51 Insights - Weekly Briefing

<p>Hey, it’s Marc & the 51 team.</p><p>I’ve watched banks lobby Washington for 100 years to keep their Fed access exclusive. This week, Deutsche Börse skipped the lobby and bought a seat.</p><p>Deutsche Börse paid $200M...

<p>Hey, it’s Marc & the 51 team.</p><p>A sanctioned country just made Bitcoin a toll booth for 20% of the world’s oil.</p><p>Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz. About a fifth of global oil moves through it every day...

<p>Hey, it’s Marc & the 51 team.</p><p>I don't think Washington has ever shipped this much crypto policy in a single week. Each one would normally be the headline.</p><p>* The US Labor Department proposed allowing...

<p>Hey, it’s Marc & the 51 team.</p><p>Tuning in from DAS New York this week (which was much more institutional than last year). A few things that caught my eye:</p><p>* A bipartisan Senate deal on stablecoin yields...

<p>Hey, it’s Marc & the 51 team.</p><p>The SEC did something this week that people will look back on.</p><p>* They issued a 68-page joint interpretation on token classifications together with the CFTC, for the first...

<p>Hey, it’s Marc & the 51 team. </p><p>NYSE picked OKX. Nasdaq picked Kraken. America's two largest stock exchanges are now both building tokenized equities through crypto-native settlement partners, and neither picked...

<p>Hey, it’s Marc & the 51 team. </p><p>The SEC submitted a proposal outlining how securities laws apply to crypto. This means: SEC won’t wait for Congress. And Washington is betting on private stablecoins and regulated...

<p>Hey, it’s Marc & the 51 team. Welcome back to your weekly briefing.</p><p>The US stablecoin regulation is maturing. The OCC just proposed new rules to put guardrails around stablecoins (digital money tied to the U.S...

<p>Hey, it’s Marc & the 51 team. Welcome back to your weekly briefing.</p><p>Here's where we are: </p><p>* BTC is holding around $67K with the broader market steady near ~$2.3T. Polymarket odds for BTC reaching up $75K...

<p>Hey, it’s Marc & the 51 team. </p><p>After last week’s brutal sell-off that pushed BTC toward the low around $60k (2024 level), the market has finally staged a calm. Institutions are back in business buying the...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.51insights.xyz<br/><br/><p>Hey, it’s Marc & the 51 team. </p><p>What a week, folks – and only in crypto. We have a packed newsletter for you today to...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.51insights.xyz<br/><br/><p>Hey, it’s Marc & the 51 team. </p><p>While Blackrock took a quiet $100M stake in Canton, BitGo IPO’d at $2B and Tether...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.51insights.xyz<br/><br/><p>Hey, it’s Marc. </p><p>Davos is usually where the establishment pats itself on the back. This year, they looked over their...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.51insights.xyz<br/><br/><p>Hey, it’s Marc. </p><p>Big week for crypto regulation: The industry just shot itself in the foot.</p><p>“We’d rather have no...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.51insights.xyz<br/><br/><p>Hey, it’s Marc. </p><p>2026 didn’t wait. Last week, we shared our top 12 narratives for 2026. </p><p>Seven days later, the...