Brandon (4:56)

Yeah, no, the people need it. And last thing I'll say is mine. My voice today got a little frog in my throat. Came down with a little something while I was gone. So if I have to pause and drink a little bit of extra water, you know, bear with me there. But yeah, I mean, dude, so much going on, we can't miss it all. And I think the only proper way to kick these off, you know, sometimes we kick it off with the news. What's going on today? We're going to kick it off with the charts. I think that there's just a lot going on there and we want to see what's happening and kind of how prices are moving here.

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Brandon (9:05)

So if we just open up the charts and really see what's happening here at a high level, then what we can see is that, you know, bitcoin's pushing up the all time highs as we speak. It's seeing a big old squeeze to the upside. And the big takeaway that I have since I was gone TiVo is that Bitcoin broke its all time high over here. It broke above this, it retested it as support, and then now it's seen a continuation to the upside. And this is what I call the classic or the textbook break, hook and go. We have the break of resistance, the hook turning that resistance into support, and then the go is the continuation to the upside. So far, this has been a textbook move. You can see it really, really clearly over here on the weekly chart. So as we zoom out, I mean, it's just textbook again. We zoom out, we look at this classic break, hook and go. And the thing about this is, you know, we've already seen this a couple of times. You go back to the lows over here. What did we see? Upon reversal, we saw a break, hook and go where we tested our previous resistance levels here and here as newfound support levels over in here. What do we see in the next cycle after that? Well, here we had a little bit of a resistance area. We came up, we tapped around to 50,000, rejected it right here, came down. Then what do we do? We do a break, a hook and a go where we bounce off of this level. Then we see the next one. What happens? Well, we consolidate here. We topped out around 73,000. We came, we did a break, a hook and tested this as support. And then the continuation through the galaxy. What are we doing in the next one? It's the exact same thing. You know, we've seen this pattern over and over and over again with bitcoin. Now we are breaking out of our previous high, testing it as support, and continuing to the upside so that anyone thinks, oh, the cycle's breaking, things are different. Like it's not different. Going all the way back to 2022. We do this thing where we break out of our previous high, we use it as support, then we explode upwards to new highs. And it's just been rinse and repeat year after year and has been super consistent. So that's what we're seeing over here on the bitcoin chart and prices right now. I mean, geez, we started, when we started this, we were at 120k. We're at 122k now. We're pushing to the upside quite fast over here on bitcoin and all time highs are just at 123,200 bucks. Not that much further, about 1200 bucks. Until we're at new all time highs on bitcoin which from our current price is really only about a 1% move. Super achievable even by the end of this day, certainly by the end of this week. One thing that stood out to me here, TiVo, was the total two, the entire crypto market cap, excluding bitcoin. This thing's breaking out almost at all time highs. You can kind of see it up here, really, really pressing and you know I'd keep an eye on this. All coins are soaring. We're seeing a lot of love there. And then the final thing that I'll say is just that Ethereum over here, we are so close. We're like 150 bucks away from all time highs. All time highs are around 4, 850 bucks. So 4850 is around all time highs. We're currently sitting right around 24,700, just barely below it. You know, given the time, we're pretty close to it. We're within 200 bucks of the all time high for eth. So what we're seeing here is Ethereum squeezing the all time highs, Bitcoin squeezing the all time highs. I mean even a lot of these other charts, like you go and you zoom in on Solana. I mean this thing's pushing above 200 bucks, trying to break some swing highs here. Everything is just seeing this really nice move back to the upside. And altcoins are taking part in this as well because as Ethereum does well as we see a strong Ethereum and Solana that typically reflects onto the altcoin market. And as a result of that, you know, we're seeing aerodrome. I don't know if you've seen this thing. It hit what is this, a dollar and 45 cents almost today it was up like some crazy number. I think it was up like 17 at one point. Still up pretty good even with a little bit of a pullback coming in here. I've seen a lot of other cryptos, you know, ave pushing back up to the highs. I've seen Uni Swap which is on here somewhere, also pushing up to the highs. I've seen a lot of other cryptos agent just going, well you can look at Chain Link seeing this thing pushing through the highs. And so another one was Athena I saw this one breaking out and pushing up. So, I mean, like, again, there's a heavy emphasis on Ethereum here in today's episode because that's where a lot of news and price action is. But the altcoin market is just booming at the moment. And I got to give kudos to the Crypt Nation side. You know, one that we. We talked about earlier in the week over on Crypt Nation, we have our newsletter that goes out every week. But one crypto we highlighted was SE Pool or Clear Pool, Encrypt Nation. And so, you know, we don't usually plug this stuff, but if you want to get access and you want to join us at Crypt Nation, we file these newsletters every single week. We spotlight what's happening on bitcoin. We spotlight a different altcoin. We call it the Coin of the week in there as well. And this week's one was clearpool. And you look at it. Excuse me, you look at it since Monday, and this thing's up, you know, 30%. So if you want to check that out, you can get. What is it? I think you can get our entire crypto portfolio for a dollar. And this is a little bit different from that. But if you want to join it, join us at Crypt Nation. We have a link in the description down below on top of that. And of course, if you're joining us on any of our other platforms that is not YouTube, you can head over to YouTube. You can see all the visuals that we're talking about, all the screen shares, all the news, the articles, the charts, and everything else. So if you're coming in from Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible, anywhere, check us out at the Crypto 101 podcast on YouTube.

