Banana Zone PHASE 2 ft Raoul Pal: ATH Next or Correction First? | OSF ft Raoul Pal | REKT VISION

16 May 2025 · 1 h 7 min

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Podcast Summary: Banana Zone PHASE 2 ft Raoul Pal

Overview Podcast Title: Real Vision: Finance & Investing Episode Title: Banana Zone PHASE 2 ft Raoul Pal: ATH Next or Correction First? Description: In this episode, co-founder OSF and Raoul Pal analyze current cryptocurrency narratives, trends, and Raoul's "banana zone" thesis, discussing macroeconomic factors, price movements, and potential future developments in the market.

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Key Themes and Discussions

  1. The "Banana Zone" Thesis
  2. Raoul Pal describes his "banana zone" concept, which suggests a phase of rapid price increase in cryptocurrencies, particularly Bitcoin.
  3. He predicts that Bitcoin could trend towards new all-time highs, with potential prices reaching between $120,000 and $150,000.
  1. Liquidity's Role in Market Movements
  2. Pal emphasizes that liquidity is a major driver of price movements in crypto and equities, especially pointing out:
  3. 90% correlation of liquidity to crypto prices.
  4. Global M2 money supply's lagging effect on market sentiment.
  5. He notes a pattern of price movements based on liquidity trends, indicating that market participants often apply narratives to price movements that are fundamentally driven by liquidity changes.
  1. Market Predictions and Trends
  2. Discussions on potential future corrections and market trends suggest that:
  3. A market correction could be observed in August 2023.
  4. Bitcoin dominance may decrease as altcoins gain traction, particularly during periods labeled "alt season."
  1. Investment Strategies
  2. Raoul and OSF discuss various cryptocurrencies and their expected performance:
  3. Solana (SOL) is highlighted as a key player in the market, with potential to outperform Bitcoin in the upcoming alt season.
  4. Other altcoins like Sui are also considered for future gains.
  5. The duo discusses portfolio construction strategies, emphasizing a balance between core investments (like Bitcoin and Solana) and riskier assets.
  1. NFT Market Insights
  2. Raoul shares insights on the NFT market, emphasizing:
  3. The resurgence of interest in brands and cultural significance behind NFTs.
  4. Expectations for an upcoming NFT season linked to broader crypto market movements.
  5. The importance of owning established NFTs (like CryptoPunks) as a store of value.
  1. Advice for New Finance Students
  2. Discussion touches on the career landscape for finance students, highlighting:
  3. Opportunities in crypto and blockchain companies versus traditional investment banking roles.
  4. The importance of finding growth-oriented firms that offer learning opportunities.

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Key Takeaways

  • Liquidity is King: The relationship between liquidity and price movements is crucial for understanding market dynamics.
  • Banana Zone is Real: Anticipation of market phases can guide investment strategies; the banana zone indicates potential for significant upward movement.
  • Alt Season Dynamics: Monitoring Bitcoin dominance and altcoin performance could reveal opportunities.
  • Value of Established NFTs: Iconic NFTs might serve as a hedge and store of wealth in the evolving digital landscape.
  • Career Path Considerations: Emerging sectors like cryptocurrency and blockchain offer exciting opportunities for finance professionals.

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Final Thoughts This episode of Real Vision provides valuable insights into the current state of the cryptocurrency market, emphasizing the importance of liquidity, market trends, and strategic investment. Raoul Pal's expertise and the dynamic discussions with OSF offer listeners a deeper understanding of navigating the complexities of finance and investing in today's rapidly changing environment.

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1:34well hello everyone welcome back to ret vision mando is unfortunately away this week but we do have probably the best possible replacement um which is ral pal himself ral welcome back to ret vision your your uh your usual um resurfacing once we're approaching all-time highs is uh your track record continues i think i know but we don't it's not like we plan this in advance it kind of happens so i'm i'm the lucky mascot i think yeah i think you are actually i think you are um so hopefully we this is more of a common occurrence as we trend higher here but we'll we'll see what we're always willing to come on let's do it don't get booked enough we'll see what happens in weeks to come um before we start i just want to shout out um our affiliate partner arch public um take the emotions out of your trading with algorithmic trading if you guys you can register for their free tier on realvision.com forward slash arch.

2:32If you guys want to ask us questions throughout the show, feel free to ask us in the live chat. We will do the usual 15 minutes at the end of the show to run through the questions. And before we start and before we talk about markets, Raul, I know there are some big changes coming to Real Vision. Do you want to spend a couple of minutes talking about them? Yeah, I mean, I put a town hall out yesterday on Real Vision. And we've taken a lot of feedback as we're building out the future of Real Vision in what it looks like. And what we've realized is that the current tier structure with the plus and pro probably are out of date versus people's needs.

3:09And as the platform starts scaling towards a lot more user generated ideas, the trade ideas, trade competitions, research notes, all of that. and people want to connect with each other because what we built is the kind of premium community for finance and crypto, we decided to change how the tiers work and simplify it. So those people who were Real Vision pro-macro and pro-crypto subscribers, we've kind of pioneered the idea that macro and crypto are the same thing. And so we're actually merging those two tiers into one. So it's an all-singing, all-dancing pro tier. So that's me and Julian Battelle from GMI, Andreas from Steno Research, and Jamie Coots from Real Vision itself, putting it all together.

3:53So you're going to get the full 360-degree view over everything. What was, and within that, what makes it different is we've given people access to us and now we bring people on stage to ask questions. We get to know everybody in the community so we can act as people's mentors. So it really adds value to people because you get your questions asked, not just in a chat, but one-on-one with us. And I think that helps a lot of people. The feedback's been amazing when we've done that. In the plus tier, that's been renamed Alpha. And really what that's to do is give people the extra tools and understanding that they need.

4:27So that includes the MIT macro investing tool that people love that Julian Bittell and myself put together. In addition, Jamie's building crypto dashboards so we can understand the space, the on-chain, the off-chain stuff, and then drill down into sectors. He's built out sector analysis. That's coming. I think Andreas is going to have some business cycle dashboards coming. So that's going to give people the understanding of really how to apply stuff. And then we're building a new tier out, which is Real Vision Connect, which is where people get access to the trade ideas, stuff like that. That's the kind of entry tier.

