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BTC conference begins, Fed minutes & Nvidia today - FOMO HOUR EP 366BTC: 108.8k (-1%), ETH: 2635 (0%), SOL: 173 (-1%). Top Gainers: QNT, TKX, SUI, INJ, UNI. BTC ETFs: +$385mn, ETH ETFs: +$39mn. BTC stable, ETFs monthly inflows highest since Nov. Crypto market cap only 6% below Dec 2024 peak. US could buy more BTC: Sacks. Trump Media to raise $2.5bn to buy BTC. Gamestop buys $512m BTC. Strive raises $750m to buy BTC. Metaplanet issues $50m debt to buy BTC. El Salvador defies IMF, buys more BTC. Bitcoin Act to hit Congress next week: Lummis. BTC reserve is geopolitical advantage: Lummis. Texas removes staking from BTC bill ahead of vote. Cantor Fitzgerald to propose $2bn BTC lending. Block to launch BTC payments on Square. Sharplink raises $425m to buy ETH. SOL now live on Metamask. SOL to underperform ETH over 3 years: StanChart. Echo to launch ICO style platform. Cetus announces 100% recovery from hack.FOMO HOUR brings you the biggest daily news, updates and events from inside and outside of the crypto and macro spheres! Join hosts Farokh, Mando and Tyler as they cover some of the biggest topics at present with some of the biggest names in the ecosystem. Streaming live 5 days per week, Monday to Friday 10:00 AM EST to 11:00 AM EST on YouTube and X.JOIN YEET = https://yeet.com/register?aff=fomohourPLAYLIST = https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGSgoImPFTiVpkHhLXF78cE_Z3uG7VNGLPODCAST = https://x.com/i/spaces/1kvKpydgqMQGELIVE SPACE = https://x.com/i/spaces/1BRJjmLPDeeGwLinks:https://linktr.ee/fomohourhttps://twitter.com/fomohourhttps://www.rug.fm/https://x.com/rugradioHosts:https://twitter.com/farokhhttps://twitter.com/rektmandohttps://twitter.com/tyler_did_itMyriad:https://myriad.marketshttps://x.com/MyriadMarkets#bitcoin #crypto #podcast

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Yo-yo, yo. What up? What up? Good morning. Good morning, GMG. Wednesday, May 20. Is it Wednesday? Yeah, it is. Wednesday, May 28th, 2025. Look at that. Another beautiful day to have. A beautiful day. I got my coast now. Tyler. Mando. Big game. Mando. Come on. What did you just call me? Big game, not big I. I kind of sounded like a big game. I'm not going to lie. I kind of heard the wrong thing as well, even though I said it actually big money Mando is

better. What's up y'all with that big high T Tyler and big money Mando? There you go that's not bad. There you go What's up guys? How you guys doing today? I'm doing great man. Market is moving, moving all around, but it's a good, good day. A dip is coming and you are meant to buy the fuck out of it. You. Didn't come to the poker tournament yesterday bro. What? Oh yeah, I know.

Well, I had sadly, and I'm not going to say what, but I had something very important and type of meeting that can't be rescheduled, which sucks and it was heavy and stressful. I had to go an hour long walk after it, but I couldn't sadly. But I watched. I watched the results and stuff. I was really bummed. It looked like a lot of fun. I can't believe you guys let Bernie in like top ten or something. It's crazy. I mean, if I was there like I would have won like the burn.

Was on the final table for sure. Yeah, I think Bernie, Bernie's on a generational run, right? Like this, this kid is like, I changed his name on my, on my phone to Bernie Bottoms. Like that guy, Bernie is, is is on the generational run right now. He's there. Bernie Power Bottoms. Bernie Power bottom, you know, guys having kids bottoming fucking NFT coins.

He's, you know, he's, you know, building houses, buying boats, you know, he's Bernie Bottoms. Bernie power bottom is killing it. Tyler, Tyler, how you doing today? I'm good. Despite these markets, they're feeling a little heavy. I was kind of hoping we would just shoot right up to 120 Ki. Guess we're going to wait for tomorrow or Friday. Looks like we'll, we'll have to be a little more patient.