TiVo (14:53)

But don't mean to cut you off, Brandon, but it's the perfect, perfect jumping point for what you just said. There is. We have. We have a couple new people in the chat. We got Jordan, We've got Maggie Jordan. She's been listening to the podcast for months. It's her first live stream. And then Maggie says, great show, guys. First time managing to catch the live stream, as I'm in the uk. So Jordan and Maggie, absolutely welcome. And then also east coast lobsters in the chat, as he always is. So welcome, guys. We really appreciate you, you know, coming over from the audio channel to check out the YouTube. That's awesome.

Brandon (15:25)

Yeah, appreciate everyone coming in here. We love getting the talk to all of you, and it's just a blast. You know, I think that's one of the best parts about Having a community is we can chat with you all and we're here to do it so especially on these live streams. So it's good to see you. If I'm not mistaken, it's probably around 5pm depending on where you are in the UK. So hope you're having a good evening and your evening show. Well, yeah, I mean let's talk about the rest of what's happening over here. TiVo, I mean on the charts, I mean, I don't know how else to say it. I mean clearly we're bullish, we're pushing up. The one thing I'll, I'll say before I hand it back is like we are entering into resistance territory once again. Bitcoin all time high resistance less than 1% away Total 2 all time high resistance less than 1% away Ethereum all time high resistance 1% away Solana's current swing High resistance We tapped it today. You're seeing this with a lot of these major cryptos is that we are pushing up into all time or cycle high resistance levels. And with there being so much resistance up here, you know, I am a little bit cautious, right. I'm not shorting, I'm not selling off the whole portfolio or anything like that, but I'm just acknowledging the fact saying okay, hey, given where we're at right now, is it, is there a possibility that we stutter a little bit at resistance? And I'd say yeah, you know, that that is a possibility here. And I like to keep that in the back of my mind because I don't want to think we're bulletproof. I don't want to get caught off guard if we, if we pull back some. I don't want to say what in the world is happening, be freaking out, be panicking, thinking about selling off everything. Like I want to be self aware of where we're at so that if we do pull back, I can understand, say, oh, okay, we're pulling back because there's all these major resistance levels on all the major large caps and then I can develop a pretty clear headed plan about what do I want to do next. And for me that, that strategy again, for me personally it's quite clear. You know, I want to accumulate around the moving averages, around the 20, the 50, the 200 day moving averages depending on the charts. I want to accumulate around our previous swing highs, you know, which have now turned into support levels. Those are the areas that I want to keep an eye out moving forward. But just a little bit of like, hey, recognize where we're at. We've had a really fantastic run over the last week or two. And, you know, now we're into our next resistance zone. And we've kind of seen this in the past where we move up, we consolidate, we move up, we consolidate. I think in the long term, the picture is clear. We're going higher, right? I think the picture is very clear. I'm bullish in the long term and. Yeah, just bullish overall. I mean, how can you not be?

TiVo (18:13)

Yeah, I think that's how the rest of the episode is. Is. Is going to tee up here. If you could just bring them. Bring it back up one more. One more second. Can you bring up the. The. Ethan, put our. Put our markers on because there's. There's definitely something.

Brandon (18:27)

Yeah, I can't forget about this. I mean, yeah, there's a market going.

TiVo (18:32)

To tee us off into the next segment here.

Brandon (18:34)

Sammy. Hey, say no more. I already know what we're doing now. I mean, unbelievable.

TiVo (18:42)

Team me up. Set me up. I'll take it from there. Set me up.

Brandon (18:44)

So what you're going to see here, ladies and gentlemen, is a nice little pullback opportunity that we saw on Ethereum. Ethereum peaked down to around 3,300 bucks. Me and TiVo were doing a rundown a couple weeks ago. About two weeks ago, and Thievo was up north. He created this masterpiece, this divine piece of edible art called the Crypto Bagel. We posted about it, the people loved it over on X, people loved it on social media. And we said, surely this is such a perfectly made bagel that this has to be the bottom of Ethereum. It was the Ethereum crypto bagel. And so we plotted it on the chart. And just like you can see over here with the Bryce Paul call for ETH, we now have the TiVo crypto bagel call for ETH. And we said, this is such a divine piece of perfection. It has to be a bottom for eth. And so we said, you know what? We're going to hold ourselves accountable. We're going to plot it on the chart and we're going to let you all see when we come back, was this the crypto bagel bottom? And that brings us up to speed to where we're at right now. And I mean, yeah, I mean, this is a daily chart. TiVo. It speaks for itself. You look at where this is at, plus 40%.

TiVo (20:00)

