Идеи
Ethereum leads real blockchain usage rebound
Crypto is moving from pure speculation to real blockchain usage; Ethereum is currently the leading blockchain for development and tokenization, with Solana also seeing real use. He expects this utility-driven usage to drive a rebound in crypto trading volumes once regulatory clarity arrives.
Selloff overreaction; Securitize long-term upside
Securitize's 26% post-earnings selloff was a technical SPAC-liquidity overreaction by short-term holders, not a fundamental breakdown. The company has about $5B of a roughly $38B tokenized real-world asset market and strong market share; his base case is trillions of dollars of tokenized AUM over five years, supporting a $15 target versus $5.24.
Bitcoin discount favors digital asset risk/reward
Bitcoin is trading 42% below its long-term trend while top AI stocks are at a 50% premium. Blockchain assets share the same AI and agentic economy tailwinds yet are down, so he sees better risk/reward in digital assets even if AI stocks keep rising.
Fundamentals-driven digital asset index for institutions
He built the S&P Pantera Digital Asset Index with S&P Dow Jones to give institutional investors a fundamentals-driven benchmark of digital assets with real revenue and utility, analogous to the S&P 500 profitability requirement; it excludes Bitcoin because Bitcoin is a separate digital gold thesis.
Retail access to early-stage YC upside
Robinhood Ventures Fund 2 gives retail investors daily-liquid, listed access to early-stage Y Combinator companies at lower valuations with more upside than late-stage; fees are similar to venture capital with 20% only on realized gains, expanding retail access to private market wealth creation.
Robinhood infrastructure layer captures crypto value
Robinhood is long-term bullish on crypto and is investing in blockchain infrastructure; Robinhood chain has already reached top one to three chains and found product-market fit, and the firm sees long-term value accruing to the infrastructure layer through tokenization and yield products like Robinhood Earn.
This CoinDesk video, published August 17, 2026,
features Devin Ryan, Cosmo Jiang, Shiv Verma
discussing SOL, ETH, SECZ, BTC, BITO, SP_PANTERA_DIGITAL_ASSET_INDEX, RHV, HOOD.
6 trade ideas extracted by AI with direction and confidence scoring.
Speakers:
Devin Ryan,
Cosmo Jiang,
Shiv Verma
· Tickers:
SOL,
ETH,
SECZ,
BTC,
BITO,
SP_PANTERA_DIGITAL_ASSET_INDEX,
RHV,
HOOD