2025-12-09 19:42:44

Wall Street's gatekeepers might just pull off the ultimate vanishing act.

MSCI's pending rule shift? It could wipe Bitcoin and AI stocks clean off major benchmarks. Poof. Gone by morning.

We're talking institutional money flows getting redirected. Index funds forced to dump positions. The kind of structural change that doesn't make headlines until portfolios start bleeding.

Think about it: benchmark exclusion means passive fund outflows. And when trillions track these indexes, "overnight" isn't hyperbole—it's mechanics.

The crypto-AI crossover sector everyone's been hyping? Might not survive contact with traditional finance's rule book. That's the scale we're looking at here.

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GateUser-3824aa38

· 2025-12-12 18:59

NGL, if this time it really dumps, I'm going all-in on short positions.

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SocialFiQueen

· 2025-12-12 16:27

Hey, wait a minute. If this really crashes, what will happen to BTC and AI? The traditional financial rules are basically killing us.

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AirdropHunter9000

· 2025-12-11 20:18

No way, is this for real? MSCI's move was quite aggressive.

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DefiPlaybook

· 2025-12-09 20:07

Damn, MSCI is playing this game really hard. Once $3 trillion of passive funds start moving, Bitcoin really has no moat at all. --- Wait, is this logic reversed? When institutions cash out massively, it actually becomes the best buying opportunity. That's how it's always played out in history. --- Index rebalancing happens every year; it's a bit late to start worrying now. On-chain data has long shown that whales are accumulating. --- If they're really going to kick it out of the benchmark index, what happens to Grayscale and those funds? Are they really going to force liquidations? --- The synergy between AI and crypto was never reliable; a breakup was bound to happen sooner or later. I just didn't expect it to be this violent. --- So is this a signal to buy at the bottom now? Or is traditional finance going to completely shut us out? I'm a bit confused.

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