To investors,

The state of financial markets have been changing for the last 15 years. The Federal Reserve’s decision to conduct massive quantitative easing during the Global Financial Crisis broke the market and things have not been the same since.

But the way investors interact with the market has also been evolving over time too. There has been a rise of self-directed investors, who are investors allocating their personal capital into various financial assets without the need for a financial advisor or stock broker.

This evolution began with the increased access to financial information. Companies like The Street, founded by Jim Cramer, were early to the trend of giving Wall Street quality information to the masses. As self-directed investors became more informed, they started to invest more capital into the market.

The problem at the time was the self-directed investor still had to go through a financial advisor or stock broker. It was hard to access the market directly without the third-party. This friction started to disappear with the rise of Robinhood, Public, WeBull and other retail trading platforms.

Fast forward to today and it is obvious that self-directed investors have immense access to information and markets, which is allowing them to invest in a more efficient way. As efficiency increases, more investors participate with more capital.

Win-win for markets, asset owners, and investors.

But then bitcoin and crypto came on the scene and this trend accelerated even faster. Now self-directed investors are able to deploy immense amounts of capital, while consuming 24/7 real-time information on platforms like X and Reddit.

Digital wallets can be spun up in seconds. Economic value can be whipped around the world in minutes regardless of the hours of operation for a bank or brokerage company. And everything can be done from your phone whenever you want.

You can buy, you can sell, or you can hold.

But the one thing you couldn’t do previously was stake your crypto assets from your phone. This yield-generating activity still required a desktop application or a traditional website. Staking was stuck in the old world user interface, while everything else in crypto was operating in the new world.

That seems to be changing today.

Sol Strategies, a company that I have been working with to scale, announced their first technology product — a Solana staking app. The app is “the first non-custodial staking solution that allows investors to stake Solana (SOL) directly from their phones, delivering a streamlined and intuitive experience.”

The press release says the key features include:

• Non-Custodial Model: Investors retain full control of their keys, enhancing security and ownership of their assets.

• Higher Staking Returns: Investors can expect returns ranging from 8% to 10%, significantly surpassing traditional custodial platforms.

• Compliance and Security: Orangefin, an ISO 27001 compliant validator, upholds the highest standards of security and reliability.

This is fascinating because we are starting to see where the world is headed. Self-directed investors are not only going to have better information, along with better access to markets, but the entire user experience is going to be available on any device, from anywhere, at any time.

This is what digital finance looks like — mobile, real-time access to markets.

Congratulations to the Sol Strategies (CSE: HODL, OTC Pink: CYFRF) team on the product launch. But even more exciting is to understand where the world is headed. I can’t wait to see what other companies and products help push us further into the future.

Hope you all have a great day. I’ll talk to everyone tomorrow.

– Anthony Pompliano

Founder & CEO, Professional Capital Management

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