I mean, I do what I can. I take all. It's all the community, honestly. And Bryce. So Bryce gave us the original Eth Bottom. I remember that tweet. It was like the redemption arc of. The redemption arc of Ethereum is going to be glorious or beautiful. Something he tweeted. And we've all told the stories of how as like a team, we were kind of like, all right, are we still in on eth? We're in. We're in. We're going, we're going for it. And then. Yeah, so let's just play the clip just for those. You know, we obviously have a lot of people that join us weekly. We've got people asking for T shirts and sweatshirts, which is exciting. But for those of you are new, like, we have Maggie and Jordan, who are new kind of to the YouTube. Let's play the bagel clip. Just so everybody's kind of teed up and on the same page here and you might be looking at this and you're like, oh, TiVo, why is this bagel on the crypto rundown? And I think that this bagel, this bagel sandwich might be so good and so perfect that it could propel us to new all time highs this week. Heard me this week I think we, we could break 4k on Ethereum this week just because of this bagel sandwich. He thinks this is, this is a, a generational bottom for the crypto market. The bagel that propelled us to new all time highs. I'm going to call it the crypto bagel. Let's see how, how the market does in the next week or so. It might, it might become a thing. Might become a thing. I think it, it has officially become a thing. It's again, the bagel was perfect. It had the perfect amount of bacon. It was six strips, to be honest. I know people might say that's too much, but it was such a big bagel. It needed the six strips, two slices of cheese, three eggs, and just perfectly coated. That. That's what really. I looked at it and I was like, the ratio to egg, bacon. And then the ratio of the seeding was actually so good that I just immediately thought all time highs, like this is the fuel that we needed, like, to get us going. And it was, it was a week. It was like maybe 10 days. If you give me 10 days. 10 days after that, we absolutely started ripping and we haven't stopped. And that's because that bagel is seemingly given us the fuel to rocket to all time highs. So the crypto bagel is officially, official, officially a part of the Crypto 101 podcast lore right now. And we're going to see how far we can ride this thing because it is quite funny and I know that there's a lot of awesome people in the community, multiple people, honestly, that just straight up DM'd or tweeted me that they want crypto bagel T shirts. So I'm going to work on that. I'm busy with the summit this week, but I'm kind of either design wise, I'm thinking like just straight up, just a picture of the bagel and call crypto bagel or maybe I'll try and get more artsy with it. So we'll see. But yeah, just, I appreciate the support, but it's, it's truly a team effort from the technical analysis to Bryce's fearless guidance from the Ethereum bottom. That's why you guys come to the show. That's why you guys listen every week. We're definitely in one of those times where the numbers are rocketing because the price action. But you know that I think that's kind of a testament to, you know, you don't want to miss an episode because you never know, you know, what kind of alpha we're going to give. And the most recent alpha is definitely crypto bagel and that's going to kind of segue us. Like you said, kind of Ethereum is, is the main thing. And I know we've talked about it a lot lately, but how, how can you not with the price action, honestly. So time for Google searches. Brendan, I know that I have been a big proponent of the Google searches over the course of us making a lot of shows specifically for bitcoin. And then there is all that stuff online where it's like, oh, Google searches don't mean anything for bitcoin anymore because everybody knows bitcoin and nobody's searching it. And I think, you know, even though maybe they don't rock it up to a hundred or whatever like they did 10 years ago, I think that it's still a good sentiment indicator. And, and I believe this for Ethereum too. And so now the same people that said they don't like Google searches for Bitcoin are now posting the Ethereum searches. So take it with a grain of salt, but I think it's a great indicator. And kind of you mentioned at the top is Ethereum searches. Searches are rocketing right now. So you can kind of tell back in, back in, you know, July. So this is a 90 day chart. So July we had it right now there was a dip, it seemed a little fall off and now it seems to be rocketing right back up. But I think the most interesting thing is let's go out for a year. So we're going out for a year and it's, this is the most excitement that we've had all year. And then let's pull it out to even five years. Brandon and I think we can kind of start the conversation here. So the same thing that I teed up with Bitcoin. Right. So we're going all the way back here, you know, to. I'm trying to get the exact date. What is it? May 2021. So on this chart, do I think that we're going to hit 100 again for May 2021? I would probably tend to believe not. Maybe it's possible. But to be completely honest, I, I think we, if you're doing some TA on this chart, this, this could be, I don't know if we want to, you know, TA the Google searches chart, but this could be a breakout up to at least 50. So I still think that there's room to run on the interest of Ethereum. I don't think it's done yet. And you can see obviously over just the last year alone, we're kind of at that top point right now for July and August that the interest is bubbling over because. And we've talked about this with Bitcoin specifically too, right, Brendan on tv, Right. A block, B block, or are they just mentioning it during the hour show? And Ethereum has basically went from background noise most of the time to now truly an A block discussion this week. And so again, I don't think that necessarily means a top, but obviously in the financial markets and we've hammered home tonally, we'll probably bring that up later in the show too. But it has all the momentum right now and it is truly. And I think the price action reflects that. But it's breaking out on its own because it was always kind of like bitcoin and then Ethereum and the rest of the altcoins kind of grouped together. But I really think Ethereum is making a run now to stand on its two feet, obviously in the crypto space. We know that, but I'm kind of speaking in that general terms, right. That's my job is I'm kind of gathering all the, the news flow and information and being like, hey, what are the vibes out there? And Ethereum's starting to get its own A blocks on all these business and news channels, so people are definitely learning about it.

Brandon (26:06)

