Ian Balina

Ian Balina

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Founder & CEO @tokenmetricsinc. GP @tmventuresfund. Author of "The Crypto Investing Guide" available on Amazon/Audible. Appeared in @wsj, @cnn, @cnbc.

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Fannie Mae just accepted Bitcoin as mortgage collateral. The entity that backstops roughly half of all US mortgages. This is not a crypto company doing crypto things. This is the US housing system saying BTC is a real asset. We broke down what this means for BTC price, for DeFi, and for your portfolio in today's Token Metrics Daily Pulse newsletter.

Hot take: 90% of crypto projects building AI integrations right now are just adding chatbots to dashboards and calling it innovation. The real play is in AI agents that execute trades, manage risk, and operate autonomously on-chain. Not a chat window. We're about 12 months away from agents managing more DeFi TVL than humans. And nobody's pricing that in yet.

Fannie Mae accepting BTC as collateral is the kind of news that sounds boring but changes everything. We talked through what this actually means on today's Token Metrics Daily Pulse podcast. How it affects lending, what it signals for regulation, and why most people are underreacting.

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Brian Armstrong says AI agents will make 1 million times more transactions than humans. Vitalik is writing about AI + Ethereum intersections. At Token Metrics, we've been building at this intersection for years. We publish an AI curated daily crypto brief for 100K+ readers. The future isn't AI replacing your judgment. It's AI giving you better inputs so your judgment actually works.

DeFi is booming Hyperliquid just changed the game See why traders care

Bitcoin fell below 106k. The real signal isn’t rates; when the crowd piles into big tech, crypto cools next.

Big firms loading Bitcoin and Ether in their treasuries quietly turn crypto into working capital, not speculation. Exchange-traded products just drew 921M in new cash, up from last week’s losses. That momentum invites payroll and invoices to shift on chain next.

Bitcoin ripped, shorts got washed, and the next move may be set in talks, not charts. Quick version for newcomers: when many traders bet against a move and price jumps, forced exits can push price higher. That snowball can run until fresh sellers step in. About $319 million in

Crypto just exhaled: a trade truce hint nudged bitcoin past 113,000 and lit up majors. Talks between the US and China showed real progress on export controls, fentanyl, and shipping levies. The most aggressive tariff threat was walked back, and that eased the mood across

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