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What we’ve cooked up for you today…

• 🖐️ Tariff pause

• 🔮 2 Massive Predictions

• 🚂 Only up

• 💰 And more…

What’s in the Crypto Nutshell Portfolio?

TARIFF PAUSE 🖐️

BREAKING: Trump pauses some tariffs, boosts China's

And there it is…

On Wednesday, President Trump announced a 90-day pause on his sweeping global tariffs.

But China wasn’t so lucky.

In fact, Trump doubled down - raising tariffs on Chinese goods to a staggering 125%.
(The highest rate in modern U.S. history after yesterday’s 104% total tariff.)

And market’s LOVED it. 🤑

(We knew this kind of reaction was possible after the fake news pump earlier in the week)

The S&P 500 ripped 9.52%.

The Nasdaq soared 12.02%. (Second largest daily gain in history)

Bitcoin surged 9.52% to reclaim $82K.

Ethereum jumped back above $1,600.

Altcoins like SOL and XRP posted double-digit gains.

We’re so back…

Even crypto stocks went vertical:

• Strategy (MSTR): +23%

• Coinbase: +18%

• Bitfarms: +26%

Green literally everywhere. 📈

But the story doesn’t end there…

Just 3 hours before announcing the tariff pause, Trump posted this on Truth Social:

Markets have literally never seen anything like this before.

And to be fair - as we said yesterday - this was indeed an excellent time to be buying.

This week will go down as one of the wildest in financial market history.

But make no mistake - the volatility isn’t over.

Tariffs on China are still escalating. The trade war is alive and well. And Macro uncertainty remains sky-high.

But for now?

Risk assets are breathing again.

Crypto is leading the charge.

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2 MASSIVE PREDICTIONS 🔮 

Fred Krueger just looked 5 years into the future…

And he’s seeing 2 things with total clarity:

1. Super-human AI 🧠

2. $1M Bitcoin 💰

Yep - bold claims. But that’s Fred.

Who is Fred Krueger?

• A Stanford PhD 🧠

• Wall Street veteran 📈

• Serial founder 💼

• Lifelong numbers guy 🔢

Fred has made a career of being right when everyone else is wrong.

He’s not throwing darts here. He’s measuring probabilities.

And while AI is moving at terrifying speed - Fred still believes Bitcoin is the safest place to park your capital:

So here’s the bottom line:

There are too many unknowns with super-human intelligence to build a clear plan around it.

But Bitcoin?

That part’s easy: Buy more Bitcoin.

ONLY UP 🚂

It’s time for another look at Ethereum’s supply side dynamics.

Today we’ll be focusing on the amount of Ethereum currently being staked.

Quick Note: Ethereum staking involves locking up ETH to support the blockchain’s security. In return, users earn rewards for staking.

If you’d like to learn more about staking, check out this article.

As of today, 59,746,002 ETH is staked.

That’s an increase of 483,493 ETH in just the past two weeks. (~$1.31 billion at today’s prices)

And yes… that’s yet another all-time high.

(As we’ve said before - this chart literally sets a new record every day)

To put that into perspective:

Staked ETH now accounts for 49.48% of the total circulating supply.

Nearly half of all Ethereum is locked up - held by investors who clearly aren’t in any rush to sell.

Even with relatively weak price action over the past few weeks, these holders aren’t flinching.

Conviction remains sky-high.

Supply continues to tighten.

And this all sets the stage for what could eventually become a textbook supply squeeze.

CRACKING CRYPTO 🥜

Donald Trump's World Liberty Financial reportedly sells Ethereum amid $125M loss. Donald Trump-affiliated World Liberty Financial faces $125 million unrealized loss as Ethereum slump prompts asset sell-off.

Trade tensions to speed institutional crypto adoption. Faster adoption could be the "silver lining" of recent market volatility for crypto, industry executives said.

Strategy's 25% Gain Leads as Crypto Stocks Soar on Trump Tariff Pause. The president earlier Wednesday announced a pause in his punitive reciprocal tariffs for all countries except China.

SEC greenlights options trading on spot Ethereum ETFs including ones from BlackRock, Bitwise and Grayscale. Multiple firms are also vying for staking in their Ethereum ETFs, which if approved, could generate additional returns on its ETH holdings.

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MEME CORNER 😂

Because what would the crypto world be without its share of memes?

Trivia Answer:"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" 🥳

Bitcoin's genesis block has a message—"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"—thought to refer to the state of the financial industry in 2009.

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