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Meme Coin Mania: We Called It Early: ASTER Pumps, Doge ETF Hype, PENGU Goes Corporate, & Moonbird Sells Out!
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Foreign. Everybody, welcome back to the Crypto Rundown, a very special edition of the Crypto Rundown. It is quite possibly, I'm sure, some of your guys favorites. It is the Meme Coin Mania episode and we are so welcomed by both Brian and Joe. We'll get to them in a second. But this is one that you're not going to want to miss because it is the We Called it episode. If you're listening on YouTube, you see it on the title. They called it an absolute winner of an alert. Just a little teaser. It is aster. But we're going to go into why they called it and how you can get those alerts to make sure that they're in your inbox next time they send them out. But Brian and Joe, welcome back. We got a lot to cover. We covered it with Brendan. There's a little bit of downside price action. We're going to churn through that and talk about it, but there's just unlimited amounts of things underneath the cryptocurrency hood where, you know, there's just a lot of bullish news and it's getting drowned out by the price action. I see it on TV, just everybody's like, oh, my God. Ethereum's down 7%. The sky's falling. Bitcoin's gonna enter a correction. It's like, guys, you told me bitcoin's gonna enter a correction at the beginning of the year. And the price was $110,000. Sign me up. Let's break it all down. Joe, welcome back. They have my, my, my, my people, my podcast people haven't heard from you in a while. They've been asking for you. They miss you. How you doing? Good.
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B
Things are g great for me. I know markets aren't the best, but I'm excited.
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A
That's awesome. And Brian, welcome back. Brian, not only are you on the show, you are quite the commenter as well. Yeah.
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C
Hey, man, I get in those comments left and right when you and Brendan are going at it. So I absolutely love when you two are doing a show. And that's. That's. I learned, man. I'm. I'm just like our community. I'm learning every second when you and B are chatting it up.
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Well, I think that's the fun thing about the whole entire show is, is we're always learning. Literally every time we hit record, I think we always have stuff to share. That's clear. But we're learning from each other and, and we're learning from, you know, the fans on or the listeners, fans, whatever you want to call yourselves. The live stream X. I was talking with AC Crypto on X. He was sending me some, some data reports possibly about Kraken that he was asking me if we could verify it. So there's just alpha all over the place. Guys, welcome to the show. If you're just piling in now, if you don't mind, give it a thumbs up. It really helps us grow. And then if you're new here, the bottom right you'll see our logo. Tap on it, hit subscribe, hit the bell so you don't miss anything. But let's dive right into it, fellas. I'm going to pull up coin market Cap and Brian, I know this is a big favorite screen of yours just to look at all the stuff that's going on. A lot of red. We touched it the other day with Brendan how we basically were eyeing up that fear in greed Greed index was tilting to the left heading towards fear. I think a couple of them actually touched fear today. I saw that on the timeline. So we're, we're heading the opposite way, the way we don't love to go. But again, I mean you're seeing Bitcoin at 112 during this quote unquote correction phase. Ethereum at 41:5 there, you know, at an 8% decline for the week. But what's your takeaway and just thoughts around the price action leading into this week.
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Yeah, really not that surprising to me. I think you guys on some of the past rundowns even kind of stated and I agreed with that commentary that you stated that it felt like we were all, for the past couple of weeks there's a lot of bullish news. We're all kind of drinking the Kool Aid. We were all piling in about the rate cuts. You and I did a rate cuts live show for goodness sakes. So we were all pretty bullish. And just like the crypto in the financial sector likes to do it kind of likes to smack us down a little bit and tell us, hey, like we'll wipe some leverage out and make everyone feel some pain on a, on a Monday or Tuesday. But personally couldn't be more bullish. I say it all the time. I'm a permeable, you're a permeable. Couldn't be more bullish about where we're at. This feels like bitcoin and some of the majors and some of these altcoins are absolutely on a fire sale before. I've said multiple times, I think we get to an all time high before Halloween with bitcoin. I do believe before that time there's going to be another final kind of shakeout. And I don't even know if this is it, to be honest with you. I think we could get a little bit of a shakeout. It's still a slow month in September, but October is a real thing. It's one of the best performing months for bitcoin in all other cryptos. It feels like we're headed in that way. So personally, I just feel like we are all a little too euphoric, we're a little too bubbly, A little bit of a shakeout here, but we're sitting at a pretty key level at 112,000 Bitcoin. And I feel perfectly fine where we're at. Nothing fundamentally scaring me off. And we've noticed that a lot of smart money is still piling into this. This isn't shaking the Tom Lees or the other asset company, treasury asset companies out there, what they're doing, they're actually buying this dip up. So it kind of makes me feel even better about my stance. But overall, don't feel too shaken up about this at all.
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Yeah, credit. Credit to me. You know, every once in a while you like to say, credit to yourself. Credit to me. I said on Friday with Brendan. I was like, right after our live stream last Wednesday. And it was exactly what we wanted. We're cutting rates. There was not no crazy volatility. The clearing event, the Runway's open. And then on Friday afternoon, after digesting all of it, I was like, it does feel like we're all on the same side of the boat right now, which means, you know, usually there's going to be some volatility. But again, we, we hammered that point home on the last episode with Brendan. If you didn't listen to it, make sure you go back. You did a ton of technical analysis and we covered a lot of other topics that we're not going to recover here, but one of them was the sky's falling, the markets are red, we're bleeding out, but the whales just keep buying. The Tom Le and the sailors, we covered that in depth. So go check out that episode if you haven't yet. Joe, how are you feeling? I mean, you can't be feeling too bad. As I said, a little, little teaser. We're going to go over some absolute winners that you guys have been calling, so you can't be feeling too bad. But macro level, before we dive into the winners that you guys have been doing are picking. You know, what's your take on the overall market here? All right, Cryp Nation fam. Let's pause for one second and talk about an important issue going on right now, and that's sim swap attacks. Sim swap attacks are becoming a serious threat, especially in crypto. It's someone gets control of your phone number. They can access your bank accounts, your exchanges, emails and even your private messages. That's why the Crypto1One podcast has partnered with Afani. It's America's most secure mobile service, offering a guaranteed protection against SIM swaps with added privacy. Since launching, not one single Afani user has ever been sim swapped. And for some reason, if it ever does happen, you're backed by up to $5 million in insurance against financial losses. This is literally why we chose to partner with them. It is. Our favorite thing about Afani is the insurance policy of up to $5 million if it does happen to you. Afani runs on either AT&T or the Verizon network and you get to choose which one. There are no contracts and it is super easy and seamless to sign up. You also get a 60 day money back guarantee, so there's zero risk in trying it out right now for our listeners. You get $99 off when you sign up at afoni.com crypto101. That's afoni.com/crypto 101 or check the show notes below for a link. These days, your phone number is probably more valuable than your Social Security number, so make sure it's protected with afonio. All right? Crypto 101 fam. After a long day of podcasting and trading these markets, you know I need a good night's sleep and comfort is personal for me. It's a mattress that's soft enough to sink into at the end of a long day, but supportive enough to keep my back happy in the morning. That's exactly what I get with the Avocado Green Mattress Eco Organic mattress. It's their most affordable certified organic mattress without compromise. Medium firm with a plush organic latex and up to 1,000 steel coils that reduce motion transfer and keep your spine aligned. Every night I get world class back support. That feels just as good getting in as it does getting out, which we all know as we get older. Getting out of bed sometimes is the hardest part of the day. If you don't get a good night's sleep and your back hurts and you and guys, here's the kicker. Avocado owns their own springs, wool and latex supplies, so they cut out the middleman and pass on the savings to you. You get premium Certified Organic quality without the premium price tag. Head to avocadogreenmattress.com and save up to 20% on Avocado's Certified Organic Mattress. That's avocadogreenmass.com for 20% off. Avocado Dream of Better if you have been considering futures trading, now might be the time to take a closer look. The futures market has seen increased activity recently and Plus500Futures offers a straightforward entry point. The platform provides access to major instruments including the S&P 500, NASDAQ, Bitcoin, natural gas and other key markets across equity indices like energy, metals, Forex and crypto. Their interface is designed for accessibility. You can monitor and execute trades from your phone with $100 minimum deposit once your account is open. Potential trades can be executed in two clicks. For those who prefer to practice first, Plus500 offers an unlimited demo account with full charting and analytical tools. No risk involved while you familiarize yourself with the platform. The company has been operating in the trading space for over 20 years. Download the Plus500 app today. Trading in futures involves risk of loss and is not suitable for everyone. Not all applicants will qualify.
