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The Breakdown

The Institutions Are Coming Back to Crypto

The Breakdown

Blockworks

Investing, Business

4.8806 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Deloitte has hundreds of jobs advertised around digital assets. Franklin Templeton just announced a major blockchain project with Polygon. Standard Chartered Bank is betting on $100k BTC in 2023. The institutions are back, baby.  Enjoying this content? SUBSCRIBE to the Podcast: https://pod.link/1438693620 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nathanielwhittemorecrypto Subscribeto the newsletter: https://breakdown.beehiiv.com/ Join the discussion: https://discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8 Follow on Twitter: NLW: https://twitter.com/nlw Breakdown: https://twitter.com/BreakdownNLW “The Breakdown” is written, produced and hosted by Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW. Research is by Scott Hill. Editing is by Rob Mitchell and Kyle Barbour-Hoffman. Our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach.

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0:00.0

With the shift of narrative thanks to the banking crisis and the other narrative opportunity

0:04.8

created by Ethereum shift to proof of stake, you have a pretty powerful set of context for

0:09.5

big firms to come back into the space.

0:12.0

Now, it's always reasonable to ask how much we care about big institutions being in this

0:15.9

space and whether those big institutions have incentives that are aligned with this space.

0:20.0

But the fact is,

0:21.2

they drive demand, they drive price, they drive infrastructure creation, and all of that's good

0:25.8

for everyone in Bitcoin and beyond. Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily

0:34.4

podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world.

0:42.6

What's going on, guys? It is Thursday, April 27th. And today we are talking about the

0:48.2

institutional narrative as relates the crypto industry. A few notes before we dive in.

0:54.8

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0:56.6

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1:03.3

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1:09.5

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or just having discussions with cool people or just lurking as other cool people have discussions.

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