Yeah, it is. And I mean Ethereum search traffic's up 500% since early July. It's going crazy. And not only is it up like over there, but like just about any metric that you can look at is doing good. I mean, the spot Ethereum ETFs are. Where was. I think we have a data point for this. The spot Ethereum ETFs TiVo hit a billion dollars in daily net inflows for the first time in history. Think about that. A billion dollars in a single. A day that was more than like entire months before we did it in a day, which is just a crazy thing to see. And so because we're seeing so much attention ToWards these Ethereum ETFs, you know, the exchange reserves are falling. I think we did well over $5 billion in monthly inflows into the, into the Ethereum ETFs last month. Now if you click on the exchange reserves and yeah, you already have this pull. I mean, look at this chart. Where's all the Ethereum going? Where is it all going? T bog if you look back to 2022, it's going down like it's leaving exchanges. People are buying it up. The reserves of Ethereum are dwindling. And if you zoom in, you know, try to actually zoom in, you can like drag that little time bar at the bottom, right? Yeah, you can drag the other side of that. Sorry. So we can zoom in on the like last maybe year or so. But if we look at this, you know, the Ethereum reserves, especially since like this year has started back into a free fall, if you look at it over the course of March, March and May and June, July and all this stuff, we're back into a freefall here for Ethereum. And the exchange reserves are falling off a cliff now. They stabilize towards the end, second half of last year, but now in the last, I would say four months, you know, they're back into a free fall as attention's getting bigger. So we've talked about this on Bitcoin before and we've said the exchange reserves, the amount of Bitcoin on exchanges that are available to the public, that has been dwindling. In Ethereum's case, it's exactly the same case, probably even in a more volatile and extreme manner. So Ethereum's search traffic is up, demand is up, net inflows are up, exchange reserves, the supply of Ethereum is in a free fall again. And it doesn't look like they want to stop anytime soon. I saw people talking about this, you know, all these different treasury companies, we haven't Even mentioned them yet as a catalyst. All these different treasury companies want in on Ethereum. You know, you look at sharply Link, you look at Bit mine, you look at the Ether machine, look at all these different ones. You know, Tom Lee has said, you know, hey, we want to accumulate another $20 billion worth of ETH. And you know, certainly all these other companies do, certainly retail does, certainly institutions do. And if that continues, like, you just can't help but think this is going to appreciate if there are tens of billions of dollars of more buy orders that are coming in just from the institutional side. So it's a pretty hard. And yeah, I think you have it on the screen right now. They have another 27 billion in dry powder that's just waiting to buy more ETH. That's 5% of the total supply. And one third of all Ethereum is currently on centralized exchanges.

TiVo (29:40)

Crazy. I literally said this last week. I apologized to the listeners, not necessarily for any reason other than I thought I was shoving too much Tom Lee down people's throats. I think we had basically seven or eight rundowns in a row where we like definitely mentioned them or played a clip. And I just had another one last week that I wanted to share. But then sure enough, dude, I don't know if you can pull up Bit Mine just in the background real quick, but like over the last week or two weeks, like, what is. What has Bit Mine done? I mean, it's been, it's literally been like a, a focal point of our conversations over the last couple weeks because he's just making so much noise around it. I mean, one week, 54%. I don't have the two week off the top of my head, but I think, you know, it's basically close to a double for the most part. So. So, you know, I mean. Sorry, you got something?

Brandon (30:35)

Yeah, I was just gonna say. So since last Monday, so just over a week ago, they're up 115%, so.

TiVo (30:43)

And, and again, I don't think what will we talk about is never personal financial advice for anybody. Right? You got to do your own research. We're just giving you nuggets of the research that we're getting. And if you've listened to this show for a week, two weeks, three weeks, four weeks, you've heard Tom Lee and Bit Mine mentioned basically every single show. And so boom, you know, you don't always have to be on time. You might be a little early, you might be a little late, but you know, you go and do your research and learn about this stuff, I don't know, it almost, you could, you could make a case that we're bringing it to you before the, the hedge funds even knew what to do or what to do with it. Because a hundred, one hundred move in the stock market and tradfi in In a week, 10 days is absolutely insane. So just super, super, super exciting stuff. And it all has to do with, you know, just again, Ethereum being the bell of the ball kind of how we teed up. You know, the crypto bagel subject was. It's, it's just the talk of the town. And I guarantee you, like, like we kind of said with Google searches, everybody knows what bitcoin is. And probably most people have heard Ethereum. And I used to say this about Bitcoin, Brendan, when it was like in the top 12, top 10 and it was creeping up the market cap charts. You know, most people, if you went out on the street, most people know what bitcoin is, but most people wouldn't guess that they're up there, you know, in the top 10 market cap companies. And I guarantee you, I guarantee you that people do not understand that Ethereum is a top 25among the top 25 market cap companies in the world with, you know, half or 524, you know, billion dollars in market cap. So this is, again, it's, it's all about the research and PC putting the puzzle, puzzle pieces together. That's what I like. It's like you're putting the puzzle pieces together and there's just, there's so much momentum around Ethereum right now, from the charts to the news flow that it's just, it's hard to ignore. And this show's been covering it for, I mean, I don't know, I don't want to give us too much credit for months. So, you know, I think you kind of said it before the show. We're like, man, the listeners got to be happy with this, right? Because like, we love our community, we love our listeners. We just want to do right by you guys. And we just kind of said like, yeah, like, dude, if they're not, if they're not making money, they're doing something wrong. Yeah.

Brandon (33:00)

