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BREAKING: Morgan Stanley's Oldenburg - Bitcoin on U.S. bank balance sheets is coming, just not yet

Morgan Stanley just gave the institutional Bitcoin story a much bigger frame…

Bitcoin is moving from investment product to bank infrastructure.

That was the message from Amy Oldenburg, Morgan Stanley's head of digital asset strategy, at the Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas.

Oldenburg said the regulatory environment has become "more supportive" for banks moving deeper into digital assets.

And Morgan Stanley is already moving.

Its new Bitcoin-backed product, MSBT, pulled in $200 million since launch last month.

$200 million flowed into a bank-issued Bitcoin product before Morgan Stanley's own advisors were even offering it.

"All of that was self-directed," Oldenburg said.

That’s a pretty big deal…

Morgan Stanley isn't some crypto-native exchange trying to sell the dream.

We’re talking about one of the largest wealth-management machines in America.

The bank already recommends a 2% to 4% Bitcoin allocation for clients. But Oldenburg said advisor adoption is still slow because many advisors need more education.

So the funny part is that clients may be ahead of Wall Street itself.

The demand is clearly there.

And this is where the CLARITY Act comes into play.

Lawmakers have now finalised the stablecoin-yield compromise, clearing one of the biggest sticking points for broader U.S. crypto legislation.

That's important because banks don't move unless the rules are clear.

Even with MSBT live, Oldenburg made one thing clear…

Oldenburg explained they aren’t about to throw Bitcoin onto its own balance sheet tomorrow.

Fed guidance, Basel rules, and global regulators still stand in the way.

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Michael Saylor just dropped one of the most provocative takes of his career.

And that’s saying something…

Saylor sat down with Peter McCormack and made a statement that sounds ridiculous at first, but lands like a sledgehammer once you understand the implications.

Here’s what he said:

Read that twice. The man who built one of the most valuable companies in the world, who turned MicroStrategy into a Bitcoin powerhouse, just told you that talent and effort are no longer the path to wealth.

Why?

Because robots will outwork you. Cars will drive themselves. And AI will out-create the most skilled humans in almost every domain.

Saylor's example was brutal in its clarity.

Once you train an AI on Shakespearean sonnets, it will produce Shakespearean sonnets just as good as Shakespeare in his prime.

20 years of mastering the craft? Demonetised.

The same applies to writing legal documents, drafting wills, building tax structures.

Everything.

So if hard work and talent are being demonetised, what holds value?

This is the Saylor framework that has guided his entire Bitcoin strategy.

When labour is infinite and intelligence is free, the only thing that retains and compounds value is scarce, monetary energy that can't be debased.

Bitcoin.

Hard digital capital that doesn't depreciate, doesn't get out-competed by AI, and doesn't require human effort to maintain.

The world is splitting in 2:

On one side, human capital that gets cheaper every year as AI absorbs more of what humans used to do.

On the other, monetary capital with absolute scarcity, programmable, portable, and beyond the reach of governments or technological disruption.

Saylor is saying loud and clear which side you want to be on.

The future isn't about working harder.

It's about owning the right asset. 💎

Let’s kick off the week with a look at the Bitcoin HODL Waves - one of the clearest snapshots of market conviction.

Each coloured band represents the percentage of Bitcoin that last moved within a specific time frame.

The warmer the colour, the younger the coins - with red showing Bitcoin that has been held for less than one day.

Today, we’re focusing on short-term holders (STHs) - defined as coins held for less than six months.

Here's how the supply breakdown looks today compared to two weeks ago:

TL;DR: 26.72% of all Bitcoin is in the hands of short-term holders.

Down from 27.37% two weeks ago. Another leg lower.

Remember that spike in the 1 day to 1 week band we flagged last time? It's already unwinding. That cohort dropped from 3.41% back to 2.17% as the burst of fresh activity aged forward into the 1 week to 1 month group - which jumped from 2.98% to 4.45%.

Those coins didn't get sold. They matured.

Meanwhile, the deeper bands keep contracting. The 1-3 month group shed another 0.27%. The 3-6 month cohort - the last stop before long-term holder status - dropped 0.44% as coins crossed the six-month threshold.

The conveyor belt is working exactly as it should. New coins enter at the front, age through the bands, and graduate out the back into long-term holding. And the total short-term pool keeps shrinking as a result.

Under 27% of Bitcoin is now held by short-term participants - the lowest reading we've reported this year. 💎

BlackRock urges OCC to drop tokenized reserve cap idea, expand eligible assets in GENIUS Act comment letter. The world's largest asset manager opposed a potential 20% cap on tokenized reserve assets, a constraint that would limit products like its BUIDL fund.

NY Forces Uphold to Pay $5M Over Fraudulent Crypto Product. New York AG Letitia James has secured $5 million from crypto platform Uphold for promoting CredEarn, a fraudulent savings product that hid risky lending practices.

How Canton Network Lets Institutions Guard Against DeFi Security Risks. Because Canton allows participants to implement guardrails, Digital Asset's Yuval Rooz said institutions can protect against bad actors.

Americans still prefer banks over crypto for financial access, CoinDesk's survey shows. New polling of voters suggests they aren't yet warming much to crypto, tending to see it as a negative force in the economy, and they have similar distrust of AI.

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