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Like today the macros in terms of tradfi moved down just a tiny bit, which caused a little bit more ripple effect I guess on crypto. However, in polymarket I was just really interested to see there's a $16 million worth of volume that in October there will be a 83% chance of another 25 dips decrease and then December 73% odds of that lower volume. What's interesting is that There was over $200 million in volume for the September rate cut, so everything was boiling up to September, which we saw come into fruition last week. And more rate cuts typically mean more liquidity flowing in, cheaper money. I think that's going to flow into crypto. So the October, you know, prediction, I think it's going to hold true. It's going to Come steady. That's like, what, in two weeks? So overall, personally bullish in TradFi too. Up huge on Tesla. You know, congrats, Elon. Thank you for pumping my bags with the billion dollar buyback and overall up in all markets, you know, total. So I'm, I'm excited. I, I see the little blip, the little dip that we have, but that doesn't faze me at all.
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Yeah, it's, it's. We say it on the show all the time. It's zoom out, right? Go back to the beginning of the year. It. It. And then even if you want to pick and choose your spots, go back to that, you know, that Liberation Day low that, that we covered non stop. And then the euphoric rise into the spring, summer and then, yeah, volatility for sure. Slash choppy, you know, some choppiness during the summer. But overall, you know, you couldn't really ask for much more if you were going into the beginning of the year. But we are going into our favorite time. We covered it on the show. This week is dedicated to preparing for October. We talked about it with Brendan. We're going to talk about it today. And then we do have our October live stream with the entire team. Can I get a commitment? Brian and Joe, are you guys going to be there on Friday? Can you both make it?
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C
I'm not going to be there. I'm actually out of the office on a golf trip in Nebraska, but I could call in.
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This is unbelievable. This is breaking news, everybody. The entire team is going to be there. We will be missing Brian, but that's okay. Joe, can you make it?
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Oh, yeah, I'll be there.
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C
All right.
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Joe's going to be there, but it's a, it's a special one because again, like, you know, Rohit doesn't come on the podcast a lot, so it's really excited to get him there. I did talk to Bryce. He. He didn't, you know, he didn't promise me, but he confirmed. So, you know, unless, unless something happens with, you know, that's out of his control, he's planning to be there. So it's gonna be a really fun one on Friday to talk about this. The bitcoin seasonality, just October seasonality. We showed. We flashed the chart of kind of that month by month breakdown since, like, the history of bitcoin. And just up. October's basically been green, you know, except for maybe three or four times. So you guys brought us this chart for some bitcoin seasonality. I'm not sure who pulled it up, but whoever brought it to the show. Why don't you show us what this is telling you and why you're excited for going into the last quarter of the year?
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Yeah, I put this on. This basically is just breaking down the past bitcoin seasonalities that we've seen in the past cycles. And as you can see, that little red square there is really showing upward to the right movement starting in October. So in a lot of these past seasons, we're always pretty flat, even slightly down. We've been saying that forever over the past Redtember we call it in September, usually a red month. But you can see right when we start to catch October, bitcoin in particular really starts to move. I think the average is like a plus 29% average positive price impact on the price of bitcoin. So I'm really geared up for October. I think this, this is going to mimic very similar movement. And I believe that, you know, the black line at the top, basically us right now is going to move up to the right and, you know, it just further enhances, is that we do see these seasons and this is one of the slowest seasons right now, but we're still sitting above $110,000 bitcoin. And I think greener pastures are absolutely ahead.
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Yeah. And then, Joe, anything to add to October or the chart you're seeing here before I moves on?
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B
Yeah, just interesting data point is that 70% of all bitcoins growth within a year is typically from October to December. So I found that very fascinating.
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Awesome. Well, I did, I did bring a video clip for us last minute. I didn't put it on the sheet, but it just kind of dinged my mind when I saw it. So this is Mark Newton. So Mark Newton is the. The Brendan for Tom Lee. Like, Brendan's our technical analysis guru, our expert, and he's our quant. And we've covered Tom Lee's calls, you know, nonstop along with many others. Right. We, we just try to bring in the news that we think is worth parsing through to help make our own decisions. But this Mark Newton guy has called the Ethereum chart to a T now for basically six to eight weeks, to the point where, I mean, he got some of those corrections down to the legit, like the legit dollar, like within $7. And so when people start making calls like that and, you know, you're in the flow with what, you know, whether it's a stock or a bond or an. If you're in the flow of an Asset, whether it's crypto or not, on the technical analysis, you have my respect. And so I saw a clip of him on Fox Business the other day, specifically talking about Ethereum as well as some other stocks. But let's see what he had to say about Ethereum. It's about two minutes. We might not listen to the whole thing, but let's take a look at Mark Newton. Talk about your, your fund Strat, the epic product that you have. You're up 70. You're up 75%. I mean, you're, you're over 100%. You're up like 100, what, 18%? 30 this year. It's up about 10% above the S and P s going to exist. You've added four new names. Just we. I want to, I, this has been a little pressure, people a little concerned about that today. But this is far for the course of the volatility for this kind of.
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That's right. One does not need to be concerned about Ethereum.
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It should go no lower than 4,000.
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I expect to move to 5,500.
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I like Ethereum a lot. It's my favorite of the cryptos. Some of these have a little bit lesser market cap than maybe some of the large caps. So the Reddit, I think, is phenomenal. We'll pause it there because he kind of groups those others into, you know, his favorite of the market. So if you're interested, it's, it's Reddit, it's Shopify, and of course it's Robinhood for the Robinhood boys of the pod. Joe, I know you're on board now along with Brendan, Brian and myself. But Ethereum, again, the setups there, this is take, take out, take out October, right? Take out October, take out seasonals. He's just looking at charts. He's just reading, reading the charts. He's got all his indicators that he's looking at. And so he's super bullish on Ethereum, which again, we, we believe here as a team that, yeah, you might have your favorites. And as we get later into the show and we're going to dive into the stuff that you guys have nailed in your expertise and specifically the memes and NFTs that, that are rocketing recently, you can dive into the specifics, but all the, the tide will lift all votes in some way. You just want to try to get the most alpha that you can find. And so we have a couple more quick hitters that we're going to pull up just again, kind of giving you that the tide is lifting all boats. And it's. Morgan Stanley is, is talking about being months away from offering crypto trading through E Trade. Now, E Trade is a huge brokerage platform for very active traders. I would say it's kind of that next level of brokerage for. It is retail focused for sure, but it is that next level. So, you know, Morgan Stanley is looking to basically just turn itself, for lack of a better words. Correct me if you think I'm wrong, fellas. Basically its own little coinbase. Right. Just they're trying to get a big pass through of just bringing crypto to E Trade.
