Wall Street is actively loading up on insurance against defaults from Big Tech, as the appetite for building AI infrastructure has inflated the debts of hyperscalers like Microsoft, Oracle, and Meta to record levels. The gap between massive capex and actual monetization of tech has led funds to ramp up their volumes of credit default swaps (CDS). Amid peak corporate borrowing, the launch of new benchmarks like S&P CDX Financials allows institutions to massively short private credit and hedge against the risks of the AI bubble, protecting themselves from a potential cascade of defaults.
If the overheated AI segment in the stock market starts to pop locally, liquidity will flow into safe decentralized assets, which will sharply strengthen the fundamentals of BTC against the brewing crisis of traditional AI bonds.
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