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Host
It's looking increasingly likely that soon you will be able to sign up for Trump Exchange to trade Trump Meme coin and you'll be able to go to Trump bank to deposit funds using Trump stablecoin. It's very clear that the Trump Organization and all of the hangers on that are involved in Trump crypto are going all in on crypto. Some of them don't even know what the other ones are doing. There's controversy as to who's launching a wallet and who isn't. Either way, very clear, the Trumps are all in and it's probably going to buoy crypto for the foreseeable future. We're going to talk about this, of course, treasury companies and everything, rwa, bitcoin backed loans and such with one of my favorite guests, Sid from Maple Finance. And of course we've got Chris Inks on the back end sharing some charts and taking a deeper look at the market. Another amazing show coming. Let's go.
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Sid
Let's do. Let's go.
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Host
What is up guys? Give us a like and subscribe. We're contractually obligated to say that if we're going to be on YouTube even if we don't deeply care whether you like or subscribe. I don't know if it actually matters. I don't know if I actually care. I know someone who definitely doesn't care and it's today's guest, Sid. You don't care if they like or subscribe, do you?
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Sid
No, I'm kind of, I'm kind of indifferent. But I want to see you succeed.
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Host
So thank you. Thank you. I'm not sure if it helps or not, but let's actually dive into the show. I want to start actually with what Maple is up to, obviously, because you guys had a huge piece of news here. Cantor Fitzgerald's 2 billion Bitcoin backed lending arm makes first deals and reads the fine print. Falcon X and Maple Finance. I saw that Falcon X actually has already drawn massively from this credit facility. Maybe you can just tell us what the deal is, what this means.
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Sid
Yeah, for sure. So Cantor has launched a 2. $2 billion facility where they're effectively lending against bitcoin. So they announced last year that they wanted to get into the bitcoin backed lending space and this is kind of the fruition of that. And so in this case, Maple, both Maple and Falcon X are posting bitcoin to borrow dollars or stablecoins from Cantor. So we're really excited about it because Cantor obviously has a terrific brand and they have a large balance sheet. And so for us, this is a form of wholesale capital that represents the entry of traditional finance into the space. But what it allows us to do is really grow the loan book that we do. So we are today sitting at just over 2 billion in AUM. But when lending companies want to scale, they try and access wholesale facilities like this because it allows us to do more lending and eventually it leads to getting your cost of capital down. So we're hopeful that this just marks the beginning of TradFi, really beginning to participate in this space.
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Host
Do you get better terms when you have a large credit facility with a single actor than you would if you had to sort of go piece this together to increase your loan book?
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Sid
Yeah, it's much more scalable. So I think initially I come from a debt markets background. Initially, when you do the first one of these, you're typically paying what's called a new issuer premium. And so things get a little bit more expensive at the start. But over time, what you do is you show a track record, you add other wholesale providers in and you build kind of a name and a reputation in the market that allows your cost of capital to come down and the facilities that you get access to scale.
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Host
So.
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Sid
Cantor's got Appetite to do $2 billion of this kind of lending, which is good for us because it will allow us to scale the business significantly from here.
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Host
So who then are the customers on your side? Like, what's the path here? You have an institution come to you, they want to borrow, then you go borrow from Cantor and sort of middleman.
