The American Rebellion Against Electricity / Railroads / Internet is Gaining Steam…
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Not sure people appreciate how fast major securities markets are heading toward full tokenization… Everyone now involved. Regulators. Exchanges like NYSE & Nasdaq. DTCC. Everyone. SEC expected to release innovation exemption for tokenized stocks as soon as *this week*.
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ETF chart of the year candidate... Roundhill Memory ETF hits $10bil in only 30 trading days, surpassing IBIT's record pace. Unreal. via @isabelletanlee @sidcoins
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This week's ETF buzz...
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Silversun Pickups…
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Passive investors should never victory lap the failures of active managers… Active managers are ones taking the real risk & doing all of the hard work. Important not to forget that. Index investors are freeloaders.
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Ok, permabears predicted a stock market crash following the 2024 election, liberation day, & iran war… Now let’s give them a euphoric AI infrastructure boom.
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.@ProcureAM_LLC’s @ETFwunderkind joins @NateGeraci on this week’s @ETFPrime to discuss $UFO, the Procure Space ETF, its rapid growth from $50M to more than $800M in AUM, and the upcoming rebrand of its index on May 15. @ETFwunderkind also covers the index’s new fast-track rule
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*JP Morgan* planning to launch its second tokenized money market fund… Will ride on Ethereum. Follows BlackRock filing for two tokenized MM funds last week. Again, you’re going to see *much more* of this from top asset managers. Just the beginning. via @isabelletanlee
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Launching today... The first spot HYPE ETF. 21shares Hyperliquid ETF (THYP) There's also a 2x leveraged version.
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Roundhill has now executed best launch in industry history w/ Memory ETF… Perfect portfolio for the moment (75% SK Hynix, Samsung, & Micron). Perfect ticker (DRAM). Perfect timing (they saw flows going into iShares South Korea ETF as proxy for DRAM trade). Perfect launch.
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FASTEST-EVER: $DRAM hit $6.5b in 36 days on the market, faster than any other ETF, incl the Mighty IBIT who took 43 days to hit that mark. Thanks in part to going up 13% on Fri alone and taking in (another) $1b in flows. I'm stunned, frankly. Regardless of what happens from here
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IEMG has outperformed VWO by *20%* over trailing 1yr... The primary difference? IEMG has exposure to South Korea. VWO excludes South Korea b/c index classifies it as a developed market. Wild performance dispersion b/w two ETFs many investors assume do the exact same thing.
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Breath of fresh air having SEC that actually attempts to balance regulation & innovation… Everyone should read Hester Peirce’s speech yesterday. She doesn’t say it, but seems like she’s referring to prediction market ETFs, which should launch soon.
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Early candidate for crypto headline of the year… Will be tough to beat. What have you all done.
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This week's ETF buzz...
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How many years can you keep predicting market crashes before your *one* correct call nearly 20yrs ago doesn’t matter any more… Wild that media keeps buying the story. Guessing combination of Burry, The Big Short, & media has easily cost every day investors billions of dollars.
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Politicians are proactively drafting legislation that basically mandates stablecoin issuers keep all of the yield generated from reserve assets… Instead of sharing that yield w/ stablecoin holders. Stablecoin issuers print $$$. Tradfi banks are protected. You get nothing.
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*BlackRock* planning to launch two tokenized money market funds... One will be digital share class of an existing tradfi fund. The other will be a new tokenized fund altogether (like BUIDL). You'll be seeing much more of this from top asset managers. via @isabelletanlee
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S&P 500 is now up over 30% since “Liberation Day”… With an Iran war mixed in.
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You can now gamble on which of your credit card charges actually hit… I’m serious. We’ve reached the cocaine of gamified personal finance stage.
We created a card that sometimes doesn't charge you. Buy Now, Pay Maybe. https://t.co/bl1pv9lIuA
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My conversation w/ @GilbertieSal... We cover: -1st US-listed ETF offering BNB price exposure -How XBNB ETF paves way for other issuers -Swaps & innerworkings of leveraged ETFs -2x leveraged XRP ETF -@TeucriumETFs white label service via @CryptoPrimePod
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My conversation w/ @GilbertieSal... We cover: -1st US-listed ETF offering BNB price exposure -How XBNB ETF paves way for other issuers -Swaps & innerworkings of leveraged ETFs -2x leveraged XRP ETF -@TeucriumETFs white label service via @CryptoPrimePod
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One of world’s most prominent financial institutions now rolling out *direct* crypto trading… Not only that, it’s undercutting competitors on pricing. Quickly heading towards crypto being table stakes at *all* major brokerages. Next step will be tokenized securities access.
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Nearly 370 ETFs have already launched in 2026, putting the industry on track to match last year’s record pace. On this week’s @ETFPrime, @Vetta_Fi's @kirstenchang16 joins @NateGeraci to break down what’s driving the surge, where flows are going, and how active management is
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Ryan Cohen marketing clinic… And mainstream media bought it hook, line, & sinker. Why retail investors love him. Masterclass.
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Pivotal moment for crypto w/ Clarity Act… Look how hard tradfi is fighting against stablecoin yield. It’s actually how you know this is the future. Deposits flee for a reason. Money *always* goes to where it’s best treated. via @ForTheWynn_
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Wall Street Journal analysis found that more than 70% of Polymarket users lose money... 67% of the profits go to just 0.1% of accounts. Pro traders & market makers feasting on retail.
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Forthcoming IPOs from private companies like SpaceX now causing *major indices* to change rules on the fly… In other words, active management. Wild thing is that majority of actual active managers can’t consistently beat S&P index committee. That’s gotta hurt. via @jmackin2
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Stablecoin, memecoin, bitcoin…
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This week's ETF buzz...
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My conversation w/ @KristinSmith... We discuss: -@SolanaInstitute mission -Status of Clarity Act -Impact of crypto legislation -Shifting regulatory backdrop -Crypto education among politicians And much more. via @CryptoPrimePod
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🎧 New Podcast! Behind the ETFs: VFLO, TTEQ, and the Strategies Driving Them Featuring @VCMtweets' Lance Humphrey and @TRowePrice's Dom Rizzo
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*Casino industry* website has article about forthcoming prediction market ETFs… Absolute perfection. Might be my ETF headline of 2026. It’s all DraftKings now.
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Obsessively focusing on politics is signal you want *someone else* to make *your* life better… Social media amplifies this, making people think politics are more important & their own lives are worse. Imagine if people put same focus into simply improving their own situation.
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This week's ETF buzz...
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*JP Morgan* says "looking at proof of concepts around tokenizing ETFs"... "We believe tokenization will certainly drive how the market changes, not just for ETFs but across the funds industry as a whole."
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Spot btc ETFs on a run… Inflows 10 out of past 11 days… +$2.4bil Flows now *positive* in 2026. Btc down 35% since hitting record high in early Oct. Spot btc ETFs over that time? Nearly $1bil *inflows*. ETF investors proving to be longer-term allocators. Diamond hands.
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My conversation w/ @EricBalchunas… We cover: -Resilience of btc ETF investors -Morgan Stanley & Goldman btc ETFs -Crypto index ETFs -Schwab direct crypto trading -ETF tokenization And *much* more. It's all here. via @CryptoPrimePod
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