It's a weird market. I'm sure we'll talk about it in a second, but this range is like so fucking tight and looks like what's up with that? Speaking of which, we will talk about the market today. So that's for sure, for sure. Let's get a proper market report, then we'll go through, we'll go through Tyler's top 100 again, big Newsday again yesterday and giveaway. So yesterday finesse, I mean, nearly $1100, love to see that. So let's see what they make

today. And then last but not least, this show is powered by Wallet Connect. Wallet Connect is a connectivity network shaping the future of all chain UX. You've connected to Web 3 app, you've seen Wallet Connect. That blue logo, it's everywhere. I'm not going to trust in crypto as recognizable as Visa. Check it once a little more follow Wallet Connect on X and Telegram to stay ahead of what's next.

While I'm on a topic Tyler brought to my attention that Wallet Connect is trading at nearly billion dollars now. It lost at 300 mil. So if you've been listening to the show and you follow our sponsor, they're cooking. That's a clean 3X which size. But not only that, guess what lads? You know how the prediction market, Marriott has been doing a leaderboard for the top predictors of the Wallet Connect.

And we're giving them tokens, the 150,000 Wallet Connect tokens that we're giving away tomorrow. They're going out. I think they're being sent off tomorrow as Pedro, the founder contributor is coming on the show as well is worth $140,000. We're giving our way $140,000 tomorrow. Yeah. I'm not hearing enough napping about this. Yeah. What? What? This how mirrors the size of the entire Arbitrum Kaido reward pool. Yeah, just saying, but hey, Myriad right now I I I'm just

saying you know that. So basically Mendo, you know, as you know, and Tyler, you know as well, we launched on top of sponsoring our show Wallet Connect sponsored and partnered with us on Myriad markets, which was a points prediction markets. And you have to predict outcomes on Wallet connects, you know stuff, right? How many users they have, how many transactions are made? And there was a leaderboard 38,000 people participated in the Wallet Connect markets.

And tomorrow we're distributing $140,000 to the top predictors on Marriott for Wallet Connect specifically. So you know, info fine is the thing on Marriott too. I guess technically it's info fine because informing yourself and predicting. So maybe we need to market it like that. Tyler, you know what, since we'll work on that when you're back as well. I know you're going to be off for a few days, but we'll, we'll, we'll work on that because we are distributing.

So if you basically made a prediction on Wallet Connect, there's $150,000 of rewards coming.

Out yeah they're here on marriott.com dot market sorry right there right here wait wait where is it it's here there was this predictions so it's they're all resolved now right and there's a leaderboard and they look shout out to Ruby Pearl who won and if you look here in Mando which is very interesting for future partners there was 38,000 people participated in this and so yeah we're giving away $140,000 to these people and. What was cool about this is like

it's not just AI slob. Here's right no you. Actually got to use your wits and do some research into their protocol and try to, you know, get the the right, sorry the bet. Yeah. So like how much is 1? We CT. So here the number one is going to make 20 grand tomorrow, so it's trading at $0.92. The top predictor is making 20,000 while connect tokens, so that's nearly $20,000, yeah.

That's huge. Runner up is making 15 grand, third person's making 12 grand, 4th person's making 10 grand, and on and on and on. So the top ten, you know, I mean, and then we're probably going to sparkle some tokens to everyone. But it's interesting, right? Not bad for for making predictions, informed prediction markets. So not only here. I was actually talking to another media founder in the

industry an hour ago about this. We went as a media company because obviously we generate revenue from this from the sponsorship of the show under expose, etcetera, Decrypt Media and and Myriad Markets Wallet connect wins here because they had 40,000 people actually partake in this. Follow them. We requested so you'll follow them go to the Telegram, get informed about wallet Connect.

I'm sure a lot of people are not much more free will connect thanks to us. And then the participant wins because, you know, not only did they get too far myriad points by default, abstract XP, but also get a chance to win myriad. So it's a triple win guys for the participant. So yeah, not bad, not bad, not bad, not bad. So anyways, so that's that little segment, but we'll talk about it more tomorrow as Pedro. We'll be back on the show. Mando, Mando, Mando, mando, Mando.

Let's see what you got for us today. Who is the man back? Old daddy of the man. Can you dig it? GM, everyone. So yeah, we had a bit of a week, week a day, let's say in crypto. If you read the headlines, I think it would, you'd be kind of a little bit surprised because yesterday we pretty much had five or six companies slash governments buying Bitcoin, it feels like or announcing they are going to buy Bitcoin. We had the biggest ones were Trump obviously came out.

Trump media says they're going to buy 2 1/2 billion. You had GameStop today. You had the Texas bill looks like it's going to get passed. You had El Salvador buying some Bitcoin. You had you had that company come out and bought ETH, $479 million worth of ETH. And there was like two or three others that like I think Metaplanet issued some more to buy Bitcoin yesterday.

