Gold didn’t stop being gold. Art didn’t stop being art. But all of them started to generate income while retaining their role as a store of value.

Bitcoin is not an exception to this rule. It’s just next in line.

Art followed a similar path.

For centuries, it was a passion asset, a canvas-bound vault for the wealthy. Then Sotheby’s launched a financial services division.

Art-backed loans took off. And in 2024, they packaged $700 million worth of art-secured debt into investment-grade bonds.

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Yet history keeps proving that permanence eventually invites productivity.

Once there’s trust, infrastructure, and liquidity, the market always finds a way to extract productive value, even from assets originally meant just to preserve it.

The moment a store of value is secure enough to be trusted, it becomes too valuable to remain idle. It becomes a productive asset. It starts generating yield.