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Sid
In a nutshell, the way to think about it is Cantor has. They're obviously a large diversified operation. And so they want to be in the wholesale funding space, which means they want to deal with a smaller number of counterparties and do larger loan sizes. They don't want to staff out hundreds or dozens or hundreds of people who are individually negotiating smaller loans. And so what they do is they effectively use parties like us and Falcon X for distribution. So we take a larger amount, we then break it into smaller loans and put them out to our customers. And Falcon X does the same. The type of customers we deal with, we're more in the institutional side anyway, so we don't really touch retail. So we would be dealing with primes, OTC desks, market makers, I would imagine. Well, interestingly, market makers were the biggest borrowers of last cycle. But because they don't want to post collateral, almost none of them are really borrowing in size this cycle because they really only want to borrow when they can get it unsecured. And so if you look at it like for a market maker, it almost never makes sense for them to say, I've got Bitcoin. What I'm going to do is post the bitcoin to access dollars because they have the low, because they're effectively the most efficient people at swapping bitcoin into dollars. They'll just go and do that. And so it's, so it's actually, it's family offices now more and more. Like you might have a ultra high net worth individual who wants to buy some real estate or make some investments. We have on chain hedge funds who might be running a yield strategy or they have a liquid token position. And then also some of the centralized exchanges now are looking more and more at this. They want to provide lending. And it's like banks, you remember, like in the 90s, banks went through this big bundling process where you could get insurance, investment products. And now the exchanges are kind of doing the same thing. You can trade there, you have an earned product there, you can also borrow from them. And so that's, that's also a good kind of customer set for us. And then the other one we'll talk about soon is these treasury companies I'm pretty interested in as well.
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Host
Yeah, that's the next topic. Before we dive into the Trumps. I'm curious, how many of these people do you think are lending Bitcoin to borrow stablecoins to buy more bitcoin, assuming that bitcoin will outpace their interest rate?
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Sid
Well, I think all of them will consider this type of strategy. I mean effectively it's like they have a layered capital structure, right? And at the bottom you have your common equity, then you have pref equity, convertible bonds and other types of debt instruments. And my view is that if you have a well managed capital structure, you can slip debt in there where you might borrow against Bitcoin to buy more bitcoin and the appreciation of bitcoin, I mean empirically bitcoin compounded at what, 54% or something like that over the last five or six years. So the growth in capital does outpace your interest rate. But the main thing is you got.
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Host
To have good timing, 60% drawdown in between that, that number.
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Sid
Yeah, yeah, exactly. You don't want to be, there's a saying, you don't want to be the six foot, six foot man who drowned crossing a river that was five foot deep on average. And so that's, that's kind of that's, that's the spot you want to avoid is one of these treasury companies. It's worth noting Saylor had a facility, I think it was from Silvergate or.
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Host
300 million or something back when he was like making just tiny bets.
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Sid
Yeah, yeah, exactly. It was very early on when he was starting out and it was also before the banks kind of collapsed in 2023. And so I view it as like for these companies there is an intelligent way to use a facility like this, which is it's smaller in size, it has a low, you know, either a low LTV or something that reduces your odds of getting liquidated and you use it to opportunistically buy Bitcoin or whatever asset you're hoping to purchase, but then you pay it back. I think you want to be regularly paying it back anytime you issue instruments into the capital market. So if you do a round of pref equity or if you do common equity or converts, you use that to pay back our facility. And that's because when you tap capital markets, it's expensive in terms of the fees you pay investment bankers and also takes a while to roadshow and do a deal and settle.
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Host
That all makes a lot of sense. I think a lot of retail who do loans like this view it as a lifestyle loan that they're never going to pay back. Right. As long as they outpace it even they use it to go live their life without having to sell and take taxable. And just assume that over time you keep up 35, 40% LTV, you'll generally be safe, never get liquidated.
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Sid
Yes.
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Host
Structurally different than how an institution would approach this.
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Sid
Yeah, an institution has to use it to somehow grow the business. You'd hope it's not for lifestyle purchases by an institution or for throwing big parties, but for individuals who do these types of loans, often it's for lifestyle purposes. They might have a cash flow issue and they want to either fund a holiday or a wedding sometimes. And more and more I think we're seeing people use it to take down money to say put a deposit down on a house because they don't want to sell their bitcoin. And interestingly, I've actually seen the retail products evolve to where there's now a couple of people or a couple of firms who are looking at doing kind of quasi hybrid bitcoin backed home loans. Where you put down Bitcoin you get enough for a deposit and then a bit extra for the home loan. But for the lender, they have both your bitcoin and the real estate as security for their position. So they're in a pretty good spot.