And you know, that's just because everything's just going crazy. We've been trying to talk about this. So I mean, if you hear us bringing something up over and over and over again, it's not for no reason, right. It's because either like we look up to a person, we agree with what they're doing, or we're like, we think that there's something of substance there. And, you know, that's why we've been talking about a lot of this stuff so frequently here on the rundown. So, yeah, I mean, a big push. And this kind of raises a good question. TiVo, I'm glad you brought it up. Like, the big question now is, where can Ethereum go, right? Where is the top for Ethereum? Where's the top of the crypto market? And I've seen that question be asked more and more and more because this time around, you know, people are making more money and more money and more money and they're like, all right, I don't want to get wrecked like in previous cycles. You know, what are we doing here? You know, what can we expect? And historically we see the crypto market top out around a year and a half after the having, which we're not quite there yet, but we're starting to get closer. And the hard pill that I have to swallow is the institutional tsunami that we're seeing unlike anything that we've ever seen before. In Standard Charter, they just published an updated forecast where they're saying, we think Ethereum can go up to 7,500 by the end of this year. And that's a big climb. So, yeah, here it is, says Justin. Standard Chartered raises their ethereum forecast to 7,500 by the end of 2025, from $4,000 and to $25,000 by 2028. I'll tell you what, I think a lot of us would be happy if ethereum went to 25k by 2028. And the reason for this is that there are. There's so much happening, so much infrastructure being built on Ethereum. When you have blackrock and a lot of these other companies having funds built on Ethereum, when you have all them filing for stablecoin patents saying that they want to get in for stablecoins, when you have all of them looking at using the Ethereum network in one way or another, it's hard to be bearish on it. So, like, where is the top? Well, a lot of people have said 10k by the end of this year. Here's my thought process, because everyone's calling for a 10k Ethereum by the end of this year. My thought process is we don't hit 10k by the end of this year. Typically, whatever people call for, it's usually a little bit less. So could we hit 7k by the end of this year? I'd say that's still possible. Now Will we again? We're not clairvoyant, we don't know. We can't see the future. But I think the one thing that I firmly believe is Ethereum is going to see new all time highs by the end of this year. I think that we have more room to the upside and I wouldn't be surprised that if we break 6 or 7k by the end of this year and I wouldn't be surprised if we break 10k maybe in the next 12 months or so now we'll see maybe if the cycle does top out. That's not something that is going to be able to happen. But with the current level of adoption and inflows and attention that Ethereum seeing, I think if that maintains at some reasonable level to what we are actively seeing, I think that we do hit those numbers.

TiVo (36:10)

Yeah, it's, it's a great breakdown. Again, we don't have crystal balls but we just try to give you as much information as we can to you know, number one, entertain you. Number two, educate you. And I think part of that education process especially, especially when we're all bulled up is, is don't get caught in these new price targets of all the bulls. So it's like all these analysts, you know, they chase, they chase price, right? When things go down, they chase it down. When things are rocking it up, they chase it back up. So let me pull up this Brandon. The you know, let's not forget, right, let's not forget. So standard charter, let's start with them. This is, you know, March 2025 when everything was crashing down. Standard charter cuts 2025 ether price to $4,000. So now they're back up to seven, you know, 7,500, right? Almost a double. So you know, let's not forget, let's not forget about, you know what News BTC price crash below 2000. I never heard of news BTC. Doubt that. Got too many clicks. But let's not forget Cointelegraph, the death cross. Ethereum's dead. We remember Ethereum's dead all over the timeline, right Brendan? The last like you know, not now but like before Ethereum, Ethereum was dead. And Ethereum price prediction crashes to 3k this week. I guess that's pretty recent. July 22, 2025. So I don't know, I just think, I just don't think we want. We. I love when the price targets go up. But the problem is like a lot of these analysts, they need to chase price up all the time. So you just don't want to forget and kind of always try and stay in that center ground and plan, plan your trades and trade your plan, just like Bryce has taught everybody. But I just think it's important to kind of go over that the, the, the, the past as well. Let's not forget 100%.

Brandon (38:03)

Yeah, you got to look back and a lot of people were nervous about it back then, man. I mean, you know, we were even nervous. We talked about it. The turning point for me was when we had one of the elite Ethereum developers on several months back and I was asking him some hard questions about like, why is it underperforming? Why is it this and that? Why are you making the changes that you're doing when it comes to like L2s versus the L1 and all these things? And he conveyed it in such a way to me and that was like, all right, I've switched my stance and we had a really good conversation. So again, again, kind of just going back to the idea. I don't want to brag on us too much over here, but that was right around the time of the bottom. We literally brought on one of the lead Ethereum developers, talk to him, put it out on the podcast, and anyone could have heard that episode and probably come to the same conclusion that we did. So make sure you stick around. We got lots of content again, we publish it all for free. We want you all to hear it, we want you to have it for free. So we put it all out there for you all to listen to. So all we ask. Unbelievable.

TiVo (39:05)

Totally agree. An unbelievable producer there. Just getting, getting the, getting the people when you need them the most. But same thing, right? We had Ethereum guy on at the bot. We had an aerodrome guy. Right when that token went live to educate the people on that, we nailed Maple, the man we had Maple on. I mean just we've. This, this podcast is one, you know. If you're listening on audio, please add us to your subscriptions on Apple, Pod and Spotify. If you're live right now on YouTube, give us a like. Please subscribe. Join us all the time. We just love the community. Maggie, Maggie's got over across the pond. She's got her question. I told her she could get a question. Have you you got a longer term view of Solana? Actually, Maggie, just before we wrap up or wrap up on Ethereum here. Closing it out, Brandon. Ethereum strong. We're strong at the end of the day. Price targets, standard charter, this, that, the other thing, the, the overall thesis, the news flow, the Technical analysis and just the absolute vibes of Ethereum right now with the crypto bagel. Ethereum is strong and so, yeah, I just, I think it's exciting and it's going to be something that we're going to continue to cover. Now for Maggie's question. When it comes to the long term views of Salana, it's actually a perfect question. Maggie, I had it teed up for you here actually in the rundown organically. So let's, let's start off with a clip. This is Kathy Wood. So Kathy Wood is going, you know, huge Bitcoin bull obviously and then, and also a big Ethereum bull. I know she's going in on Bitmine. She's a big Tom Lee fan and she had some quotes around Ethereum and she brought up Salana as well. So let's listen to that and then we can kind of, kind of discuss it.