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Yeah, this hit me home because I use E Trade for a lot of my stock trading and just it was a default brokerage I had. And I think they have like 1.4 trillion with a T in assets and they're just making it easier. It's just another point to just point at. With all the bullish things happening, seasonality out the window, all the bullish things happening, we're just innovating and growing within the United States and everyone's gotta be paying attention to all these crypto progressions or innovation, I should say.
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Yeah, and they're not going to be the only one because the SEC came out this week and said they're creating new rules to allow crypto companies to launch products in the US without complying with previous regulatory requirements. And those previous regulatory requirements we've covered before on the show endlessly. We even brought up Gary Gensler last week and we said, prison. We said he should be in prison. Possibly we don't have all the facts, but if some stuff came out and he's, he was, you know, burning documents and doing all that, if that ends up being true, there, there's a, there's a small little role there for him, maybe to get behind some bars. He was doing a little press tour last week that we covered and it was like, why are you poking your head out? Like you get in the news in a bad light and then he's like begging for, for an interview hit. And so, you know, sometimes when you say when there's smoke, there's fire, but he's the old guard. And we played the famous clip of Trump on day one, we'll fire Gary Gensler. We got it done. He's out the door. And now we are dealing with, we aren't dealing with these previous regulatory requirements. The SEC is literally rolling out the red carpet. I saw Paul Atkins, the chair, earlier this week as well, with some comments. They really, really are moving the ball they're moving the ball fast, and again, you want them to do it the right way. We're not in these rooms having these discussions. We just kind of get the news as it comes out. But the hope would be, with the timeframe that you have with this administration, is that not only are they going to do what's right for kind of the space, but hopefully they're thinking ahead. Because again, as much as we're getting out of and making the wrongs right from the previous administration, we want to make sure that some of this framework is rolled out in a way that it can't just be rolled back. And that's kind of what I've been looking for. Any, Any thoughts about the regulation, Joe and the pro crypto sec? Yeah.
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In Silicon Valley, where I'm at, we're just seeing innovation in terms of crypto overall, like Google. Everyone knows that Google's working on their own L1 blockchain, but recently they announced a partnership with Coinbase for their AI agents to provide crypto rails. So just seeing those products roll out in a bigger way is meaningful. Like, personally, for me, I've deployed more liquidity into defi mechanisms by bigger players, and I haven't done that before. So it's just getting easier. Overall, the products are getting better. And I'm excited for these kind of these companies to come in and release good products for us to use. A lot of people aren't in the weeds like we are here listening to live streams. Some people just want to deploy and make some money, and it's getting easier for everyone. So we always say mass adoption, but I'm really seeing it. I see it coming.
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Yeah. And Brian, we just said how E Trade's looking to roll out their platform. This verbiage here allow crypto companies launch products in the US without complying to previous regulatory requirements. Two sides to that. Number one, this sounds like a general consensus that there's going to be a ton of products launched out, which makes it important to, you know, it's kind of promoing this podcast in our communities of like, you got to do the research on this stuff, because when all these products start coming out so fast, like there are going to be. There are going to be ones that are just better than others. And not to say that it could be in a sense of, you know, scam or bad actors, which you're always going to have in any space. I mean, look at Bernie Madoff, right? I could. I could send you 10 documentaries on Bernie Madoff. It was one of the Biggest frauds of all time wrapped in a wrapper of traditional finance. And then of course there's FTX and Sam Bankman, Fried and crypto. So it's not necessarily that it's a, it's a bad actor thing, but when you get all these products all at once, you got to understand the fees, you got to understand what you're buying. And, and we've been covering and as excited as we are to see these like 2x altcoin ETFs that are being proposed, you know, if these people don't understand what's underneath those in the leverage, you know, our fear or my, you know, for, for our team is as educators is like people don't know what they're buying and they're going to get in trouble. So as excited as we are and as awesome as these products are going to be across the board, you need to stay educated. So any thoughts around that, Brian?
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No, you nailed it. I mean, we're seeing it a lot with the perpetual future platforms right now, like Hyperliquid, and we're gonna talk a little bit about that. We're just seeing more and more perps, platforms popping up that are very similar mechanisms. We've been talking about flywheels and burns and buybacks. I mean, when something starts to work, a lot of crypto companies start to adopt it or they start to employ a lot more marketing in and maybe less of a delivered product. So that's, that's what we try to do. You know, we try to, I mean, we could talk one day about Meme Coins, why something could be so viral and we understand the value behind that. But then there's this whole other side of the business where it's like, hey, yeah, we have a lot of copycat players coming out, a lot of people launching a lot of different products, a rush to the market. What's gonna stick, what isn't gonna stick. And that's what, that's what we're doing, breaking it down here pretty much every single day it feels like.
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Yeah. And it's our favorite thing to do. And the last point, and this kind of builds, this SEC rollout of products is something that was an executive order, but now is going to have a ton of momentum, I think, to actually get across the finish line. That's a personal take. Don't have any insider information, but I think this is going to be rolling out late in 25, early 26. And it is the SEC to implement President Trump's executive order for opening the 4084 401K retirement market to crypto. So I always check this stuff all the time. You know, I, I worked at IBM early in my career so I have a couple different companies with, you know, different 401ks and different brokerages just cause I like to see, you know, what other people are offering and what baskets you can put that type of money in because it is kind of regulated in a different way. And it would be amazing if bitcoin, even just bitcoin was available or you know there's gonna be some of these blue chip ETFs possibly that are available for 401ks. And it is, it is exciting I think number one. And talk about an unlock of liquidity. I mean I think, dare I say again, personal take here, the 401k unlock would be just as big as the ETF approval. It kind of feels like it would be very similar, at least in the long term.
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C
It's going to be so bullish. I mean it looks like it's not if it's going to happen when it's going to happen and you know it's. And you just have to remember that there's a generation that's even younger than us that's just so comfortable with all things digital and digital assets and understanding crypto. It's less like why can't I hold this bitcoin like a bar of gold now it's more like oh, I have the digital assets on the blockchain. It's less, less education really needed for people who are now making major decisions with their 401k. So I think it's going to be huge. How it's going to affect the market, not really sure but it's, it's going to be huge.
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Joe, any final thoughts?
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Yeah, I'm buying some bitcoin immediately when they green like this within our company. 401K. I'm super excited.
