Recently, many friends have been discussing a question with the big beauty: why does Trump support crypto?
If it's for votes, will the support be guaranteed after being elected?
If it's for money, the crypto industry doesn't seem to be that wealthy; compared to the traditional financial industry, it still falls quite short.
Today, the big beauty will deeply analyze why Trump supports our crypto industry~

1. The Past and Present of MAGA
Things must start from MAGA.
Everyone should be familiar with Trump's campaign slogan MAGA (Make America Great Again), right?

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently proposed a compliance requirement: brokers must report transactions in digital assets and extend the scope of this requirement to various front-end platforms (referring to Dex).

However, this requirement will not be implemented until 2027, when profits from Dex transactions throughout 2026 will also need to be taxed.

Everyone in the industry knows that this document is aimed at Defi (decentralized finance)
Currently, Defi is the last pure land that is completely unregulated by the government.
The IRS documents mentioned Defi many times, for example:
“The Treasury Department and the IRS do not agree that these final regulations reflect a bias against the DeFi industry or that these regulations will discourage the adoption of this technology by law-abiding customers.”

I have to say that Trump is still very reliable~
During his campaign, Trump made these promises about encryption:
Fire SEC Commissioner Gary Gensler.

Fired the current SEC chairman on his first day in office

Introduce a national strategic Bitcoin reserve.
Establishing a national strategic reserve of Bitcoin
Appoint a Bitcoin and crypto presidential council to design regulatory reforms.
Establishing a Presidential Commission on Bitcoin and Crypto to Involve Regulatory Reform
Ensure that Bitcoin continues to be mined in the U.S.
Ensuring Bitcoin Mining in the United States
Make the U.S. the “Crypto Capital” of the world.

Trump posted on Truth Social that Bo Hines will serve as the Executive Director of the President's Digital Asset Advisory Council ('Crypto Council').

Trump wrote: "In his new role, Bo will work with David to promote innovation and growth in the digital asset space while ensuring that industry leaders have the resources they need to succeed. Together, they will create an environment where this industry can flourish and continue to be the cornerstone of our nation's technological progress."
Trump also specifically mentioned that Bo is a graduate of Yale University.

A few hours ago, a meeting of the Federal Reserve was held, leading to a general decline in the cryptocurrency market.

Mainstream cryptocurrencies generally fell by about 10%.
Actually, Powell's speech at the meeting was relatively standard, but there are still two pieces of information that attracted everyone's attention.

First, it was decided to lower the benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points, reducing the target range of the federal funds rate from 4.5% to 4.75% to 4.25% to 4.50%, which meets market expectations.

However, subsequent interest rate cuts may not come so quickly. When asked about the conditions for continuing to lower rates, Powell indicated that considering factors like inflation and unemployment, the probability of a rate cut in January is very low.

The main content of this article comes from Defi small miners and does not represent my opinion:

Shocking news: the first HSK to comply with the regulations is actually a makeshift team
Previously, Ni Da revealed that Qi Ye would immediately unlock#HSKtoken rewards after leaving his job, which is expected to bring a one million US dollar market crash.

But tonight I received a tip from a Gate employee that Qiye actually has at least 7 million HSKs in his hands and is ready to dump them at any time.
The small stool is ready, and we start eating melons~
1. A huge amount of unlocking beyond the opening circulation
Before HSK was listed, Gate received some huge HSK transfers from hashkey. It is normal to reach this point. It is also a normal recharge behavior to deposit coins before the opening.

I was shocked today by a set of data:

Currently, over half of the ETH is controlled by 104 whale wallets. Specifically, these 104 addresses holding at least 100,000 Ethereum account for 57.35% of all existing ETH tokens, with the current market value of Ethereum at around 333.1 billion USD.
Meanwhile, the supply ratio of wallets holding 10,000 to 100,000 ETH is at a historical low of 33.46%. The supply ratio of wallets holding less than 100 ETH is 9.19%, a new low in nearly 4 years.
It's hard to say what impact this situation will have on ETH's price; if the whales band together to speculate, Ethereum's price could skyrocket.

Trump ultimately nominated Paul Atkins as the new SEC chairman.
The previously highly vocal SEC crypto mom Hester Peirce also tweeted early on to show her support:

Atkins was at the SEC long ago, and was nominated by George W. Bush as a commissioner in 2002, serving until 2008.
When he was at the SEC, Bitcoin had not yet emerged.
After leaving the SEC, Atkins founded a consulting firm called Patomak Global Partners, primarily providing compliance consulting services to clients.
Interestingly, this consulting firm took on a well-known client, FTX, in January 2022.

It is said that the on-chain activity has increased significantly this year. Both the number of on-chain wallets and the number of transfers have been rising rapidly:

But behind this number, Ethereum, once regarded as the overlord of the chain, has gradually withdrawn from the stage:

In 2021, the scale of on-chain transfers on Ethereum is larger than that of BTC, and can even compete with the scale of stablecoins.

