¶ Intro
Get ready. The FED is going to start quantitative easing tomorrow and JP Morgan launches a tokenized commercial paper on the Salona blockchain. This is huge news and there may be some hiccups and problems with the Clarity Act. I'll give you the details and what's happening. Let's get into it. Hey, everybody, welcome into the Thinking Crypto Podcasts. You're home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. I'm your host, Tony Edward. On your way in. Please let that subscribe button as well as
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¶ Fed QE impact on Crypto
December twelve, the FED will officially kick off quantitative easing, so we're gonna look at what the impact is on the market. Don't expect anything to happen on the charts tomorrow, but rather it's the start of the money printing cycle and we could start to see in the week's coming the liquidity is starting to hit the markets and much more so. We covered this in yesterday's podcast, and we know they're going to buy forty billion dollars in treasury
bills over the next thirty days. So again it's the start which is very positive and let's see what the impact is. We're going to have to be very patient here, but this is pretty historic. Remember the last time that the Fed ended quantitative easing and went into quantitative tightening, that was in November of twenty twenty one, and that is when the bear market started. Now the opposite is
happening here. Although you have some people are saying the market has topped out, I personally don't think it has. But we are moving from quantitative tightening to quantitative easing, more liquidity, which should be very great for risk assets. Now, folks,
¶ JPMorgan Solana tokenization
look at this news. This is incredibly bullish. So coinbase Institutional tweeted dot wall Street is putting the blockchain to work in capital markets. Today, JP Morgan arranged a US commercial paper issuance for Galaxy Digital on Salana, one of the first debt securities issued on a public blockchain in the US with tokenization USDC, stable con rails and custody powered by coinbases crypto as a service platform. This is
incredible news on multiple fronts. First, huge capitulation by the King of the Fiat world and that is JP Morgan. We've seen their CEO, Jamie Diamond bash and criticized crypto for years. Now they have fully capitulated. They tried to create their own private blockchain, but no one wanted to use that because it was another wall garden. Why would
I trust your centralized blockchain? Now JP Morgan is forced to use public blockchains because that's where the liquidity is and that's where a lot of the transactions and settlements are happening, and where you have decentralization that folks can trust what you're building. So this is incredible, folks, This is a landmark moment and I hope you recognize the
significance of this. And we saw JP Morgan was doing some trial and error testing with base, which is Coinbase's etherorem layer two, and they've of course launch crypto trading and much more. In addition, Coinbase, you know, their crypto as a service platform is getting huge adoption. Just a couple of days ago I reported about P and C Bank launching bitcoin trading using coinbased as services, and we know City Bank is also partnered with coinbase, so all
the major banks getting involved in crypto. More on rams being established here more tokenization and use of the technology. Very very bullish and on JP Morgan's website they put out a full press release about it. So how things have changed here Here's what the headline is on their website. JP Morgan arranges landmark US commercial paper issuance on the Solana public blockchain for Galaxy Digital Holdings. Incredible news, folks, and as you all know, game theory will play out here.
No bank wants to get left behind. All the other banks will follow suit. So incredibly bullish news. Now on
¶ Coinbase Solana DEX
the topic of Coinbase and Solana, Coinbase will enable decentralized exchange trading for all Solana tokens, no list things needed. This is a smart move by Coinbase. They're going to allow all those Solana based tokens right, whether it be meme coins or whatever, to be launched inter decentralized exchange trading wallet and platform. So that's not the centralized aspect where it's more strict, you know, as far as listening, So the decentralized exchange part makes sense. So this is amazing.
We are seeing incredible progress being made here. Now here's some more details about this news. Andrew Allen coinbased protocol specialists. He posted on x about this news and he said, for issuers and builders, if your token has sufficient liquidity, this means you can be accessible to millions of users on Coinbase without getting listed. So they're doing a bit of this with Base, so it makes sense for them to do it with Solana. It's a very easy model
to just move over. And I think you know, Coinbase recognizes that this success pump dot fun is having, so they're building a version of that. Not necessarily that they're targeting meme coins, but rather anybody that wants to build on Solana, you can go ahead and do it, and you have liquidity and you know they can trade on there. So this is really really great news, folks, amazing stuff. Okay, moving ahead, we got more big news out of the CFTC.