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Yeah, that would be great if we added inside of ours but it just feels like it's, it's a liquidity unlock. So definitely something that we are going to watch. I'm going to stop sharing here and just going to give a shout out to the chat real quick. We got Fitz, we got Jason, Aaron, Deborah's here, Jack's here. Home Studios here. That's a new one. Hey, Home Studio. Corey D for Nashua, New Hampshire. Welcome everybody. The chat's super active. Some new names which is awesome. If you're new here, please subscribe. Check out that logo in the bottom right, give it a click and then Toss this video like it really, really helps us grow the channel and keep doing these free shows. So if you haven't yet, please give the video a like. But it is time for our main event. As you can see, all three of us are on the screen because even though I'm introducing it, I can take no credit for this. We had quite the amazing week last week in the Momentum Money Makers group. Now guys, you've had Brian and Joe on the show before, so you understand that Momentum Money Makers is memes, it's NFTs, but it's really just anything that's hot and moving with fast pacing action and high volatility. That's what these guys special in. They're in the trenches. There are crypto, Navy seals and as I've always said, when they're on the show there is a link. It's right in the bottom of the description if you're interested in trying. I think there's a dollar trial right now to join the Momentum Moneymakers course so you can learn from them and get their first alerts. And I say get their first alerts because last week you guys absolutely nailed Aster. I saw the email. I got to partake in a little bit of action. I wish I partake part took more. My goodness. It was one of your. We always kind of talk about the historical amazing calls you had with an historical meeting in like short form order of Pengu and Pudgy Penguin. But Aster feels like in the most recent way of just being a week old.
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C
What a call.
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So can you guys break it down for us? How did you find it, what kind of research you wanted? Just give the people a little sample of what it would be like to be in the momentum moneymakers sphere, to be able to get this information early, get your first alerts and then we can talk about Aster again. Guys, pump the brakes if you think you're going to run and buy this thing right now. It's already had a huge rip. We need to be careful with these hockey sticks. They can come down quick. So like let's, let's focus on Brian and Joe and do the educational process first. But guys, how did you find this thing and. And make it an alert? And you guys absolutely crushed it. So great work.
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B
No, I was going to give. Not to you. You were the first one to alert our community. We have a private chat box there and you, you sent that off immediately when you saw it.
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Yeah, I think we saw it initially, I think the day before actually, our trade alert because CZ was talking about it and Asters, essentially, for anybody that's curious, is it's on the Binance chain and it's essentially hyper liquid, a perps trading platform. You can buy spot, you can do a lot of different things on it, but it's very similar to hyperliquid. What hyperliquid's built but on the Binance platform. And why that's so important is hyperliquid's caught a ton of share of the pers trading. It's a really hot topic and Aster's been out there. When I saw CZ tweet it out and kind of give props to Aster, I was like, oh man, this looks good. And I actually posted it in our mighty networks. I think it was right around like 40 cents, maybe a little less. And I was like, hey, I don't have any exposure to this, but this looks like prime to rip. It's BNB season. CZ was chatting it up. It was again right around the 40 cents and I didn't have any exposure to it. Then we did our, what was it? Our live stream, Joe was that we started talking about. Oh, with a community. We were talking about that we liked Aster. And then Joe and I actually the next day were talking on a day off and he brought it up to me. He's like, I got some exposure to it. And he was like, I'm gonna fire out a trade alert. So hats off to Joe to getting that alert out and getting to our community. The price is a little higher, but substantially lower than what it is today. I forget exactly what we gave the alert at, but probably close to a 2X, right?
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B
Yeah, we caught it on the 19th, which we were debating. It was, it was frothy, right? It was 1.4, 1.5 billion market cap at that time. But we, we kind of compared it to hype. Hype was at 15 to 20 billion market cap. So even if it didn't 10x, which we probably didn't think on a short term or near term it would 10x. Right. But it would probably cap. It had good opportunity to capture 2-3x from there. We felt, and it did exactly that. It's 2 to 3x from when we caught it at around sub 1.5 billion. It's at 3.3 billion market cap today and still have room to grow. There's still what, about five to six times smaller than hype. And hype took, you know, a long time to kind of build its momentum. And Aster is just sort of riding off of that. And to go back to your question, TiVo of how we found this out, we have our feelers out there. Brian's in some really big dog alpha groups. Personally, I have my network of traders, persp traders and whatnot. And it was just ringing off everywhere. I tried to buy day one, I couldn't get it. We were trying to figure out how to buy it and it became available on pancake Swap, you know, probably like a day or two after that. And that's when I got exposure and felt comfortable to give it to community because it's easy to call it out, but if it's not easy to buy it. Right. It's tough for people to actually get in. And it's kind of more of a vocal win than the actual win for our community. So to hear some of our community members actually being able to get, it's better for us versus people that kind of like feel left out or you had to jump through too many hoops to get it. So I could do another tutorial. Side note, TiVo, because when I did the IPO tutorial for the Gemini thing, dude, we won on that one. I'm not sure if anyone got in on that one, but I crushed that one. And there potentially being more wins on Binance since Brian did mention it is Binance season. Friends would like to call it crime season, but they do a lot of good stuff there and things are happening over there. Yeah. So excited to talk about more.
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A
Yeah, I guess. And just to. To wrap it up, no personal recommendations for anybody. This isn't personal financial advice. We're just purely educators and friends talking crypto. But just, just so to educate the people. Not a call in any way, but you know, when you have stuff that rockets and we're looking at the chart here, a little, you know, it's an early project be a little test and a bump back. But you know, you could be looking at a breakout. You could be looking at a double top. You don't quite know yet. So just inform the people of, you know, the risk is, you know, as much as you guys called this and you gave out your first alert, you know, this isn't some secretive call as of now. And you got to be careful when these things rip this much of going and buying some tops here. So if you guys just want to kick that around before we move on.
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B
Yeah, I could start because that's been brought to light recently about how much unlocked tokens hype doesn't have unlocked yet. But you know, they didn't do a lot of buybacks so they have a lot more history of, of success. And Aster is just what, five days, six days. So they're building that right now and they have a massive unlock coming in October. It's part of like their season one, kind of like yield farming. If you utilize the platform, you get free stuff. And they're starting season two now, so that's ongoing. And the answer question that you didn't ask is why are these popping off? Because perps is nothing new. Right. It's just that hyped kind of set the tone for that. The flywheel is working, meaning the buybacks, the perp trading fees, going back into the trenches and rewarding people. And it's kind of. And people love perps and that's. It's kicking off kind of like a perp season, a small perp season. And we see in our links there that, you know, a lot of perps platforms are popping off. Justin sun is going to launch one October 1st. Some Alpha for you guys. You may or may not love Tron ecosystem, but they are one of the top cryptos out there. There's stuff on Solana, there's stuff on Ethereum.
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Is that the next leg in the sheet? Got it. Yeah.
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B
That's just, it's just the announcement of his October 1st launches and he's self proclaiming it, he's calling it Sun Perps, you know, kind of floating his own name in bag, which is hilarious. But just goes to show that, you know, this trend is here now and you got to watch it. Like you said, TiVo, it could go away tomorrow, but we believe that CZ has some staying power in Binance. Binance over there with the Asia, you know, ecosystem. They have a lot, they move a lot of liquidity. So we don't imagine it going anywhere anytime soon. Firms Aster, we definitely haven't dived deep into sun perps or there's one popping off in Solana called Ranger Finance. But we're going to dive deep into that with our community as we get into this perps kind of season here.