Unknown Speaker (40:45)

We had had a thesis that Ethereum was going to be the institutional protocol. I know that Solana was doing much better. Solana had a massive run relative to Ether and so many people were challenging that notion and yet we're seeing the votes being placed and it makes sense. Ethereum, while it might be higher cost and a little slower, it's more decentralized and therefore more secure. Solana, we think is probably going to be the winner in more consumer facing applications.

TiVo (41:29)

So straight, straight from the horse's mouth there, I thought that was a good breakdown. If you go back to when obviously Solana was skyrocketing, I think it was back in January. I mean that was basically, again, it had the narrative, right? Solana just had the narrative over Ethereum. Ethereum wasn't doing well. Solana's faster. Then there was the meme coin craze that, you know, the, the blow off top of all the meme coins, right? In January it was the Trump, Trump coin. It was Dave Portnoy with greed 1, greed 2, greed 3, fart coin. Just like Solana and Moonshot. We had a Moonshot tutorial on the YouTube channel. If you need to learn how to trade Solana meme coins, go find that one with Brian. So it just, it had, it had the momentum, it had the narrative and obviously things change and things cool off. And you know, I think, I think this is a great discussion. I think both are great technologies. I know it's something that I want to have bigger discussions. So actually, Maggie, you're going to want to tune in on Friday when we have the whole entire team because this is going to be A roundtable discussion that I'm going to have with everybody. But my quick point, Brendan, and just your quick point before we move on is I don't think Solana is going anywhere. I don't think Solana is going into a death spiral. I think there's more than enough room for both to be successful. And I just think Ethereum has the narrative right now. And a lot of times when you have the narrative, your price rockets up and then eventually the narrative switches and you don't really know when or how that's going to happen. But that doesn't mean when a narrative switches like it happened to Solana and Ethereum has kind of taken the momentum here. It doesn't mean that project's dead by any means.

Brandon (43:07)

100%. The crypto space is big enough for both of them to succeed. We like Ethereum, we like Solana, we like them both, to put it simply.

TiVo (43:15)

Yeah. And I look forward to the larger discussion with everybody else because I think it's always fun when we do that with the group because that's the cool thing about having a big team is everybody has their different opinions. And I'll give you something here, and it's actually the perfect transition because I've heard this on TV right before we came on, you know who likes, you know who likes Solana over Ethereum? And again, he said he likes them both. But the, the Bullish CEO. The Bullish CEO. So Bullish is a, an exchange, crypto focused exchange that's going to IPO today. And funny enough, whatever proceeds they get in their ipo, they're going to accept in stable coins on the, on the Salon network. So there you go. And then basically it's just another oversubscribed crypto IPO. Today, the bullish IPO details 20x over subscribed, you know, 33% rising in their offering there. Bullish plans to sell 30 million shares between 32 and 33. Again, not for personal financial advice at all. But my guess is this thing's probably gonna rise up out of the gates and then probably have some type of pullback eventually. And then because you got to basically get their numbers after a couple quarters of being live, because I think we did this. SCOTT what was the one that went live? And we thought we missed out and then it came tumbling back down. Brendan so Weeble. Weeble. Yeah, so we will comes out and goes crazy. It's just like there's definitely, there's definitely some frenzy here. And just like we always say, it's not personal. Financial advice, you gotta do your own research. And kind of similar to leverage, like, you got to be careful with these IPOs. They can be popcorn winners for sure. But there's probably going to be a lot of volatility out of the gate here. So just trying to bring you the news of it, but I think it's exciting. And the CEO was the former president of the New York Stock Exchange, which I find very interesting. Being the president of the New York Stock Exchange, you have relationships with all the heavy hitters and then you kind of leave and go be the CEO of this company and you're going the ipo. I mean, I think there's going to be a lot of institutional interest just purely with the relationship of the CEO.

Brandon (45:30)

Yeah, I mean, it's backed by Peter Thiel. You have the CEO who's got so much experience, he has ties probably in a lot of places. And for anyone that is wondering, bullish deals on the institutional side of crypto, not the retail side. So they're actually quite large. If you haven't heard of them, it's because they deal in the institutional side. And not to probably 90% of the listeners, but yeah, it's a pretty big deal. Excited to see this launch. Should be around 2pm Eastern time today. So in about, give or take, you know, maybe about three and a half hours. Worth keeping an eye out on.

TiVo (46:04)

Yeah, for sure. Definitely. I got to run the summit with Bryce, but it's definitely something I'm going to be tuning into. Some interesting news happened last week while we were out. Something to definitely, definitely talk about. Here is Bo Hines leaving. So Bo Hines leaves, is the executive director of the White House Crypto Council and he says it's been an honor of a lifetime. I don't think, I don't want to say it's a nothing burger. I just think overall this is kind of how this government stuff works. I think it's a lot quicker than I would have if I was a betting man. I would have probably said he stays a year or two. But there's been so much massive, massive leg way in the first, you know, six, seven months of this administration. Crypto, bitcoin, all this stuff has been a huge focus and a lot of, you know, obviously the, the genius act was, was probably the, you know, the peak Bohain maybe have felt that he could get across. And then again, strategically, this is just how it is. I don't, I'm not saying that I agree with it or disagree with it, but when you do this stuff in in the political spectre, basically, you know, you're, you're, you're advocating on behalf of these businesses like Bullish, like Coinbase, like Robin Hood. And then you go and do all this work and then usually more often than not, you go to the private sector, which is what I don't think he announced specifically exactly where he's going yet. Unless you know that, Brendan. But, you know, it's just kind of how it goes, right? You go and you do the work that, that you believe in and get a lot of stuff across the finish line, which clearly for the crypto industry, it has been done in the last seven, eight months. And so he's heading off to the private sector. He's going to get a nice job and a hell of a payday, I'm sure, but it'll be interesting to track to see where he goes. But just some news that I thought worth bringing up.