5:05There's the free tier still. But the entry tier is the world has changed. It used to be when we all started Ovi, even though you're a lot younger than me, it was all about education first right it was like how do you educate yourself how do you learn what economics are everything else it flips on its head is now show me the fucking trade i'll figure it out i'll lose some money i'll make some money and then i'll try and figure out and we realized that the world has changed that way and so our reconnect is to get you to the ideas all of that stuff first and then you can move up the knowledge curve as you get confidence we're also rebuilding our entire platform, which will be out probably the end of June, which is all going to be based around community interactions, trade ideas, and it'll be a whole different look and feel, but it will really empower people.

5:53There's going to be an AI layer as well that's going to help disseminate all the information held within the network. There's a lot coming. There'll be a big announcement about what we're doing with blockchain as well, because we've got a partner that we're doing something pretty big with as well. Lots happening in the Real Vision tiers. So anybody who's on Real Vision, you'll get an email on Monday saying how it affects you. But basically, the idea is to massively add value to everybody and to create an experience that gets you to the idea faster and then gets you to the knowledge and eventually the access to me and Julian and everybody else.

6:26I often get asked on Twitter and just in general, like, what resources I use to keep up with the market or just read about stuff. and I'm not a big reader. I'm definitely, I'll be the first hand to it. I'm definitely not a big reader or a big watcher of anything really. I just like to get a snapshot of something quickly and then move on. But the content from Real Vision is the only thing that I actually do read. And I have to say like, when I left Barclays, you kind of lose all your research resources, right? Like you lose your Bloomberg terminal, you lose your desk analyst, you lose your publishing research house.

6:58And I think me, this is the closest thing and probably to be honest with you better than some of the resources I had at Barclays because I think the content put out is by people who take risk and by people who put on trades, right? It's not just like, hey, here's Goldman Sachs' new S &P 500 update, which has changed based on things that have happened in the past, which is doing no one a favor. So it's that the only, and that's kind of for somebody who doesn't consume a lot of this information. It's the only thing that I actually read and listen to that I found as something that has predictive quality within markets.

7:31And I guess it's just a good segue into what's going on and stuff. But yet again, it's worked. I mean, yeah. I mean, I don't read other people's research because, you know, I write GM and I want it to be unique. But I do watch stuff on Real Vision because the quality of thinking is really high. And so it just gives you different perspectives. And I'm not plugging it because it's Real Vision. It's just because it's a fucking great platform and the community is amazing that you just get to learn a lot. So I even think through all the trade ideas all the time, what are people noticing? I mean, there's some people like nail trades well before anybody else.

8:05And that's really helpful because on X, there's so much noise. So trying to find signal is actually hard and it's exhausting as well. Being on X is exhausting. But on Real Vision, it seems to be much easier to get a bit of signal as opposed to noise. And, you know, stuff like what Julian and I did with MIT, I think it's really helped people. It's just like, here's how the business cycle works. Calm down, everybody. It should all be fine. Hi, Raoul here. Listen, I think we've got until 2030 before the economic singularity arrives. Now, it might not be the exact date, but it's around then. So we have about six years to figure out how to unfuck our future.

8:42I've put together a report to help you called Prepare for 2030. It's going to help you take the first steps in that journey to make sure you're secure past 2030. So just click on the link below and start your journey now. so first question i have for you leading on from that is the global money supply chart has it has it done it again has it has it once again done the same thing and is everyone who doubts it left scratching their heads thinking surely not surely not again and lo and behold it's happened it was that easy and it's i mean it was that easy and and really what people what what's funny to me is we've kind of proven that liquidity is 90 % of the price movement of crypto and 97.5 % of the NASDAQ.

9:33So it's the dominant macro factor, but people don't want to believe it. And because like Global M2 leads by three months, what happened is in Q4, global liquidity was draining because the dollar went up and rates went up and et cetera. And so that has the knock-on effect in Q1. and then what everybody does is apply narrative in q1 it's the tariffs the world's fucked we're going to the recession it was nothing to do with that it was just the liquidity so it's kind of like yeah it was this easy now what it will do it will decouple at some point and normally it decouples in the bull phase of the cycle and then the full bear phase because that's when fear and greed take over and like the the the fomo part of it is when network adoption increases massively um and it starts breaking away from m2 which is why it only has a 90 correlation not 100 so i think we'll see that now and it's just saying now is if this continues to play out it's just banana zone from now until july and then we've had if we we've got to think three months in advance so what we've had is the dollar correct in the last couple of weeks uh rates correcting so we should see the market correct in august yeah and maybe it's as simple as that and that will be very consistent with previous cycles as well it's a good point on the fear and greed thing because i feel like this time around very clearly we had that point where the global m2 chart was signaling that bitcoin would go a lot higher but that seemed to happen right at the point where it was like peak fear and tariffs and everyone thought the world was over um and actually similarly last time um when global liquidity actually started to fall which i think was sometime in 2024 that's that's that was the mama right timber period yeah it was miserable and it was the same thing and it's the exact same thing that we when the when the m2 chart started to drop i think we were right at that like max greed point in spring of last year i think it was and you know no one knows oh why would you ever sell any risk in your right mind right here despite the global m2 chart you know trending lower and you know this time is different and all that and um it seemed that i never thought about it that way but both times it seems to be like the fear and greed part of it is the thing that causes that lag i guess because people just don't have that propensity to add or to sell risk the other thing we found out that you'll find interesting is like everyone's scratching their head saying why why's gold been doing so well and crypto has and i thought and i know there's going to be a simple answer to this it's not going to be some complex thing and in the last gmi i figured out that all gold does is follow financial conditions which lead so it's kind of real time and then crypto follows with a three-month lag so it's like oh i get it now so gold is just representing the fact that financial conditions, and we define financial conditions as the dollar rates and oil.

12:39Those are the kind of big daddies of it. Once they start moving, gold moves. So gold has been correcting somewhat because they've started to correct. And so gold is actually leading this because it just is real-time financial conditions while Bitcoin and crypto and NASDAQ is just lagged by three months. It's as simple as that. I can't believe it. I was reading the post that Real Vision put out on Twitter the other day, and it was on April 7th, you guys shared the greatest alpha of the year. And since then, Bitcoin is up 40%. Ether's up 85%. Sol's up 87%. Sui is up 135%. And we're talking about just a month ago, really, I guess, five weeks, maybe six.

