So earlier today, we got word that the u.s inflation rates went ahead and accelerated to a 40-year high of 7.5. Now with january, hitting some high numbers and getting some additional word on supply constraints still happening across the world. It looks like february may also result in a month of even higher inflation as well when investing into the cryptocurrency market. A lot of new investors have the intention of investing solely for the reason of making money now investing into crypto.

To literally make bread is not bad at all, but crypto does stretch the realms a bit more than that. Crypto is really created in the beginning in order for us to have a decentralized form of currency. In order for us to combat things like accelerating inflation rates and how much money the government prints where it affects our day-to-day life, so in this video, we're gon na be focusing now on what you should expect to see happen in the crypto market. We're also gon na be talking about if you should be preparing any hedges and in addition to that, we're also gon na be talking about some other crypto news that have been making giant headlines as well.

Now, although it seems like traditional finance markets are a bit unstable, i do think there is a lot of light at the end of the tunnel and i'll be sharing with you guys towards the end of the video. Exactly my thoughts on that now to kick this video off the global crypto market cap is sitting at under 2 trillion, so we're at 1.99 trillion or a 2.45 percent decrease over the last day. Uh one thing we got to take a look at is going to be the price of bitcoin and you're, going to notice that at the start of today, we are having a little bit of a ride up, even with bitcoin breaking out of 45 000 and even At one point almost approaching 46 000 today uh, but with that being said, we did experience a lot of volatility happening in the scope of that. So this red dip that you see right here.

This actually came solely from the report that we had of current inflation rates. Previous to what we saw in the last fomc meeting and how the market reacted. We've been seeing this reflect alongside other speculative asset classes, including stock markets and other investments. According to cnbc, the dow went ahead and slid 500 points, as yields spike following red hot inflation reports.

There was also a survey that was published that stated: inflation high gas prices are contributing to a lot of financial anxiety and a survey went ahead and found out that americans top money concerns include rising gas prices, inflation and paying their bills. Yet more than one-third of respondents are not investing any money at all, and this is a key way to ensure their money grows faster than the rising prices. So we covered this in one of our previous videos. I was posted just a few weeks back talking about the psychology of where we are with invested markets today.

I believe, because of how hot the q4 season was, we did get additional reports from credit card companies talking about how many consumers overspent during that time and actually put themselves in debt that, alongside mixed markets, knowing that we're going to see some rate hikes happening this Year and also talking about the upcoming tax season, where stimulus checks were given out, this is putting a lot of uncertainty with people's finances and when you're not sure of how much money you're making or how much money you have left in the bank account. After all, these expenses are taken out and seeing the price of all your common goods going up. It makes people weary of investing with the simple laws of supply and demand. When you don't have many people wanting to invest during a certain period of time.

Usually, we see a market more flat. Now that is not what's been happening, though, within the crypto market. Just in the last seven days, we've been seeing bitcoin having a tear it's up 19 with other all coins as an example, xrp up 39 avalanche up 35 and still seeing some green all across the board. So while we approach the month of mid february - and it looks like many - people are losing a little bit of interest in the investment world, but you know, if you guys, are watching these right here, give my kudos to you appreciate the support.

But it is something good that you are doing. It's good that you guys are actively looking into this content, especially when we're not at this euphoric high that we experienced happen multiple times last year to be putting in the work now and knowing the developments that are being made. You're positioning yourself for the most amount of opportunity in this market. Now i think it's my duty to report to you guys what those opportunities are, and i want to talk later on in this video by the end of it.

What all coins that you should be on the lookout for we had some talks just last week as well with some of the top cryptos that i'm looking for and we're even getting additional news reports that are backing those claims that i've made in that video up Before we do that right now, the crypto fear and greed index, something we have to mention - is currently at a neutral, we're still sitting at a yellow right in between the barometer and right now it looks like we are trying to see if we could get any Type of liftoff, so, according to what we're seeing on the charts i mean just even in the last month. This type of recovery is looking great, we're seeing bitcoin still at under forty four thousand dollars. But if we're able to continue holding these levels at least letting that money accumulate, we could begin to see another rip to the top. Now, on the more optimistic side that we do see bitcoin starting to rally again, i do really want you guys to be considerate of the impending march 15th to 16th date and we're gon na be expecting to see actually a lot of volatility happening right before that, Because, as soon as we begin to see rate hikes happening within the markets and the federal government putting their foot down and saying, okay, we got ta slow, this inflation down oftentimes.

