Author: Biteye core contributor viee

Editor: Biteye core contributor viee

Yesterday (January 23, 2025), Trump signed a highly anticipated executive order at the White House, officially announcing that the United States will increase policy support in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital cryptocurrency. This not only means that Trump intends to promote the United States to take the lead in the global AI competition, but also sends a positive signal to the cryptocurrency field.

Compared with the regulatory thinking of the Biden administration, Trump's policy is drastic and bold, which may bring a long-awaited spring to projects that were originally shrouded in regulatory shadows. From DeFi to AI, to MEME coins, can these tracks usher in a new round of explosion driven by the "Trump effect"? Can he catch the market off guard like he did last time when he led the "$Trump coin issuance boom"?

In this article, Biteye has sorted out several key tracks and related tokens that may benefit from it.

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1. DeFi: Compliance accelerates mainstreaming

The DeFi project World Liberty Financial launched by the Trump family has undoubtedly injected a shot in the arm for the DeFi track. The WLFI project was not hastily done, but has been fully prepared for legal compliance and operated within the regulatory framework, especially in terms of compliance. In other words, in addition to showing a high degree of optimism about DeFi, WLFI may also convey the foreshadowing of Trump's relaxed regulatory environment for the crypto industry after he took office.

In addition, according to the new DeFi tax regulations proposed by the US Internal Revenue Service in December 2024, it can be speculated that more systematic DeFi regulatory regulations may be introduced in 2025, and the compliance of the DeFi industry may become a crypto development trend in 2025. Promoting the development of the DeFi industry through the establishment of a compliance framework, coupled with Trump's loosening of regulation on the crypto industry, may drive more traditional financial institutions to get involved in the DeFi field. At present, $LINK and $AVAX are the two tokens with the highest market value in the DeFi track, and are also the tokens held by WLFI. They may usher in new opportunities in this wave of policy adjustments.

2. AI: Trump vows to make the United States the world capital of artificial intelligence

In his inaugural address, Trump mentioned that he would increase investment and development in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in decentralized AI infrastructure. On Tuesday, the White House announced that it would work with technology giants such as Oracle, OpenAI, and SoftBank to launch a $500 billion AI infrastructure project. On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order related to the crypto industry and artificial intelligence, setting a 180-day deadline to develop an "Artificial Intelligence Action Plan" and a federal regulatory framework for managing digital assets (including stablecoins), and to evaluate the creation of strategic national digital asset reserves. The executive order also banned central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), which Trump believes will "threaten the stability of the financial system, personal privacy, and the sovereignty of the United States."

In this context, the potential of combining AI and crypto is particularly compelling, especially in the field of DeFi x AI (DeFAI), where decentralized AI applications and algorithmic trading are likely to receive further boost.

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3. RWA & DePIN: Tokens of Real Assets

The Trump family’s World Liberty Financial not only dabbles in the DeFi field, but also deploys RWA (real world asset) related tokens. For example, $ENA and $ONDO

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev and well-known cryptocurrency trader Andrew Kang both expressed optimism that Trump will accelerate the transfer of stocks, private companies and real-world assets (RWA) to the chain through tokenization after taking office. Just now, TGE's RWAFi concept project Plume Network also publicly announced that it was invited to Trump's inaugural ball.

In addition to the RWA, last month Trump spoke at the Blockchain Association’s annual gala, saying that real use cases like DePIN legitimize cryptocurrencies and are on the priority list for legislation.

The above information makes us wonder what will be the impact of Trump's coming to power on the RWA and DePIN tracks? In an environment with loose policies, they may usher in a golden period of development.

4. Meme Coin and SOL Ecosystem: Re-examining the Potential of “Altcoin Season”

Trump Meme coin launched by Trump created a market value of 24 billion US dollars on the first day, which brought a new wave of attention to the Meme coin track, and Web2 speculators rushed into the market overnight. The popularity of $TRUMP is a rare combination of politics and finance in the history of encryption. "The president's coin" undoubtedly has a far-reaching market impact.

In addition, the decision to deploy $TRUMP tokens on the Solana chain further strengthens the market recognition of the Solana ecosystem and may become a catalyst for the future development of Solana, which may have the following impacts:

  1. Increase capital inflow into the Solana ecosystem : Due to the high market value of $TRUMP and the influence of the Trump family, the Meme coin project on the Solana chain has attracted a lot of capital and market attention. This capital inflow may not only be limited to the Meme coin itself, but will also drive more developers and project parties to choose Solana as their issuance and operation platform.

  2. Possible promotion of the approval of Solana ETF : As a representative of high-performance blockchain, Solana has the foundation for market acceptance. Trump’s participation not only increases Solana’s market exposure, but also helps its recognition in the traditional financial market, thereby accelerating the approval process of Solana ETF.

  3. This may lay the groundwork for the "copycat season" : this meme coin, which is driven by celebrities and political forces, may trigger the emergence of more similar projects, absorb most of the liquidity on the chain, and may promote the arrival of the next round of "copycat season".

5. World Liberty Holdings & US Local Currency: Strongest Correlation with Trump

The correlation between these two tracks and Trump is relatively strong, and there is no need to elaborate. Currently, the top ten tokens held by World Liberty are: $ETH, $wBTC, $STETH, $USDC, $TRX, $USDT, $AAVE, $LINK, $ENA, $ONDO. In addition, you can pay attention to the sponsorship projects of Trump's inauguration and crypto ball, including TRON, Ripple, Anchorage, Kraken, Sui, MetaMask, Galaxy, Ondo (ONDO), Solana, Etoro, Uniswap, etc. and crypto listed companies Coinbase, MicroStrategy, Marathon Digital, Nano Labs, Exodus, Metaplanet, etc.

VI. Conclusion

From DeFi to AI, from RWA tokenization to Meme coins, as the "crypto president", every move of Trump is challenging the traditional industry landscape, and his crypto policies may push the crypto industry towards a more compliant and mature direction in the next few years.

However, the real future of the crypto industry depends not only on short-term policy dividends, but also on the continuous innovation of its internal technology and the continuous advancement of compliance. Can Solana take this opportunity to break through the bottleneck? Can tracks such as DeFi and RWA be reborn within the framework of compliance? At the intersection of policy relaxation and technological innovation, how will crypto assets dance with the traditional financial system? We can foresee that the next few years will be a critical period for all these changes.