Like everyone is buying Bitcoin. It feels like maybe that's people are starting to get a little bit worried that we said about there like that isn't all good. But yeah, lots of buyers of Bitcoin. The Bitcoin conference has been kind of a, a centrepiece for like announcements, it feels like.

So we've seen a number of those come out over the last 24 hours and pretty much it's the same announcement, hey, we're going to buy some Bitcoin and various different people coming on stage and saying it. There's been some pushback that like it's, it's Bitcoin's become a bit corporate at these sort of events, which I think is, is kind of true.

It's kind of funny to see. I think it probably feels much different than Bitcoin conferences of five years ago, let's say, but it's you're definitely getting buyers with with all of this. With that, we've seen most things sell off even though big with Bitcoin dipping. I would say the major movers lower have been memes, but I would say probably Solana ecosystem has just been a little

bit heavy as a broad group. So like far coins down, some of the Solana D5 protocols are down a decent amount today. And then it's difficult to stay with memes because I think memes in general are down, but definitely the ones in Seoul look like a little bit heavier. So this Seoul versus ETH trade I do think is starting because ETH had a little bit of a rally yesterday on that Treasury announcement. And I think there's a little bit of like, oh, I don't know.

I wouldn't say it's like fear. It's just, I don't know if there's as much confidence, let's say that that ETH is not going to be the thing to to own here. In terms of macro. We do have quite a big day. So we have NVIDIA earnings and we have fed minutes. I do think we could see some volatility around both of those. I would be unsurprised if we see a little dip here across the board. I tweeted it out today that yeah, and we got a dip coming. I think it's. Happening. Everyone wants a dip.

Everyone. It's very clear to me that everyone's calling for it. We have the most short hedge funds have ever been on on stocks. Really. If you look at actually funding across the board for majors, it's actually like negative or close to 0. So like, I think that people probably have missed this move and are now looking to. Oh wow. Yeah, you can actually. Well, it doesn't actually show. You can show it's negative, but yeah, it's it's a really nice little. Oh it is. Damn.

Yeah, and I, I just don't believe. Look at Solana. Fear. Yeah, let me put it that way. Like there will be a point today, I reckon, where you're going to be able to buy everything in an OK level. Have you seen Solana funding right here? I think you meant to buy it, yeah. Is that the most shorted time?

There's a little bit of like uneasiness about Solana and immediately everyone shorted it. So it tells you that it's it's not going to move anywhere near the amount that you think it will be. It won't move much. Interesting. A coin might move to 105 K and it might zip straight back up high or it might move to like 103 K and it will go like AV shape like a rocket back up in my opinion. So be very wary of being bearish, but I would say that you're probably going to get a

good dip to buy today. Yeah, So this is the M2, right, Mr. Tyler? Hi, T Tyler, This is this is this guy's been posting it every day and it gives you that. And it's funny enough, this is the top of the range, right? So retesting the top of that last range at one O 4 before a move up, which is something that a lot of people seem to have Big James. It's now out of the out of the equation, right, So so it looks like so it looks like that's happening. You know, hang tight.

Memes are probably going to get the sharpest dip. So if anything, instead of longing, you could probably go into memes because usually these go like as far coins down from like 160 to like 130. I think Pepe is down like what 20 something percent from its pico top here Yeah, down a whole billion dollars. It's holding up so good dude. I would say that because it's on Eve people are less that's why. Whereas Falcon has this like but at the same time Falcon you buy dips in Falcon. Yeah.

I mean, here, this has been the easiest chart to trade on in a way, right? Every single residence year has been Seoul. And so it's pretty, pretty clean set up. So in my position, even if it goes a little lower here, we'll still hold it. Mug also is another good one because it's on east. But obviously Pepe is is good. Ethereum looks good. Man, I'm glad that this time it didn't just dip back to like 2400 right after hitting high 26.

When do we when do we think that that Ethereum has $3000? Here boys, make a little prediction. I don't know. I don't know. I think Bitcoin could go a little bit lower like I said and I think E will probably even underperform in that move. But but I do think it's going to be the best all L1 to own for the next couple of months. I wouldn't say long term, but I I just get the feeling that it's got enough of the narrative back and I think people are generally underexposed to it.

