How Big Players See Crypto with Adam Morgan McCarthy

Mar 13, 2025
Season 1
48 min

Description

🎙️ Inside Institutional Crypto: The CoinRock Show Recap
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🚀 What REALLY Moves the Market? Institutional Deep Dive with Adam from Kaiko

In this episode of the CoinRock Show, we pull back the curtain on the real forces shaping the crypto markets. Forget the Twitter hype—this is an insider’s look at how institutions, hedge funds, and major players actually operate.

We sit down with Adam, a research analyst at Kaiko, to discuss how institutional investors think, what they look for, and why the crypto market is more complex than just price charts.

⏳ Duration: 48 minutes of no-BS market insights, institutional alpha, and behind-the-scenes analysis you won’t hear anywhere else.

🧐 What You’ll Learn in This Episode
🔥 Institutional Players Are Here – But What Do They Really Want?
🔹 The Bitcoin ETF boom was just the beginning – What’s next?
🔹 Why institutions operate on a completely different timeline than retail
🔹 Hedge funds, market makers, and asset managers—who actually matters?
🔹 How institutional liquidity changes the game for crypto traders

💰 The Institutional Crypto Playbook
🏛️ How Hedge Funds Think About Crypto
🔹 “Your size is not size” – Why institutions see the market differently
🔹 Bitcoin vs. Ethereum vs. Altcoins – What’s actually investable?
🔹 Why major funds only allocate 1-2% to crypto (for now)
🔹 Are institutions looking at Solana, XRP, or DeFi yet?

📊 Risk, Liquidity & Market Structure
🛑 Retail traders don’t understand risk – but institutions do
⚡ Why volatility is both an opportunity and a threat
💰 How hedge funds use data, sentiment analysis, and on-chain moves to stay ahead

⚡ What’s Next for Institutional Adoption?
💀 Institutional crypto is still in its early stages
🔹 Bitcoin dominance is rising—will altcoins ever catch up?
🔹 The biggest misconception retail traders have about hedge funds
🔹 Why regulation is actually bullish for institutions

🏆 The Road Ahead: What to Watch for in the Next 12 Months
✅ Basket ETFs—The Next Big Institutional Move?
✅ Will ETH ever find its narrative? The Ethereum problem
✅ Tokenization hype—Real innovation or just marketing?
✅ How Trump, the Fed, and TradFi moves will impact the market

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🔥 Crypto is evolving—stay ahead or get left behind. See you on the next CoinRock Show.

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Authors

Matthias Mazur, Founder

Matthias Mazur is a serial Web2 and Web3 entrepreneur, investor and author with 17 years of experience in building, acquiring, growing and selling digital businesses.

He has been involved in digital marketing since the early 2000s, and has built over a dozen internet-based businesses which have collectively generated over $200 million in revenue in the publishing, e-commerce, and software markets since retiring from professional tennis in 2007.

He is retired financially, and his portfolio business generates $30 million/year with over 150 employees and staff across all companies.

He bought Bitcoin in May 2017, been through 2 bear markets, has been a private investor in crypto and blockchain projects for years and founded CoinRock to solve inefficiencies in the crypto and Web3 industry by giving the public access to projects usually only reserved to whitelisted investors and private groups.  

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