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Host
Nice position.
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Sid
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Host
They have the most capital in the world and home.
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Sid
Yeah, exactly, exactly. And the reason that market exists, like, I feel like you're getting paid pretty well to take on that risk. I mean, the reason that market exists is that banks still will give zero credit to bitcoin savings or, you know, or crypto savings when it comes to. Yeah. Which is changing and should change. As you said, it's the most pristine collateral in the world.
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Host
Yeah, that's good change. That's a good segue, I think, into Bitcoin treasury companies. My new favorite topic that I can't stop talking about on this show with every single guest, and you're probably the best one of everyone because you're going to be participating in the background. I mean, this credit facility is going to be one of the tools I would imagine that these Bitcoin treasury companies are going to use to add Bitcoin to their balance sheets. So I think it's important maybe to once again discuss the nuance or the differences between the different kinds of Bitcoin treasury companies that go, I think, all the way from we're just going to take 5% of our cash and buy Bitcoin and put it away forever to hedge, the education all the way up to financial engineering, the strategies and the others that are going to find creative ways, I think, to raise debt and add Bitcoin to the balance sheet. And then the question in the title here is, this is a Bitcoin super cycle starting. I literally get hives when I hear the word super cycle. So if that's in my title, it's probably the top. But what does this mean for Bitcoin if we have all these buyers in the market?
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Sid
I think, yes, there's a lot of nuance in that topic, but I think broadly it's good for Bitcoin if you have more of these kind of newer buyers coming into market. And another way to think about it is that in some jurisdictions where it's harder to launch ETPs effectively, this is a way to kind of create a synthetic Bitcoin ETP or ETF in those markets.
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Host
Exactly what MicroStrategy was for all those years. MicroStrategy was the first and you didn't have an ETF to buy. People would buy MicroStrategy for Bitcoin exposure.
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Sid
Yeah, yeah. And often the question comes up, why would you pay effectively $2 of NAV for $1 of Bitcoin so you're effectively paying, when you buy MicroStrategy you're effectively paying 200k to purchase one Bitcoin. And the more intelligent answers I've heard have been basically that they have an ability to compound bitcoin per share in the same way that Warren Buffett used to look at book value per share. And Warren Buffett would be obviously unhappy to hear his company and investment strategy likened to Bitcoin. But effectively the proposition is they can compound your bitcoin per share faster than you could in an etf. And so it's worth paying a bit of a premium. I don't know if a 2x Premium is still justified. And probably what you're seeing some of.
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Host
The new ones are at 6.78.9x premium.
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Sid
Already 100% and the market's kind of correcting because more supply is coming online. So effectively if there was a higher nav premium you're seeing that get hopefully arbed away by having more supply come up, come online to serve the market. But I think for some of these companies it is just kind of a poison pill. You buy some bitcoin. I've heard Jeff park from, from Bitwise kind of expressed it nicely which is if you have short sellers, bitcoin, adding Bitcoin to your treasury is a bit of a poison pill where your company may not be doing well otherwise. But having bitcoin that's appreciating in the treasury kind of makes it very hard for somebody to short your, short your stock all the way up to the microstrategies of the world who are using very sophisticated financial engineering to accumulate more bitcoin per share. And then now we've seen more one more Bitcoin copycats and replicas of this as well as the ETH version with the gaming company. I think it was, was it ShareLink or something. It was announced the other day, I.
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Host
Talked about it yesterday that one immediately like in one ear out the other to be honest. But it's interesting. I think the consensus is actually participating in that with then.
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Sid
Yeah, but yeah, yeah and, and I xrp. Yeah and then, and then you saw the, the XRP one I think was, was announced this morning Weboo Chinese company but and then we've seen three, three, three or four Solana versions generally I'm finding it's the same investors who are participating in all of these. I think they've, they've identified what they think is kind of a short term pocket where there's an opportunity here. And so far the market is kind of rewarding them with these NAV premiums. Longer term. What you don't want to see is to my earlier point, so if these companies borrow and then they have the possibility of getting liquidated, debt is a tool. It can be used poorly or it can be used well, depending on how skilled the handler is. And so what you want to see is that they have effectively low LTVs and a lot of margin of protection from getting liquidated and also healthy equity balance.
