daily newsletter:
📉 Bitcoin's 50% slide is its shallowest bear market ever
🛡️ Aave proposes a binding risk framework after the KelpDAO exploit
💰 Morpho raises $175M led by Paradigm, a16z, Ribbit
🏦 Janus Henderson takes an ENA stake, plans USDe products
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In today's @Unchained_pod Daily newsletter:
💼 BitMine raises $300M — but who's paying the price?
📉 Bitcoin crashes below $62K. $1.5B in longs gone.
🚀 HYPE just flipped Solana. New all-time high hit.
🏛️ Bessent to Senate: Pass crypto clarity bill this summer.
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In today's @Unchained_pod Daily newsletter:
🏦 JPMorgan files for JLTXX, its second tokenized money market fund on Ethereum
📈 21Shares launches the first U.S. Hyperliquid ETFs on Nasdaq
🔐 Starknet ships strkBTC, a privacy-enabled bitcoin wrapper
🛡️ Ethereum Foundation rolls out Clear Signing to end blind signing risk
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