DeFi Friday is Decrypt's DeFi email newsletter. (art: Grant Kempster)
If you were in crypto in 2017, then you’re no doubt familiar with the “institutions are coming!” rallying cry that was shouted ad nauseum at every conference that year.
On Twitter, crypto celebs dropped alpha that they were “in talks” or had “sources” telling them that institutional money was flowing big time into Bitcoin and Ethereum. This went on and on.
But it wasn’t until MicroStrategy last year began allocating jaw-dropping amounts of money into Bitcoin that things changed. Then Tesla joined in. Then rumors began circulating that Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft were also about to make the plunge. (They haven’t… yet.)
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