LATEST: Bitwise CIO Predicts Bitcoin Will Outperform Traditional Assets Over Next 10 Years

Bitwise Asset Management projects bitcoin to be the best-performing major asset over the next decade, forecasting a 28% compound annual growth rate alongside steadily declining volatility. In a preview of its upcoming Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions, Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan highlighted that institutional interest is surging, with professional allocators now treating bitcoin as a “core” portfolio asset following the approval of spot ETFs.

The memo notes a dramatic shift: from zero institutional requests for long-term bitcoin models between 2017 and 2024 to a dozen this year alone. Hougan argues this marks bitcoin’s transition from a fringe speculation to a mainstream investment option. The firm emphasizes bitcoin’s low correlations with major asset classes, a trait prized for diversification, and positions its assumptions alongside Wall Street forecasts for equities, bonds, and real estate.

Bitwise will release the full report later this week, detailing methodology and comparisons to forecasts from JPMorgan, PIMCO, BlackRock, and Vanguard. With over $146 billion in bitcoin ETF assets and nearly 7% of bitcoin’s supply now held on-chain, the digital asset is securing a stronger foothold in global portfolios.

Buckle Up Dollar Bulls, China Is Reportedly Considering Its Own Yuan-Linked Stablecoins

China is preparing to consider yuan-linked stablecoins as part of its efforts to expand the currency’s use worldwide, in what would represent a significant departure from its previous stance on digital assets.

What HappenedL The State Council, China’s cabinet, is expected to review a policy roadmap later this month that could authorize the issuance and use of yuan-backed stablecoins, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

The plan is likely to set targets for global yuan adoption and assign responsibilities to regulators such as the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the report quoting sources said.

Senior leaders are also scheduled to meet before the end of August to discuss yuan internationalization…

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Crypto insiders ramp up stock sales, nearing $1.7B in 2025

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Everyone is searching for top signals.

It could be that crypto is destined to forever follow the global money supply. Any sign of the bull market’s end would then be buried in macroeconomic data. Boring!

Empire is all about giving a look behind the curtain of the crypto industry. 

So let’s instead draw a more interesting correlation: how many shares crypto’s richest executives are cashing in on the way up.

First, it’s worth making one thing clear: People are allowed to make money. If any of us were in the same position, there’s no doubt that we’d be offloading our equity as…

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ADVENTURES IN SATOSHI CITY” – A NEW ANIMATED CHILDREN’S SERIES AND MULTI-PLATFORM ECOSYSTEM BUILT AROUND BITCOIN AND DEFI

Kartoon Studios, in Partnership with Austria’s Bitkern, Unveils a Bitcoin-Native Ecosystem that Combines Animated Entertainment, Interactive Rewards, and Educational Apps to Empower the Next Generation

Kartoon Studios to Introduce Games, Coins, and Consumer Products Based on Series and Characters

First Series to be Fully Produced in AI Features Anime Style Design and K-Pop Music Track

Beverly Hills — August 20th, 2025 — Kartoon Studios, Inc. (NYSE: TOON) (“Kartoon Studios” or the “Company”) today announces the launch of “Bitcoin Brigade: Adventures in Satoshi City,” a groundbreaking new property that is far more than an animated series. This revolutionary project is…

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Who Rugged Rogoff?

Kenneth Rogoff spoke, and the Bitcoin hornet’s nest awoke. 

When the celebrated Harvard economist and former chief economist at the IMF yesterday publicly confessed that he was wrong on Bitcoin, he didn’t do so gracefully; instead, he doubled down. You see, it wasn’t that his prediction in 2018 of Bitcoin’s imminent doom and the bitcoin price to quickly collapse was wrong; it was

Trump crypto regulation was beneficial instead of the needed crackdown Bitcoin was embraced and (shockingly) used by criminals, and Trump “brazenly hold hundreds of millions … of dollars in cryptocurrencies seemingly without consequence.”

I mean, talk about willful ignorance. Scooby-Doo called…

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Anthony Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Leverages ‘Ethereum Killer’ Avalanche To Tokenize $300 Million In Real-World Assets

Anthony Scaramucci, the founder and managing partner of SkyBridge Capital, has revealed plans to tokenize approximately $300 million from two of the firm’s funds on Avalanche.

Disclosure: 82% of retail CFD accounts lose money

SkyBridge To Put 10% Of Assets On Avalanche Chain

Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Capital intends to convert a portion of its assets into tokenized form, a process that involves creating digital tokens representing real-world assets. These tokens can be traded easily on a blockchain, similar to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or stablecoins. The company will utilize the Avalanche AVX/USD blockchain, which currently hosts nearly $2 billion in assets, as per…

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LATEST: Federal Reserve Says Banks Can Serve Crypto Without Facing Penalties

Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman announced a major policy shift supporting digital assets at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium on August 19. She confirmed that reputational risk considerations were removed from bank supervision in June, clearing a path for financial institutions to work with crypto firms engaged in legal activities without fear of regulatory penalties.

Bowman unveiled a four-principle framework to guide the Fed’s new approach: regulatory certainty, tailored rules, consumer protection, and boosting U.S. competitiveness. She stressed that crypto companies should not be driven away by unclear oversight, and banks should have the freedom to serve lawful businesses. The policy aims to integrate blockchain into traditional finance while safeguarding compliance and consumer rights.

Highlighting blockchain’s potential to reduce costs and settlement risks, Bowman urged greater collaboration between regulators and industry leaders. She warned that without clear rules, innovation could bypass the banking system, threatening its long-term relevance in global finance.

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Are crypto narratives becoming reality? – Blockworks

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“We are what we repeatedly do.”

— Aristotle

Central banks are buying gold in the 21st century for the same reason Romans bought it in the first: It has value because people perceive it to have value. 

That circular logic has proved so durable that the purchasing power of gold is virtually unchanged since antiquity.

In that sense, central banks are buying gold now because Romans were buying it then.

Perception has become reality through repetition.

The bet with crypto is that it can pull off the same trick, but faster — compressing millennia of belief into a few short…

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Rollup reality check: It’s the L1s that are defecting

Skeptics of Ethereum’s rollup-centric roadmap have speculated that layer-2 networks might eventually peel away from the ecosystem. The concern was that rollup teams would grow tired of paying Ethereum’s data availability fees and break off into sovereign layer-1 chains with their own validators.

But so far, that hasn’t happened. Instead, the gravitational pull has flowed the other way: independent layer-1s are re-architecting themselves as Ethereum L2s.

Celo and Lisk are two prominent examples. Celo launched in 2020 aiming to build a mobile-first, payments-centric L1 with its own stablecoins and identity layer. Lisk’s origins go back even further to 2016, when it launched…

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