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Host
Yeah. So that sort of speaks to the different ways people are going to do this and I think the idiots who are going to come in at the top and do it wrong. But I guess that's a projection to the future. So we'll see. I mean you have a sailor who effectively is just raising all this debt and convertible notes. But at the end of the day it shouldn't be MicroStrategy shareholders, it's going to be the people who hold this debt who are really at risk. Right. Or I guess the shareholders of MicroStrategy. But they shouldn't have to sell Bitcoin in any of those scenarios. And I think that that's the ones that are structurally built like that. You're taking risk by either buying the debt or being a shareholder, but you're really not worried about it affecting the bitcoin market long term. But if people start using credit facilities and taking 60, 70% LTV loans and Bitcoin drops 30%, they're going to puke their bitcoin and that could affect.
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Sid
Yeah, yeah, that's where you want to have. That's where my point earlier was that I think it's fine for companies to use debt intelligently. They'll naturally want to get higher LTVs when they talk to financiers like us. But what they should be doing is repeatedly paying down those facilities. Anytime they tap capital markets. So you can use it like a revolver, draw it when you think like if bitcoin drops, that's actually when they should be drawing the facility, not when Bitcoin's hitting a new all time high. And then they use us to opportunistically add Bitcoin to their stack at favorable prices, pay us down when they go and tap the capital markets and tap the capital markets with longer term capital that is more issuer friendly. And so if you look at some of Saylor's instruments, he has PREF that pays a dividend, he has PREF that pays no dividend or only when declared and it's non cumulative. And then he has converts which just convert into equity. Right. So he's not on the function. Yeah, he's launching a new one every week at this time.
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Host
I think what's interesting though, the differentiation between Saylor and the access. These other. Have a. Is the first mover. Right. I think people trust it, they understand what he's doing. I think what's always been brilliant about his strategy when you look at it, is that he finds these new pools of capital with each instrument that can't get access to Bitcoin otherwise. We talked about it MicroStrategy before the ETF was a retail way to buy it. Right. Now he does these things where an insurance company can go buy his debt but they can't buy Bitcoin to put on their balance sheet or some sort of, some sort of like super risk managed large pool of capital that still can't buy Bitcoin. They can find their access with one of these products he's creating. I don't know that everybody else can do that or that there'll be a thirst for it since he's already done it.
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Sid
That's. That. Yeah, I think that's where he's, he's had the kind of the genius of evolving what he's offering. So as you said, initially it was a retail access play when there was only the GBTC trust and there was no other ETFs. And then increasingly it's become more of an institutional play. And that reflects the fact that he's now got over 500,000 bitcoin. So he has a scale where he needs to tap institutional players now to raise meaningful amounts of capital. But also institutions don't want to do a bunch of DD on an instrument unless they can put, you know, hundreds of millions to work. And so that's, that's where it's kind of, it's mutually beneficial. But also he's at a scale where he can use the best investment banks and distribute his, you know, distribute these instruments. Because he's got hundreds of millions, if not billions to play with in terms of, in terms of each issuance. But I do think, I mean the converts were super interesting. Right, because he found a way to raise the capital and then when he was issuing them, he was effectively pricing them at a lower volatility than they warranted. And so it meant that they were actually cheaper for the, you know, for the convertible debt guys and hedge funds to buy in market. And so that's, that's why they, they all ended up totally oversubscribed.
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Host
Yeah, I mean I think it's clear that Michael Saylor is leading the charge here. And these we're going to get.
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Sid
A big question is how important is the 8th or the 10th or the 12th one of these, and where does the methodology break?