Yeah, I think a lot of people are very eager to call BTC the top here as well, and they'll be very careful about that if BTC goes lower. But we'll see. Tyler, what's your 3K call? Yeah. I mean, I think it's dependent on how quickly Bitcoin rebounds here to a degree, though. ETH is outperforming a bit on the week. ETH is up 2.7%. Bitcoin's flat on the seven day. So I don't know, I feel like

it's in reach, right? Like it feels like we're going to see it like by next Friday, more extended dip here. And it doesn't really feel like it's going to be an extended one to me, But I feel like the market sentiment is still like so mixed that like you get the sense that some people want, want us to go down and like that Max Payne is, is up. Maybe because people are out of position.

But like, I, I don't know, I feel like people aren't necessarily all just rooting, rooting on the rallies right now. But what's interesting about this E*Trade, I tweeted this out right before the show is these ETF inflows are picking up for ETH, right? And they were pretty, they've been pretty abysmal, you know, for for most of the year, 275,000,000 net inflows in the last five sessions, 350 million in the last 10 that that pace keeps up. That's going to be a nice little

booster. And of course there might be some multi neutral trading happening under the surface there. But if you if you take it at kind of face value that that seems to be another potential big driver. And I think I really like this. It's hard to ignore that sharp link headline with consensus and Joe Lubin spitting up 425,000,000. I saw DC investor tweeting out today that he thinks S bet is a buy. Probably. Is it 20 million this morning, 20 million market cap?

It was about 5 million yesterday or something. Before the news, Yeah. So it's up, it's up four and a four and a half X off the bottom. So it was. OK. So it's down 12% today though, right? Am I saying this right? Yeah, it it, it, it popped yesterday. Yesterday it went up like 450% and now it's wow I. Mean that's normal. Wow, OK. Holy shit. How do you, how do you justify 20 million versus the 425I?

I I I'm just working through this in real time here because I haven't really started digging into this. Yeah. Can you buy Asbets and like cracking those platforms now that offer these stocks, right? It's on the NASDAQ. Yeah, no, for people who don't really trade on there, Yeah, I wonder. But yeah, I guess we'll see. I I wouldn't bet against, I mean, I wouldn't bet against consensus and so and stuff.

It looks like Joy's in with a mission to to save Ethereum and and Amir. I think Ethereum needed the saviour, right? Like a lot of people have been talking about how the Ethereum brand needs someone to really be a little more vocal about it, perhaps like this like sailor as maybe not exactly like sailor, like more of a sailor as

personality or face. And it looks like Joe and in in in consensus are going all in. I mean, as you guys know, you know, they have consensus software, which is, you know, inferior meta mask, all that stuff. And then they also have Linea as their L2. So that actually makes me very curious about Linea Tyler and what's to come from them. Now I'm curious about that again, because that's Darrell too, right? That is the consensus L2. Are you still using your Madam

Mask card? Not as much as I as I would like to. I I tried to to buy a fairly big ticket item and it didn't didn't go through. And after that I've been kind of shield away, but I need to give it another go. I wish I had the physical. If I had the physical card, I'd be using it more. Oh. Hard to get? Those are hard to get. I don't know.

Who I need to if you go to if you go to ECC, you can pick one up. I'll I'll, I was talking to the team yesterday because I I I'm finally applying for mine. So I'll make sure that you get yours. But anyways, in other news, James win big James win in the market side and then we can go to the news man. So this guy's portfolio is down to $12 million from 85 mil. I just thought this look on Jane post about it, this crazy guys. I mean, what do you guys make of this?

This is just do you guys think he was hedged on the sex or he's just a bad trader? No, I think he was not hedged. I, I get more and more of a feeling that this guy's, he's got a bit of a nut loose and it worked. On the upside, it can also work just like this. You know, like. Yeah. I it's just really bad risk management. That's all I can say. Like, how can you be I I just think it's kind of wild. Yeah, like I like everyone likes like AD Gen., but like you do just sit there and go like.

Wow fuck, he still has a long on right now. Oh my God. Fumble in in the in the case of like 2 weeks there. He he has a long on right now and. They might come. That's right on the line, too. It's down. 2.3 mil yeah. Fuck, I didn't believe he was hedged just because of the way he was trading. Yeah. It felt a little too maniacal and also just felt like a like a DJ who just like had the had the phones. I've interviewed a few traders like this right for radio.

Yeah. One that comes to mind is Alex Weiss. Yeah. Who very similarly had a run up like this and then a rundown like that. I think other people, Cryptocalio had something very similar to happen to him, right? Like unbelievable run up and then kind of pissed it away doing dumb stuff. And like, both of them have said the same thing when we've interviewed them. Like they got themselves into this character on the timeline and they felt they had like that. They felt they had to defend that.

