GM. This is Milk Road, the newsletter that tinkers and tests new crypto tools, so you stay ahead of the game.

Here’s what we got for you today:

• ✍️ Building/testing an AI-powered research assistant

• 🥛 PRO “Where are we in the cycle?” indicators

• 🎙️ The Milk Road Show: The World Is Changing and It’s Bullish for Bitcoin w/ Jeff Park

• 🍪 We’ve got huge news for Solana maxis

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BUILDING/TESTING AN AI-POWERED CRYPTO RESEARCH ASSISTANT 🤖

No armchair analysis this afternoon.

Nope, today we’re getting our hands dirty and building an AI-powered crypto research bot!

Here’s what’s in the cards:

• We’ll set up our AI crypto research bot (and show you how to do the same)

• Create a list of prompts to test the bot’s wits (and see what it’s really capable of)

• Ask it to make 3 year-end predictions (that we’ll come back to in December and review)

Shirts off. Speedos on. Let’s dive in.

1/ Setting up our crypto research bot

Here’s the idea: we take all of CoinGecko’s live data → feed it to Anthropic’s Claude → Claude becomes a crypto genius → we ask it questions.

(It’s strangely easy to set up.)

You just need to get a paid Anthropic account and do the following:

Log in. Go to claude(dot)ai. Click the ‘Search and Tools’ toggle. Select ‘Add integrations’.

Next: click ‘Add Integration’. Give this thing a name (CoinGecko). Paste in the CoinGecko API URL (pictured). Hit ‘Add’.

Aaand boom! Your Anthropic account has now been endowed with the knowledge/real-time data of CoinGecko.

2/ Prompts to test our bot’s wits/abilities

Let’s range these as easy/medium/hard, and see how our bot handles them.

We want to make sure that the bot is actually pulling real-time data from CoinGecko (not from Anthropic’s historical training data) and can process questions with multiple variables. 👇

EASY: What is the current price of Solana?

MEDIUM: Of the Top 100 tokens, which one has the highest returns over the past 7 days?

HARD: Create a list of tokens that…

• Have a circulating supply which makes up at least 90% of their total supply

• Are under $500M market cap

• Are in the DeFi space

• Are built on either Solana or Ethereum

• Are up over the last 7 days

The results…

EASY: Nailed it.

MEDIUM: Oof! Close. But left out the leader. 👇

HARD: (Somehow) nailed it.

Next up, we’re asking our research bot to make predictions on which tokens will be best/worst performers by year's end. 

Keep scrolling to the next article to see the results. 👇

BUILDING/TESTING AN AI-POWERED CRYPTO RESEARCH ASSISTANT (P2) 🤖

Time to answer the big question:

Are our PRO researchers about to be out of a job?

We’re taking the first step towards finding out. Here’re the predictions we’ll be asking for:

• Of the Top 100 tokens, which has the most upside potential between now and Dec?

• Of the Top 100 tokens, which has the most downside potential between now and Dec?

• Which crypto category/sector has the most upside potential between now and Dec?

And the results are in…

1/ Of the Top 100 tokens, which has the most upside potential between now and Dec?

The bot’s answer: Sui ($SUI)

(A Q1 prediction in Q2? Maybe our researchers’ jobs are safe after all?)

2/ Of the Top 100 tokens, which has the most downside potential between now and Dec?

The bot’s answer: Cardano ($ADA)

3/ Which crypto category/sector has the most upside potential between now and Dec?

The bot’s answer: AI (*cough* nepotism *cough*)

Alright – that’s everything. We’ll check back in December to see how this all shakes out and maybe even induce a collective panic attack across our PRO research team (who knows).

But for now – lemme get a vibe check on this segment…

ARE YOU A DEGEN? (WELL, WE MADE SOMETHING FOR YOU) 🎁

Howdy, Milk Man here – can I show you a picture? Check this out…

That’s me n’ cousin Ricky hanging out in the illegal casino he used to run out of his treehouse.

(Buy-in was $0.75 and a Capri-Sun.)

Ricky used to clean out every kid on the block. See, he was always an all-or-nothing kid – he’d place degen bets before any of us even knew what the word meant.

Ricky went missing a few years ago. 

But now? He’s back and has just launched a brand new publication alongside writer-extraordinaire, LG Doucet.

It’s called Milk Road Degen and it helps everyday people navigate the crypto trenches.

👉 Sign up for twice weekly degen insights!

PRO “WHERE ARE WE IN THE CYCLE?” INDICATORS 🤔 

Each week, our PRO team pokes the crypto market with a stick to see if it's still responsive.

To do so, they use a handful of cycle indicators – ‘cause knowing where we are in the crypto cycle is crucial for capturing the best opportunities.

The goal is to spot the bull market peak before the inevitable bear market hits your bags hard.

Since timing the top perfectly is almost impossible, we use various indicators to give us a better shot at taking profits before it's too late.

Below are the 6 indicators we track, with a color-coded system to show how close they are to signalling the market peak:

🟢 Plenty of room to run 🏄

🟡 Getting closer to the top signal, but haven’t yet reached the mark ⚠️

🔴 We’ve hit the market top indicator 🚨

Every Thursday, we update these 6 indicators exclusively for PRO members.

Our advice? Don't wait for all of them to hit 🔴. It's better to take profits as they get closer to that point.

Let's dive in and see if we're anywhere near the top of this bull market. 👇

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We’ve got huge news for Solana maxis. The Solana ETFs are looking set for approval as early as next month. Yewww!

What’s Tether up to? They’ve acquired a 32% stake in a precious metals company. What’s the play here?

This hasn’t happened in a while now. The Ethereum ETFs pulled in more inflows than the Bitcoin ETFs yesterday.

We’re hosting a meetup at Permissionless! If you’re hanging around New York on June 23rd, come grab a beer with the Milk Road team.

Wanna work for Milk Road? We’re hiring across multiple roles — click here and drop us a line!

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