13:23But it's a really short space of time. And looking at the chart, it looks like, if we just overlay it, it looks like it means that Bitcoin still has room to push beyond all-time highs through to 120, 130, 140K potentially through the summer. And you alluded to that being a view. There seems to be like a big part of crypto Twitter calling for, once again, calling for a potential alt season and Bitcoin dominance falling. And we've maybe started to see signs of it. Bitcoin dominance is kind of off the highs. I put out a tweet of the actual peak of Bitcoin dominance and said, I think dominance is peaked.

14:03I think it has. It's the right point in the cycle. It's this part in the banana zone when it happens. It usually happens after this first correction. So if that's right, and let's say Bitcoin goes from 100K to 150K for easy maths, then if you look at the performance of the other tokens, you can kind of impute what happens is that sui probably does 3x that yeah yeah exactly so technically speaking we haven't truly entered phase two of the banana zone yet we've just we've just picked up the banana again that's right it'll be when bitcoin breaks its new highs probably next week because we get to the top we consolidate a bit and then it goes and then everything goes you know and the banana zone really won't kick in in in the terms of the way that people think where everybody's getting hilariously rich and all sorts of stuff probably until solana breaks all time highs because that's people's biggest bag really is solana and that needs to happen then risk gets recycled out the curve because people do simple maths and everybody's going to do it oh they start saying okay maybe bitcoin goes to 300 000 this cycle let's say.

15:14So therefore, it's got a 3x from here. And then they're like, oh, but Solana could do a 5x from here and Sui could do a 10x from here. And before you know it, everybody rushes out the risk curve because it's later in the cycle and they want to capture as much gains as possible. Yeah, exactly. It's funny, I was reading the first comment on the street when someone mentioned, interesting that the BTC dominance tops you mentioned were both all market tops, but that's not actually the case, is it? Because when it topped in 2021, that's when I'd entered crypto, So that's right when we had this insane move in alts.

15:47And I think dominance dropped all the way down to like towards 50 or 40 % even maybe I want to say. That's right. I mean, let me have a look at the chart. I've got the chart somewhere here. Yeah, dominance. 40 % in summer. Summer 21 dropped 40%. Yeah, exactly. So big wing dominance, generally when it falls, it is the start of the silly season. Yeah. Have you ever wanted to trade Bitcoin but haven't dared try? With Plus500 Futures, you can trade crypto without the hassle of opening a wallet. With just a few clicks, you can register and start practicing with their free and unlimited demo. See a trading opportunity?

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17:37I wonder if we can get a chart of this in 2021 because this decline in Bitcoin dominance in the first half of 2021 is quite something to behold. I never really appreciated how steep that flip-off was. If I go to the weekly chart. Yeah, that's mental, isn't it? Look at that. So here's the same kind of period in 2021. So it happened in Jan that time around. That drop went from 70-something percent down to, what, 38 % in a few months. That's crazy. That's alt season. We saw it here back in 2017, which I think is a very similar one. It started like in Feb 17. I mean, that went from 95 to 35. What's interesting is Bitcoin dominance over time is falling.

18:36so the peaks are always less low yeah the lows seem to be roughly equal but it it suggests to us that we should come somewhere back down here and it happens fast and it happens in two three four months so what's your current construct and how you want to play the next two or three months with a potential for like a we never really got an alt season last year in my opinion nothing to the extent of 2017 no i mean my bet has been as you know has been free because it's outperformed everything it just keeps going up correcting going up correcting going up correcting so just it does all the right things it outperforms all of the time um and i don't see any reason why that's going to stop i mean people argue a lot about well low free flow vc tokens people don't understand the simple fact is that a low free float in a bull market goes up more.

19:32Anybody who's ever traded in emerging markets knows this. And that's what happens. And in a bear market, they get killed more. It's as simple as that because you've got less available supply and a lot of demand because there's a lot of attention on SWE and other things like this. And so it tends to work really, really well. It's also one of the factors why nfts do well in bull markets because there's a limited supply and a lot of attention drives to it and so prices go stratospheric um you know it's a very similar construct so that's my main bet now it's pretty simple to me because if i look at the um this is the solana swede chart probably look at it on a weekly basis it broke out of this basing pattern it flagged consolidated my guess is the next move breaks through all of this and so that tells us that suey is still the fastest horse in the race yeah you know each different question because i think can play catch up but if we look at this it just looks like it's flagging here again and the next move is again the move where we should see dramatic outperformance of suey versus soul and that's i really simplify everything because if we've got one dominant factor and the dominant factor being liquidity.

20:51Therefore, everything is correlated. So therefore, just do one chart against the other and choose the strongest asset without going too far out the risk curve. Because sure, we can go to memes and stuff, but it becomes a harder game to play. Yeah, I think once you dip down that far down the risk curve, I'm sure the total meme market cap is going to go a lot higher. But what you're not betting on is that, you're betting on what the construct of that is. and that's where I think people trip up. It's not like you can buy any single meme coin and it will go up. You have to kind of buy the right ones and the right ones often change.

21:25I think the composition of that index changes. In this current environment, it feels like it changes on a weekly or even daily basis. So it's hard, I think. I think it's much harder to play that game now. We spoke a lot about meme coins in 2023 and there were probably just like a handful of coins then, but there are so many now. it's much harder for me to advocate playing for that game um on like a low touch portfolio level i think and i find it apart from i guess maybe the big stuff like doge and pepe etc is hard i find it hard to find things that i can hold and just forget about or underwrite yeah yeah exactly right um i tell you there's another chart after you can bring up this one yeah i know you guys mentioned it last week is that xrp chart is something to behold yeah it really is i mean you know none of us have really been involved in xrp but that chart is something to behold it's like that's going to another big leg higher at some point and that obviously helps the bitcoin dominance shot the other one which i think is the best chart in the world is um I don't know if I've got it on this one is Doge Bitcoin I've got the Doge chart but Doge Bitcoin looks like it's going to continue and Doge Bitcoin would suggest that it's going to outperform Bitcoin again in which case it'll have been the hardest asset in the world which is the funniest outcome but Doge itself That looks like a full sort of breakout mode doesn't it?