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Yeah, I saw that you guys kind of had on the notes there lighter ranger finance again stuff that you guys go in depth and you give these alerts for. Just like when you nailed, you know, this chart, I kind of have it targeted here when the call went out within, you know, a couple hours somewhere in that range and then you rock it all the way up here. So if you're interested in being involved in the momentum money makers community, that's Brian and Joe's private community. Check the link below, guys, right in the description. It's the first one there. It's a $1 trial. So again you get access to the alerts that we were talking about with Aster and then a ton of other stuff inside the community to get more access to Brian and Joe. I mean, I don't know that that could be the best sales pitch of all is is Aster of what you guys called last week. So check out that link if you're interested. If not, we've got a ton more awesome amount of stuff to cover here with some alpha guys. I did, I saw it on your sheet. We did talk about this last week, but I want to bring it up because, you know, you guys are experts of kind of that, you know, deep dive in the trenches and BAS has been a part of the trenches, but almost slowly but surely it's kind of coming out and trying to be more mainstream with Aerodrome. And then Brian, I remember me and you were talking, I got this special access of some sort via Coinbase to use Aerodrome on the Coinbase desktop to go buy any token in the world via Base. So it's slowly but surely coming mainstream. But they kind of announced or hinted about possibly doing a token. We talked about it. But let's get your take. What are you hearing? And is this something that, you know, if it came out, it could be super bullish for this space, or are we a little worried that it's a value extraction, as we like to call it? What are you seeing from Base and the possibility of exploring a network token?
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C
Yeah, I'm bullish on this. On this token. Kind of the de facto coin of the base ecosystem was Aero Aerodrome because they're like the largest decentralized platform. I do think there'll be some value there for holding Aerodrome when this token actually gets released. But this is really just an announcement of an announcement. They don't have any tokenomics. They don't know if it's going to be a governance token. But it does sound like they're going to actually release a base token, which it'll be enormous. It's going to be. It's one of the largest L2s out there. I have full belief it's going to be very successful in a lot of different areas of blockchain and crypto. So I think the base token announcement's going to be very big. We have Brian Armstrong commenting on it, we have Jesse Pollock commenting on it. We got the base. It's, it's, it's not A matter of if it's when. Personally, I do believe this is going to be a little farther off than what a lot of people are saying, like Q4. I think they're just kind of basically saying like, hey, there's one coming. Wouldn't, would expect it to come probably next year sometime. But really no inside information. But it does give us an opportunity. It's something we'll talk about within our community. I've been kind of writing out some ideas of ways to get exposure to this base token because there's going to be an airdrop. They're going to reward community members, they're going to reward people that are using apps on base. Probably if you're tweeting on Twitter or X, you should probably be putting the same tweets out on Farcaster, their social media platform. Because I have a feeling all those are going to be rewarded just like all these other airdrops. And there's, there's a lot. I'm not sure if everyone's talking about it. I brought up in a meeting yesterday with the boys that there are a lot of airdrops upcoming. I have a list here that I wrote up. Metamask made an announcement, the largest decentralized wallet out there, that they're going to have the mass token. We got the opensea airdrop, we got the abstract airdrop, we have moonbirds. The NFT is going to come out with one. Polymarket, our favorite prediction website, is rumored to be finally going to be releasing a token. Myriad pretty much said they're going to release one. That's another prediction site. We got the rainbow wallet that's just made an announcement. We have Pump Fund, still owes us an airdrop. I see out there Pump Fun Mega Eth, Monad Edge X, we got season two of Hyper Liquid Ethos. That's just a handful, more than a handful of Q4, more likely airdrops. So not only do I think this could be a very interesting Q4 because we're getting out of the seasonality, we like crypto prices to go up, but there also could be this massive influx of liquidity into kind of like the degenerate streets, you know, people like Joe and I that are using different platforms, using different blockchains. Personally, I'm eligible Probably for like 80% of these airdrops and I'm not going to sell them for cash. I'm going to roll it right back into probably some altcoins and Big Daddy Bitcoin. And I have a feeling a lot of people are going to do the same thing. So it's just another reason to be bullish. People like free money.
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A
Yeah, it feels like liquidity event on the horizon. I mean airdrops compared to, I mean you can't really compare it in a similar sense, but it's along the lines with rate cuts. Right. It's just liquidity driven events into the, the markets of all kinds, whether it be meme coins, the trenches, the crypto markets, the traditional markets, the housing markets. Things seem to be lined up kind of like what we said at the end of our live stream. It was interesting, Brian, how the S and P, the Dow and the NASDAQ were down, but small caps were up a half percent again. Long term, they've been kind of riding last couple months along with housing stock, kind of, you know, being a front runner to this Fed cut. But it seems like everything's lined up to. You know, you might not even be the most bullish person in the world for whatever markets you trade, but you kind of are going to be throwing your hands up and just being like, I mean, I don't fight the Fed, I don't, I can't fight the Fed. Like you can't, you can't do it. Like your hands are tied, you can't sell, you can't do this. I mean you already, especially if you lost to the bottom of that Liberation Day trade, if you're on the wrong end of that, like your hands are tied. We're at all time highs across all markets. It's like you gotta, you gotta get involved because you really only have three months left. You have a quarter left and then you gotta publish your reports. And that's gonna be a tough report to publish if you're a heavy underperformer in a year like this, depending on what your trades are. But Brian, for, for specifically, I'm sorry, Joe, for specifically for airdrop season, you know, what are you most excited about and on the horizon, what's kind of got the plums tangling?
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Yeah, probably base. I dumped in a link there for Coinbase. If you just pull that up because there's so much happening that your head may spin for like the average person, but there's just a lot going on on base. Base is the sixth largest DeFi TVL they got 5 billion locked. Coinbase just announced a lending on your USDC and on base, I mean 10% is like, how can you be bearish when you could get 11% on your stable coins? And this is what I'm talking about. I'm just Deploying, personally, I'm just deploying more and that's on a base ecosystem. And we're going to talk about with our community how potentially aerodrome or any activity that you do on the BAS ecosystem potentially may yield you a base token. So no promises. They haven't even confirmed everything yet. But I'd probably be most excited about base because that's something that I would deploy a larger amount of liquidity for. But I'm also doing everything that Brian's doing. So we, I think, I think there's something for everyone. TiVo. So if you're a perps trader, if you love watching live streams on pump, you know, if you love NFTs, you know, just change for that. Prediction markets on polymarket. And we heard Kalshee's doing on chain stuff now. I think we got confirmation of that. Right. We forgot to put that on a sheet, but I'll try to look for it. There's just, there's just a lot and there's something for everyone, which is what I'm excited about.
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Yeah. And we're going to be here to cover it for you. So again, if you're new here, please subscribe. We got tons of free content multiple times a week at this point, three to four, five times a week. We're posting stuff on here. And if you're with us and you haven't yet, give this video a like, hit that thumbs up button. Really helps us keep growing. Everybody's favorite. There's no, there's no need for an introduction when you're talking about Pudgy Penguin. But always in the news, always having fun, always owning the timeline. Even with maybe they're not the main event of the crypto sphere every single week. They're always involved. And once again, I did see this. It was pretty, pretty exciting to see this in some type of slide deck. But break this down for us, Brian. What did Pudgy Penguin accomplish this time?
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Yeah, I'm gonna kick this over to Joe because I know Joe has been following this very closely. But you know, they were featured with Bullish on the New York Stock Exchange. But I'll let Joe kind of go into it in detail.
