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What we’ve cooked up for you today…

• 🏦 It actually happened?

• 🧠 Bitcoin to $9.5 million?

• 📈 Violent upside?

• 💰 And more…

What’s in the Crypto Nutshell Portfolio?

IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED? 🏦

BREAKING: FHFA's Pulte Orders Crypto Consideration in Mortgage Applications

Yesterday, we told you the FHFA was studying crypto for mortgage approvals.

Today?

They’re ordering it.

FHFA Director Bill Pulte has now formally instructed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to prepare proposals for counting cryptocurrency as a qualifying mortgage asset.

This isn’t speculation anymore.

It’s federal housing policy in motion.

What’s Happening:

• The FHFA just told the two biggest players in U.S. home lending to treat crypto like cash on the balance sheet.

• Bitcoin surged past $107,000 on the news

• This marks the first time the U.S. government is considering crypto as mortgage collateral - without needing to convert it to fiat.

Strive CEO Matt Cole broke it down perfectly:

Even Michael Saylor weighed in:

But There’s a Catch…

The FHFA says crypto assets must be held on U.S.-regulated centralized exchanges, leaving self-custody wallets out for now.

Still, the shift is clear:

What started as a tweet…

…is now a top-down directive reshaping the foundation of U.S. housing finance.

Yesterday, Bitcoin was knocking on the door of middle-class wealth.

Today?

The door just cracked open.

This isn’t just adoption. It’s integration. 🏦💥

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BITCOIN TO $9.5 MILLION? 🧠

Adam Back just unpacked the most overlooked bull case in Bitcoin:

Monetary premium.

In plain English?

Bitcoin doesn’t need to replace fiat…

It just needs to replace the assets people already use to protect themselves from inflation.

Who Is Adam Back?

• One of the earliest people contacted by Satoshi 🔐

• Legendary cryptographer & creator of Hashcash (predecessor of Bitcoin) 🧠

• CEO of Blockstream and widely considered a Bitcoin pioneer 🏗️

In a new interview, Adam explained:

And that’s the key idea.

What People Use Today:

To avoid fiat debasement, people currently store value in:

• Bonds 📉

• Luxury real estate 🏙️

• Fine art & collectibles 🖼️

• Wine, watches, classic cars 🍷

• Even vacant apartments in Shanghai and NYC 🚪

It’s inefficient. Illiquid. Pricey. But it’s all we had.

Until Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is liquid. Portable. Borderless. Capped in supply.

And if it captures even a fraction of that value?

We’re talking about a $200 trillion addressable market.

Do the math:

If Bitcoin absorbed the full $200T?

Each coin = $9.523 million. 🤯

Just math.

The point isn’t predicting an exact price - it’s understanding how early we still are.

Because in Adam’s words:

We don’t need Bitcoin to replace the dollar.

You just need it to replace the fear.

And it’s already begun. 🔓

VIOLENT UPSIDE? 📈

Today we’ll be checking in on the amount of Ethereum available for sale on exchanges.

Here’s how to interpret this metric:

• Decreasing exchange balances: Bullish indicator as it signals a shift towards long-term holding 🐂

• Increasing exchange balances: Bearish indicator as coins being transferred to exchanges are more likely to be sold 🐻

According to Glassnode, just 16.21 million ETH remains on exchanges - that’s only 13.40% of the total circulating supply.

And in the past 90 days alone, 1.61 million ETH (~$3.90 billion) has been pulled off exchanges.

We haven’t seen exchange balances this low since 2016! 🤯

Let that sink in…

This isn’t a market gearing up to sell. It’s a market gearing up to squeeze.

Supply is evaporating. Demand is building. Order books are getting thin.

And historically?

That kind of pressure only resolves one way:

With violent upside. 🚀

CRACKING CRYPTO 🥜

Arizona state won’t buy Bitcoin - But is happy to seize and hold it. Governor rejected a “buy Bitcoin” bill - now approves a bill to hold seized Bitcoin instead. Crypto held by the state, not self-sovereign citizens.

Unhedged spot Bitcoin ETF flows show BTC is now a macro asset. A new report reveals a new dynamic in Bitcoin investors’ methodology. Is this the final stage of Bitcoin’s macro asset evolution?

Consumer FinTech SoFi is Getting Back Into Crypto. The move comes after CEO shared plans to re-enter the crypto business under the Trump new administration after halting digital asset services in 2023.

Invesco and Galaxy enter race for Solana ETF with new SEC filing. Investment management company Invesco and crypto-focused firm Galaxy Digital have joined the race for a Solana exchange-traded fund.

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Trivia Answer: Network congestion and transaction complexity 🥳

Gas fees go up when Ethereum gets busy - especially during high-demand events like NFT drops or meme coin frenzies. More users = higher fees. 🧠📈

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