The year 2025 started with a blow and a meme. A few weeks before the new year, a frenzy of politically fueled even sent Crypto Twitter to Overdrive, while legislators on both sides of the Atlantic revealed the heat of stablescoins, securities laws and tokenized assets, generally with different approaches.
It was a swirling first quarter, shaped by the domination of bitcoin in the cryptography market and an American political climate that has given the digital assets under the spotlight. Q1 did not penetrate any scenarios.
Who better to break everything than journalists in real time? In the last episode of Decentralize with CointelegrapH, the members of the editorial team sit for a round table not filtered.
Savannah Fortis, chief of podcasts and EU journalist, is joined by Gareth Jenkinson, multimedia chief; Zoltan Vardai, Breaking News journalist in the EU news team; And Vince Quill, newspaper from News News, to think about the biggest Q1 stories and what they report for the coming months.
Even power, power and perception
While same increased at the beginning of 2025, questions concerning their political legitimacy and tangle intensified. For the Cintelelegraph editorial team, the frenzy was not only a market quirk, it revealed deep tensions among innovation, opportunism and influence.
Jenkinson was first commented on what the impact of American president Donald Trump and the same political frenzy can mean for the long -term industry, saying: “I find it difficult to always trust what the Trump administration and its group of advisers do things, when they launch things like memories …”
“Yes, we have seen a much more favorable approach to the wider cryptography industry, and it was really great. But a large part of lobbying, Ripple, Circle and others, aimed to ensure that their cryptocurrencies were included in this asset package that the United States wanted to hold.”
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The team has recognized that although regulatory clarity and institutional support have created a more stable environment for cryptographic companies in general since the new administration took office, that the risks of progress are overshadowed by the show.
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Trump’s great movements seem domino in other political figures, namely the Argentinian president Javier Milei, to get into a large-scale same controversy that has overcome far beyond national politics.
For an industry looking for legitimacy, this type of participation of world leaders sends a mixed message. “It’s terrible for industry,” added Jenkinson. “Milei was supposed to be a savior for Argentina after years of hyperinflation. And now he is launching a same with a known carpet shot. ”
However, the round table has remained full of hope. “I am an eternal optimist,” he continued. “At least we had the statement for Bitcoin. People now understand what it is, governments are starting to hold it. This is how good the fundamentals are. ”
Stablecoins and altcoin benefits
While a lot of attention focused on the Bitcoin institutional brilliant and the same show, several members of the Cointelegraph team expressed deeper concerns concerning the emerging legislation of the stables and the calm moves behind.
“One thing that I somehow think I have stolen under the radar is that the World Liberty Forum linked to Trump has actually launched a stablecoin supported by an American dollar in March,” said Vardai.
“These stablecoins would completely comply with the two requirements of the Act on Engineering and the Stable Law … But that could really be interpreted as Trump trying to pass a stable legislation while having an acquired interest. His World Liberty Financial is launching many products related to the crypto.”
Politically aligned the memecoins have also weighed heavily on the wider markets of cryptography, in particular altcoins. “Altcoins does not really win this trimester,” also noted Vardai.
“Samecoins had this premature rally, and they gathered independently of other cryptocurrencies. Many people care about whether the rise in Bitcoin will come before Ether, and before any Altcoin increase.”
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