Tension crypto holders there are two big catalysts
in the cryptocurrency market today that if either Of these two catalysts play out could send crypto
prices lower a lot lower not trying to create fud Because rest assured in today's video I'm going
to give you the full picture do not be fooled what Are the two catalysts crypto holders are worried
about number one the SEC will take action against Ethereum and classify ethereum as an unregistered
Security in fact coinbase CEO recently warned that The SEC may consider ethereum a security not
that he wants this just warning that the SEC Is cracking down and it's not surprising by the
way you know the current Financial system is built On 40 year old technology some of the laws have
been around for 100 years before the internet even Existed if the SEC decided to take action against
ethereum and deem ethereum and unregistered Security that would surely tank the market
because if that happens virtually no cryptos Except Bitcoin could live let alone thrive in
America that action would create fear uncertainty And doubt across the world this is particularly
of concern to the cryptocurrency industry in America because the SEC just went after popular
cryptocurrency exchange Kraken to discontinue what They call their unregistered security offering
I.E the staking that you can do on kraken's Platform is an unregistered security to the SEC
they made him pay 30 million dollars settle the SEC charges you can no longer stake on Kraken
crypto Catalyst number two could be a massive Unlock of both Bitcoin and ethereum flooding the
open market this month crypto personality and Analyst Kobe tweets they're going to release the
mount gox Bitcoin the same week they unlock post Merge staked ethereum they just want to maximize
chaos 6 to 12 months away probably it's going to Be funny don't trust anyone this was kind of a
joke tweet by him back August 27 2022 seems like Reality is imitating parity Mount gox creditors
May finally start seeing their Bitcoin this month March Shanghai upgrade where ethereum eath becomes
unlocked from the staking contract slated for March this would be the most massive unlock from
people with mostly lower cost bases than current Prices could get ugly no God no God please no
no addressing issue number one is ethereum at Risk of being classified as a security and as we
answer this we need to make sure we understand the Finer points of why the SEC went after kraken's
staking program in the first place what exactly Were the issues Andrew Keys co-founder and
president of Dharma capital on coindesk Andrew Does all this talk about eth potentially
being a security make you nervous at all I don't think it makes me nervous I think when
understanding what the SEC explained they took Specific issue with how Kraken was using their
program for staking as a service uh when you Dig into the details there were two pieces that
I found uh specifically compelling one was that The SEC took issue with the co-mingling of assets
and the other was that rather than a technology Service provider that charged a percentage of
a validator's return for example if a ethereum Valid or generated 10 ether you could have a 10
fee uh and and basically nine ether would go to
The client one percent would go to the technology
service provider they didn't publish the way that The staking yields were processed so chairman
Gensler used the example that Kraken could have Potentially traded to generate yield or lent uh to
generate yield or state to generate yield so so I Think there was specific Nuance that should
be considered with respect to understanding Really what the issues that were taken yeah and
just to remind viewers Kraken paid a 30 million Dollar fine to the SEC as a settlement and they're
discontinuing its crypto staking services for U.S Customers what lessons can we learn from this
then so I think the Lessons Learned are to uh Potentially have non-custodial staking with assets
that are not commingled and that staking vendors Really need to operate as service providers
not uh entities that are essentially offering A certain amount of yield that you would see in
an investment contract addressing issue number two Mount gox Bitcoin plus ethereum staking massive
unlock happening at the same time this month March First of all the Mont gox Bitcoin flooding the
market this has been a fun narrative since 2014. People have been talking about this exact thing
flooding the market with Mount gox coins since 2014 since right after it happened not saying that
it won't create some cell pressure but I do think The fear uncertainty and doubt around all of this
has been largely overblown and after it happens We'll be all good let's talk about ethereum
staking so the ethereum staking unlock happens When the Shanghai upgrade goes live this has been
slated for March for a while this is true that The unlock will happen however it is a myth that
all the eth staked will be unstaked and unlocked All at the same time or same day not even the same
week not even the same month because when Shanghai Goes live it will actually be a waterfall or a
ladder sort of thing where each stakers will be Able to unstake their eth In Waves I've said this
before that I think the eat staking event although There could be some initial unstaking and initial
selling in the beginning I think being able to Unstake ethereum in the long term is bullish
because it will ultimately get much more people to Stake ethereum over time again taking Supply off
the market not to mention in true ethereum fashion Ethereum developers push back Shanghai upgrade to
early April so not even in March anymore and it's Possible they push it back even more so I think
that this is overblown for full context and more On what exactly ethereum's Shanghai upgrade will
do let's go back to Andrew Keys is he bullish or Bearish Shanghai is scheduled to occur in late
March or early April and what this does it enables Ethereum staking withdrawals so essentially we've
had a one-way Street where uh participants could Stake their ether earn the yield but weren't able
to access that yield or the principal ether now We'll be able to have withdrawals so big picture
I actually think short term this could be bearish As people access liquidity but long term I
definitely believe this to be bullish as now There's the ability to withdraw we believe that
more will actually stake currently there's about 15 percent of all ether that's about 29 billion
dollars of total market cap that's being staked
And I could easily see that number going to 30 to
40 percent over the next 24 months and and lastly I think once this upgrade is done we're getting to
the really interesting scalability upgrades uh so Proof of State kind of set the stage for what's
called dank sharding uh where uh ethereum can Have shards of the network form consensus rather
than having the entire network form consensus so Uh getting this kind of logistical upgrade out
of the way sets the stage for a really important Scalability upgrade which is kind of the what
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all the upgrades that can be done after that you Know bitcoiners have long said be your own bank
now ethereum can provide all the functionality Of a real life Bank two-factor authentication
password recovery set spending limit subscription Payments too in this case we're talking about
account abstraction and the launch of ERC 4337 Specifically this is coming up in ethereum's
roadmap so how bullish should we be once Ethereum's Shanghai upgrade goes live once account
abstraction goes live once sharding goes live not To mention the developing L2 ecosystem everything
that ethereum has going for it projecting out in The next one two three five to ten years
how bullish can we be on ethereum ethereum Is taking is a big industry but it's going to
get so much bigger than anyone can imagine solo Staking centralized decentralized liquid staking
derivatives institutional stakers restaking liquid Staking derivatives as defy collateral and more
this will all lead to ethereum staking becoming A trillion dollar industry the bull case for
ethereum staking is no longer that ethereum will Be the settlement layer for the internet that's
not the base case the new bull case for ethereum Is that it's the security layer for the entire
internet eth staking goes from one dimensional To omnidimensional so as an investment what are
we talking about let's go back to coindesk make Sure you subscribe to our channel daily videos
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price prediction and return on investment for Ethereum we believe that ethereum has proven that
blockchains can form consensus without the over Consumption of electricity as in bitcoin's proof
of work which we think is extremely important Furthermore the ability to generate yield without
the need to rehypothecate like what's happened in Celsius or block Phi with their lending programs
we find very compelling and lastly as a network we Think ethereum has proven to become deflationary
through What's called the eip1559 which is a
Method of burning ether per transaction so in
terms of kind of the Institutional Investor Outlook we think that this is probably the most
compelling asset in terms of risk-adjusted returns We still believe there's probably a 10 to 50x in
ethereum over the next five to ten years and now That one can be ESG friendly generate yield on the
asset so you can essentially earn more of it by Being long and contributing to beneficial actions
within the network and having this deflationary Policy within the ecosystem is compelling it
would be fair to say I have a majority of my Chips on ethereum because I believe this is the
substrate for the next generation of the global Economy and I think that this commodity of ether
and and the block space that it represents will Continue to be one of the most important
assets going forward over the next decade
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