Brandon (47:49)

Yeah, I mean, I don't think this should come as any surprise. I think you painted the picture pretty well. He's done a fantastic job about with getting adoption, making a lot of progress. The thing is, you know, when you're in government, you know, I know people are gonna maybe have some backlash on this. You're not making as much money as you could. You just can't, you know, right. You're there to be a servant, you're there to push stuff forward, you're there to kind of do your job. You're not typically there for the money, Right. When it comes to the fate to the paycheck, I think he was looking at this saying, hey, we accomplished a lot, we did all this, but I want to feel the fruits of the labor here. And so long as he's working in the government and not in the private sector, he's just not going to be able to do that. So he probably had a crazy offer to now take part in what this amazing emerging industry that he helped propel. And I don't blame him, right? So he's going to get a huge pay pay bump. He's most likely. He's also probably going to be able to work in the sector that he likes more or more like hands on in the sector and help operate it from different paths. I don't blame him. I think I would do the same thing, right? You go, you work, you get all this stuff pushed, you get crypto kind of soaring on the right path and then you're going to say, okay, I'm going to go back into probably crypto or the private sector and be Able to benefit off of it a little bit more. So can't blame them. At least in my opinion. Can't blame them. And now, nothing wrong. We see it happen quite a bit.

TiVo (49:13)

Exactly. The. Just a couple of fun little tidbits here to end. So I thought this was funny. I made this one. The how it started versus how it's going to. So back in the day, you know, Harvard says that bitcoin's more likely to be 100 than 100,000 back in 2018. And then here we are in 2025. Harvard's. Harvard's endowment goes big on bitcoin and gold in the second quarter. I didn't get the exact number that they bought, but the fact that they're buying bitcoin is great, honestly, because I know endowments. I mean, that's a hard. That's a hard thing to get across the finish line to get the board of directors of that endowment to agree to buy a, you know, emerging asset like that. And then also, endowment wise, they. They don't buy and sell frequently. Right. The. These endowments are buy and holds. So, you know, and, you know, whatever they bought is going to be held for a long time, odds are. And then, you know, this kind of opens the door for other endowments. And, man, I mean, you could have your own discussion on. Do a lot of these schools deserve these massive, massive, massive endowments when they're charging, you know, kids an arm and a leg to go to college these days? But it is what it is, sadly. But it's interesting that, you know, a different part of the, the capital structure here in the, in the United States with, with endowments is starting to dip their toes into bitcoin.

Brandon (50:34)

Yeah. It's crazy. And, you know, it's just funny because they boohooed it in the past. Now they're buying $100 million worth, $115 million worth. So it's a little bit of poetic justice. And I see Ryan is going crazy in the chat. Ryan had a comment. I just had to. I had to. To get back to him on it. He said, tell Bryce I said, what's up? And he should be the next head of the Federal Reserve. Oh, I thought he was saying Bryce should be the next head of the Federal Reserve.

TiVo (51:03)

No, I think.

Brandon (51:05)

Yeah, he's talking about Bo. Okay, so I read it a little bit wrong either way. I say we put Bryce. We put in an offer. Let's get Bryce in there, make him the head of the Federal Reserve. Let's have him push some crypto. Cut some rates and it's a win. Win for all of us.

TiVo (51:20)

Yeah, no, I would. I would be so sad if Bryce left us to go to the Federal Reserve. Don't leave, Bryce. Don't leave.

Brandon (51:26)

Could he do both? Is he allowed to do both? Probably.

TiVo (51:29)

I highly doubt it. I highly doubt it.

Brandon (51:31)

You're probably. Probably right.

TiVo (51:32)

Yeah. A lot of those people don't want that type of job. Job, because you gotta, you know, you kind of got to wash your hands of everything else. But then you saw. We got some. Some other sub. Nations are jumping in here. You saw Norway.

Brandon (51:42)

Yeah, yeah. Norway is coming in with their sovereign wealth fund, or a Norwegian sovereign wealth fund. And what we're seeing with this is that they went out and bought a bunch more bitcoin. And we've been trying to say this for a while, is that. Let's just listen, like. And we said this at the beginning. Everyone wants in. It's the saying that I will ingrain in everyone's mind. Retail governments, sovereign wealth funds, treasuries, normal companies, you name it, Everybody wants in on this. It's a global thing, and we talk a lot about what's happening in the US and stuff, but, you know, really, it's global, and everyone's buying. Everyone wants in. It's growing at just a phenomenal level. And you have to understand that it really is a global thing that's happening. And so that's why we include stuff like this is to say, hey, and we've done this quite a bit. You know, all around the world, they're doing X, Y and Z. They're buying more. They're, you know, pushing this or that. And this is just another great example of it. So, yeah, I saw that.

