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Here’s what we got for you today:

• ✍️ The U.S. gov is pushing blockchain adoption

• ✍️ Binance and KuCoin withdrawals briefly halted

• 🥛 Milk Road PRO Portfolio updates

• 🎙️ The Milk Road Show: The Future of Crypto Assets: Solana’s Co-Founder Explains It All

• 🍪 Robinhood’s got a new competitor

HOW THE U.S. GOV IS PUSHING BLOCKCHAIN ADOPTION (GLOBALLY) ⛓️

Everyone’s FREAKING OUT about what Bo Hines just said to Pomp…

But we think they’re missing the larger (more important) point here.

Here’s what happened/what everyone missed…

→ Bo is the Executive Director of Digital Assets for the US government

→ Bo wants the US government to buy as much $BTC as possible (shocker)

→ He just hinted that the government may consider using tariff revenue to buy $BTC.

And that last point is what everyone is latching on to…

But this was just a throwaway comment – it’s a big fat ‘maybe’ at best (ear muffs)

And it helped to bury the more impactful / tangible talking point:

The US government believes stablecoins will help maintain US dollar dominance, and is building frameworks/infrastructure to support the sector’s growth (w/ bi-partisan support).

Translation: the US government has an active interest in proliferating blockchain technology globally, and both the Dems. and Reps. are on board.

Is this road to mass-adoption as sexy as, say, gaming or social? 

No. It’s WAY more boring.

But that lack of hype makes it WAY easier to capitalize on: 

Follow the stablecoin growth → find the users → pick long-term winning blockchains.

Want us to elaborate on that process?

We walked through the current leaders in the stablecoin adoption race and how to pick long-term winners using stablecoin growth, just a few weeks back.

Read the article here!

BINANCE AND KUCOIN WITHDRAWALS BRIEFLY HALTED 😕

Delete this service → delete 30% of the internet.

Sounds kinda insane (and it is) – but it’s still true!

Amazon Web Services (AWS) owns 30% of the cloud infrastructure market. 

(Aka: the complex network of servers that make up ‘the internet’.)

And AWS just barred Binance & KuCoin users from their crypto/services…

→ Not because of a hack
→ Not because of a blockchain issue

But because Amazon Web Services went down.

Is it annoying when people moan on about the importance of having broad based decentralized systems that are void of any single point of failure?

According to the feedback I received from my extended family over the holiday break – yes, it is “annoying as hell” and “you’re about to give uncle Steve another stroke”.

But decentralization is like that lone anti-diarrheal pill that lives in your travel bag:

Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.

How do you avoid centralized outage issues like this altogether?

1. Buy yourself a Ledger wallet

2. Trade on a decentralized exchange (like Milk Road Swap)

Simple as that.

MILK ROAD PRO PORTFOLIO UPDATES 📊

We’re shaking up how we manage the Milk Road PRO Portfolio! 👀

Instead of big cash injections, we’re flipping to a real-time DCA approach that better mimics the average investor.

(This way, our moves are easier to follow and more relevant to most members.)

Want to see what that looks like? Keep scrolling to find out. 👇

Disclosure: We are not a day trading portfolio so don’t expect a high volume of trades. Read our “How To Build a Crypto Portfolio” report to learn more about our portfolio strategy.

Portfolio performance 📈 

The Milk Road PRO Portfolio saw a substantial increase over the past 7 days. Our portfolio value is at $112.4K, up 14% since last week.

We’re finally back in the green—and no, it’s not because of our capital injection. 

The market itself bounced back. (Yes, Trump played a role, but we’re not going down that rabbit hole again 😅)

Instead, let’s break down the latest changes to our portfolio.

Portfolio changes 👀

BITE-SIZED COOKIES FOR THE ROAD 🍪

Wanna take out loans in USD using your Bitcoin as collateral? We just dropped a thorough review of Ledn, which offers exactly that.

Robinhood’s got a new competitor. Kraken now lets you trade stocks, ETFs and crypto all in one place.

Solana ETFs baaaaby! Canada is getting ready to launch several spot Solana ETFs this week.

Arbitrum has been silently killing it. It just became the first L2 to cross $300B in trading volume on Uniswap.

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