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Host
And you mentioned, obviously, it's all the same pool of investors and they've done exceptionally well. I mean, that side of it is ICO 2017 all over again just skinned into public markets. Actually, the same people who are making the money on ICOs in 2017 are the ones funding these treasury companies. That gives me a little pause.
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Sid
But where it's really good for Bitcoin is that he's bringing in new pools of capital. Right. Like insurance companies previously not doing anything in Bitcoin. And he found a way to create a structured product and they will find.
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Host
Their way, by the way, with time, into, you know, more Bitcoin direct products, ETFs, or spot Bitcoin, eventually. And somebody else who's clearly all in for reasons we can discuss. We've got the Trump family's net worth has increased by 2.9 billion, thanks to crypto investments. No surprises there. But it's Trump everything right now. Right. So there was this huge report yesterday that Trump, as I kind of joked about the beginning, was going to launch his own exchange for the meme coin. Then I guess we get to that story. Trump meme coin, wallet spurs divide among families, crypto camp. So then Donald Trump Jr. Said, this isn't the Trump Organization. That's Magic Eden, with the team that launched the Trump token launching a wallet. We're going to launch our own wallet at World Liberty Financial. Right. And then. So there you go. And they sent people a stimulus check and you got Trump, Trump stablecoin, which is off to a rocky start. And of course, we have Trump launching a etf. I mean, this family, for better or for worse, they're doing it all. They're mirroring everybody's crypto journey. You know, try everything first and see what sticks. Listen, the treasury companies have their risk, this has its risk, but it's got to be a net positive when you have the most powerful person in the world sort of all in crypto.
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Sid
Yeah. I wish my NFT journey had been as good as theirs. It sadly wasn't. I didn't stick the landing. But.
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Host
But that's because you weren't the most powerful man in the world launching your own NFTs. You were buying other people.
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Sid
Correct? Correct. So, yeah, I'd say, look, it's net positive for the space that you have the most powerful man in the world showing an interest in it and pushing it forward from a policy perspective, I think certainly they've kind of blitzkriegged my headlines. I can't go on to Wall Street Journal or any of these places without seeing a Trump crypto related headline. What I would say is it's worth kind of keeping in mind it's not one uniform faction. Right. There's different people with different individual interests kind of behind the scenes. And when you have that many people and that many kind of cooks in the kitchen, it can be very hard to kind of separate the signal from the noise. And what I would say there is, there's probably a lot of people involved, whether it's in the truth social side or the Meme Coin side, or the NFT side or the world liberty side, who have different conflicting, not always aligned interests, who are, who are each making their own plays. And so it's probably a mistake to just view this as like, this is kind of the Trump family making one uniform push for crypto. I think they're very interested in crypto and that's good for the space. But yeah, it's a mistake to view this as one kind of uniform organization and not a bunch of different individuals with different interests.
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Host
I mean, I wonder how much appetite there will be for a kind of Trump branded etf. Right. It's just going to be a bitcoin etf. To my understanding, we have a number of these. This is trying to compete with BlackRock. I wonder. I mean, maybe it's just, you know, the. Listen, this to me is great. It's a publicly traded etf. Maybe it'll be a bunch of like Trump fans in. I'd much rather than be buying Truth Social Bitcoin ETF and Trump Token.
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Sid
Yeah, yeah. I mean, we want to see as people in the space, we want to see more new entrants participating and that kind of grows the pie for all of us. And so to that extent, if it can capture the attention of people who are not presently in crypto and get them involved somehow, I think that's a good thing. If we see a Trump token 200 ETF, then things are probably going a little bit far. But I think bitcoin as a starting point is reasonably conservative.
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Host
So there's one more huge piece of news that I think is worth discussing with you, obviously, and that is that Meme Coin Platform Pump fund pursues $1 billion token sale obviously, I think we know that. Yeah, there's been the bitcoin side and there's been the Meme Coin side and a lot of things in the middle have suffered. But this is a clear indication that there's some thirst still or at least perceived that the Meme Coin cycle will continue. Continue. And that pump, that fund has a ton of value.