23:02Yeah if I go to the monthly chart I mean, it kind of can't be better than this chart. Yeah. It just does the same thing every time. Consolidates, consolidates, does nothing, does nothing, old season, every time. Yeah. And so this looks like a rocket. And before you know it, Doge is somewhere up here. I mean, that's a very interesting chart, I think. It really is. And it's the same as XRP, essentially. so it's telling you that's the retail participation would they come on look down the top 10 15 tokens what looks cheap in price yeah what's not bitcoin exactly what's not bitcoin what's cheap in price have I heard about it go for it so what do you think Mando and I have spoken a lot about ETH in the last few weeks and it's usually gone with me saying is ETH cheap here and Mando saying don't touch it don't touch it until last week and he had a good call on it he finally came around to actually owning some ETH.

24:04What do you think in terms of ETH versus other alts like perhaps Solana, perhaps Suri, but also ETH BTC? I mean, I can tell we can say ETH BTC because it fits into the old season thesis and I presume that you also think that's going to go higher. But what about its performance versus other altcoins? Like it's been a huge laggard over what feels like almost two years now or whatever it is. would that be in your basket of altcoins that you would potentially play? I mean I have all of my ETH exposure via NFTs so I've got the beta on top but if I let me see if I can find the chart I'm looking for one second and I'll share it the the long term chart of ETH is a thing of beauty I've never kind of lost the faith in ETH I just haven't invested in it much except by the longer term thing I think the entire financial system builds on ETH I think there's no other chain that they will build on top of to the death that they will here but this chart we'll get rid of all this DMARC indicator stuff that maybe understands except me I can't definitely do not understand for some reason I can't get rid of it but basically this is a flag pattern when this goes, ETH has its next move up wherever it goes to.

25:31That's a shocking chart if this plays out because it will change everybody's narrative again about ETH. I still think ETH from here, could it outperform Solana? It's possible. It's possible. Just because what I think is coming is as the financial system comes, you don't get fired for building on ETH. My idea is ETH is Microsoft. I've never been to a bank, an insurance company, a large corporate that has Apple Macs. It's all on Microsoft. Why? Because it's an operating system that everybody can use. And you can hire people, fire people, bring in new people, and they don't have to learn something new.

26:14But if you were to build the entire financial system on Sui, everyone has to learn a move language. There's less number of developers. it's not had the Lindy effects that ETH has. Now, also the banks love a layer too, because they feel like they've got control over certain things, but it still has the finality of settlement to layer one. So I think ETH is probably going to shock people going forwards. But, you know, XRP looks like it will too, and so does Doge. So it's kind of like everything's correlated. Yeah, but if we can break that high, If we can break that, let's say, 4 ,300 high, it's going to really explode.

26:55Yeah. I guess it doesn't have, when you look through the top 10 coins, etc., it doesn't have that low unit bias that I think, I mean, I don't know how truly important that is. Maybe it's something we shouldn't underestimate. Maybe there's two different users, right? Yeah. Maybe this has driven my activity. Because I went and asked Grok and ChatGPT about the usage of blockchains. And ETH is so dominant by almost every metric. And people forget that. On-chain activity has been less in terms of number of transactions because of the throughput, etc. Even if you include all the layer twos. But by every other metric, it just dwarfs everything else.

27:43In fact, it's larger than all the others put together for most things. So people forget this because we're a very fickle bunch in this space. But the reality is, don't fade it. So let's talk about NFTs then, because I know you've been slowly accumulating a very handsome portfolio of NFTs over the last couple of years now. And things, at least quality assets at least, have moved off the lows. and I think there's been a lot of two-sided trading and stuff like X-Copies and Peoples and, you know, on-chain, Derrins of Heart, etc. Do you think we see, I have no doubt that that stuff will continue to appreciate and value.

28:27And I think generally speaking, most people agree with that thesis. It's just people are trying to outperform that and try and roll it back in, whatever it is. But do you think we ever, do you think we have we will have another nft season so to speak and will that occur on ethereum or is that likely to happen perhaps on sui or something else um i think we do have an nft season yeah somewhat different than the last i think what we're seeing is a current bifurcation one is web free consumer based brands being built and you know we'll talk about what you guys are doing but you know that's doodles pudgy penguins all of that right and that still seems to be capturing mindshare um then we've got the art side which seems to be doing well then we've got the pfp side which you know there are a few projects that will survive and punks you know going to the hands of mickey malco is a good friend of mine is amazing news um i managed to get the head of the suri foundation over drinks one night in dubai at 11 o 'clock at night to get a punk i said you and the reality is is you cannot be in the space and having been reasonably successful without owning a punk right it's like that's a rite of passage and so you know i think punks probably get to a floor price of half a million this cycle um just because there's a lot of ogs who haven't yet bought them um you know i was speaking to a bunch in dubai you know really well-known people they don't have them yet i'm like how can you i mean i've been speaking to vlad tenner from robin hood in fact the last question of my interview with vlad because i've been talking to him privately, he's like, when are you buying this fucking punk?

30:20You can't be in the space and pretend you're in crypto without a punk. And then, you know, what is the spillover effect from that? And though we've talked about this in the past, I think crypto dick butts is another one. You're either an OG and understand it or you don't. And there's only 5 ,600 of them there. they're one ETH, one ETH 25. I just do not see a world that these are not 10 ETH because they're so important to the space because you kind of know, right? Everybody's got a dick, but you're like, yeah, you get this space. It's like a mini punk. So I do think we'll see PFP projects maintaining value, certain ones that have Lindy effects.

31:01And I think that's good too. I think what XCopy has done is so amazing because he's got such a broad spread of assets that people can buy from Max Payne and Friends as a PFP, which is cheap, through to the one of ones. And people can participate throughout his ecosystem. So I do think the art stuff continues as well. And then we're going to see somebody do something breakout, which is somewhere between, I still think, a hybrid idea behind memes and what NFTs actually use as technology. people aren't using nft technology much yet they're just using it still for pictures but there's a lot i think will happen so i i think the nft space is going to get interesting and i think some of it would be on solana we've seen a bunch of stuff migrate across to sui as well um because they're faster throughput so they're more like means in that way um but we'll also see stuff accrue on ETH.

