Crypto’s Next Bull Case: Inheritance!

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• Crypto Adoption Inevitable as Old Money Will Flow Into Crypto

• Strategy Shares Jump as MSCI Spares Crypto Treasury Firms

• Brian Quintenz Joins SUI Group Board After CFTC Nomination Pulled

• Bitcoin Mining Gets Greener as Canaan Recycles Heat for Agriculture

💸 Crypto Adoption Inevitable as Old Money Will Flow Into Crypto

Crypto adoption could rise over time as trillions in wealth transfer from older generations to younger investors who are more open to digital assets.

• Zac Prince, head of Galaxy One at Galaxy Digital, said crypto mass adoption may accelerate as wealth shifts from older, crypto-averse generations to younger heirs whose investment preferences are more crypto-friendly.

• According to UBS, Americans hold about $163 trillion in total wealth, with baby boomers controlling more than half — roughly $83.3 trillion. This could set the stage for a massive intergenerational transfer.

• A Q4 State of Crypto report from Coinbase found that around 25% of younger investors hold non-traditional assets like crypto, compared with just 8% of older investors.

📈 Strategy Shares Jump as MSCI Spares Crypto Treasury Firms

MSCI’s decision to delay excluding digital asset treasury companies from its indexes lifted Strategy shares.

• Shares in Michael Saylor’s Strategy rebounded after Morgan Stanley Capital International signaled it will not immediately remove digital asset treasury companies from its major market indexes.

• MSCI said firms where cryptocurrencies make up 50% or more of total assets — known as digital asset treasury companies (DATCOs) — will instead be reviewed through a broader consultation process to distinguish operating businesses from investment-like vehicles.

• While the review introduces some longer-term uncertainty, markets welcomed the delay.

🤝 Brian Quintenz Joins SUI Group Board After CFTC Nomination Pulled

Former CFTC commissioner Brian Quintenz has joined SUI Group’s board.

• SUI Group appointed former Commodity Futures Trading Commission commissioner Brian Quintenz to its board, due to his regulatory and policy expertise.

• The company also disclosed it held roughly 107.7 million SUI tokens, worth about $200 million, as of Q3 2025.

• Quintenz’s move follows a trend of senior CFTC officials entering the private crypto sector, similar to former acting chair Caroline Pham joining MoonPay after Michael Selig was confirmed to lead the agency.

🪴 Bitcoin Mining Gets Greener as Canaan Recycles Heat for Agriculture

Canaan is piloting liquid-cooled Bitcoin mining in Manitoba to recycle waste heat for agriculture.

• Canaan launched a 3 MW proof-of-concept project in Manitoba to recycle waste heat from liquid-cooled Bitcoin mining equipment for commercial agriculture.

• The pilot is run in partnership with Bitforest Investment, and uses 360 Avalon A1566HA-460T miners at a tomato greenhouse to test whether high-density computing can function as a reliable heat source in cold climates.

• Canaan estimates around 90% of the electricity used by the servers can be recovered as heat, producing water temperatures above 75°C at a power cost of about $0.035 per kWh, improving the economics for energy-intensive farming operations.

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