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Welcome to today's edition of Osiris News. The market is currently suffering from a severe case of cognitive dissonance. While Morgan Stanley is actively filing to verticalize its crypto stack with a Solana ETF, spot prices are drifting lower as ETF inflows flip to $477 million in outflows. Retail is ignoring the institutional plumbing to chase volatility in meme coins, while the macro crowd is trying to decipher President Trump's "shadow QE" housing bailout. It is a classic infrastructure-price divergence: the rails are being upgraded, but the passengers are currently arguing about the fare.

🏦💼 Morgan Stanley Plans Crypto Wallet And Trading

The banking giant is building a proprietary digital wallet for late 2026 and adding direct BTC, ETH, and SOL trading to E-Trade. This marks a shift from ETF distribution to full vertical integration.

🐊🏛️ Florida Lawmakers Revive Bitcoin Reserve Bill

New legislation targets a July 2026 launch for a state-run crypto reserve limited to assets with a $500B+ market cap. The bill mandates strict custody rules and oversight by the state CFO.

🛡️🚪 Zcash Core Team Resigns Amid Dispute

The entire Electric Coin Company development team quit following a "constructive discharge" dispute with the Bootstrap board. ZEC prices plunged nearly 20% as uncertainty clouds the privacy protocol's roadmap.

🩸📉 Truebit Token Crashes 99% After Exploit

Attackers drained approximately 8,535 ETH ($26.6M) from the protocol, causing the TRU token to lose almost all value instantly. The team is coordinating with law enforcement while the contract remains compromised.

The most significant signal this week isn't the price action; it's the S-1 filings from Morgan Stanley. The bank is moving from merely distributing third-party ETFs to vertically integrating them, filing for proprietary Bitcoin, Ethereum, and crucially, a Solana Trust. BlackRock has not touched a SOL filing yet. This suggests Morgan Stanley sees immediate client demand for high-beta L1 exposure and is willing to front-run the regulatory approval process to capture the fee revenue in-house. They are following this up with a plan to enable direct crypto trading on E-Trade in H1 2026 and a proprietary non-custodial wallet in H2. The banks are done piloting; they are building their own liquidity pools to ensure they own the customer relationship from custody to execution.

While Wall Street files paperwork, the state-level arms race is accelerating. Florida lawmakers revived the "Strategic Cryptocurrency Reserve" bill, targeting a July 2026 launch. The legislation limits purchases to assets with a market cap exceeding $500 billion, which effectively makes this a Bitcoin-only mandate. Simultaneously, Wyoming launched its "Frontier" stablecoin (FRNT) on Solana. This isn't just a pilot; it operates under "Any Lawful Use" principles with a statutory 102% over-collateralization requirement, explicitly bypassing the Federal Reserve's surveillance-heavy CBDC approach. We are seeing a pincer movement: Wall Street is capturing the retail interface, while individual states are capturing the treasury and settlement layers.

However, the infrastructure narrative took a hit from reality this week. The Flow blockchain provided a harsh reminder of centralization risks, halting the network for 24 hours after an attacker exploited a runtime bug to mint counterfeit tokens. While the validators coordinated a restart to patch the bug and save user funds, the halt destroyed the "unstoppable network" narrative. A blockchain that can be turned off by a developer team to fix a printing error is not a settlement layer; it is a database with extra steps. The market punished the token with a 40% drawdown.

The chaos wasn't limited to infrastructure; governance is also cracking. The entire development team at the Electric Coin Company (ECC), the entity behind Zcash, resigned en masse following a dispute with the Bootstrap board. Former CEO Josh Swihart cited "constructive discharge," claiming the non-profit board made their roles impossible. ZEC plunged 20% as the market digested the reality of a headless protocol. Capital rotated immediately into Monero, driving a "flight to stability" within the privacy sector. It serves as a reminder that "decentralized" governance often just means undefined liability until the team quits.

On the macro front, the liquidity spigot is being turned on, but not by the Fed. President Trump announced a directive to buy $200 billion in mortgage-backed securities to lower rates. This is effectively Quantitative Easing (QE) executed through the executive branch rather than the central bank. It aligns with the soft jobs data, only 50,000 added versus 73,000 expected, which has pushed market expectations for a Fed pause to 95%. The administration is bypassing the Fed to inject liquidity directly into the housing and credit markets.

Despite the macro stimulus and institutional builds, spot Bitcoin is chopping below $90k, capped by the ETF outflows. With the majors stalled, retail capital has rotated aggressively into high-beta narratives. The AI sector is running hot again, with Render up over 30% as the "compute as currency" thesis gains traction. Simultaneously, the boredom trade is back in memes, with Pepe ripping 65%. This is standard behavior for a stalled market: when the safe haven assets stop moving, liquidity flows to the highest volatility tickers available until the over-extended positions are cleared.

Finally, Eric Trump went ballistic on SiriusXM, reminding listeners that Bitcoin is up 180% over two years. While the administration is clearly pro-crypto, the President explicitly ruled out a pardon for Sam Bankman-Fried, grouping him with other non-starters. The message is clear: the White House wants to pump the asset class, but they aren't interested in bailing out the fraudsters who embarrassed the industry in the last cycle.

Here’s a breakdown:

Keep eyes on the Supreme Court this Friday at 10 AM ET for the ruling on the Trump tariffs; a removal of these tariffs could act as a massive liquidity injection for risk assets. Next Thursday, the Senate Banking Committee votes on the crypto market structure markup, a critical step for regulatory clarity. In the interim, watch for continued volatility in the Solana ecosystem as the market prices in the Morgan Stanley filing against the reality of a likely delayed SEC approval, and monitor the Solana Mobile "Seeker" token launch confirmed for January 21.

Until Monday,
- Dr.P