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This week we have:

  • 📺 Latest Episode: My Crypto AI Portfolio

  • 📰 News: Ethlabs Launches

  • 🌟Narrative of the Week: The 4 Year Cycle Still Holds

Crypto Market Overview
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Crypto Market Overview
Global Market Cap
$2.06T
5.09% (7d)
24H Market Volume
$97.01B
11.70% (24h)
Bitcoin's Dominance
58.00%
Fear & Greed Index
16
Extreme Fear
Top Cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin Logo Bitcoin (BTC)
$59,566.56
5.79% (7d)
Ethereum Logo Ethereum (ETH)
$1,558.92
8.67% (7d)

Data as of June 26, 2026 2pm UTC

NEWS📰

  1. 🧪 Ethlabs Launches

    Backed by Joe Lubin and major corporate ETH DATs, a group of five former senior Ethereum Foundation researchers has officially launched Ethlabs. This new independent, nonprofit R&D organization is explicitly designed to prepare the network's core technology for an impending wave of massive institutional adoption specifically targeting the scale required for stablecoins, tokenized real world assets, and autonomous AI commerce.

  2. 🎰 Meta To Develop a New Prediction Market

    Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly directed a small team to build Arena, a new prediction market app designed to challenge industry leaders like Polymarket and Kalshi. Operating independently from Meta's core platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, Arena will initially function using a gamified, points based system rather than real money wagers.

  3. 🏛️ US Senate Passes Housing Bill with 2030 Federal CBDC Ban

    The US Senate voted 85-5 to pass a major housing bill that includes a strict moratorium blocking the Federal Reserve from developing or issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) until 2030. The legislation intentionally protects private, permissionless stablecoins and mandates that the Fed cannot launch a digital dollar without explicit congressional approval even after the ban lifts.

  4. 🟠 Strategy Bolsters Its USD Reserve

    Strategy fortified its balance sheet by raising $335.5 million through its ATM equity program. The firm allocated $34.9 million of those proceeds to acquire 520 Bitcoin, bringing its massive treasury to 847,363 BTC while diverting $300 million to bolster its USD reserve to $1.4 billion. This action helps reassure investors that dividends will be paid on its preferred stock STRC.

My Crypto AI Portfolio

In this video, I explain why I believe an AI super bubble is coming and how I’m positioning my portfolio for it. I break down what I’m buying today, why I’m scaling in instead of going all in, and how I’m managing risk while crypto remains below key levels.

NARRATIVE OF THE WEEK: The 4 Year Cycle Still Holds

For the past two years, every macro analyst on Twitter claimed that Bitcoin had outgrown its traditional four year halving cycle. The new narrative was all about global liquidity correlation, institutional ETF inflows, and a permanent super cycle. But the market just handed everyone a brutal reality check. Here is why the old school cycle is still undefeated and what it means for the rest of 2026:

The 4 Year Clock Remains Undefeated: Since Bitcoin’s inception, its price action has been ruthlessly dictated by a four year rhythm tied to the halving. Every single time, we see a year of aggressive expansion, followed by a painful bear market year, followed by accumulation and recovery. Despite Wall Street entering the space, Bitcoin is behaving exactly the way it always has.

The Global Liquidity Hype Was Wrong: At the top of the market, the consensus was that global liquidity trends had completely taken over Bitcoin's price action. Influencers and analysts promised that as long as central bank balance sheets expanded, crypto wouldn't crash. That turned out to be peak hype. The super cycle narrative blinded people to the reality that crypto still moves in massive, predictable waves of overextension and correction.

Peak Fear Reality: Fast forward to today, and the market is completely paralyzed by peak fear. Bitcoin has officially broken $60K, and we are now roughly 8 months into a grinding bear market. The euphoria of last year is completely gone, retail volume has dried up, and sentiment is back in the gutter, which is exactly what a textbook cycle alignment looks like at this stage.

Why Q4 is the Ultimate Turning Point: If the historical four year cycle continues to hold out, this pain has an expiration date. Historically, the capitulation and boring sideways grind of the bear market year starts to exhaust itself by late autumn. If the rhythm remains true to form, Q4 of this year should mark the definitive turning point where crypto bottoms out and begins its next multi-year accumulation phase.

Sitting sub $60K eight months into a bear market is painful, but history shows that the four year cycle is still heavily in play. If this historical rhythm holds out, Q4 of this year will be the major turning point for the market. This makes the current downturn the perfect opportunity to filter out the noise and scale into your highest conviction positions while prices are low, positioning yourself perfectly before the cycle inevitably shifts gears.

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