{"id":4139,"date":"2025-02-07T13:54:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T18:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.law.temple.edu\/10q\/?p=4139"},"modified":"2025-02-07T13:54:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T18:54:52","slug":"president-trumps-foray-into-digital-assets-signals-big-changes-for-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/10q\/president-trumps-foray-into-digital-assets-signals-big-changes-for-crypto\/","title":{"rendered":"President $Trump\u2019s Foray into Digital Assets Signals Big Changes for Crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2798\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.law.temple.edu\/10q\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Compliance-Center-Image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2224\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/10q\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/Compliance-Center-Image.jpg 2224w, https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/10q\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/Compliance-Center-Image-300x66.jpg 300w, https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/10q\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/Compliance-Center-Image-1024x225.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/10q\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/Compliance-Center-Image-768x169.jpg 768w, https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/10q\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/Compliance-Center-Image-1536x337.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/law.temple.edu\/10q\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2021\/01\/Compliance-Center-Image-2048x449.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2224px) 100vw, 2224px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>February 7, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Although Donald Trump made a splash in 2021 when he called Bitcoin a \u201cscam,\u201d it seems the President has changed his tune. Just days before his inauguration, Trump himself released a controversial personal meme coin, $Trump, soon followed by $Melania. The new coins garnered both backlash and praise, with Congress, crypto players, and compliance experts split on whether their release was exploitative or genius.<\/p>\n<p>Meme coins are a particular type of cryptocurrency, a speculative instrument with little practical utility\u2014essentially, the coins are \u201cfor fun,\u201d with proponents likening them to a kind of digital collectible. Fun or not, these coins have long been the subject of debate\u2014and the ethics concerns raised by the volatility of meme coins have been compounded by the fact that the person behind these latest coins is the President of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s initial coin offering (ICO) released 200 million tokens to the public, while two Trump-owned entities (CIC Digital LLC and Fight Fight Fight LLC) retained the remaining 800 million tokens. The value of $Trump instantly skyrocketed, shooting to $75 per coin within one day. Hours after the launch, $Trump\u2019s market valuation exceeded $5 billion. This rapid appreciation catapulted the new coin to the 19th most valuable coin globally, with a trading value close to $13 billion.<\/p>\n<p>After the initial clamor, the coin experienced volatility, with its value decreasing by about 26% by the President\u2019s inauguration. The coin held a nearly $5.5 billion valuation in the following week, though as of publication, suffered a steep drop (alongside many other meme coins) as the market reacted to some of the President\u2019s recent economic policy announcements. Considering Trump and his team still hold 80 percent of the coins, they stand to rake in billions if they sell their shares\u2014a common strategy for meme coins, commonly referred to as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coinbase.com\/learn\/crypto-glossary\/what-is-a-pump-and-dump-in-crypto\">pump and dump<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>$Trump undoubtedly raises some questions about the future of crypto regulation, but it\u2019s not the only signal the President has given that he\u2019s interested in cozying up to digital currencies. Before he was elected, he courted crypto companies for campaign contributions, promising to make the United States the \u201ccrypto capital of the planet and bitcoin superpower of the world.\u201d Companies like Ether and other key players in the industry expressed their excitement that Trump appeared poised to advance distributed ledger technology and integrate it into national policy. In total, crypto executives and investors spent more than $130 million on the 2024 election cycle\u2014and a lot of that money went into Trump\u2019s coffers.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump Administration made headlines before the inauguration when it hosted a black-tie event called the \u201cCrypto Ball\u201d in Washington, DC. This event, organized by BTC Inc. and Stand with Crypto\u2014two organizations advocating for \u201cclear and sensible\u201d crypto regulation\u2014drew some high-profile sponsorships by crypto firms, such as Coinbase, MicroStrategy, and Galaxy Digital. Trump\u2019s friendliness toward the industry may also be fueling digital currency valuation. Bitcoin is currently holding at over $90,000 for all of 2025 to date, and is, in the view of many industry stakeholders, hotter than ever.<\/p>\n<p>As one of his first acts back in office, Trump signed an Executive Order to construct a working group to evaluate current crypto regulations and explore creating a digital asset stockpile. The working group is to be led by the White House\u2019s \u201cAI and Crypto Czar\u201d (a brand-new position), David Sacks. Sacks is a venture capitalist best known for co-founding PayPal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have regulations, but from now on the rules will be written by people who love your industry, not hate your industry,\u201d Trump told attendees at a bitcoin conference in Tennessee over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s unclear if the former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler \u201chated\u201d crypto, it is true that the SEC has long dragged its feet on some basic questions related to coins\u2014namely, whether they should be classified as securities or commodities. How crypto is classified, of course, affects which agency regulates its trading: as of February 2023, the SEC\u2019s stance was that crypto is a commodity, and thus should be regulated not by the SEC, but by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s administration seems likely to depart from Gensler\u2019s view, as the SEC announced it was instituting a new cryptocurrency task force in January. SEC Commissioners Mark Uyeda and Hester Peirce will head the new group, which will be developing regulatory frameworks for digital assets and the compliance challenges that come with them. Both Uyeda and Peirce are known proponents of crypto, with Peirce even earning the nickname \u201cCrypto Mom\u201d within the SEC.<\/p>\n<p>While some industry insiders are thrilled by Trump\u2019s apparent interest in crypto, compliance and ethics groups warn that Trump\u2019s foray into digital currency presents an enormous conflict of interest. From his position of power, Trump creating a meme coin opens the door to potential foreign buyers seeking to curry influence within his administration. As a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.banking.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/meme_coin_letter.pdf\">recent address authored by Senator Elizabeth Warren<\/a> states, $Trump and $Melania represent a direct means\u2014open to all people, foreign and domestic\u2014of funneling money to the President. According to Warren, this is highly unprecedented and potentially in violation of the U.S. Constitution, which stipulates that the President may not accept any foreign gift without the consent of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Allegra Abramson, Esq. (LAW \u201924) is the Postdoctoral Fellow at Temple Law\u2019s Center for Compliance and Ethics.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 7, 2025<br \/>\nAllegra Abramson, postdoctoral fellow at Temple Law\u2019s Center for Compliance &amp; Ethics, discusses the current administration\u2019s changing stance on cryptocurrency following the launch of President Trump\u2019s meme coin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":4140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,52,19,38],"tags":[363,1267,106,1483,2910,166,2911,1023,2912,486,198,877,348,2913,1358],"coauthors":[2890],"class_list":["post-4139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-authored","category-compliance","category-finance","category-regulated-industries","tag-cftc","tag-commodity-futures-trading-commission","tag-compliance","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-digital-currencies","tag-ethics","tag-ico","tag-influence","tag-initial-coin-offering","tag-regulation","tag-sec","tag-securities-and-exchange-commission","tag-trump","tag-trump-administration","tag-valuation","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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