And like, because they haven't, they became my main character. And that meant they just, they just did the wrong things. Alex Weiss said the same thing. He was like, I was too interested in what other people thought about my trades and I was about putting on the right trade. And I think Kaleo probably said the same thing too.

And it's been about like. All the top traders we've been to have had like big runs like this and the ones that have been main character for a short time, they've all said this. Zoran Cole was the other one right? Like got himself to, had had a really good run and then kind of like pissed it away doing dumb stuff and just took some time out. Like it is the same every single time one of these big pup traders becomes big and their

trade starts to become public. When that starts to happen and it like becomes your personality and you are the person you thought you have to tweet. Just just stop. 85 billion is I mean, Weiss lost about 100 in, in the space of like, well, so like, I think it's kind of similar. But when we sold all the apes and we did the like that trade, for example, me and Ovie said like we're not trading for a for two months. And we said that to each other.

We were like, we will only put on bad trades if you if you make stuff like if. You every time bro. You put a spot on yourself and then you're like, everyone's going to look at every single one of your next trays. Just don't make a next tray always. You don't need to do. My biggest losses are after big wins. Yeah. Biggest single losses are always after a big win. Like I did a big Trump trade and I lost $1,000,000 the week after. And you could have lost it.

All and I kind of and we did the math. We did the math. I could have lost a few more thankfully, you know, stop that loss, but but it's always after a big trade that you think you're so good and I think games he put it well. So games is another example right And he talked about this too, is you're actually not that good of a trader and and you think you're so good because you just had a big trade and you feel so cool and your

testosterone's hitting. You know you're like fuck, I just spent a few $1,000,000 in that trade and by the way, we're talking in the 1,000,000. But it happens. Let's say your book is like 5 figures and you make a multiple 6 figure trade. It's the same thing right. And all of a sudden I've heard even people once this kid was like, oh, I made like 50K on this coin. I feel like I'm still going to lost it all. Like so it's all levels. We're not just talking about you

have the Weiss and wind levels. Then you have Mando and Ovis and Kaleo and KBM and Geezy's like that eight figure trade level. Then you have some 7 figure trades. It's every level of trade that you know, You then think that you're so fucking good at this shit and the market humbles you real quick. So yeah, lessons in there, lessons in there, just maybe take it off. It's good advice, I know it's hit me as well not not to the scale. But it's hits you right, happens

to everyone. So so take take off after a big trade and it's hard man though though it's hard to take off. Because it's also in the market, so typically the frothiest, right so. And you think that this is going to be another leg up because it dips, but then it goes. So it always does this right? You sell, it goes higher, you chase and then it dumps and then you're like, fuck, you know.

And so and so that's how you always get clap and then dumps for a long period of time and then you're cooked. So anyways, James Wynn, hope you end up well, my brother and my brother and faith or whatever. Not only we annoy you, but hope everything's going to be fine on your end. Tyler let's go to here board really NFT and crypto analysis. Tyler T on FOMO our cause the kids can't. It was a busy Monday taking a look at the top or Tuesday rather take a look at the top of the board.

Bitcoin hanging out 108 K ETH is leading a touch 2640. We had ton Telegram up 13%. They announced a a partnership with XAI. They're going to have grok integrated, I believe in Telegram and they're going to earn referral fees off of that to some degree. So that was a big announcement. We had a big news out of Swee in the cedis protocol that was exploited last week. They announced a full 100% recovery for affected users.

They're going to use their own cash on the hand in Treasuries and they got a loan from the Swee Foundation to cover the rest. Though it does require a vote to pass. So we'd encourage folks who are impacted by that to make sure you go out and vote on that. It was a huge day of Bitcoin news. Taking a look at the Bitcoin Vegas headlines.

We had Senator Loomis announced that that Bitcoin Act bill, the one that would enable the US to buy 1,000,000 Bitcoin over five years, that's going to hit Congress next week. So that's going on before we had Trump's crypto exec director Bo Hines call Bitcoin the golden standard and said the US will

never sell the Bitcoin it has. David Sax was talking with the Winklevoss twins and said that if you want the US to buy Bitcoin, convince Howard Lutnick, pointing to him and heading up that sovereign wealth fund as perhaps the easiest lever for the US to buy. And then Steak and Shake, they said they're saving 50% in processing fees on Bitcoin payments. So right there, you've got some real utility and other headlines.

