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🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The latest price moves and insights with Jennifer Sanasie, Andy Baehr and WisdomTree Senior Associate of Quantitative Research Blake Heimann.

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WisdomTree Senior Associate of Quantitative Research Blake Heimann joins "Markets Daily" to discuss the impacts of tariffs and inflation on risk assets. Plus, the potential for crypto-related IPOs in 2025 and how institutional investors are approaching crypto investments. And, he weighs in on the advantages of trading in market indexes.

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0:00.0	In terms of your staples in the market like Bitcoin, that I'll say alternative monetary policy,
0:05.2	this kind of geopolitical hedge store value type of investment profile, it definitely feels like
0:12.1	we've kind of sucked all of the surprise, as you say, out of it. Because even with some of this
0:16.5	more bearish news coming out, we're still sitting here chopping sideways around that $85, $86,000 mark.
0:22.9	So, yeah, this is a period of time where we are seeing some stabilization.
0:33.4	Friends, Defi is having a moment. Uniswap Labs web app and wallet connect you to the excitement.
0:40.0	Swapping and bridging our simple, low cost, and lightning fast across 13 chains, including
0:44.5	base, arbitram and unichane, the new layer 2 network designed for defy. Thanks to deep liquidity
0:50.1	on uniswap protocols, you get minimal price impact on every trade, now with even greater
0:55.4	efficiency through uniswap v4. Swap, send, on-ramp, off-ramp, and bridge into a bright future.
1:01.8	Get started at uniswop.org. Welcome to MarketSdaily, everyone. Today I'm joined by a very special
1:07.0	guest host, head of product and research at CoinDesk Indices, Andy Bear.
1:11.5	Tariffs and inflation have been dominating the headlines. And on today's show, we're going to
1:16.2	talk about their impact on risk assets. Our guest today, Blake Hyman, who is the senior
1:21.5	associate of quantitative research at Wisdom Tree, says he has a positive medium to long-term
1:26.6	outlook, despite the headlines.
1:29.3	We'll dive into defy adoption trends, whether 2025 could truly be the year of the crypto IPO
1:34.5	and how institutional investors are approaching crypto from direct allocations to indexes and equity plays.
1:41.8	Blake, welcome to Markets Daily.
1:45.9	Hi, Jen. Thank you for having me. Hi, Andy.
1:52.2	Morning. Of course. Thanks for being with us. Now, we like to start this show off asking our guests what they're watching this morning. What are you watching? What's capturing your eye as we head into kind of shaky macroeconomic waters. Yeah, so if you just
2:05.0	keep track of what's happening in the headlines, a lot of it's very focused on the tariffs that
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