That is when we may see a lot of these assets, pulling back we're already seeing this rotation still happen and, according to the headlines here by cnbc, the 10-year treasury yield went ahead and topped two percent for the first time since 2019.. In addition to the two-year treasury yields, we're actually seeing a rising of almost 50 basis points from 1.51 at the end of last year, in february alone, with the 10-year rate also gaining about 20 basis points from where it ended january, around 1.78. According to this chart, right here, you'll notice, the incremental increase that we are seeing in this sector. So if you aren't too familiar with us treasury yields and why this matters investopedia does a great job of breaking it down.

So i pay attention right here, so the treasury bills are loans to the federal government that mature at terms raging from a few days to 52 weeks and the treasury note matures in two to ten years, while treasury bond matures in 20 to 30 years. So the 10-year treasury yield paid attention is closely watched as an indicator of broader investor confidence, because treasury bills, notes and bonds carry the full backing the us government. They are oftentimes viewed as a safer investment, so the importance of the 10-year treasury bond yield goes beyond just understanding the roi for security. This bond also tends to signal investor confidence and the us treasury sells bonds via auction and yields are set through a bidding process.

So what we're gon na notice now is not just gon na come from a rotation of investments coming from u.s retail investors, but we could also start seeing a lot of those larger institutions that may have considered putting money into the stock market. The technology factor, or even the crypto markets, and putting it into much more safer bets if they think we are going to continue to see a downside in the market. I think the biggest determining factors on whether or not we see the crypto markets doing well is going to be this battle between fundamental news and progression that we're getting between innovation of companies versus central bank policy and seeing different ways that they control the interest rate Hikes on the more optimistic side, we did get reports that blackrock was planning to offer crypto trading. So the reason why this news is so significant is because blackrock goes ahead and manages over 10 trillion dollars in assets for institutions and if they plan on entering the cryptocurrency space, they state here client, support trading and then with their own credit facility, is going to Really add in a lot of firepower for the industry.

Now, if you compare the 10 trillion dollars that they manage in assets, you'll notice that even the entire global crypto market cap is just a fraction of that. This is just another example of why crypto innovation with institutions is going to play as such a big deal within the markets. This year may be really different from what we've experienced before in the past, with other crypto winters not seeing the backing and now in 2022. I think things may be a bit different in another article here they state.

In the meantime, the organization's executives, such as ceo, larry, fink and cio rick rider praised bitcoin and some all coins fink even predicted that bitcoin could become a great asset class and a threat to the us dollar, but it still has to prove itself now. I think this is going to be really exciting, because this is not the first time that blackrock went ahead and made a statement or showed any type of involvement within the crypto markets. Back last year on april 1st blackrock went ahead and revealed they had 360 000. In bitcoin gains through cme futures, the wall street behemoth had expressed a pro cryptocurrency approach for the past several months after its cio rick rider said that bitcoin is here to stay and could even replace gold.

Only time will tell the transition of traditional finance markets entering this investment space, but it looks like they are not the only individuals from a high-profile company. Turning towards the face of crypto, because we now have a former jp morgan executive, which also went ahead and took a strong position in the al grand foundation as ceo. So al grant is another crypto that we mentioned on our channel, but they haven't been doing as drastically as well as other cryptos that seem to have popped off in 2021. Even right now it looks like they're in a lull right now pulling down to some lower levels that we haven't seen since back before even the start of this year.