32:00So I think it's a broad mix. It's hard to know. What do you think about NFTs? Are you even looking at them anymore? Yeah, I mean, I actually sold some NFTs to buy liquid stuff back in April, which was a good trade. And I've now monetized some of that and I'm looking to reacquire some NFTs. But I'm just, the thing that I'm trying to figure out for me personally is should i be running the liquid stuff a bit longer to capture a bit more return there that is a hard battle right that's a battle showing these great x copies i'm like i have the part with my sui to do it exactly exactly and then the problem is is by the time sui's at 10 these fucking things have gone up as well it's like it's really hard to know how to do this it's hard to know what to do and so i'm just since i'm in two minds like i would like to i own one punk i think i would like to purchase another punk because i think if you go to bet on this space that is just the it's the bitcoin of nfts right it's that's the one thing that will definitely go up will it be the best performer perhaps not but it's a safe bet and i just for me with nfts i think i have to buy something that i at least feel some sort of sentimental attachment to otherwise you know because then worst case scenario is like cool i had this cool collectible i had this cool picture but the worst thing is when you buy i mean i remember i got fomoed into buying a founder crypto kitty 2021 and i just like i have no connection with it at all it's just yeah sure like it's an early 2017 ft and man don't i actually still own it but i just i hate to see it in our wallet because it's like i just hate this thing i'll never display it i've never here's a run by you so using how we view markets it's like the knock-on effects the macro implications if i think that if i look through what's just happened mickey's bought and put into a foundation punks yuga's just been given the cash from that and our friend sergio had bought me bits of them so what it's telling me is the yuga guys are going to be ultra concentrated on getting board right yeah board ape is like the red-headed stepchild of all of this right now and i just have a feeling that the next leg they will participate because they're going to deliver something outside of i don't care about the other side stuff what i actually care about with board apes is that bloody miami clubhouse yes you know we want somewhere that we can call our own we're all in miami now and then and maybe that ends up being one in new york and one in hong kong or whatever that would be amazing because if you think of the kind of people that will will be around that space they're interesting people people have made some money people are doing interesting projects the partnerships and opportunities that i think people are sleeping on board i still own mine which i vastly overpaid for but if i were to do anything today if i wasn't worried about suey outperforming everything i would actually buy a bunch of avos yeah big butts would be my two things that I think you know what, they could outperform punks.

35:15It's a good point because they've divested that Legends of Mara thing they have, they've divested their heavy metal thing they have, they've divested Meebeards, they've now just divested punks. So it just does really leave them with apes. And other side, I guess. And other side I'm actually quite constructive on. I think that can be quite big because when they do these sessions on them, they have like thousands of people turn up and actually play this thing. And I mean, I'm not a gamer myself, but I've long believed it's interoperable currency with games and crypto. That's just something that makes sense.

35:50And I was kind of betting on these guys to crack that puzzle a couple of years ago, which maybe didn't happen because of all the other things they did. So that I do think is interesting, actually. But apes are now like a half-feet floor. They're very cheap. I also think what Sergio is doing with mini-bits. I mean, I have faith in Sergio. He's one of the nicest people we all know. He's also very passionate about it. And just seeing what he's just done with Meebits, being used in the game as a character, and then having add-ons like a backpack, there's like a Banana Zone backpack, and all of this stuff, I'm like, okay, he's moving fast and doing the right things.

36:30And Meeb's are, they have a place in the folklore. So that's another project that's probably still well underpriced, I think is interesting. Yeah, so MiBits are at 0.7 ETH. Yeah. Which is pretty obtainable. You know, this is the other thing. Like, people always say, well, I can't really afford a punk. What can I go out there and buy? And if punks move a lot higher, MiBits will move a lot higher. Like, it is the A to the punks, you know what I mean? Yeah, MiBits, A to Crypto Dig Barts probably are the ones that really benefit. They've all got folklore. Yeah. and they've got a reason to own them that drives a bit of passion as you say people care do you think the nft season happens as a result of alt season as a result of bitcoin dominance dropping and we just see the same thing as we saw in 2021 play out i feel like in 2021 part of the big nft rally was because it was it felt new and everyone thought this thing is going to change the world and you know you had the people sale and everything and it was it was this like hot new thing, whereas now it's not a new thing anymore.

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37:37But does it fall into that? So if we go back to the financial way of looking at it, if we think that that chart of ETH might play out, which it breaks through the 4300 level and then accelerates to 10K and beyond, right? So let's say ETH can triple from here or more because if Bitcoin's going to, Bitcoin dominance is falling and we think Bitcoin could go to 250 or 300, whatever the number you choose your number then eth should outperform it money in eth gets recycled into the eth economy so therefore the nfts even if they double let's say eth goes up 4x if nfts double you might get 8x on your trade okay that's kind of interesting now if you've got something like meads or crypto dick butts that are one eth could they go to five could they even go to 10 in a full you know fomo cycle yes okay now you're talking some huge money that's what people forget and you and i've talked about this in the past people forget about nfts versus mean coins is nfts have this multiplier effect yeah they're a call option on that underlying chain yeah i mean when you have that dream scenario of let's say eth going a lot higher while floor price also increases of the nft you had this levered effect without liquidation risk, if that makes sense, of stuff going a lot higher.

39:07I think that's how, to be honest with you, a lot of people made a lot of money in 2021. That's right. That's why people make so much money at NFTs was the multiplier. Yeah. And you actually don't have the same effect with meme coins. Yeah, meme coins maybe move with some sort of base or two market, but the way that the NFT price moved alongside ETH and everything went up. It was like a pretty crazy time because your two or three X-rays ended up being like 20 X or 30 X-rays, right? Like it was just like insane moves and everything. I think punks did something like 5 ,000 X because of that. Yeah, I mean punks were like half an ETH or something when ETH was like 1 ,000 or something like that.

39:57and they went all the way to 150th floor when ETH was at 5k. So it was like the most insane move ever. And all you had to do was just hold punks and that was it. Like you just made... That was the trade of last cycle. That was their trade. Punks and apes. And you just outperformed pretty much like everything, everything in the entire market. So it is, that's like kind of like the micro strategy trade, I guess of, you know. And I just like... I kind of raise this a lot on Twitter to try and see where the pulse is. And people hate NFTs. They don't understand them. They don't really get it. And that makes me very interested.