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Sid
Yeah, I think, I mean, I've like, early on I kind of viewed Meme Coins as a bit of an inverse defi where as long as Defi was doing badly and it was, you were going to get cracked down on by regulators, people switch from doing Defi stuff to Meme coins because there was no expectation of profit, there was no business, there was, there was no possibility of it being considered a security. And I'd been hopeful that things would kind of shift the other way once. Now that we've seen a kind of more pro innovation regulatory environment, I think you can see that. You can see that kind of Meme Coins have definitely had their moment and certainly Pump Fun has been extremely successful from a revenue perspective. So I think they're opportunistically capitalizing on doing the token. Now, a $1 billion token sale is, if that's a primary issuance and that money is going to their treasury, that's pretty mass massive. And I don't know, I actually tend to think like Treasuries can become slow and sloppy and lazy if they raise too much capital. I was perusing Coingecko the other day, looking at all the L1s that raised at $2 billion valuations a couple of years ago, and they'd raised 200, $300 million checks. These are all now, for lack of a better term, kind of zombie hedge funds. They're these treasuries sitting on $100 million of cash with a token that now trades at 2 or 300 million. No customers, no users on their chain. And they got, they got lazy and sloppy and they're rich, but they're rich, but they're rich and you know, maybe they can go buy an exchange or something later on as we, as we saw a few of the 2017 ICOs do when they raised a bunch of money in Bitcoin. But as a team, if you're building, I think having that much money in the treasury kind of becomes a bit of a crucible which prevents you from shipping quickly and continuing to be innovative on the product side.
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Host
Yeah, I mean, eos, I looked it up to get the. I think they raised $4.2 billion in the last cycle. Right. I've seen people say as high as 6, I think it was 4.2. But block 1 has 140,000. Bitcoin block 1, if they were like publicly becomes a bitcoin treasury company, would be one of the largest bitcoin holders in the world. And it's literally money that was just raised from retail people and they, and.
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Sid
Then they have to do anything died.
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Host
And they just get to keep the money. Does that seem fair?
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Sid
Yeah.
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Host
Then they have to like return that, you know.
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Sid
Yeah, it seems, it seems crazy. Like there should be effectively a sunset clause on it where the money has to get returned. If, if it's, you know, if you don't ship a product after a certain period of time, like you, because it's, you just end up with these zombie companies. There are these massive treasuries and I know a few of these now that just go around now. They effectively just manage their treasury like a hedge fund. There's no product, there's no team building anything and you know, just the, the insiders taking exorbitant fees and salaries on it.
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Host
I mean, but that's crazy because, you know, I mean you're talking about raising in bitcoin in 2017 at those prices and now you're sitting here trading at 105,000. So it's not even like the more recent rounds of the last five, six years where people raised in, you know, tether or whatever in dollars for a token launch that you see. They also multiplied their Bitcoin holding by 10, 11, 12 times probably. I don't know at what point in that cycle you know, what the price of bitcoin was and just get to sit on it.
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Sid
Yeah.
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Host
Bitcoin treasury companies pull that off. I'll be. Yeah.
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Sid
But coming, coming back to pump fund, I think it'd be interesting to see whether this marks kind of the top or maybe not the top. Maybe the issuance of Trump was. Trump coin was the top for meme coins. But whether this marks a high point in the market. You kind of bet, I guess. You kind of bet yes on that.
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Host
Trump token showed us the ceiling of what's possible with a meme coin for sure. I don't think you ever see a meme coin launched by a bigger name that goes to a higher market cap than that. Right. Maybe like a doge or something returns. But as for the meme coin market.
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Sid
And this is kind of the, I guess this is the peak of the pick and shovels play on meme coins. I guess the pick and shovels play was gopump fun as the major kind of platform for launching these, and then that can be expressed in purchasing the token in this launch. So we'll see. I mean, 4 billion for a token is pretty frothy. If they can keep up the revenue stats, who knows how high it could go? And I'm. I'm certainly not best positioned to opine on how Meme Coins will do from here, but I have a Meme Coin.