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I feel like I just talk about penguin like 24 7, which is fine with me, but I don't know if anyone else is getting bored. I'm sure not. They were featured on the New York Stock Exchange earnings call with Bullish. Bullish went IPO this last week. Actually did pretty well in the Bullish ipo. Hopefully some people got in also and yeah, they just. Institution. They're basically. They are like a dex for institutions. But it was just exciting because they call the first time ever a meme coin got called out as a way for the retail person to have adoption into crypto. I mean, to showcase adoption in crypto. And they use Budgie Penguin as a showcase. You know, you can see their pez, Sotheby's and the laundry list goes on. But just another exciting move alongside. You guys mentioned that they were on Apple TV last week. But this is more of a, you know, a serious note. This is on an earnings call and just bullish having a position in Pudgy Penguin in terms of the meme coins and NFTs and laying way for the ETF potentially to be greenlit soon. So, you know, there's a lot, just a lot of bullish indicators for Pengu. But this was just a confirmation from, you know, a publicly traded company that this is a real asset that's, you know, have seen massive adoption.
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Yeah, I think you're not the only one that's always talking about Penguin. Anytime Brian's on or you guys both, it's. It's worth bringing up. And then, yeah, the Pengu ETF was a fun one. We had that conversation with Brian. I'm sorry, with. With Brendan and Bryce, with Canary Capital CEO. And he was. If you haven't listened to that, go back into our catalog and look for. It was Canary Capital, Pengu etf. It wasn't just about that, but he did a great segment on kind of just that creative capital is what he called it, like the Pengu ETF or the Pengu brand. That being that creative capital. It was really, really interesting to hear him talk about it. Kind of from a different side than we always kick the ball around. But again, it's not the only meme coin making news, especially in the ETF world. Doge. Doge is primed to. To get some things passed as well. And so we were kicking around this couple weeks or last maybe it was two weeks ago or last week. But you know, some of these ETFs, it's not kind of that incline buying spot per se. It's more mimicking the price action. So again, like we talked about earlier in the show, you gotta be careful with these products, understand what you're buying. But Dogecoin is, is being traded and there's more ETFs along the way. So any. Anybody. I'm not sure who put this link in, but whoever did take it away.
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B
I could talk about it. Yeah, it brought in close to like 20 million on day one, which shows kind of like the appetite, which is hilarious because Brian and I don't know anyone that buy those buys Doge. And it's, it's doing well, drawing eyeballs and just, it paves the way for other, you know, ETS filings after it, like Pigeon Penguin, just another onboarding mechanism for investors. Now you could buy this inside your Roth, right? Where traditionally you couldn't get exposure unless you downloaded a Coinbase app or whatnot. So just more liquidity unlock in different places in different vehicles for people to get exposure. And a lot of people have a lot of liquidity locked in certain places. Like you mentioned E Trade. A lot of people don't want to move out of there to go to Robinhood, even though they should shout out to Hood. But this is just another way for dogecoin to what a lot of people call franchise. A lot of blockchains or projects will deploy on different blockchains. Like they're launching Salana, they're launching Ethereum. And this is similar, this is just another franchise but on a different vehicle. Right. For people to know the brand. So I'm excited when this, I'm excited this happened because it just opens the doors like we said and we didn't put on here. But there's another quite a few more that's, you know, looking to apply for etf. So I'm excited about that.
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A
Yeah. And just kind of to dogecoin being recognizable as a brand. Right. I don't want to compare it to this specifically, but it's kind of like xrp, like anytime I'm out and you know, I don't really talk about hosting the podcast as much with friends, but like some people might have a friend who's really into crypto and they'll tell me, they'll talk, we'll start talking about it. And then a couple people always like, oh, crypto, like I own xrp, what do you think? Or I own dogecoin. It's just kind of those, you know, original huge flyers from, you know, the years bull runs ago that, you know, still still have staying power and you can't, you can't deny Doge's again, creative capital from being involved is, you know, one of the OG high flying memes and the Elon Musk tweets and all that stuff. It has that it's recognizable to the average person. For the people who aren't in the trenches, that should be via the momentum money makers community, you know, it's just kind of a. It's. It's an old guard that they can go back to, right? Yeah.
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C
You take the words right out of my mouth that this is like. It just has like this culty, like, behavior, like a lot of these meme coins, like, want that Doge has it. That's why it's almost a $40 billion market cap. Because I'll run into just like, we'll call them, like my normie friends out there, like on the golf course. And there's always somebody that's like, yeah, I bought Doge, or like, I still hold my dogecoin. And it has a very unique unit bias where, you know, a couple bucks gets you like hundreds of thousands of millions of tokens. Overall, the tokenomics aren't great. I do love, like, kind of. I jump on where Joe's going with penguin. I love the Pengu token. I look at it as like a meme coin, plus kind of it's going to have this culty, like, community and behavior, like Doge. But they're doing a lot of real world things and I think that's the double whammy. But the North Star is, you know, to have like a Pengu or like one of these major meme coins of this cycle. Flip this OG meme coin. I'm not sure if it's ever going to happen. We're talking like a $40 billion market cap, but there's a handful out there that could do it.
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Couldn't. Couldn't agree more. Just, just to give a shout out to the chat. We appreciate everybody that's still here, really active. I did see somebody drop a contract address in the chat. I did remove it. I don't, you know, I'm not checking it or anything, but, like, let's just. A standard rule is you don't want to engage with any contract address that anybody's putting in the chat just for safety reasons. But we do appreciate Oscar, Deborah, Aaron, Fitz grants in the chat. Crypto mavericks. Oh, that's huge. Oh, there you are. Just super, super, super fun afternoon here as we move along. Sorry I lost my place on the sheet. Oh, Joe, this is going straight to you. Mr. Rec drinks himself. We've been covering it while you haven't been here, and every time we brought it up, I'd be like, man, Joe must be celebrating by cracking not one but two Rec drinks and flywheeling it down his gullet. As he reaches down there, I'm sure he's pulling one up. There it is, folks. There it is. Joe One million drinks. Salt. Is that the one millionth one? Did they send that to the crypto 101 pod?
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B
Yeah. We need to reach out to OV and ask for that. Yeah, no it's not, not the one million drinks up. But yeah, they crossed that line. This I forgot when it was last week. Yeah early last, late last week they did 1 million canceled with their, with their collaboration with Moonpay and so that's coming. I got a confirmation tracking for that. So we'll feature that on the next live stream. So tune in for that. And yeah, they, their, their flywheels are still in effect. People are getting potentially a token airdrop for the last sale of the their drink collaboration so and they got a lot more lined up. But we heard inklings we know we love Nobody Sausage here. I, I, I watched your guys last, last live stream and I took a position in Nobody Sausage not financial advice. I believe Nobody Sausage has everything. It has all the ingredients to become the next Pudgy Penguin. Not like you know, worth 2 billion immediately but you know it's, it's, listen got great branding.
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A
Listen, it is definitely not personal financial advice because as funny as, and as much as we love this and we had a great call, I'll say this, we, we called it and it definitely went up like I think it was like 50, 60% after we called it. It has sold off a little bit. It's a low, it's a low market cap so it's moving quick. But you know we, we love, we love just kind of the, the, the thought of it, I think it's really funny. I, I thought for a flywheel I texted this in the group. We need Nobody Sausage sausages in the grocery store one sausage at a time on the grill. Right. But yeah this is, this is one that price action wise you just gotta be weary of because the market cap's so low. But it is, it is quite fun and you do gotta love that relationship on the timeline with, with Penguin. Pudgy Penguin. Yeah.
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B
If you want to pull up that link I just dumped in. Sorry for putting links last minute but rec.
