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Yorkville Acquisition And Cronos: Cheap Peek

Summary Yorkville Acquisition ￰0￱ a low-risk, high-upside way to play the Cronos USD digital treasury deal, with minimal downside due to trust ￰1￱ USD is my top crypto pick for the next year, driven by strong fundamentals, validator strategy, and potential 10x–20x upside if the deal ￰2￱ Media’s upcoming crypto ETF and the $5B line of credit for CRO acquisition could drive significant appreciation and ecosystem growth. I prefer YORKU warrant units over YORK equity, but own both, and see this as my third major crypto investment after BTC and ETH. Pre-redemption Yorkville SPAC Disclaimer / Disclosure (very) long CRO-USD , YORK , and YORKU SA Crypto.

com’s Cronos The Yorkville Acquisition Corp. ( YORKU , YORK ) SPAC IPO units offered a free peek at their potential deal. Today, that free peek is now a cheap ￰3￱ investors got a unit that included a share of YORK as well as a third of a warrant offering the right to buy shares at $11.50 per ￰4￱ IPO launched in late June and the deal was announced in late August. Today, shares cost $11.60 and can be redeemed for the cash in ￰5￱ trust was overfunded by $0.05, so started at $10.05 and is now ~$10.12 so for each share you buy you’re risking ~$0.48.

That is the price for a ticket to see the market’s reaction to their ￰6￱ deal is to launch a Cronos digital treasury ￰7￱ far, the market reaction to the deal has been strong for the CRO USD (CRO-USD) cryptocurrency: So far, so good Still a strong buy I expect CRO USD to continue to perform well for reasons discussed in Trump Media's Crypto ETF: Cronos The Big ￰8￱ SPAC equity and units are additional ways to get ￰9￱ far they’ve moved far less than the crypto itself so could be better ways to add from ￰10￱ as many readers as wanted to loaded up on cheap CRO before the latest announcements (or, better yet, free CRO via the various sign up bonuses that paid out in crypto of your choice).

The sheer size and structure of this project will encompass more than the entire current market capitalization of CRO, with the additional commitments of over $400 million in cash and a further $5 billion line of credit facility to acquire additional CRO. This, combined with share lock-ups by each party and the treasury’s validator strategy, make it a unique and compelling offering compared to all other digital asset treasuries. - Kris Marszalek, ￰11￱ CEO in 2025 Live AMA with Kris Marszalek, Co-Founder & CEO of ￰12￱ to learn more about this opportunity? Cronos Background Reading is where you can catch ￰13￱ it is anywhere near as successful as I anticipate, it could make sense to buy at least some now.

I intend to focus on this investment and write about it in more detail next year but by that time it could easily be 10x today’s price... I traded some of my BTC to CRO in order to qualify for their Prime Visa ( V ) ￰14￱ might want to ￰15￱ have a tiered card system with modest rewards for locking up $500 of CRO to spectacular rewards for locking up $1 million. I am happy to make a significant bet on CRO in part to lightly diversify away from BTC and because I use ￰16￱ anyway and think that the site and coin have a promising future. I am getting a 4.74% yield on my CRO in addition to its appreciation, now +64% in a month...

The president’s last deSPACed equity, Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. ( DJT ), is launching an upcoming crypto ETF that by design or accident (narrator: by design) massively overweights a related company’s native token Cronos ( CRO ) which could easily appreciate by 10–20x if the deal successfully launches later this ￰17￱ it trades at ~17% of its all-time high of ~$0.97; it is likely to regain that level and could easily hit 2–3x that level by this time next year... CRO is my favorite crypto asset for the next year... The ￰18￱ Exchange offers a somewhat overly complicated but valuable CRO Rewards ￰19￱ register for the exchange (this is distinct from their app ) ￰20￱ the account then go here to select your ￰21￱ improve with scale from 1K to 5M ￰22￱ 1K to get $10.

Lockup 5K to get $50. At larger scales, you also get a yield: 2% for 10K, 4% for 50K, 6% for 100K, 8.5% for $500K, 9% for 1M, and 9.5% for ￰23￱ you want to do this small, I’d lockup 5K for the $50 reward and if you want to do this at scale, I like the 5M tier for its highest available yield... Deposit fiat into your Kraken account and execute the necessary trades as specified in the ￰24￱ involves buying $200 of crypto within 30 days. I would buy CRO...

Keep your eyes open for more from me and future developments regarding CRO! According to Trump Media Group, the strategy is to, Capture long-term value by allocating substantially all of the Company’s cash reserves to acquiring ￰25￱ focusing on yield-generating, ecosystem-aligned assets rather than traditional non-productive holdings, Trump Media Group CRO Strategy aims to enhance capital efficiency, establish itself as a disciplined, long-term participant in the evolving digital asset landscape and benefit from early-stage market positioning in a growing ￰26￱ strategy includes the establishment and operation of a validator node by the Company and the delegation of CRO under management to the ￰27￱ operation of the validator will enable direct participation in the network’s security and governance, while generating native staking rewards that are reinvested to compound CRO holdings over time and help offset operational ￰28￱ validator will be established and maintained by a crypto-native team with a deep understanding of the Cronos ecosystem, aiming to maximize staking rewards and attracting additional delegation of CRO from third-party CRO ￰29￱ I loved CRO at $0.05-0.10 and still like it at $0.35-0.40, but note that YORK and YORKU have not moved as far as fast so could be better from ￰30￱ I prefer the YORKU units to the YORK equity but own both.

TL; DR I've owned Bitcoin ( BTC-USD ) and Ethereum ( ETH-USD ) for over a decade; this is my third significant cryptocurrency investment for your consideration.

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