Just today, the U.S. Department of Labor submitted a regulation aimed at breaking the barriers for individual retirement accounts to invest in alternative assets, including BTC. It has now entered the public comment period, which ends on June 1st. The chances of it passing are quite high, as this isn’t coming out of nowhere—it’s a specific implementation plan based on the executive order issued by Trump last August. Additionally, the Department of Labor just repealed restrictive provisions from the Biden era this month that had hindered retirement funds from entering the crypto space, clearing the way for this proposal. The most important aspects of this regulation are twofold: First, it places compliant digital assets alongside private equity and real estate, making BTC no longer an outlier in retirement investment portfolios. Second, it explicitly states that investors won’t be held liable for negligence due to market volatility, which was a major concern before—people avoided BTC for fear of lawsuits stemming from price crashes. Currently, the total size of U.S. retirement funds is $50 trillion, with $10 trillion in the more flexible 401(k) plans. If this regulation passes, it means that millions of employees will have a small portion of their monthly wages automatically allocated to buying BTC!