¶ CFTC Crypto
So they have announced today they are withdrawing the outdated and overly complex guidance that penalizes the bitcoin and crypto industry. So acting Chair Caroline fam continues to do an amazing job. You know, yesterday we talked about them approving crypto and as collateral for derivatives trading and much more so, huge progress here and on the SEC front, SEC Chair Paul
¶ SEC Crypto roundtable & DTCC
Atkins tweeted out, our Crypto Task Force will host a roundtable on Monday, December fifteenth, so that's next week on policy matters related to financial surveillance and privacy. The event will be in person and livestream on the SEC dot gov. We hope you'll join us. So let's see what comes out of this roundtable. Privacy is a big factor for the industry. We've seen, you know, things like z cash start to move. We saw a circle is building a
private version of USDC. They're stable coined, and you know a lot of institutions they're looking to build privacy layers because they don't want all their information out there in the market. Of course, so this this should be a pretty good roundtable. And the SEC has approved the DTCC plan to tokenize stocks, bonds, and treasuries. So the tokenization race is heating up here, folks. We've been talking about it for years. The token economy, that's where we're headed to.
And we're going to see the markets, the governments, and the economies all running on blockchain rails. So whether that be for payments, transactions, all the assets will be on the blockchain, folks. Now, this episode is brought to you by v chain, which is one of the top Layer one enterprise blockchains in the industry that's getting massive adoption. Folks are tokenizing on v chain, They're building Web three
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¶ Crypto legislation news, Clarity Act, banks, CBDC
week for crypto legislation, especially around the Claritiac and even meetings. So first up, Eleanor Tarrett reported it's a pack day for crypto policies. Senators are expected to hold a bipartisan meeting this morning and that actually happened this morning to
continue hashing out the market structure negotiations. This afternoon, representatives from several leading industry firms will head to the White House for a separate market structure meeting, according to an email reviewed by Crypto in America, and later, CEOs from Bank of America, City Well Spargo will meet with senators to discuss curbing interest payments by affiliates of stable coin issuers,
along with other outstanding issues. So the banks, we've been talking about it for a while, are trying to kill certain aspects of crypto. Right. We saw Citadel Security send a letter to the SEC about DFI. We know the banks don't like that you're earning higher interest and yield on your stable coins on crypt platforms than they're giving
you in their savings and checking account. Right. We know for years the banks have been taking a lot of that money and giving you nothing, right, zero point zero one or some whatever garbage. Right, it's nonsense. So we got to fight here. So let's see how the pro crypto senators and members of Congress handle this, because the banks are trying to lobby hard, really really hard, but
they've lost the fight. Now there is some controversy around the claritiac because there's a version that's floating out there that people don't like, and rightfully so, because we know Elizabeth Warren and some of these Democrats who are being lobbied by the banks are trying to, you know, throw some monkey wrenches in there and change up the language. Here. James Murphy aka Metal law Man, who have had on
the podcast many times. Says, too many people in crypto have the mindset of I don't care what the rules are for crypto. I just want a set of clear rules adopted and I will follow them, he says, warning the draft market structure bills circulating in Congress right now all import the very worst aspects of the Bank Secrecy Act into the crypto ecosystem. If we don't fight for
our privacy rights now, they will never be reclaimed. SEC Commissioner Hester person has been warning the crypto communities starting about two years ago not to trade away our privacy rights in order to get crypto legislation enacted as usual. Hester was right, and that is exactly what is about to happen if the crypto community does not speak up
and object now. So some people have been tweeting out things. However, Patrick Witt, who took over Bohine's job as the White House Crypto Advisor, working with David Sachs, he called out some of these things. That the language in these bills is in the progress of being addressed, he says, replying to Paul Barron here who tweeted out about this well. Paul said the following the market structure bill circulating in the Senate isn't regulatory clarity. It's the ultimate rug pull.
He talked about Elizabeth Warren's language being inserted and that Senator Tim Scott and Lummis are effectively handing the future over to her to put these nonsense things in there, but Patrick Witt said this is entirely false. The White House, Senator Tim Scott and Senator Lummis are in lockstep on the knee to protect software developers and DeFi the message which conveyed to the Senate Democrats on the Hill this morning and again at the White House with the industry
this afternoon. So we got to watch this very carefully, right because again the banks are lobbying Elizabeth Warren, even though she's not as vocal, she's working behind the scenes. And again this goes back to the gainst their days. She was the one doing it. Wasn't Biden. Biden. You can't say Biden was you know, this old man not making not doing things autopen. But yet he's leading the charge against crypt I keep telling you, guys, I spoke to many people in DC. Elizabeth Warren had that top
