Crypto Rundown pt 2: Ethereum Takes Center Stage with ETH Treasuries & Why Bitcoin is in a Range

CRYPTO 101

Bryce Paul & Brendan Viehman

Business, Investing

4.6 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Tom Lee is launching an Ethereum treasury strategy similar to MicroStrategy's Bitcoin approach, highlighting the growing institutional interest in crypto and Ethereum's potential. The podcast discusses significant developments like Bitcoin ETF inflows, global banking adoption of crypto services, and the increasing mainstream acceptance of cryptocurrency investments. The hosts emphasize the ongoing crypto market evolution, with potential for further growth, institutional engagement, and emerging opportunities in stablecoins, tokenization, and ETF expansions.

0:00 Intro

0:02:37 Tom Lee explains his Ethereum treasury strategy, comparing it to MicroStrategy's Bitcoin approach.

0:13:24 Brendan highlights that Bitcoin ETFs now hold 7% of Bitcoin's total supply, worth $150 billion.

0:16:56 An independent investor advisor suggests up to 40% crypto exposure, citing massive changes in crypto adoption.

0:21:30 SEC approves Grayscale's index ETF including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, and Cardano.

0:24:33 Tom Lee discusses market "churn", explaining why Bitcoin's price isn't moving dramatically despite ETF success.

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0:00.0	All right, everybody, welcome back to the crypto rundown. And this is part two. That's right. You saw it in the title. And if you listen to the first one, you understood that we chop this into two parts. So if you haven't listened to part one, make sure you do. It was a lot of
0:20.9	awesome stuff around the Bitcoin price action this week. Technical analysis with Brendan.
0:25.2	We also did a full rundown on the Robin of the news and the tokenization of stocks, which we think
0:31.9	is extremely bullish for Ethereum and is going to roll us right into this part two that is
0:37.1	going to start after the swipes down two that is going to start after the
0:38.1	swipes down. We're going to pick it up here where we talk about Tom Lee starting his
0:42.2	Ethereum strategy, a company that's going to basically be the micro strategy of Ethereum.
0:48.6	And we have a ton more bullish news around Bitcoin. We check out the Fear Greed Index. We go
0:54.1	over some of the recent
0:55.1	ETF filings that are going to go live. Again, it's basically under the table,
1:00.4	bullish news that we're just pulling out and bringing to you each week. I hope you're all enjoying
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