Cantor, the Lutnick business, their $2 billion Bitcoin lending business has officially completed their first transactions. So they're off to the races. And I mentioned GameStop bought $512 million worth of Bitcoin 47110 Metamask. It's so ironic on the day that consensus and Joe Lubin announced the big ETH Treasury Metamask growing out, Solana support officially live and that Metamask extension allowing sole token management along with sole

app integration. We had sole strategies file prospectus allowing them to raise up to 1 billion in capital to invest in the Solana ecosystem than Jack Dorsey's Square testing out Bitcoin payments using the Lightning Network. So a lot of big macro headlines there. In token AirDrop and protocol news, Kobe's Echo, they made a splash yesterday. They announced this new Sonar project as effectively a new launchpad for Icos. Also a bit of a direct

competitor with the Believe app. I saw some fallout across the ecosystem. They also announced that Plasma will launch an ICO at a $500 million FTV via Sonar. So that first Sonar Sonar launch launch is coming. We had Arbitrum launch their kind of rewards program 400,000 R, that's 160 grand spread across three months. Camp network also announced Kaido campaign, right brands announced its shipwreck sell will happen via an allow list and an entertainment. So a little bit of A twist over

there. Let's see, rounding out AI memes, crypto AI market held steady. That Virgin token, the meme for that virtual's ecosystem was up quite a bit on the day at 70%. That was a top mover. Most memes broadly read the launch Co and eco fell about 15% after that Sonar announcement. And then this trenches was the top mover of the day on Solana. This Carl, this Carl character, I think he's got a big following in the Solana trenches.

He's going to launch a stream. He launched A token tied to his stream. It was the top volume token on Solana around a 7 million or so up 8400% and then it takes bonds keep keep moving those mega Ethan. It TS the unofficial collection of 57% point .44. I believe I saw this morning and then G Money sad sadly announced AT90CC it's closing stores and seizing operations at the end of

back and it's a rundown. There's a lot there quick shout out to G money obviously I think that's pretty sad news kind of stocks for space you know someone trying to build a brand outside of crypto. I think was to tell you that building in fashion outside, it looks that's where he he couldn't go right outside of crypto. That just was too hard to crack out of that. So it kind of sucks. I really like I really like my MY90CC and the hats. You know that.

So I thought they really tried. I thought the most exciting and best news out of all this was echo. I was so quick to send that internally to locks. I was like me should do something like that with myriad. No, because we've been thinking about it and I've been saying like, Yo, I still going to come back this cycle. I still going to come back this cycle. And but you know, you can't really just do it. And now this is like this is making me want to try this out.

And I've talked about this on the show multiple times with you guys, but but Tyler, tell me more about this Echo News. Yeah, so Echo introduced Sonar. It is a new open source platform. It allows founders to self host public token sales and they don't really have to rely on any centralized intermediaries. It basically will bring back the early ethos from the ICO meta in 2017 and then providing tools to enable to happen transparently and in a compliant way.

So some of their key features, so these are self hosted founders will be able to conduct the token sales directly from their own domains. They'll have full control over the process. It's also very flexible, so they support various models of token sales. You can do auctions, you can do option swaps, you can have point systems. There's a lot of customization in how founders can roll out their tokens. They also come with a compliance tool set, which is also

configurable. It does enable founders to set up things like jurisdictional controls, you know, where the countries where these may not be allowed to to operate and so forth. And then it's also they operate without mandating KYC. So there's a privacy preserving element of all this as well. First project is already announced as Plasma, which is a product supported tied to the stable coin economy. They are launching. I think they're raising at 500 million FTV, they're looking to

raise 50 million. Wow. Token supply. So this is a pretty big one. I think plasma has been making some waves as well. So it'll be a lot of eyes on this. But I think that the bigger picture 1000 foot view here is there's been this buzz around Internet capital markets. We had some fun with believe that, but didn't feel like that was the full the the final product for the direction where this was headed. Sonar feels like it's a little bit more there, right? It's more buttoned up.

It's from a it's got Kobe tied in from the echo angle of this and one of the most trusted folks in in the entire crypto space. We got the compliance dialed in on this. It it really feels like this is going to open the door for for IC OS to to make a comeback. IC O2 point O live in 2025. It feels like a big deal. I think part of the fallout from the meme coin meta right that we've experienced in the last few months is like we have fun

turning these shit coins. At the end of the day, I think most people want to be buying projects with more substance. Yeah, I mean, you've seen it, right? There's a reason why people like the launch coin idea that they want more. Exactly. And now we have more opportunities to do this. And it seems like Sonar is going to be perhaps the they've got potential to be the leader. I mean, dude, I think I'm we, we should be doing a token sale through through sonar.