40:39Yeah. Because there is a Lindy effect of what survived will survive and thrive. We know what the Lindy effect is. Like X copy is Lindy effect. Beeple is Lindy effect. You know, a bunch of the generative art Lindy effect and a bunch of these PFPs Lindy effects. so it's like i love that second cycle trade where they get jammed down and you see what's got lindy effect those things tend to wildly outperform yeah yeah i do see that kind of making me feel like i need to have a bit more exposure to well nfts here how i've done it over to justify how it's like my big macro thesis is this space is a three trillion dollar space today i think it goes $100 trillion in 10 years.

41:23That's just standard network adoption extrapolated out in the log chart. That's$97 trillion of wealth. That's the largest, fastest accumulation of wealth in all recorded history. It's like 3x more than all of the Russian billionaires, all the Chinese billionaires, all of Silicon Valley wealth, and all the Wall Street billionaires added together times three or something stupid, right? All happening within a short period. Let's assume I'm an idiot and it goes to 50 trillion, not 100. 47 trillion is still bigger than all of that wealth. And wealth gets recycled into art in the end. So if you speak to a friend of mine, Tad Smith, who's run Sotheby's, Tad said, the average billionaire has like four or five houses.

42:06Beyond that, you can't buy anything. So what happens is the value of the art in their houses is 10x the value of their house. Because art is a store of value. It's exchangeable. transportable you know it's actually a very very good store of wealth so I'm just thinking as a long term bet you know by the end by 10 years some of these ex-copies will have traded at 200 million dollars Wow it's a big bet I hope you're right we still have not mine because I don't have the one of ones but we will see record prices in art in this space Yeah I do think the the last selfie piece that you have I would say is better than most of the one of ones or at least half of the one of ones he has I know it's a one of 10 but just an iconic piece like that will be that one of those I think will be much higher it probably is already higher than some of the one of ones right now to be honest with you yeah and also because there's 10 of them it's the same with mortal as well is there's 10 of these they're known as iconic having 10 means that prices get reset as opposed to you know the the Salvador Mundi, which will never trade again, right?

43:22Yeah. But there's no reset. But this, I think there's a competition because you can always, if you're rich enough, you can go to all 10 owners and put a stupid bid on and you might get one. So I think you're right. That's Jedi Wolf, who's very involved in the space. His thesis as well is some of these collections will do better than the one of ones because you can actually create competition. And we saw that with the Warhol Marilins. Yeah. Yeah. It's the same thing. Yeah, that's exactly right. Because you need a lot of people talking about it to get it to its iconic status, right? So if you have 10 holders of 10 pieces, that's already kind of like a cabal in itself anyway.

44:02And that has networking effects. Whereas like, even if you have 10 people owning one piece, it's not really the same, is it? It's not quite the same thing, I think. so I do think I think just I think for that reason but also just in terms of the art itself that piece is like I would I would probably rather own that than the the two one of ones we have I think which ones have you got? so we have one that's called Wrecked Guts believe it or not which is a one of one which is very very fitting and then we have another one which is a portrait of Hayden Adams actually

44:43which I think is an interesting one as well. Yeah, I've got no one-of-ones of his at all. But I've been broadening out now because I've got so many bloody eggs. I've got 40-something eggs. And I've got all of the peoples. And I will get people one-of-one when I get around to it. But what I've been broadening out is further around to the art space looking for interesting artists doing different stuff. And most of those are because I like them. will I make money off them? I don't know. And then some stuff, I'm doing it also to make money from. Yeah, absolutely. The last point on the NFT stuff is, do you think we see some of the stuff that we saw go crazy last time were stuff like Doodles, Proof, Moonbird, kind of like the IP story stuff.

45:30And Doodles themselves actually launched a token recently, which didn't do that well. I think it's at something like a 40 or 50 million market cap. but that whole IP story was another big I guess use case or something that people kind of got attached to for NFT. Do you think we see a resurgence of that or is it like a fool me once, fool me twice kind of story there? We don't know, right? So there's a bunch of people experimenting with yet again token based economies based around IP and stuff. You're doing it you kind of backed into it the other way around the others have done it the other way nobody's yet to get it right.

46:11But all of our thesis is somehow this should connect to an ecosystem in a way that works. So whether Doodles can pull it off, whether you guys pull it off, I don't know, but somebody's going to get there. We just don't know the mechanism to accrue value to the token in a way that does it, whether it's via buybacks or whether it's via opportunity sets or loyalty points or whatever. we keep creating these token economies and they keep failing because there's an airdrop people then just dump it there's no real use for the token and then it gets forgotten so i don't know why people do it most of the time because the actual founding team don't retain much of it a thing falls 90 afterwards and you have a liability yeah what have you done what have you done that's added any value um so i just feel like people haven't really how are you thinking about it with with rex talk everybody through what you guys are doing because i think it's super interesting um and again you're trying something new in building a brand that uses web3 as its foundation but it's not just web3 it's a product of people we hope yeah i think i I think top down, what Web3 allows you to do is build a brand or IP or a community in a very accelerated fashion.

47:40Because if you buy a drink from Coca-Cola or from Pepsi or whatever, you buy the drink, you drink it and you maybe enjoy it and then you move on. And that's kind of like your interaction with that company, right? Whereas if you buy a Rex drink, you buy the drink, you drink it, hopefully you enjoy it. But then you are able to play with some Rex coin. And then you suddenly become sort of like a stakeholder in what we're doing. And yes, the Rect coin itself doesn't own any of the Rect IP. It doesn't benefit from any of the revenues. It doesn't pay dividends. It doesn't get a profit share or anything like that.

48:13But what it does benefit from is appreciation through attention. So if Rect brands and Rect drinks does really well as a company, it will gain more attention. And the coin will probably go up. It's probably just going to go up based on... Surely you've got your thinking through how do you tie it into an ecosystem and loyalty system that generates two-way demand for the token? Yeah, I think so. So I think for us, we've been using revenues from drink sales to purchase the token. So that's like a, it's not a completely defined mechanic, but it is something that creates an economic driver for the token rights and the token appreciation.

