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The listing prohibition only reaches tokens issued from 1 January 2027, and the compliance burden lands on exchanges rather than on the officials the bill targets.

The comment letter is the clearest signal yet that Hyperliquid intends to be regulated in the United States rather than merely referenced by policymakers. President Trump named the platform at an 18 August press conference.

Bitcoin from the Farace and BTC-e wallets was laundered through fresh intermediary addresses before landing on the exchange, sixteen months after Trump's executive order told federal agencies not to sell.

Bitcoin bounced from a $74,192 low to $77,000 on May 23 after the US president said a memorandum of understanding with Tehran was close to signing and the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Short sellers caught the worst of the reversal.

The Trump-family crypto firm filed a defamation suit against Justin Sun in Florida state court two weeks after Sun sued it for fraud — turning a token-freeze dispute worth roughly $240 million into a contested public trial.

A CoinDesk poll of 1,000 registered voters published on May 3 found that 62 per cent do not trust the Trump administration to oversee the crypto sector, and 73 per cent — including 59 per cent of Republicans — oppose senior government officials holding personal business interests in the industry.

Patrick Witt, Trump's new digital-assets adviser, told the Bitcoin 2026 conference in Las Vegas that the White House is preparing a 'big announcement' on the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve within weeks — without specifying what it will contain.

The Trump-linked DeFi protocol issued a cease and desist after Sun published evidence of a smart-contract function that lets a small group of insiders freeze any holder's tokens without a governance vote.

Risk assets reversed sharp losses within hours after the US president stepped back from a threat to annihilate Iranian infrastructure, accepting a Pakistani-brokered pause that sent oil tumbling 8 per cent from session highs.

The Department of Labor's proposed rule creates a fiduciary safe harbour for plan managers who complete a defined prudent evaluation process before adding cryptocurrency and alternative assets to retirement plans, potentially unlocking the largest pool of retail capital in the world for digital asset investment.

President Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao on October 23, 2025, more than a year after his release from a four-month federal sentence for Bank Secrecy Act violations.

Bitcoin reached $109,356 on January 20, 2025, marking a new all-time high coinciding with Trump's inauguration.