I mean, we'd be stupid not to straight up. I'm just going to say like that, Like I like as a founder and I always on this show talk about as a founder also like from that perspective, like what it's like, you tell me that I can, we can now like sell tokens legally without forcing the person to KYC and don't have to give up equity either. Like there's a lot of wins here in that sense, you know, and it's a good marketing plan as well.

And we'll see. Now the question is, how are these people going to, how are these people going to react to the market? Or are they going to be sellers on the net sellers, net holders? We don't know that yet. But you don't also have to sell like 20% of the tokens because 2% it's not 5%. Let's say you're, you're launching at $100 million valuation on token, you can just sell $2,000,000 worth 2% and that'll take you a long way as a

as a founder. And if $2,000,000 of sale pressure on the market is not insane if you have the right team and market makers etcetera in place. So a good product is going to be $2,000,000 of buy, but to absorb that sale, right? There's that component. I think that's the upside that you gain from a grassroots community that's going to, they feel like they're in on the, the

ground floor to a degree, right. So I think a part of the meme Quimetta was also this like financial nihilism where and, and that whole, the whole thesis there was that these protocols, these infrastructure tokens, they were VCs got in early and low valuations. And then the first chance that crypto retail had was that artificially inflated valuations and the VCs were dumping on them and they really had no chance to

participate in the upside. This model would in theory enable you to have be able to participate in more of the upside, get in earlier in the process and kind of grow along with the protocol. And we, we've seen how big of a difference that makes in price action like hyper Liquid, they, they dropped to $3 and it's been up only since then. And it now is has arguably the the single best token sentiment

out there right now. And like that's the type of projection that you enable via ICO sales like this. Yeah, it's the best. I mean ICO season is back maybe so it'll it'll be good to see what what happens on on that front. All right, well, what I still a still a lot of stuff going on it. Was let's see what else we got. We talked about a lot, most of the the big headlines Bitcoin Vegas I think the the, the

interest. Yeah, Bitcoin Vegas, Yeah. What's the give us the like for the people who are not there like me and you? What's the what's the TLDR here? I think Senator Loomis announcing that this Bitcoin Act bill is going, Oh, my phone's blowing up. Oh damn, I've got. A move that's coming here in like 20 minutes. I have same in an hour 20. But Senator Loomis announcing this Bitcoin Act bill is going to be in front of Congress next week.

And this is the big one. So this is the one that would effectively allow the US to buy 1,000,000 Bitcoin over five years, which is 5% of the supply. I don't think we have line of sight that that was coming to a vote anytime soon. So it looks like it it will be I think the timing, the timing of the Trump media 2 1/2 billion dollar raise to buy Bitcoin and crypto news that just broke yesterday might hurt the chances of that bill.

Because now it, it almost looks like Trump media is front running the US government and and potentially buying up to 5% of the Bitcoin supply. So I could see more pushback because of that. But I mean, of course, that is a that is a game changing bill if that were to approve with respect to what would happen in price action. So I think that it's going to be one of the most important items

to watch in the coming weeks. Thought it was also interesting to hear David Sacks comments, which which perhaps telegraphs how he thinks that bill might go. He said if you want the US to buy Bitcoin, tell, tell Howard Lutnick. And if you remember, Howard Lutnick is in control of that sovereign wealth fund, which we haven't really seen much out of yet, but it always made more sense for me for the US to go the direction of buying Bitcoin crypto via the sovereign wealth fund than just.

Oh. We've seen other sovereign do that as well. OK, can you you're back. Check, check, try again. One second. Yeah, can you all hear me? Yeah, yeah. Cool. OK. Yeah. So we have to talk to Lutnick if everybody, if you have lot Nick's phone number, give him a ring, you have his at give him an AT all, right, We got to tell. So it kind of looks like they're headed towards that sovereign wealth fund like it's sounding pretty bullish in that sense, right?

Like USA sovereign wealth fund is just as bullish in my opinion as the USA strategic reserve, a big one. It's the same thing, just different vehicles. I think there's a lot of signals that the US will be buying Bitcoin some capacity at some point, I would say in the next couple of years. I don't know if it's going to be this month like in the next month. I don't know if it's going to be in Q2. I don't know if it's going to be in 2025.

But their rhetoric, their language here rhetoric, it sure makes it seem like it is coming at at some point and they're kind of beating us over the head with at this point. So it's, it's something that you will look back and it will be so obvious. So make sure that your positions for for the scenario where that happens, I think would be would be my advice. I mean other like on another day, what might have been the biggest news was, was Metamask. Dude. Rolling out Solana finally.

