🥛 What you missed this week 👀

GM. This is Milk Road, the newsletter that wraps up everything you missed over the past week into a tasty crypto burrito.

Here’re the quick highlights from the week:

✍️ We got a rate cut! Here's what's next...
🎙️ Solana vs Ethereum, Base Token + PUMP Path to $100b w/ Ryan Connor & Jesse Eckel
🌐 What we learned from the FOMC meeting
🎲 Finding the next $100M Pump token

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WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEK (P1)

👉 We got a 0.25% rate cut, setting crypto up for success in Q4. Here are 3 key levels we’re watching across $BTC, $ETH, and $SOL (read more)

👉 PumpFun’s creator payouts are leaving YouTube in the dust — their social platform switch may have staying power (read more)

👉 Native Markets won the bid to create Hyperliquid’s $USDH stablecoin (read more)

👉 This SEC rule change could 3x the amount of crypto ETFs launched per year — and everyone missed it! (read more)

👉 Fan Tokens > memecoins. With altseason heating up, Chilliz-backed Fan Tokens could have the edge. over memecoins* (read more)

👉 Our “Where are we at in the cycle?” indicators got a makeover. They’re now interactive and updated daily (check them out here)

👉 Solana vs Ethereum, Base Token + PUMP Path to $100b w/ Ryan Connor & Jesse Eckel (listen in)

👉 How The Fed's Mistakes Push Markets Higher w/ Chris Whalen (listen in)

👉 Milk Road Macro PRO AMA - Sep 17, 2025 (listen in)

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👉 What we were expecting heading into the FOMC meeting (read more)

👉 What we actually got from the FOMC meeting (read more)

👉 Where to find the alpha on the next $100M Pump token (read more)

👉 The Pokémon ETF is real. Here are three tokens to watch in the RWA card boom (read more)

👉 We’ve added a new research tool to this page. And honestly, it’s on us for not including it sooner. We use this one every single day (read more)

Alright, the biggest week of September is behind us…

Now, let’s all sit back and enjoy some memes. 👇