So, according to the article they state with an estimated 1.7 billion people globally that do not have access to finance warden argued. The al grand protocol is a best equipped with its speed security and decentralization to address that problem at scale. Stacey understands the potential for algrand to become a dominant layer, one blockchain, and she has the experience and expertise to drive our global efforts to scale and to deliver outstanding value to our community. Now, although it really seems like algorithm, hasn't had too much excitement, i do hope that this acquisition happening with the jp morgan executive as their new ceo, is going to lead them to even greater things moving into nft, something we haven't talked about too much on this Channel recently, they've been making a bit more headlines talking about something like where new, wealthy nft owners are taking out loans, backed by board apes and crypto punks.

So, to do this, you can use arcade.xyz so say you put your entire life savings into a board ape or a crypto punk, and you don't have much cash or pp in the bank. What you can do is use different d5 products just like this. In order to borrow and lend against your assets, so you can have that additional cash flow. So it looks like what arcade does is.

It allows you to earn interest as a secured lender or borrow against your nft assets, all running on the ethereum blockchain, seeing the continuous developments of the nft industry and also getting word that right now, nfts make up only one percent of the crypto universe, but we're Also, seeing a majority of that, reflecting avatars being among the highest of value among the subsets, it looks like whenever we get more utility behind owning some of these assets. I think that is just a good plus for the industry. While nfts seem to be simple in nature, you buy trade, sell you can post it as your profile picture. I believe when nfts were first created, it was meant to have much more utility than just that.

Now, to sum this video up, what opportunities do we have right now within the crypto market, so something i talked about recently was the metaverse play, and also talking about cryptocurrencies that have backing from other exchanges that have recently raised a ton of money. So one of those is gon na include decentraland and ftx, which actually had a report that came out today talking about how they were going to get listed on an additional exchange which is going to allow them to be traded with more exposure. So this is not coming just from any small exchange. This is going to be the world's largest issue of crypto etps, and this is going to be 21 shares, which announced two of the new etps are going to be.

Those two products, if you didn't know 21 shares, is a pioneer in the crypto etp space. In 2018, it released the first crypto index listing on the six swiss exchange, and currently it manages around two billion dollars in digital asset etps, real quick. If you don't know what etp stands for, this is also exchange traded products which are type of securities that track underlying securities as an index or other financial instruments. Now, on top of that, we've been getting a lot more news from major companies such as nike, which is also testing an nft trademark law and they actually went ahead and sued a sneaker reseller.

If you didn't hear about this, this is going to be stockx which went ahead and came out with their own nft using one of nike's shoes. Nike was not too happy about that, and maybe this is also an indication on how much they know that this industry is going to spread. We also have, on top of that youtube the platform that you're watching our videos on which plans to launch their own nft. So fans can own these videos and bring some more interaction into the space under the headline it also states youtube says it is also thinking big about the metaverse to bring more interactions to other games.

On top of that, we did get also word from only fans that they went ahead and launched a new feature to also verify nft profile pictures a feature that recently twitter started testing out as well. Now, if you're well within the crypto world, i do think it is well worth your investment to look into metaverse projects and also the nft space as well. Every single day we're getting more and more news like we haven't ever seen happening before in the past. Even in the last year where it was really just focused on a lot more crypto projects coming out, nfts continue to ride these markets.

So as an investor, how can you best position yourself right here well, staying up to date with these type of videos and content? Just like this and understanding where the market is headed next is going to give you that edge. If you'd rather keep things a bit more simple and place your bets within the market, i think long-term ethereum is still going to be a dominant player, but right now i do think at least for this year we're going to see much more opportunity within other layer. 1 solutions now guys, let me know down below in the comments how you feel about the overall state of the market before we wrap this video up, don't forget to check out ftx lists down below in the description uh they're coming out with an insane super bowl Promotion ad they're, giving out millions of dollars actually in bitcoin uh check out the link down below in the description use code jung when signing up for ftx, and you can also find yourself getting some of the lowest trading fees by buying trading and selling crypto within Their app, in addition to that, don't forget to check out the link down below in the description for patreon. If you guys want ahead and join a community, we've actually been making some new partnerships uh, getting some more analysts and a lot more teachers within our group.

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