🥛 What you missed this week 👀

GM. This is Milk Road, the crypto newsletter that gives you the run down, so you don’t miss the next run up.

Here’re the quick highlights from the week:

✍️ Coinbase's secret master plan
🎙️ Building the onchain future w/ Base Founder Jesse Pollak
🌐 US job growth badly missed expectations
🎲 Base just gave us a cheat code

Midnight network is a blockchain that focuses on privacy. Grab your $NIGHT allocation here.

WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEK (P1)

Crypto headlines you shouldn’t miss

👉 Coinbase’s four phase plan to help crypto reach 1B global users gets an update after nearly 10 years (read more)

👉 We ranked the top 5 public $SOL treasury companies and broke down their price premiums against Solana (read more)

👉 The SEC just unveiled “Project Crypto”, a sweeping plan to modernize crypto regulations and make the U.S. the global leader in digital assets (read more)

👉 We broke down July's top-performing crypto apps by revenue and (surprise, surprise) Hyperliquid took the #1 spot (read more)

👉 The $NIGHT airdrop is set to go live by August 10. If you hold $BTC, $ETH, $SOL, $XRP, $BNB, $AVAX, $ADA, or $BAT, there’s a good chance you’re eligible.* (read more)

Top podcasts of the week 🎙️

👉 Coinbase’s Plan To Disrupt Finance, Social & Payments w/ Base Founder Jesse Pollak (listen in)

👉 Surviving the Liquidity Crisis: Everything You Need to Navigate This Cycle w/ Michael Howell (listen in)

👉 Milk Road PRO All Access: Checking The Market’s Pulse - Aug 7, 2025 (listen in)

CLAIM YOUR $NIGHT ALLOCATION BY AUGUST 10

Do you hold $BTC, $ETH, $SOL, $XRP, $BNB, $AVAX, $ADA, or $BAT?

Then, you’re probably eligible for the Midnight ($NIGHT) airdrop!

Ok…but, what’s it all about?

Midnight is a privacy-focused blockchain, that:

Ensures secure and private transactions
Is the first blockchain to utilize Cardano's partner chain model.
Uses a dual-resource tokenomics model with $NIGHT token and $DUST resource.

The Glacier Drop (Phase 1 of the airdrop) is open to holders across 8 chains.

You just need to have $100+ worth of a supported token at snapshot.

Grab your $NIGHT allocation here.

WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEK (P2)

All the macro stuff you might have missed 🌐

👉 US job growth badly missed expectations — but looking deeper into the data, things may not look as bad as they first appear (read more)

👉 Highly liquid bills are being used to fill in the US’ growing borrowing needs, and it’s having a positive effect on the economy...for now (read more)

**The wild sh*t from the degen world** 🎲

👉 “Thank you, Brian. Thank you, Jesse.” Base just gave us a cheat code to picking up and coming memecoins (read more)

👉 3 degen plays for the next run-up: MegaETH, Hyperliquid farming, and crypto sports betting (read more)

👉 500x leverage. Tokenized stock trading. No KYC for small transactions. Yep, BTCC offers all of that and we just dropped a full review of the platform (read more)

Alright, that’s everything you missed!

See you bright and early (3pm ET) tomorrow.