48:56So that I think is kind of completes the flywheel. It's like, okay, people are able to earn this. Revenues are generated from drinks, whether it's from people owning the token, whether it's from people just buying the drinks. I mean, like 60 % of our sales, believe it or not, are actually from fiat people who haven't claimed rewards. So I don't know who out there is buying these drinks, but there's a lot of non-crypto people. And that is revenue into the whole Rekt ecosystem, which goes to token buyback. So I think we've sort of created this kind of flywheel thing, which works. And there are a lot of challenger brands out there in the world, and people feel attached to them, and they want to be a part of it.

49:32But for 99 % of people, they're not able to get into private investment rounds because they probably don't have the capital or the contacts. and their connection with their brand is just support from buying the product. And if the brand does really well, then maybe you have bragging rights by saying, oh yeah, like I was first to this brand. Remember this photo I took three years ago, but that's all you really have. Because if you're earning what I believe is, you could say it's a meme coin, you could even perhaps go one step forward and call it a brand coin, which is what I like to think of it as.

50:00And you say, okay, now I actually have a stake in this thing where if these guys do kill it and I do really like the brand, the price of that goes up and you make money off it and you become an actual supporter and part of a different ecosystem. So I think like that concept hasn't really been explained to people properly or people haven't really thought about it in that way. And I think part of the problem with lots of the NFT IP stuff is that they've been very extractive. Their business model is like, we will make money by selling you more NFTs. And eventually that stops working because the community turns into consumers and they just turn into like, you know your um you kind of like extraction targets so um let's see how let's see how it goes we've been pretty experimental on this whole thing but yeah i i love what you're doing and i love that you're pushing it hard to try and do it because somebody's going to get this right yeah somebody's gonna get it right and it's the it's the same with the creator economy it's the same with sports teams it's the same with brands somebody's going to crack this and the whole thing is going to fucking explode.

51:03Whether it's this cycle, we get the first look at it, then we get the Lindy effects, and then after that is the big one. But it's coming. I know it is. It's been part of my core thesis. I love how you guys are experimenting. The Doodles one, does that work? I don't know. But they have... I mean, I caught up with Austin the other day. They have a lot of ideas of what they want to do to create true value from it so it's not just a mean coin in itself. Mean coins is okay. I don't have an issue with it. But really, if somebody can figure out how to make an economy, then we've got something big, really big.

51:38Yeah, yeah, exactly. I agree. We have a few minutes left, so maybe I'll move on to some of the viewer questions and we can go through those. The first one is from Francisco. For the next three months, what are your off-the-cuff thoughts on a portfolio construction of 50 % Sol, 20 % Bitcoin, 10 % Sol DeFi, 10 % AI coins, 10 % meme coins? So it's a pretty heavily weighted Solana portfolio. Yeah, look, I don't think it does badly. I think Solana is like the main coin of this cycle. Will it outperform Sui unlikely? Could it outperform Solana maybe? But I don't think you go far wrong. Just be careful with that tail side of too much in AI and too much in stuff.

52:23When you know that you've got kind of 30 % in more speculative-based stuff, I'd just be a little bit careful of that. you know, if you don't want to fuck it up, I prefer to have, you know, like 70, 80%, maybe more in just the core bet as opposed to going too far out the risk curve. Yeah, I agree with that. I think I would be, I'd have a bigger weight into the core bet. Yeah. You know, this and... And the Bitcoin bit is fine, you know. Yeah. Okay, next question. Raoul, I know you love SUI since the breakout of the SUI soul charts, but looking at the chart, it looks like a double bottom with a higher low.

53:02Also, the institutional money will not be going to Surrey, but are guaranteed to go into Seoul because of the Treasury buying. Any thoughts on that? I just don't make it. Look at the chart. The chart looks like the number go up. That's the best possible answer. But it's true. It's true. And if the number go up, it attracts more capital. It's as simple as that. Yeah, I agree. And it's big enough to matter. right because you can somebody will show me some small thing it's like this is not big enough to matter this is big enough to matter it's like you're the whole fucking ex-facebook team behind it it's big enough yeah it's what my my old boss used to tell me don't talk yourself out of a good trade just for the sake of talking yourself out of a good trade which is i think mid-curving it yeah yeah that's right no offense to no disrespect to aaron on on that um so next question from Mustafa on YouTube.

53:59Can you give some advice for exit strategy this cycle to someone heavy in crypto assets? Have you thought about... I know you will never truly exit the markets, but have you thought about where you would be taking... Yeah, I have. I talk about this a lot, and it's down to everybody's preferences. I can't... You can't take... People should not rent my conviction, your conviction, our price targets, anything. What it's down to is at some point in the next few months, you should take lifestyle chips off the table. I know you've been a big proponent of this, Ovi. It's like at some point, if you can take a bunch off, 25%, 30%, then you kind of don't care what happens in the back end of the cycle.

54:43Don't try and nail the top, get out exactly, but take enough money out that it really, it changes your life. I mean, it's life-changing money in this space. So whatever it is, take it off and you will feel too early and you'll feel sick for doing it. I think you're always too early in doing this, Ovi, because I think you're scurped from the last time because you started taking stuff off. But then you come, you're like, that's it, I'm taking it off. And then you go back in again. I'm like, that's not what you said you did. That's very true. That's very true. But honestly, if I'm right that the market has another peak in July and then consolidates for a bit, use that summer period, late summer period when prices are higher, to just take it off permanently and do something that is accretive to your life.

55:28I do agree. I think sometimes people get too stamped towards how do I maximize my profit? And if you're already up big, which I think many people, I hope many people on this show, listen to the show are, because we've just been very bullish for a long time. If you're up big, it gets to the point where it's like, okay, it's not necessarily about making that extra 10, 20, 30, or even extra 2x. or 3x it's like if you if you've made my view is if you've made money that makes a difference to your standard of living or allows you to achieve some in real life goal that you want to achieve you should absolutely sell it and do it because yes you might lose some on the table but at the end of the day the worst situation is that you round trip it and then you just i think to show for it basically i explain to people if i go back to i think it was 1999 or 2000 um i was a goldman And I was earning good money.

