Bitcoin broke $100K… is it real this time

Plus: This is your sign to care about tokenized securities

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👀 The SEC wants to ease up on tokenized securities rules.

🍋 News drops: stablecoin legislation killed, FTX exec’s wife wants the charges against her dropped + more

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What a view 🥹

Everything’s green, Bitcoin’s back above $100K, Ethereum’s back above $2K, investor vibes are pushing toward Extreme Greed.

Life is good. Again 🥹

Why the sunshine and rainbows?

Like we said yesterday, Donald Trump announced a trade deal with the UK – and now we’ve got more details.

It’s not a full removal of tariffs, but there are some big changes: certain import taxes are being lowered, and both sides agreed to boost trade in cars, planes, and agricultural stuff.

And less global tension = happier markets.

On top of that, regulators have been showing a whole lotta love to crypto lately:

• New Hampshire and Arizona both signed laws that allow their states to build up Bitcoin reserves;

• The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) allowed banks under its watch to trade crypto on behalf of customers and let third parties handle some of the crypto stuff;

• Over in Missouri, House Bill 594 – which would remove capital gains tax on crypto – passed in the state House. Now it’s sitting on Governor Mike Kehoe’s desk, waiting for a signature;

• The IRS also scrapped a rule that would’ve required DeFi platforms to report crypto transaction data and collect customer info.

All that? Super bullish.

But Santiment says this much hype could go both ways:

When retail investors start FOMOing hard (especially with headlines like “Bitcoin hits 3-month high!”), it can pump prices too fast. And when everyone’s yelling “HIGHER, LFGGGG!”, rallies often take a break.

For now, crypto analyst MacroScope is watching if Bitcoin can stay above $100K. Not just a quick visit – like actually hold it.

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Building on top of the idea that regulators are warming up to crypto…

The SEC wants to give companies more freedom to issue, trade, and settle tokenized securities – which is basically turning regular stocks and assets into digital tokens.

Right now, if you wanna run a platform for trading tokenized securities, you might have to register as an exchange, a broker-dealer, or a clearing agency, because the SEC treats them like regular securities.

And blockchain platforms don’t fit neatly into any of those boxes, sooo… what the hell.

Because of that, most companies just avoid tokenized securities altogether.

And trading platforms don’t bother supporting them either, because there’s not enough demand to make it worth the effort.

So now we’ve got ourselves a chicken-and-egg situation:

No platforms = no tokenized securities. No tokenized securities = no platforms.

So here’s what the SEC wants to do:

Offer a conditional exemption – a kind of test pass that lets companies play around with tokenized securities under a looser set of rules.

Companies would have to follow the regular shebang, though: no fraud, no market manipulation, be transparent with users, keep good records, stay under SEC supervision, etc.

Now, why are they even considering this?

Because tokenized assets could actually fix a lot of what’s broken in TradFi – they can make things faster, cheaper, more transparent, and even more accessible.

And if the US doesn’t move now, other countries like Singapore and Switzerland (which are already going fast on tokenized securities) might leave it in the dust.

If tokenized securities actually catch on, it could be a huge deal for crypto. Here’s why:

1/ More real-world assets on chain

Stocks, real estate, bonds – all living on blockchains. That makes crypto infrastructure actually useful for traditional finance.

2/ Boost in institutional adoption

Institutions are more likely to step in when the assets are familiar (stocks, treasuries), even if the tech is new.

3/ More demand for stablecoins and token infrastructure

Tokenized securities don’t live in a vacuum – they need blockchains, wallets, stablecoins for settlement, and identity tools.

This boosts the whole crypto ecosystem.

4/ More regulation = more clarity

Tokenized securities already fall under some rules, but if this experiment works, it could help regulators fine-tune those rules and set better standards across the board.

But quick reality check:

As you can probably tell, none of that sounds like “prices going vertical overnight” – because that probably wouldn’t happen.

Tokenizing securities is more like laying down train tracks – super important infrastructure, but kinda boring until trains start moving on it.

In other words: it’s not about quick gains – it’s about setting up the foundation for crypto to actually matter in the real world. Which is something we love to hear, too.

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🍋 News drops

👎 A US Senate vote officially killed the GENIUS Act. The bill was supposed to set clear rules for USD-pegged stablecoins.

😠 Michelle Bond, the wife of ex-FTX exec Ryan Salame, wants the charges against her dropped. She says prosecutors got her husband to plead guilty by telling him they wouldn’t come after her – then did anyway.

📢 And while we’re on the topic of FTX – a judge dropped most of the claims in a lawsuit against celebs who promoted it. That includes Tom Brady, Steph Curry, and Naomi Osaka.

🚔 German police shut down a crypto exchange that was allegedly used to launder money, including from the Bybit hack. They seized about $38M in crypto. Maybe this is their second chance to not fumble the bag like they did when they sold 50K BTC at $50K?.. 👀

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