Yep, I was, I was, I commented this on Dudas tweet. He put the announcement and wrote 2025 and I was like, I always get biased because I love that team over at consensus and the whole Metamask crew. But better late than never. And and when it comes to wallets, something's very important security and technology. And I've had this conversation with a lot of people. Whoa sounds a lot, but Metamask has are going to be some of the best tech when it comes to the to wallets.

So it's it's good to see the mentor Solana with the Vipers on. What does that tell you about mog here? Cultural, you know the cultural, you know sign. So it's. Big. I mean Metamask has millions of users. I don't have the data in front of me. I would I would guess they have substantially more than Phantom. Oh yeah, for sure. How many users does Metamask? Let's ask. Open open AI here. See what ChatGPT says. Searching the web. I mean, it's a tough metric.

It's like 30 million plus. No, yeah. Oh, there you. Go wow 30 million monthly. Access as of Jan 2024. Wow. And then how many users does phantom wallet? Wow, 30 million more people will have access to Metamask to to Solano, which is really good. Wow yeah, it is big news. I I thought that was good news and big news. I mean all all that sort of stuff is good. And so I'm excited to see what they've got rolling next.

I think if they're going after the salon market, they're like, OK, 15 mil Mau as of late 2024. So it's about two X. So we'll see what happens in that sense because a lot of people didn't swap over, right. A lot of people are very loyal to their wallets and stuff. So we'll see what happens. So that was also big news. And I mean, look, Tyler, if I know you got some of you got a busy day ahead. So if we can go to the giveaway, unless you got anything else to

cover here. Yeah, I mean that that was mostly it a little action on these those bad buns. My, my NFT, I'm pumping the back here. But they they're they're grinding up those the Pokémon ones also hit 28 yesterday. They they've pulled back since then. But we NFT is showing some signs live out there. It's fun. Absolutely love to see that, you know, that'll always be my favorite thing to see and if these are so much more fun than than meme coins, etcetera. So absolutely love to see that.

So shout out to them. Those buns are what, .44 or something? .43 looks like right now, so we'll we'll take that. Some nice punk tails today too. Back-to-back 3D glasses just. Now and I have to say I've, I've come across bearish on the virtual eco system on the show. I think that's a fair statement. I think a lot of our listeners have pointed that out. I slammed my fist on the desk this morning. I saw that Virgin. So Virgin was the token that Vader launched last week.

It's like the the virtual's ecosystem new meme. I saw it 2.4 million. Like I know this is a buy. I didn't buy it and it's 10X. Whoa. It was an easy like it was viable at at 2 to 3,000,000 on the first day. Where is it? That's not it, that's the wrong one. Sorry y'all, it's this one, yeah? Oh wow, so it's it's pulled back a. Bit oh, you had plenty of time to buy it. Was very, it was very public. It was out there day one like all the whole virtuals crew was talking about it.

I mean, I guess it it did go sideways. For it's five days to buy it you. Had to you had to hold through the consolidation, but this was this was one that was obvious and it was a a painful mess. Virtuos is doing good, man. Like this ecosystem is thriving right now, you know, So that's the wrong one. Sorry, but Virtuos is that ecosystem is doing extremely good and you'd love to see that, right? Wow. This is surprising to me that

it's come. I guess it's the fastest horse in AI off the bottom back to 2.5. I mean 2.5 yesterday. It's sold off a touch since then. Strong. Yeah. And I I wouldn't fade at continuing to to grind up. Yeah, yeah, that's really cool. So love to do that and and it's good for the ecos. So yes, there's a lot of cooks, a lot of things. Let's see where this dip goes. Tyler. I think it's going to be sharp and quick. I think our favorite before we go off, Bob Lucas tweeted during

the show. Tyler, I know you and I are big fans. We should welcome a healthy little Bitcoin pull back to complete the 1st 60 day cycle. They aid in refueling A sustainable bull trend. So right online with what he's been saying. So he's also in the one O 4. See everybody's top range, like the range that I've been telling you about, we're talking about on the show. It's not my range. It's the range I saw online, but you know the range so it's here.

OK, so he thinks we're going to wait a little bit before we get the break out to 120. So he thinks 120 is like. He's he's got June here. OK, he's got June, but that's like, I mean, just two days left in May. So that's what he's got. So just be patient everyone hold on to your pants and and great things shall come anyways.

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