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Host
Credit facility with pump fun.
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Sid
We. We looked not at Meme Coins, but NFT lending back in the day. But the markets, the market's not big enough in my opinion. It's too thin. It's very hard to pick winners. It effectively just becomes like kind of throwing darts at a board. We've kind of focused our core around asset management on chain. And you can see in our loan book we're trying to just concentrate on lending against Bitcoin Eth sol xrp, the large caps that we're comfortable with. And that can take 50 or $100 million loan sizes now. Whereas I don't want to spend two weeks underwriting a $1 million loan against a Meme Coin.
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Host
Yeah, that makes perfect sense. Anything else I might have missed or anything worth mentioning before I let you go?
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Sid
No, I think those are the main things. I mean, the other thing we're kind of continuing to keep an eye on is kind of. We touched on it before about the bitcoin structured products, but I think Bitcoin defi is kind of continuing to attract market interest over the course of this year. We're looking at launching an LST of BTC to come later in the year. But I think the core thing that we see from all institutions is when they come into the space, they look at bitcoin, they want to buy bitcoin, and then the next things they think about after that are how do they get a yield on bitcoin or how do they borrow against bitcoin. And you're kind of seeing that natural progression with some of those treasury companies we talked about earlier as well.
- [30:32]
Host
Yeah, that makes perfect sense. Well, everybody. Give Syrup said still the best name on X. I say it every time. Give Syrup said a follow. Check out everything at Maple, of course. And thanks as always, man, for joining. Really.
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Sid
Thanks for having me, man. Was a pleasure. All right, take care.
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Host
Have a good one. All right, guys, waiting for Chris to arrive to break down some charts. I think he's having some computer issues, but of course, on a Wednesday worth noting. Our awesome. I did. I pointed the right way. Aptos, obviously the sponsor. So I think something I want to highlight because it's happening literally, I think in 25 minutes. Pretty awesome. I was just with Avery obviously in Dubai. We just published the interviews I did with him for the street. So you should check that out on our channel. We have a section street interviews now where we're going to be adding a ton of new content. But on Wednesday, June 4th at 10:00am Eastern Standard Time, in 26 minutes, Avery will testify in front of Congress. The House Committee on Agriculture. They obviously play a critical role in market structure policy. So people are always surprised when you're like, why are we talking about the House Committee on Agriculture for crypto. But they're actually the ones who oversee the CFTC and therefore who oversee derivative markets and such. But Avery will be testifying in front of them. Here's the topic. American innovation and the future of digital Assets. Maybe we'll live stream this on my channel. Actually. From blueprint to a functional framework that is today. So getting market structure legislation correct. Huge. And I'm glad that we have people like them that are going to be contributing to that. Meanwhile, obviously we've talked about the fact that Aptos new focus is on creating this global trading engine, basically bringing all trading, all TVL to blockchains and specifically to the fastest, cheapest and most powerful blockchains like Aptos. Well, that's obviously massively growing. As you can see from this chart, the daily Dex volumes of apptops have now broken 100 million for the third time. With total on chain trading surging over three and a half times since January. There's nothing to sign up for. I just want you guys to have Aptos on the radar. Check out everything they're doing. If you're looking to build in this space, you should deeply consider building with them. Chris, I think is having some technical issues at the moment, unfortunately. So going to call it now for the show. Thank you all for attending. Thanks to Syrup Sid for coming and offering his insight. I really think that the bitcoin treasury companies, everything Trump's doing, all this is going to be the thing that we need to keep continue to watch because it's going to make or break, I think the next cycle and how high bitcoin goes, whether we have a super cycle or not, I will be honest, I have my doubts. Not my favorite topic or term, but that's all I got for you today. I will see you guys back here tomorrow.
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Sid
Let's do. That's dope.