{"id":233179,"date":"2025-10-22T11:59:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/?p=233179"},"modified":"2025-10-22T12:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:03:14","slug":"is-the-fed-finally-embracing-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/podcasts\/ibkr-podcasts\/is-the-fed-finally-embracing-crypto\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Fed Finally Embracing Crypto?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fed Governor Waller calls it a \u201cnew era\u201d for payments, but what does that really mean for crypto, markets, and the so-called \u201cWild West\u201d of digital assets? 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Although IBKR has edited for clarity no material changes have been made<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-jeff-praissman\"><strong>Jeff Praissman<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Hey everyone, this is Jeff Praissman with Interactive Brokers. It&#8217;s my pleasure to welcome back to our podcast studio Scott Bauer from Prosper Trading Academy. Hey Scott, how are you?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-scott-bauer\"><strong>Scott Bauer<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Great, Jeff. It is busy. How are you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-jeff-praissman-0\"><strong>Jeff Praissman<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m good. I&#8217;m good. Yeah, it&#8217;s always great to have you here on these Wednesday mornings when we do a little brief summary of the market in the past week and then the look ahead. But like you said, it is busy, and we are in the middle of earnings season with a lot of major companies \u2014 Netflix, Coca-Cola, and GM \u2014 already reporting earnings this past week. I saw GM and how that flew up. But how are these reports influencing market sentiment, and what patterns are emerging for Q3 earnings that might signal broader economic trends?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-scott-baue-r\"><strong>Scott Baue<\/strong>r<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, I think the experts, the analysts out there, were looking for a pretty decent earnings season overall. Certainly GM and Coca-Cola fit into that. The banks last week, for the most part, were pretty positive. But then we get Netflix, and we see Netflix down almost 10% here, and Texas Instruments, which we got, was a disappointment. We get Tesla today, and next week are all the Mag Sevens. So I really think, from talking to traders and talking to other big people on the institutional side, people are cautiously optimistic. But right now, the tone is a little pessimistic overall. This is going to be an interesting one because we know, looking at these results, that they can absolutely influence market sentiment \u2014 and market sentiment, as we&#8217;ve seen, can change on a dime. So I think there is some concern, but people are still looking and hoping for the best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-jeff-praissma-n\"><strong>Jeff Praissma<\/strong>n<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Got it. Got it. And I want to switch courses here a little bit \u2014 actually a lot \u2014 because yesterday Fed Governor Waller spoke at the Payment Innovation Conference. He spoke on tokenized assets and stablecoins and really seemed to embrace them for the crypto road for payments, and in my opinion, recognized the new reality. 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