But by 2024, the scale of Ethereum's on-chain transfers will be only a small amount, even negligible.
On the contrary, BTC has maintained a stable share of on-chain transfers. The big brother is indeed stable.
Behind the demise of Ethereum is the rise of stablecoins; almost all of Ethereum’s lost share was eaten up by stablecoins.

Magic Eden has finally launched its coin, and it will be first launched on Binance.

On the first day, the market value stabilized at more than 5 billion US dollars.
This FDV may seem high, but it is not:
Because Magic Eden’s cumulative financing amount is as high as 150 million US dollars, and the valuation of the latest round of financing is as high as 1.6 billion US dollars.

The Magic Eden project was really unlucky. After completing the financing, FTX collapsed, dragging down Magic Eden, which was originally the NFT platform of the Solana ecosystem.
Two years later, although $ME was first listed on Binance, the VC buffer was not high.
Compared with $Move, which was listed on Binance during the same period, the difference is huge:

Today I'm going to share a research report; as usual, at the end, 'click the original text' to obtain the original report.
This research report was also published by Chainalysis, funded by the FBI:

1. Global Trends: Major players abandon Ethereum

This trend is quite interesting; for large transfers above 10 million USD, it is normal for stablecoins to decrease since these main players are increasing their holdings of BTC and altcoins. However, the main players have not increased their holdings of ETH; instead, their positions are even lower than last year!
Retail investors generally prefer to buy ETH and altcoins, and they are selling their precious BTC to increase their holdings.

A recent report from Chainalysis, invested by the FBI, has been released:

According to this report, the number of active addresses with a wallet balance greater than zero has exceeded 400 million for the first time globally.

It is generally believed that active users on-chain are already seasoned crypto users, and the number of active addresses on-chain is also showing exponential growth.

Along with the increase in on-chain addresses, the number of on-chain transactions has also grown, with an average of 10 transactions per address per month, which is quite frequent.
Many people might think that these on-chain wallet transactions are mainly for trading meme coins.
But that's actually not the case:

Recently, Bitcoin reached a new high, contradicting many traditional financial bigwigs~
But you can't just keep pumping without doing any work, right?
With favorable policies emerging in the crypto space, there must be some solid projects that can be realized to justify this new crypto policy.

Today, I will focus on introducing to you the high-quality project carefully selected by C Labs for half a year: Balance!

According to information we obtained during due diligence in North America, A16Z actually invested in the seed round of the Balance project as early as the end of 2019.

However, because the crypto policy was not particularly friendly at that time, A16Z continued to heavily invest 27 million USD in the angel round only this year.

The whole story is this:
South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol suddenly declared a state of martial law across the country and emphasized in a televised speech that the move was aimed at "protecting a free South Korea, resisting the threat of North Korean communist forces, and eliminating anti-national forces from the North (pro-North Korea)."

The full text of the martial law order is as follows:
1. All political activities, including those of the National Assembly, local councils and political parties, political organizations, rallies and demonstrations, are prohibited;
2. Prohibit all acts that deny or attempt to overthrow the free democratic system, and prohibit fake news, manipulation of public opinion and false propaganda;

That's right, it's the same Enron that went bankrupt twenty years ago due to financial fraud, and now they want to issue tokens!

The influence of this company in the financial circle twenty years ago was no less than that of the FTX incident on the crypto circle two years ago~

And Enron was also well-prepared, registering a new Twitter account back in May but only starting to be active today.

Enron registered a new Twitter account back in May, but only started being active today.
The first post declared a return, followed by an official statement:

Enron today announced a fresh start, dedicated to solving the global energy crisis. With a bold new vision, Enron will leverage cutting-edge technology, human wisdom, and a spirit of adaptability to address the significant challenges of energy sustainability, accessibility, and affordability. Key pillars of Enron's vision include permissionless innovation: decentralized technology is continuously advancing, and we will certainly play an important role in its future development.

The market capitalization of Ripple's $XRP has just surpassed Solana to become the fourth largest currency in the crypto industry.
The only currencies ahead of Ripple are Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the stablecoin USDT.

In fact, this wave of market conditions can be said to be expected. As the two donors who donated the most money in the election, Ripple and Coinbase have seen their currency price surge fourfold from $0.5 before the election to over $2 now.

There have been many rumors about Ripple recently, including that Ripple may issue RWA financial assets with Wall Street, that $XRP may be listed on a spot ETF, and even that Musk may buy $XRP.

Recently, several crypto bigwigs collectively accused: the Biden administration has a carefully planned "Chokepoint 2.0" operation aimed at secretly forcing banks to deny services to the crypto industry.
This accusation was first raised by Marc Andreessen, co-founder of A16Z, during a live broadcast, and then received support from Musk.

Marc Andreessen said during a live broadcast:

"The Chokepoint 2.0 operation mainly targets their political enemies and unfavored tech startups. In the tech industry, over the past four years, more than 30 tech founders from their invested companies have lost their bank accounts.