This week, the Messari Enterprise team digs into the next big unlocks and headwinds across crypto:

🔹 Exotic RWAs (Pokémon cards, watches, wine): why tokenizing non-financial collectibles finally improves UX (instant settlement, lower trust frictions) and could onboard normies.

🔹 Macro setup: weak jobs, CPI/PPI ahead, gold ripping, and why a surprise 50 bps cut isn’t crazy — plus what that means for BTC, SOL, and funding conditions.

🔹 Solana DATs & flows: Galaxy/Jump/Multicoin’s $1.65B vehicle, what’s actually bullish (cash vs. locked), and realistic expectations for SOL vs. ETH.

🔹 Pump.fun buybacks: short-term alignment vs. long-term cash needs to compete with Web2 social — when buybacks help and when they starve growth.

🔹 Stripe’s Tempo L1: distribution monster or Libra 2.0? Permissionless claims, payment fast lanes, and the impact on ETH/Solana liquidity and “corpo chain” UX.

🔹 Hyperliquid’s native stablecoin (USDH): Paxos, Agora, FRA, and Native Markets bids; revenue-share math; what it signals for Circle/USDC and for L1/L2 treasury design.

🔹 MegaETH & new networks: timelines, yield vs. distribution in stablecoin wars, and why “attention + loyalty” may be the next moat.

00:00 Exotic RWAs primer

2:00 Macro & Fed odds (25 vs 50 bps)

6:00 Solana DATs, flows & SOL/ETH

12:40 Pump.fun buybacks debate

23:00 Stripe Tempo L1 & “corpo chains”

40:20 Hyperliquid USDH proposals

56:00 Exotic RWA momentum & UX

1:07:20 What we’re doing on-chain

Hosted by Matthew Nay of Messari

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