GM. This is Milk Road, the newsletter dedicated to making you the smartest person in your friend group when it comes to crypto.
Here’re the quick highlights from the week:
- ✍️ Solana looking ready to breakout
- 🎙️ The Next Crypto Bull Run Will Start in October
- 🌐 Trump launched an attack on the Fed
- 🎲 These 3 tokens just woke up
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WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEK (P1)
Crypto headlines you shouldn’t miss
👉 Want to ride the Solana treasury wave without buying $SOL? Here are 3 tokens that stand to benefit from the planned $3B investment (read more)
👉 Google is launching its own L1 — which could lead to a significant increase in blockchain adoption (read more)
👉 We did some digging and learned that rate cuts often result in an average increase of 295% across the altcoin market (read more)
👉 We listed 3 catalysts that could cause Solana to break out to new all-time highs (read more)
👉 The crypto market is heating up… and so is our audience. With 350,000+ crypto-native readers, there’s no better time to get your brand in front of them (read more)
Top podcasts of the week 🎙️
👉 Pudgy Penguins, Pengu Token & the Future of Crypto Culture (+ Abstract Airdrop?) w/ Luca Netz (listen in)
👉 The Next Crypto Bull Run Will Start in October w/ Jesse Eckel (listen in)
👉 Milk Road Crypto PRO AMA - Aug 27, 2025 (listen in)
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WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEK (P2)
All the macro stuff you might have missed 🌐
👉 What Powell’s Jackson Hole speech meant and what to expect next (read more)
👉 Trump has launched an attack on the Fed — here’s why that’s a big deal (read more)
The wild sh*t from the degen world 🎲
👉 These 3 tokens just woke up — spoiler: they are all AI (read more)
👉 The great meme reset: they nuked, they dipped, and they might just rip again in Q4 (read more)
👉 We’ve just added a new event to our conference page: European Blockchain Week. Use code “MiLkROADebc” for a 20% discount on tickets (read more)
Alright — that’s all the news you missed this week.
If anyone needs us we’ll be in the corner refreshing our portfolio tracker.
MILKY MEMES OF THE WEEK 🤣
