Ray Dalio’s “World Order Breakdown” — what it means for crypto
PLUS: Fed Minutes + Miner Earnings Could Spark the Next Move
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In today's newsletter:
💡 Ray Dalio’s “World Order Breakdown” — what it means for crypto
📣 Fed Minutes + Miner Earnings Could Spark the Next Move
📈 BlackRock just went on-chain… and bought $UNI
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💡 Insight
Ray Dalio’s “World Order Breakdown” — what it means for crypto
Ray Dalio just published a long post arguing that the post-1945 world order is “officially broken down”—and that we’re entering the ugly part of what he calls the “Big Cycle”.
He points to multiple systems breaking at once:
Fiat/debt system strain (too much debt, money-print incentives)
Domestic political fragmentation (rising populism, wealth gaps)
Geopolitical fragmentation (multipolar world, “might makes right” dynamics)
And he frames the next decade as a sequence of five “wars” that tend to stack:
trade/economic war
tech war
geopolitical/alliance war
capital/financial war (sanctions, access to money flows)
eventually, kinetic military war
The crypto takeaway
When the world de-globalizes, neutral rails win.
In that environment, three things tend to grow fast:
“Non-sovereign” stores of value: Dalio’s classic play is “less debt, more gold.” Crypto’s version is simple: Bitcoin = portable, censorship-resistant, politically neutral collateral.
On-chain dollars + tokenized treasuries: If capital controls and financial “war” dynamics increase, demand rises for USD exposure outside local banking risk, 24/7 settlement and programmable collateral. That’s a bull case for stablecoin adoption and tokenized T-bills (and the DeFi rails that move them).+
Real utility > hype: in macro stress, the market punishes “story coins” and rewards assets with clear value capture.
📣 Update
Fed Minutes + Miner Earnings Could Spark the Next Move
Crypto has been trading like a macro asset lately — and this week is basically a stress test for that narrative.
Hive Digital Technologies and Riot Platforms headline this week’s crypto-related earnings reports. The two data-center operators have expanded their operations, adding high-performance computing for AI applications to their bitcoin mining operations.
In macroeconomics, the Federal Reserve is likely to grab headlines, with minutes from the most recent Federal Open Market Committee meeting to be released on Wednesday. The committee kept rates steady in January, with two dissenting voices calling for a reduction.
📈 Signal
BlackRock just went on-chain… and bought $UNI
BlackRock’s tokenized Treasury fund (BUIDL) is now tradable via Uniswap / UniswapX, meaning qualified institutions can swap exposure to tokenized treasuries on-chain, around the clock, using stablecoins.
At the same time, BlackRock disclosed it purchased $UNI as a “strategic investment” (size undisclosed).
Why this matters
There are a few layers to this, and each one is bullish in a different way:
DeFi is becoming infrastructure: BlackRock could’ve built a private system, partnered with a closed venue, or stayed entirely inside TradFi plumbing.
Instead, they’re making tokenized treasuries interact with open liquidity rails (even if the product is gated/whitelisted).
Tokenized treasuries are the “Trojan horse”: the win isn’t the asset, it’s the speed, 24/7 availability, and new on-chain functionality that TradFi can’t do cleanly today.
Uniswap is turning into the “NASDAQ of on-chain markets: when the world’s largest asset manager routes a flagship tokenized fund through your rails, you’re no longer “just a DEX token.” You’re closer to a liquidity venue, a distribution standard and a governance layer on top of that venue.
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