Hey, it’s Marc & the 51 team Nothing prepares you for a month where the Fed buys its own debt, the US military is running a Bitcoin node, and the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent calls crypto "very important payment rails” for the country. The Senate ... See more
Hi, it’s Marc. ✌️ In 2025, Eddie Fishman, a former State Department and Treasury official who helped design the sanctions against Russia after the 2014 annexation of Crimea, wrote the playbook on economic warfare, Chokepoints. It not only became a New Yor... See more
Hey, it's Marc. I always assumed crypto would tokenize Wall Street. Turns out Wall Street is doing it itself. DTCC settles every U.S. equity and Treasury trade, holds $100T in custody, and once cleared $5.55T in a single day. In H2 2026, that plumbing goe... See more
Hey, it’s Marc & the 51 team. I’ve watched banks lobby Washington for 100 years to keep their Fed access exclusive. This week, Deutsche Börse skipped the lobby and bought a seat. Deutsche Börse paid $200M for a 1.5% stake in Kraken, hours before Krake... See more
Hey, it’s Marc & the 51 team. I don't think Washington has ever shipped this much crypto policy in a single week. Each one would normally be the headline. The US Labor Department proposedallowing Bitcoin in 401(k) plans, opening digital assets to $7.7... See more
