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3 REASONS TO CLOSE YOUR LAPTOP WITH A SMILE THIS WEEKEND 😊

It's Friday.

And depending on what news feeds you've been plugged into - this week may have felt like a drag. 

Iranian-U.S. tensions are yet to ease, the Strait of Hormuz is still closed, and BTC is back in the $65k range…

But while we’ve all been buried in geopolitics, three things happened in the crypto world that flew under the radar. 

Consider this your palate cleanser before the weekend:

1. Your Bitcoin can finally help you buy a house

The FHFA (the regulator that oversees $12T in U.S. housing finance) just told Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the two government-backed giants that process the majority of American home loans) to start counting crypto as a qualifying asset for mortgages.

Before this, you could have been sitting on $500k in Bitcoin and it wouldn't move the needle on your mortgage application. As far as lenders were concerned, it didn't exist.

That changes now. 

Borrowers with significant crypto holdings can use them toward qualifying for a home loan, without having to sell a single token.

H.U.G.E.

And it didn't take long for someone to build on that…

3 REASONS TO CLOSE YOUR LAPTOP WITH A SMILE THIS WEEKEND (P2) 😊

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2. Coinbase just launched crypto-backed mortgages through Better Mortgage

You put up crypto (like BTC or USDC) as collateral for your down payment → your portfolio stays intact → you get a house.

This means that long-term holders who have been sitting on big gains, but couldn't touch them without triggering a massive tax bill, now have a path to homeownership through Coinbase.

… and all the legacy banks that spent the last five years telling customers their crypto "doesn't count" as real wealth now have some explaining to do.

Ok, so crypto is earning its stripes in the housing system…

But what about the market itself?

3. The bottom might be in for crypto according to Goldman Sachs

Goldman is a $3T institution, and one of the most cautious, compliance-heavy banks on the planet.

So when they say "prices may have bottomed" publicly, it’s not some random hopium-fueled guess - these mf’ers have quant desks, client flows, and macro overlays backing their view.

Their analysts flagged that certain crypto stocks now have "attractive setups" - which is Wall Street-speak for "we think this is cheap".

That said…

They're not calling a guaranteed floor - the word "may" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting in that sentence.

But coming from Goldman, "may have bottomed" is essentially a green light for their institutional clients (hedge funds, pension funds, family offices) to start looking again - all while the retail crowd is still scared.

And that gap between what retail feels and what institutions are actually doing? 

That's usually where the trade lives.

So there you have it. Three signals, all pointing in the same direction:

Not a bad way to head into the weekend.

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