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Is that on?
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Very interesting. Not sure if you guys talked about it last time but we all know about dats treasury company. So gamescore announces gamesquare is a publicly traded company that does DAT strategy with Ethereum and they also own the brand called Faze Faze Clan. And they spent $2 million in terms of sponsorship with Rekt. You know and what that means is that now they're going to feature direct to Drink logo on the Faze Clan jerseys on the so Faze Clan is the E gaming team and platform and media company. They have like a million impressions. Every single video that they do. The younger people will know who they are. They're very, very popular. Even LeBron's been linked with them. A lot of athletes been linked with them. The last Drink collaboration that teamed up with Faze did really, really well. So this is nothing to, you know, just gloss over. When we, when we do see this activation, I believe there's going to be a huge surge of interest. So people are asking me how do I like like Wrecked here? I like it here. It. I think it's like around 2,250 million market cap. I definitely can see it going back up towards the 500 million range. I don't see a clear cut picture for it to reach a billion in terms of market cap, which would be a forex from here. But definitely getting back to its previous all time highs is something that I do see. So just because they're making moves or selling cans, they have more collaborations, you know and the flywheel is strong here. So we loved ourselves some rector.
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A
Yeah, no, Faze Faze is, is definitely a big gaming brand and just a ton of reach on social media. If you don't know who that is. Again, I'm not even a huge gamer, but I do know who the Faze Clan is. I did see this on the timeline. I'm glad you guys put this on the sheet. There's some other people that are looking into different strategies around some meme coins. Kind of like that buying Wrecked and putting in the treasury. We've got Pudgy Penguin Strategy and a couple others here. We can't say all the names specifically that one, but what are you seeing here? What's the strategy behind it besides just buying the token? Is there any more information around this strategy here?
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C
Yeah, I can touch on it. We talked about with our private community last week. Punk Strategy essentially was the First1 by Tokenworks this platform and they made a Punk Strategy just like MicroStrategy. It's a playoff. MicroStrategy. And what's punk strategy? Do they buy CryptoPunks, the gold standard of all NFTs, you know and I am in firm belief, I think Joe is as well that CryptoPunks, if anybody's curious, check them out. They trade for hundreds of thousands of dollars, but they're probably going to a million dollars one day. It's everybody in like the NFT streets kind of feels that way. They're the gold standard of all NFT projects. They have providence. There's just so much around the entire collection. So they, so they created a coin, not, not the actual company. Someone created a coin. Token works Punk strategy and they take I believe 10% of it, they use 8% to go back into a fund and once that gets to a certain level they use that money to buy cryptopunk. Since this is released over the past couple weeks they've bought 10 CryptoPunks. So they have over a million dollars in cryptopunks essentially just off of fees and then they automatically list Those to the 1.2x above the floor price. When that sells, they buy and burn their token and it's a deflationary mechanism and there's a, there's a little bit more to the tokenomics to it. But very long story short is it's a meme coin integrating with an NFT project and it's a way to kind of get exposure to the actual NFT project because what they're doing is they're buying the NFTs and relisting them higher also gives this new avenue of liquidity to these NFT projects. So punk strategy was the first one to do it. We were kind of hot on it, we liked it. We actually made it a cusp call last, last week right around like a 12 to 15 million dollar range. It had some volatility to it so and I believe it's right around a 30 million as of today. So up their platform actually decided to give an opportunity for other NFT projects to do the same thing. So burb strategy, they're doing the same thing with moonbirds Ape strategy they're doing with bored apes. Punk strategy, they're doing it with pudgy penguins. So that actually would what the fees are generating. They're going in and buying the NFTs and relisting them on the floor. So it's a whole new meta of meme coin meets NFTs and how they use that technology to really drive interest in prices. It's a really unique, it's a really unique mechanism and the prices have been going pretty well.
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Yeah, just to, you know, you kind of glazed over that. It was a cusp co call here. And again if people are not familiar, the cusp call is kind of your guys proprietary system for figuring out what projects you might make a call on. So we talked about kind of the first alerts and the market alerts that Aster was and then this punk strategy was a cusp call So I do have the chart you guys put it in. So Brian, do you remember kind of around the date that you guys put this out on? Give or take?
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C
Yeah, we gave it last Thursday. Last Thursday is. So Thursday, Friday, kind of. What day is it?
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A
Got the 18th maybe?
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Yeah, right around the seven. Yeah, right around that area. Right, right there. Like I, I remember it was pumping and right before it was pumping then met, then it kind of met some dip and then it's pumping again. It was right around like we, we gave a buy zone right around like 12 to 15 million while we were like going through it. It was pumping because literally the day we made the call they also made an announcement that other NFT projects are going to start using that strategy. So we've seen a nice pump up, gave everyone in the community a really good entry after the top and now we're meeting a really top again. But I did say kind of in our, when we break it down with our community. I liked it in the 12 to 15 million range. I felt like it would get to that point, which it did. And now it's off to the races again.
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Yeah, again, low market cap, high mover. But again, just one of the many benefits of learning what these are and kind of being a part of Brian Joe's community. If you're interested, the link is down there, like I've mentioned before. Let's see, fellas. Where are we moving on to? Close it out? We got a couple more quick hitters and we can do some poly market. So we'll put 10 minutes on the clock. 10 minutes on the clock. And we are doing some moonbirds. Moonbirds. Something going on there.
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Yeah. So we talked about moonbirds a lot. People don't know what they are. They're basically an NFT project, just like Pudgy Penguins. In fact, they have a lot of partnerships with Pudgy Penguins. They're the ones that produce the. They produce the cards for Pudgy Penguins. So they actually produce physicals. And this is pretty a big News. They sold $1.7 million worth of physical toys within 24 hours. And the reason this is big news is because they're launching their Token in the Q4. So their tokens coming out. It's called burbs. And there's a path now that Pudgy Penguin set for everyone else. Like Pudgy Penguins got featured on an earnings call on a New York stock exchange. All these other companies like Moonbirds and Rekt should be super excited now that in the future they will get adopted. People will hold their assets and be featured on the stock exchange. Also, I know RECT is poised to be. They could get acquired by a big beverage company, Moon Birds, one of those. Also, they've completely smashed it in the physical cards trading realm. And with Moonbirds, they're deploying the same playbook and people are eating it up. So $1.7 million in physical toy sales within, you know, 24 hours is, is amazing. And this just to touch on kind of NFTs overall, kind of the landscape now is they're, they're kind of, you know, bobbing and weaving. But, you know, there's certain, certain use cases that are really taken off, like Panini, for example. They. They sold a $175,000 Caitlin Clark, the highest ever. Even higher than his cardboard counterpart, believe it or not. So there's a, not a resurgence in NFTs, but there's a progression and there's an advancement. A lot of people don't know about it. So we imagine there's some opportunities upcoming for people who want to invest into all assets that outpace inflation in the near future, counter to their physicals. We know about physical toys and physical cardboard collectible cards, but a lot of people don't know about the digital aspects of those.