56:22And I got a big bonus. And I was speaking to my dad. He said, what do you want to do? I'm like, you know, I want to buy a house in Spain. And it so happened. They had a friend selling a house in Spain, blah, blah, blah. And I went and bought it. It was a six-bedroom house on a hillside. It was stupid cheap at the time. And I bought it in cash and renovated it. And I realized I won the entire game. I still had a mortgage on my flat in London. But I had owned a house on a hillside in Spain. and if my world went to shit, I could work in a bar and live in that house amongst the olive groves and orange groves 10 minutes to the beach.

56:57People don't realize how empowering that is. Once you own your own house, not as an investment, but as security and mental security to take risk from or do whatever you want, it's a game changer. And I just think it is worth more than the money itself by a long way. Yeah, yeah, I agree. I agree with that. um i think we've got time for one more question i think this is an interesting one actually um uh this is from someone called paris how do i work for or enter this new digital age as a finance student instead of falling into investment banking or do you i'm advising all of my friends kids this because a lot of my friends kids are all like at uni or or just getting close to it yeah the answer is it's not easy because there's not that many jobs and there's a lot of startups not enough mature businesses trying to get into the startup is hard um but there are some big companies being built you know coinbase being one of them finance being and the exchanges is probably a very good place to start um so i would opt for the exchanges infrastructure companies like moon pay um stuff like big stable coin providers just anywhere adjacent asset management firms the galaxy digitals just anybody who actually employs a lot of people because if not you're just gonna be in and out of jobs the cycle comes everybody blows up that does it but keep persevering be around on X because that's where all the conversation happens.

58:32Add value. Show that you're doing something. I mean, do you know that you must remember him. There was the guy called Mr. Fox. He used to be on Real Vision. He was like this young kid at school writing NFT stuff for us. And he's at university now, really smart guy. But his side gig is broking high art at Fountain. Wow. So the big X copies and stuff. He's involved in doing that. And he came to me the other day and said, what should I do? Should I go to investment banking? I'm like, no. You've actually got a reputation. People read you on Twitter. They read your research and you're broken high art.

59:11You're in the middle of the system. Lean into it. Yeah, I agree with that. I think your advice on starting at a larger crypto firm, I guess somewhere that employs a lot of people, is a good one. Because if you're doing six-month stints at a load of different startups, you're probably not going to get that experience that I think you need to build some sort of a foundation for doing other stuff in the future, for doing cool stuff in the future. So that's what I would do now. You know, if you want to just take a risk and go for it and start your own thing or whatever, like I think people should do that.

59:42And some people are obviously very successful at that. But there's something, I can't remember who I'm speaking to. I was speaking to Tony Greer about this the other day. He's like, he said, what did Goldman do for you? He said, Ed taught me how to be a professional. Yeah. And how to be around people 10 times smarter than you. How to capture opportunity sets. And big companies have that. Big growing companies. When you're in a company that's growing and it's big, you're going to be surrounded by a shit ton of amazing people you can learn from. And it's much better to do that for two or three years and then go and do your own thing than it is just doing your own thing, I think.

1:00:25Now, some people get that from university. if you're blessed enough to be at Stanford or MIT or whatever, you're probably going to get some of that there. But most people don't. Yeah, I agree. I definitely agree with that advice. Where did you go to university? I went to LSE. Oh, nice. Went to LSE, yeah. But I basically was one of those losers who wanted to be a trader from when I was like 16 from punting around on penny stocks back in the day. So I just pretty much like from day one was just like, I'm going to be a trader, I'm going to be a trader, I'm going to be a trader, to become a trader and ends up doing internships and whatnot.

1:01:00A friend of mine's son's just done that. He's a friend of mine from Cayman, German. His son's now at LSE. And he got his first internship, 0.72. I'm like, oh, wow. That's pretty good. It's not a bad start. That's pretty good, yeah. Yeah, it's not a bad start at all. Although he's got the same problem. He's like, well, what do you think? I said, I think you're going into a dying industry. You've got to get to AI as fast as you can. or your phone yeah i have to say like the 10 years i was at barclays the quality of the interns that we got every year rapidly declined like we got amazing interns for the first i mean the year i joined obviously michael and i were amazing interns and then um every year was like rapid decline not only just in terms of the quality of the people but the universities they were coming from and it was just it was clear people didn't want to come into to banking it was just yeah When I was at Goldman in, let's say, 97, 98, I don't know how I got on.

1:01:58I was a lateral hire and I went to a shitty university, but I happened to prove myself. And there was very few lateral hires, i.e. people who came from outside the firm. And I get all the CVs from these people and there were stupid CVs. I mean, at that time, the investment banking industry was hiring more rocket scientists and nuclear scientists for derivatives. than all of the rest of the industries added together outside of the banking, right? We sucked in all of the talent because we paid 10 times as much as anything else. And it was a fast-growing industry. Then Silicon Valley came along and it reversed.

1:02:33And all of the sharp kids now go to Silicon Valley because the upside is bigger. And now we're seeing it with AI yet again. And so there's a real talent drain and the whole banking industry has been shrinking, essentially or just moving towards machines as opposed to people. Well, I think we've provided a very comprehensive answer on our thoughts there, despite both having worked at investment banks. Also, I love this. We came not prepared and we've just had a quick conversation about all sorts of stuff. We haven't got together recently, so it's always just... It has been a while, so it is always good to catch up.

1:03:13It's definitely always a pleasure. So with that, I guess we should call it time. We're a little bit over time, but we're coming up to just half past five. So that was Rekt Vision, this week's special episode with Raoul. Before we go, quick question for you guys. Please let us know in the comments, how far do you expect the banana zone to take us? Let's hear some predictions for Bitcoin, ETH, SUI, SOL, you name it. Bitcoin dominance. Let us know what you think in the comments. Yeah, it'd be interesting to see whether, because I think, my personal opinion is most people are scarred. Yeah, I think so.

1:03:46They don't believe we can have nice things. That is my general assumption. We're still in PTSD zone, basically. We really are, I think. So it'll be interesting to see what people's targets are. So yeah, stick them below. I know we're in PTSD zone because I myself am doubting things at times. And that's why I know it's like, actually, why am I doubting this for no reason other than just like scars from the last few months. So I definitely agree. All right, cool. And we'll be back next week. Next week will be our monthly AMA show. exclusively on the Real Vision website. You can catch us live at 11.30 a.m.

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