financial services seat. Yes, Biden gave it to her. But Biden wasn't waking up saying, hey, go attack Crypto. It was Elizabeth Warren getting her paychecks from those banks. And then you know, same thing with Gary against her dog on the leash, and they were doing all the nonsense right on lawful activities and much more so, she's not stopping. Remember she's getting those paychecks and those banks, folks. So we got to see what happens here and keep a
close eye make sure the right things are done. I do have confidence in Patrick, I should say, Patrick Witt, and David Sachs, Senator Tim Scott, and Senator Lummus that they can get this done. And look, the industry is getting ready for the midterm election. So anybody who tries to, you know, run alongside Elizabeth Warren they're going to get their asses handed to them again because the money will be spent. But again, we got to be vigilant here and see how this plays out. Now there's some more
controversy around another bill, the CBDC ban. So GOP hardliners vexed as Defense bill advances with help the CBDC ban. So this CBDC band was supposed to go in this bill. So that's not good. A group of Republicans has called fouled after the US House passed a massive defense spending bill on Wednesday that omitted a ban on central bank digital currencies, despite promises it would be included. Conservatives were promised explicitly that strong anti CBDC language would be included
in the National Defense Authorization Act. That promise was broken, GOP representative Keith shelf wrote on X on Wednesday, So that's not good. The House voted three hundred and twelve to one hundred and twelve to pass the National Devents Act on Wednesday, sending nine hundred billion dollars annual military funding bill to the Senate in a bid to have it passed before the end of the year. So I'm not sure what's going to happen here. Maybe they can get it back in the or they can put it
in the market tructure build. I don't know, but he'd see, guys, well, we have to be vigilant. We have to be vigilant because this CBDC band is supposed to get pushed through. I remember interviewing Congressman Tom Emmer about this, right, So I'm not blaming him, but just it can't just be him, it has to be collectively they do this. So a lot of drama here, folks, And I'm going to try to get some folks from DC on the pod to talk about all this and what the hell is happening. Okay,
another interesting bill that was introduced. Senator Jerry Moran has introduced a bill to establish a Task Force for Recognizing and averting cryptocurrency scams. So this is great. I think we have to have the guardrails in place because you can have legislation and clarity, but if you don't have people dedicated to stopping bad actors, like for every industry, then you know the bad actors are going to continue
doing your thing. And sure some of the litigation may mitigate some of these things, but I think you need a dedicated task force like what they're trying to establish here. So this will be really good. Now look at this, folks.
¶ Trust Wallet Revolut Crypto investing
Trust Wallet taps Revolute for crypto purchases in Europe, so again the on and off ram is being established globally for more capital to come into this market. Trust Wallet the self custodial crypto wallet owned by Binance co founder Chang Peng Zau or cz has partnered with European fintech Unicorn and digital banking giant Revolute to introduce a new
way to purchase crypto assets on its platform. So trust Wallet users can now buy bitcoin, ether, Solana with Revelue through a direct integration, the company said on Thursday, with a minimum purchase starting at ten euros or twelve dollars and capped at twenty three thousand euros or twenty six
¶ Bhutan tokenized gold
nine fifty dollars daily and per transaction. Trust Wallet's new buy option is expected to provide a faster and easy way to access crypto from Europe. In October, Revolute score regulatory approval from the Cypersecurities and Exchange Commission to offer crypto services across thirty European Economic Area markets in compliance with the Europeans' Markets in Crypto Assets Regulations or MICA Framework. So, folks, again,
auto m's being set up across the globe. This is what you want to see as an investor, and more adoption, more capital coming in, more building and much more moving ahead. Bhutan goes for gold and now says sovereign backed RWA token. We know Bhutan is very bullish on crypto. They're mining crypto, they're buying crypto. They're doing a lot, and it looks like they're getting into the tokenized gold game here or a token backed by a gold so man I can't pronounce.
Is Jeleeffu Mindfulness City GMC, a Special Administrative Zone of Bhutan and aunced on Wednesday that it is launching a sovereign gold backed digital token called ter Teer. The physical gold deposits will be custodied by dk Bank, a digital asset bank regulated by the Government of Bhutan and issued on the Solana blockchain network against Solana. Again, right, we saw JP Morgan is building on Solana, So I'm a sol token holder. This is why it's important to diversify, folks.
So matrix DOC, a real world asset tokenization platform, is the technology partner responsible for tokenizing the real world asset on the blockchain. So, folks, it's what I've been saying again and again. Right, all these assets are going unchain the token economy, all of it running on blockchain rails. So I hope you see the direction of puck is heading here, and you have a macro view and your patient about the market, and here's some news around this,
¶ Xiaomi Sei Crypto Wallet
say crypto blockchain. I don't hold say in my portfolio, but z me if I'm saying that right or Eami to pre install say crypto wallet on millions of phones in global rollout. So I never heard of this. So Say Labs, the core development group behind is Say blockchain, has reached a distribution deal with against Ziami or Eami to pre install a new crypto wallet and discovery app on all of their smartphones sold outside mainland China and the US. So I guess this is some mainland China phone.
