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Weekly Rundown - April 13, 2025
Between grief and nothing . . .
Mark Helfman
April 13, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes
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🗓️ What you missed this week
Market Update I spent a good week with people IRL. They don’t know what’s going on with the markets. | Special Report Before you buy into the latest theory, confirm you know how to use it. Read my special report, Exposing Bitcoin Data Models and Cycle Theories. | Buy/Sell/HODL Alert Sometimes, you have to take action. If you follow my plan, read my alert from April 9, 2025 so you know what, when, and why I’m doing what I’m doing. |
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🏅 Ethereum's Lead In DeFi Metrics
Before you get too down on ETH, read this article from FRNT Financial, Ethereum's Lead In DeFi Metrics.
ETH’s had a rough go for a while. L2s, liquid staking derivatives, and ETH 2.0 tokenomics bleed value from the ETH token.
However, Ethereum still dominates DeFi liquidity and stablecoin distribution. There's a reason every major crypto app leverages the Ethereum blockchain.
Is ETH doing poorly because there's something wrong with it? Or is it doing poorly because, like every other altcoin, it was valued too highly to begin with?
In other words, is your disappointment in ETH due to setting expectations too high or to some failure specific to Ethereum?
This article will help answer that question.
🔥 SEC Issues Fresh Guidance on Crypto Securities as Regulatory Framework Takes Shape
Bottom line: US crypto developers and entrepreneurs will have to share specific information about their business activities and revenue models with the public.
My take: This makes more sense than Gary Gensler’s “talk to us so we know how to sue you” approach. I'm not sure it changes anybody's business conduct, but it makes sure you and I can see their revenue models, technological progress, and how tokens contribute to network governance, operations, and user experience before they can raise money or sell cryptos. The approach also gives US regulators enough transparency to separate fraud, grift, and deception from normal business activities.
(Though some say fraud, grift, and deception ARE normal business activities in crypto!)
Why we care: We can feel better about the direction of US crypto policy.
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