The Five Most Important Stories in Crypto This Week

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🗓️ 26 April 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast on Macro, Bitcoin, and the Big Picture Power Shifts remaking our world.
0:18.4	What's going on, guys? It is Friday, April 25th, and that means it's time for the Friday 5. Before we get into that, however, if you're enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit.ly slash breakdown pod. All right, friends, back with another Friday 5 here.
0:39.0	Believe it or not, we don't just have to talk about Trump tariffs, if only because the story of
0:43.7	this week was a little bit more about Trump backing off tariffs and Trump backing off his fight against Powell.
0:48.4	And in the relief of pressure that came with that, we got to see some more institutional adoption
0:53.0	stories and narratives taking place,
0:55.0	as well as what seems like cautiously optimistically, the continued peelback of Operation
0:59.1	Chokepoint 2.0. Anyways, lots going on, so let's dive in right now.
1:05.5	Good morning. Happy Friday, sir. What's happening? Just crypto stuff and Trump stuff and more Trump stuff. You know,
1:13.7	it seems to always be Trump stuff. I don't think we've yet escaped the markets only care what he
1:19.0	tweets, uh, environment quite yet. Don't think we're going to, although I think we are getting,
1:25.3	actually I've had the beatings will continue into morale improves on. And I feel like I didn't mean to, but accidentally kind of picked
1:31.8	picked the hat of the time. That's amazing. Listen, before we get into the main stories,
1:38.7	we have this sort of hyperbolic title. The crypto markets are set to explode as Bitcoin
1:42.5	approaches 95. Well, Bitcoin, I mean,
1:44.7	just went to 94-9, making another high in this kind of local cycle. But like I said, this is more
1:50.6	about what's likely to come in the future. This was one of the stories about real estate market
1:55.0	exploding to $4 trillion. I've had a lot of conversations of late about how tokenization
2:00.2	really is going to be the future of growth in crypto.
2:03.8	We have a lot of crypto-native applications that people are likely to adopt, but really the big numbers are going to come from the other side.
2:10.9	It's going to be tokenization and stable coins.
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