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Last week, U.S. housing regulators told Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, holdings in Titan’s Opportunities strategy, to begin assessing mortgage applicants’ cryptocurrency assets, marking a subtle but significant policy shift. Until now, crypto holdings were largely ignored in conventional mortgage underwriting due to volatility, opaque reporting, and regulatory uncertainty. The new directive signals that the Federal Housing Finance Agency sees crypto wealth as potentially material to household financial profiles.

Why does it matter? On a narrow level, it could unlock homeownership pathways for crypto-heavy borrowers who lack large fiat balances but hold substantial digital assets. More broadly, it reflects the slow institutional acceptance of crypto as a legitimate store of value alongside stocks, bonds, and cash. For Fannie and Freddie, it’s about risk calibration – determining how volatile or illiquid crypto affects an applicant’s ability to repay. For the housing market, it’s another step in integrating the digital asset economy into traditional finance, albeit cautiously. If mainstream mortgage providers adapt frameworks to include crypto holdings, the bridge between decentralized wealth and real-world utility will become that much shorter.