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Couldn't agree more. And that's what we do here is we try to uncover and bring to the light the different areas that, that are moving forward, whether it's in the finance space, the NFT space. And we've been kind of one of the first I've seen on YouTube or podcast specifically to cover cover the betting markets. And again, you know, Brian said that his favor is Poly Market. I just want to say for the producer of the show here, no free ads. We have no favorites. We are open to being bought, whether it's Poly Markets, Cal, Robin Hood markets, we are open to sponsorships for the betting markets because we love them all equally, Brian, and we' open to sponsorships. One of your favorites is Myriad and you kind of have a strategy on why you're using Myriad and it's obviously one of the smaller ones, but their volume is up into the right here, which is really exciting. So if you just wanted to cover again, we can jump into Polymarket in a second and go over and see what's trending. But you know, just remind people of what Myriad is and kind of your strategy behind it for the Abstract chain.
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Yeah, Myriad's a a top prediction website growing very quickly. We've been in it since the early days. So shout out to anybody in our community that's been kind of on the Myriad train with Joe and I. I've certainly contributed to this weekly USD volume by chain and I've helped get it up there, I'm sure. But it is on the Abstract chain. The unique thing about it is it's a prediction website, which we love. It's on Abstract. Both Myriad and Abstract are coming out with tokens. So every time that you pretty much put a wager, we don't have the full parameters, but you're going to assume we when you put a wager in on Myriad or do some sort of tasks, you're earning opportunity to get the Myriad token. In addition to that, Myriad's on Abstract and every time you utilize an application on Abstract you get XP points. So it's like a double farm. So we talked about those airdrops earlier. Myriad and Abstract were both on the list for a possible Q4 airdrop. You know, even if it's a few hundred bucks, a few thousand bucks. We have no idea. Some of these could get some serious numbers. And it's something that I would always already be doing, interacting with. And I'm really farming the airdrop. But I'm also absolutely loving putting some of these predictions on Myriad. Myriad's where I put the Powell tie that wasn't on Kalshee, that wasn't on polymarket. What color tie Powell was gonna wear was on Myriad. Now sure, it was a big fat loser, but, you know, I'm farming an airdrop.
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We had fun. We had fun and we said before that stream that we had some, we had some action in, in the, in the prediction markets, but it was all for fun. And speaking of having fun, I don't think the prediction markets or gamblers have more fun than anywhere than the NFL. And to build on that, I saw some stats flying around yesterday that, that Robin Hood, Robinhood's prediction markets brought in, you know, a million just in revenue. Not, that's not handle. That's a million dollars in revenue which was up from 720,000 the Sunday before. So like I, it just man, this again, we're, we're prediction market bulls. Again, it is basically gambling in a way. But it, depending on what you're betting on, if you're doing sports a hundred percent, there's a lot of opportunities around, you know, the Fed rate cuts and will bitcoin be a certain price by this date? That, yeah, you can, you can decide to kind of gamble or play the odds or, you know, there's ways to hedge that and hedge, you know, hedge your, whatever portfolios you're working on too. So we think it's not only fun, but it is a tool to put in your toolbox to, to kind of, you know, learn what's going on. It's a way to consume news, it's a way to consume opinions. But not just opinions that you're going to hear on TV or social media. These are opinions that are backed by, depending on the, the handle, you know, millions, tens of millions, possibly hundreds of millions of dollars when you're getting to stuff like, you know, the election, which is, was a great learning experience for everybody. So Brian, I'll pull it up again, not an official sponsor Poly market, one that we do like just as much as we like Cowshi or Hood or Myriad. And we are open to sponsorships. But what are you seeing on polymarket? Anything popping out to you?
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Well, let's look at that one in the upper right hand corner. What Would Jimmy Kimmel say on the return of his show on September 20th, Trump has to. Yeah, Trump over 10 times. Man, that feels like a smash by. I mean, I know Sharps never go over, but I feel like he. He sorry or an apology over five times. Gonna have to go. He did do the man show back in the day. It doesn't feel like Jimmy Kimball is real big on apologizing. So it, like you said, you can have a lot of fun with this. It's. It can be politics, it can be sports. It could be crypto prices. Hell, it could be what Jimmy Kimmel says on his return back. Heir to the go card.
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One's interesting. Sorry about that. How many gold cards would Trump sell in 20, 25. That was just released, what, yesterday?
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Oh, that's the immigration card.
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Yeah, well, that. And that's crypto specific, too, because that's like a Howard Lutnick that falls in his category of ownership. The gold cards, I believe. And Howard Lucknick.
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Zero.
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That's just zero real time. They just. That just changed. Look, 1 to 100, 100, 1 to 1000.
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Why is 1 to 100 feel like a smash buy? Not finding intuitive eyes, but we just need one.
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Well, I think it is important to say you got to read the rules of these things, of how they get, you know, settled out. Because there's always, I remember Poly Market, you know, there's, you know, some lower handle things kind of. There were some big arguments. I saw an Exxon what made the decision to decide this or decide that. So if you're getting into the weeds on this stuff, you got to do the research. But again, the gold card, forming your opinions and understanding what that is. And again, those are the type of revenues that Lutnick, you know, could decide to, you know, what is it Net zero put into the bitcoin reserve. Right. Because we can't print money or put, you know, net zero. It was a net zero outcome, so we can't dedicate budget to it. But if it's a net zero outcome, like we're selling gold cards, then it could be a budget neutral way to buy bitcoin. So, again, stuff like that is how you can come on here and get some information. I did ask the chat. Is there any questions here before we. Before we get up? I know that there was one from Oscar. Any other questions? Last call. Toss them in there.
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I want to know what the chat thinks. I want to know what the chat thinks about this gold card. I mean, it has to be over one, right? Is anybody in the chat gonna buy a gold card.
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Yeah. The, the OLED podcast said that they would have done it, you know, had it been available back back in those days. So for sure there's people wanting to get in.
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Yeah, the only, only question is from Oscar about Veve. Have you guys ever heard of Veve Digital collectibles? Yeah.
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BV. Yeah, I answered them on the chat. VV's it's experience very, very turbulent times. So I personally would stay away until they make some, you know, big changes.
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Yeah, I also saw.
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Sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off too. I also saw a question in the chat someone asked about finding airdrops. Not sure. You know, a good way to find airdrops is well, join our community. Something Joe and I always talk about, but really a good way that I find these airdrops. CoinMarketCap has a link on airdrop opportunities. X Twitter can be your best friend. And really the way I personally find a lot of my airdrops are as I'm involved with a lot of these companies or these projects and every time that I'm speculating an airdrop or following these major accounts, I put it on a list and kind of something Joe and I just powwow and talk about all the time. But probably Twitter is your best way. But you always want to be extremely diligent because there's fake scams, links, people claiming that there's an airdrop. Definitely have wallet security verify these things. 3, 4, 5 different sources because somebody sending you, hey, you missed this airdrop in your email or in Your direct messages 99.9% of the time that's an absolute scam. So you want to be very careful when you're searching for these airdrops. But there's a lot of resources out there where you can find legit opportunities communities.
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Well said, man. We're an hour five. We appreciate everybody in the chat. Again, if you're still here and haven't yet hit that like button, subscribe if you haven't. Thanks to Brian and Joe. If you want more around their community, I did put the link in the description. It's the first one there for the momentum money makers and other than that, we appreciate everybody being with us today. We do have one more live. It's going to be Friday afternoon. I'll put that link up on Thursday so you can make sure you get the URL ready. It's going to be a fun one. We're going to have, you know, most of the entire team there. It's going to be a prepare for October, but overall we just appreciate everybody listening. Thanks for your time, enjoy the rest of your day and we're going to see you all on Friday. Bye bye everybody.
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