TiVo (52:46)

I saw this last night. Kazakhstan is. Kazakhstan's font capital gets approved for spot bitcoin ETF in Central Asia. And I just thought it was funny because Borat. Very nice, Very nice. But, yeah, just like all this stuff, the. The floodgates are opening, and I think there's that debate that we always have with the US Is like, when is the US Going to announce their first bitcoin buy? Are they going to do it? And then. Right. Right when you haven't heard about it in a while, then something kind of sneaks out from Bo Hinds or Lutnick that was like, hey, like, we're working on it. And then. Then it dies off. And then they've kind of, hey, maybe, you know, we have an idea. And I almost. At least we hope, right? We're. We're we're biased here. We can admit our biases, we want it to happen. But it's almost like would you telegraph, like, would the United States telegraph that buy or would they hammer by quietly and then announce it like, oh, actually for the last, you know, since this executive order was signed over the last year, we've bought, you know, X amount of Bitcoin or are they going the MicroStrategy route? Like MicroStrategy has so much bitcoin that, you know, some, some like Tom Lee called it a sovereign. Put like, do you want to go buy, you know, bitcoin on the markets or do you just want to, you know, buy MicroStrategy? And you know, again, I think that's a conversation that's a little above my pay grade of what the government would do, but it is interesting to at least think about it and do the strategy gamification of it. And yeah, hopefully we, we learn something before the end of early next year and that, that's kind of what this show's all about, right. Every time we do it, we wonder if how long it's going to go. And look, we're at 50 minutes, approaching the hour and we got another one later in the week. But I think that that's about all we have today.

Brandon (54:32)

Yeah, I think it is.

TiVo (54:34)

Look at that. Unbelievable. Ryan, Ryan Boylan with a super chat. That's unbelievable. Thank you so much, man. Ryan, what do you, what do you. Let's, let's. I guess we're going to end with a question from Ryan. Ryan, we got a question from you.

Brandon (54:50)

Yeah, Ryan, let us know. A lot of times people come in, they super chat, they got a question kind of bump to the top of the list. So if you got a question for.

TiVo (54:56)

Us, Ryan, while we wait for Ryan's question, one more promo Friday afternoon. Do I have the exact time that I'm going to do this? We should, right? Let's see. Friday afternoon YouTube live stream, 3pm Eastern, 12 noon Pacific. The entire team's going to be here, guys. It's going to be Brendan, it's going to be Rohit. Our special guests. You guys have, some of you probably never even heard or listened to Rohit unless you've been inside the community. Again, just a brilliant mind, very analytical, going to bring you different, a different view from Brendan. And then Joe and Brian, of course, you guys know, well, like just that episode will definitely go an hour, maybe more because we're going to cover so many sectors from technical analysis with the Brendan, obviously the meme coin Markets, the momentum markets with Brian and Joe. And then Rohit just is always super thoughtful of the, the markets as a whole and just kind of really, really dives deep in with research. So we're going to have him come and bring some unique stuff. So I'm going to put that live definitely by tomorrow. But again, 3P Eastern, 3pm Eastern on Friday, 12 noon. Specific, the crypto 101 team live stream, something that we're going to try out. If you guys like it and it gets a good response, we're going to do it more. So something to look forward to. But let's see. Brian, Maker or end game? I think, I think overall, I, I don't, I don't know. You have a thought on that, Brandon? I know we, we've interviewed the maker guys before. They, they have. I met him at Consensus. That was a really, really good interview. That guy's very smart.

Brandon (56:30)

Yeah, I like the maker team, you know, now Sky, I like him. Listen, I've got exposure to him. I like him. Think that they have a great product. They've been in crypto for a while. They also, you know, are able to produce quite a bit of profit and certainly a lot of revenue every single year. So listen, I like what they're doing. I have exposure to them. So I'm a fan. I know you're saying, what are our thoughts on it? That's it. You know, again, I know Bryce really likes it. I really like it. I can't speak on Raheed or the rest of the analyst team, but me and Bryce over here, we're pretty outspoken fans. We've had him on the podcast several times. We've talked about them as Steve, I just said, you know, we've seen him in person and yeah, you know, I actually just full transparency. I actually just accumulated some more Maker yesterday. So I went back and bought a little bit and I saw it peeking its head under 2k and I liked it. So not financial advice, but just something I was doing yesterday. I saw it down there and figured I could add a little bit, a little bit more to the bag.

TiVo (57:31)

Yeah, they had, they had the rebrand right, wasn't it? Maker went to like sky or something?

Brandon (57:36)

Correct. That was correct.

TiVo (57:39)

Some people, like didn't.

Brandon (57:42)

Yeah, well, it was, it was bumpy for sure. It was bumpy for sure. But I think the bulk of it is smoothed over and I think that the last hurdle that they have is really transitioning from maker to sky entirely. And I think it's, it's, it's about time. I think, you know, right now they're a little bit divided and a lot of the liquidity is still on Maker, even though Sky's like the new ecosystem token. So I think they really kind of need to say, hey, we're officially transitioning from Maker to Sky, and I think that'll be good for the project moving forward.

TiVo (58:12)

Yeah, maybe I'll work on, I'll try and find that PR person, work on getting him back on for like a second half of the year because I think it's been about, yeah, about a year since we had him on. So something I'll work on. But again, Friday, 3pm Eastern. Hopefully we see everybody there. Jordan will bring your question about moon birds to Brian and Joe for sure on Friday. So tune in. And Brendan, any final thoughts before you take us out?

Brandon (58:36)

No, you know, nothing too crazy. I just want to say, hey, we really appreciate everyone coming in here asking a bunch of questions, staying with us. We really do appreciate and respect all of your time. So we got another great episode coming your way. We got lots of podcasts, market updates, YouTube tutorials, you name it. So if you haven't already, hit the like and subs the like and subscribe button and we'll see all of you in the very near future.

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