Bitwise, Matt Hougan & Ryan Rasmussen: Trillions Are About To Pour Into Digital Assets (The Floodgates Are Opening)

Matt Hougan and Ryan Rasmussen say the money that was going to leave digital assets already left, and once the Anthropic IPO passes, the floodgates could open for capital rotating into the next big thing: tokenization and stablecoins.

Live from The Bridge by The Tie in New York City, Bitwise's CIO and Head of Research explain why short-term shocks from the Fed, the election and the AI trade are hiding what Hougan calls a long-term, extraordinarily great setup, driven by 300,000 financial advisors finally making a 2% allocation and regulation like the GENIUS Act still working its way through. They break down why there are no more sellers left, why digital assets look remarkably undervalued next to other categories, and why stablecoins, tokenization and perps are taking off at exactly the right time, with the regulation, the institutional adoption and the access all in place. They also explain why bad builders can no longer ride the beta, and why fundamental buyers stepping in should mean fewer 90% drawdowns for real projects with real revenue.

Matt Hougan is Chief Investment Officer at Bitwise. Ryan Rasmussen is Head of Research at Bitwise.