The Financial System Is Being Rebuilt On-Chain
PLUS: Tom Lee's 'BitMine' buys 40,302 ETH worth $117 million
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In today's newsletter:
💡 The Financial System Is Being Rebuilt On-Chain
📣 Tom Lee’s ‘BitMine’ buys 40,302 ETH worth $117 million
📈 Ethereum Dominates Tokenized Assets
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💡 Insight
The Financial System Is Being Rebuilt—On-Chain
We’re entering a new era—where public blockchains are becoming the financial layer of the internet, and Bitcoin is emerging as a macro asset class with institutional legs.
ARK Invest’s Big Ideas 2026 dropped this month, and here’s what matters most for crypto investors like us.
1. Bitcoin: From Speculative Asset to Strategic Reserve
“Bitcoin is leading the movement into a new institutional asset class.”
Bitcoin is no longer just “digital gold.” In 2025 alone:
U.S. ETFs and public companies grew their BTC holdings to 12% of total supply
Institutions like Morgan Stanley and Fidelity expanded access to BTC via IRAs and treasury strategies
Bitcoin’s Sharpe ratio outperformed ETH, SOL, and the CoinDesk 10 index, signaling strong risk-adjusted returns
ARK’s updated forecast puts BTC’s 2030 market cap between $5T–$10T, factoring in:
Institutional portfolios (1–6.5% allocation)
Gold replacement
Emerging market safe-haven flows
Nation-state and corporate treasuries
What This Means for You
BTC is maturing into a core allocation, not a trade. If this trend continues, owning BTC is like owning early-stage exposure to a future central bank reserve asset.
2. Public Blockchains: Rewiring Finance
ARK projects that in the next cycle:
“All money and contracts could migrate onto public blockchains.”
Why? Because they:
Enable digital scarcity and proof of ownership
Collapse the cost of executing contracts via smart contracts
Reduce reliance on capital and regulatory intermediaries
Power the next wave of AI-driven digital wallets as autonomous financial agents
The convergence of stablecoins, Layer 2s, and smart contracts could restructure global finance from the ground up.
Example Play
Track adoption of smart contract platforms like Ethereum, Solana, or emerging chains with strong developer traction and Layer 2 scaling:
3. Tokenized Assets: Real-World Value, On-Chain
“Tokenized assets could transform the $260 trillion global asset base into programmable financial instruments.” – ARK
Tokenization is the bridge between TradFi and DeFi—and it’s just getting started.
Key unlocks:
24/7 liquidity for previously illiquid assets
Automated yields from tokenized T-bills and treasuries
Composability across financial products and smart contracts
ARK forecasts explosive growth in tokenized RWAs, with Ethereum and EVM-compatible chains likely benefiting the most.
📣 Update
Tom Lee's 'BitMine' buys 40,302 ETH worth $117 million
BitMine Immersion Technologies just made a massive move—accumulating 40,302 ETH in a single transaction.
That brings their total holdings to 4.24 million ETH, worth over $12.3B at today’s prices.
Why it matters
This kind of institutional-scale accumulation helps create a long-term price floor for ETH
It reinforces Ethereum’s position as yield-generating infrastructure, not just “smart contract gas”
And it’s the kind of consistent buying pressure that pulls ETH back into its bullish channel after macro sell-offs
📈 Signal
Ethereum Dominates Tokenized Assets
BlackRock just dropped this chart—and it’s a major validation for Ethereum’s long-term positioning in the tokenization space.
65%+ of all tokenized assets now live on Ethereum Mainnet
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Really intreseting piece on institutional adoption of on-chain infrastucture. The convergence between smart contracts, stablecoins, and L2s is setting up the rails for something much bigger than just DeFi. Saw similar patterns last year when tokenized T-bills started gaining traction but the programability angle is what actually differentiates this from traditional securities infrastructure.