I've never heard of it. By the way, apologies if some of you know about it, I don't. According to Thursday's announcement, the Apple Let users sign in with their existing Google or Zami IDs and will will feature a multi party computation waller for security, access to popular crypto applications, and support for both peer to peer merchant payments. Guys, look at what's being built here. We know Samsung and
is doing their thing with crypto. It already has a wallet built in, so I'm just blown away at the infrastructure that's being set up here now. State Street, Galaxy,
¶ State Street Galaxy Ondo tokenization
and Ondo joined tokenized cash race with twenty four to seven sweep fund so big names here and ONO is a part of it. Many of you know. I'm a Onto token holder. I most recently interviewed Nathan Allman at chain Link smart Con, so we talked about Ondo. Just I think was it this week or last week the SEC dropped their investigation into Onto. You know that was
a legacy investigation from the Gary Ginster days. So State Street Investment Management and Galaxy Asset Management are joining forces with Onto Finance on a tokenized liquidity fund that will push cash sweep balances directly onto public blockchains, creating a potential source of twenty four to seven on chain liquidity. The planned State Street Galaxy on Chain Liquidity sweet Fund or SWEEP, is designed to take in and pay out paypals pyus, the stable coin for accredited investors. The company
said on Tuesday. Ontoicks expected to see the fund with two hundred million dollars, tying a major tokenized real world asset issuer directly into State Streets tokenization stack. The fund will be powered by Galaxy Digital Infrastructure, while State Street Bank and Trust Company, an affiliate of State Street Investment Management,
will act as custodian. SWEEP is set to launch on Salana in early twenty twenty six, man with rollouts on other networks including Stellar Ethereum to follow using chain links, crosschain interoperability protocol. Folks, all of these tokens here I hold, and it's not because I just simply threw a dart at the board. I looked at what they're liquidity ones, their tokenomics and the adoption, right, that's so important. So
that's why I have Soul in my portfolio. I have some Excelm not as big as my other holdings Etherorem I have in my portfolio, and of course chain like many of eve, you know, I'm bullish on this project because every other blockchain and trii FI companies using chain links, connectivity, their bridges, they're oracles and much more so, they are building an incredible technology that can be used by everyone in the crypto industry. So this is bullish news on
multiple fronts. I hope you guys see what's happening here. I'm not making this up. It's not my feelings or emotions, is the fact. So again, the reason I'm saying that you're going to see a lot of comments feel a Salona sucks and this sucks, and it's like bro Are you here to make money or for a religion? Right, So look at the adoption that's happening. So just make sure you do your research and take your bets and don't be emotional about these tokens. Just look for the
adoption like this. Finally, you AE Telco giant E and
¶ UAE telco fiant stablecoins
if I'm saying that right, taps Durham stable coin for bill payments pilot. So the United Arab Emirates, a telecom giant e end, is reportedly preparing to test whether regulated stable coins can support mainstream consumer payments, having signed a memorandum of understanding with Al Maria Community Bank to explore the use of a Durham pegged stable coin across as digital channels. Man, look at what is being built here, guys,
and it's again happening across the globe. So, according to a Golf News report, executives framed the collaboration as part of the UAES push toward regulated digital finance. Hattem dawidar e and Group CEO said, the stable coin enables instant settlement, complete transparency and friction less access. They're starting to wake up, they're starting to get it. They're getting educated. The stuff we've been talking about on this podcast for years. Guys.
Come on, I've been here since twenty sixteen. I started to pod late twenty seventeen talking about it and how everything will go on the blockchain because it's just the next layer on top of the Internet, eliminates a lot of the middleman. It runs twenty four to seven instant settlement, transparency, you don't have to wait days for the transaction, and you have a network a consensus of validators saying this is the exact transaction, this is what's happening. It's real time,
so there's no confusion, there's no ambiguity. And all the banks and all the financial institutions and stock exchanges and governments, they are all getting on board, folks. It's inevitable. They got to get on this train or they're gonna be left in the old world. The things are changing and we're headed to a more digital world, folks. And you know, I've often said many times, any country that bands cryptos are writing their economic death sentence because this technology is
game changing. It's it's incredible what's happening. So folks, you know, if you know somebody who's a skeptic of blockchain or crypto who's on the fence. Send us news to them, right, let them go research and get educated about what's happening and what's being built by different folks around the globe. Folks you wouldn't even think would be participating, but they are right. Countries that sometimes you think they're a little bit outdated, if you want to put it that way.
No offense to anybody, but you know that maybe they don't have the infrastructure, but they're looking at blockchains and cryptoid stable coins. And that's because even if they don't have the best cars or the best you know, roads or whatever it may be, guess what the people have smartphones, right, That is one thing a lot of people have now, and they're connected on the internet, and that infrastructure and is enabled, and that's all you need to participate and
move the money. And in fact, you know it's not necessarily they are going to have a crypto wallet, but the banks or of services they use already will be using blockchain and stable coins behind the scenes, and many of them won't even know. So I hope you see what is taking place here, folks. It's incredible, folks, that's the news. Let me know what you think. Leave your thoughts in comments below, hit the thumbs up button, hit the subscribe button. If you haven't as yet, be sure
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