{"id":9576,"date":"2025-01-24T19:01:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T19:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=9576"},"modified":"2025-01-24T19:01:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T19:01:52","slug":"best-of-the-week-its-all-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=9576","title":{"rendered":"Best of the Week: It\u2019s All Happening!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It was a big week for crypto following the inauguration of Donald Trump to a second term Monday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The White House issued an executive order on digital assets<\/a>, calling for a friendly approach to crypto across the administration and the creation of a “digital asset stockpile” (which may, or may not be, a Bitcoin Strategic Reserve). Regulatory editors Nik De and Jesse Hamilton were all over the news, as usual.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The SEC withdrew a controversial crypto accounting rule<\/a>, started a crypto taskforce headed by Hester Peirce<\/a> (aka \u201cCrypto Mom\u201d), and named crypto-friendly Commissioner Mark Uyeda as acting chair.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Senator Cynthia Lummis, arguably crypto’s most loyal friend in Congress, was named to head the Senate Banking Committee’s new digital assets panel<\/a>, Hamilton also reported.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

We dissected the fallout from the (very) controversial<\/a> memecoins dropped by the Trump family on the eve of Monday\u2019s swearing in. CoinDesk\u2019s Shaurya Malwa reported<\/a> that 60 Solana Whales made off with at least $10 million each (many others gained a lot less). Reporting from Tom Carreras on Monday showed that the paper wealth generated by these surprise tokens<\/a> was, frankly, staggering, even absurd.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Still the memecoins were a great success, encouraging filings for memecoin ETFs<\/a>, Helene Braun reported. Helene also broke the story about how CME leaked information about XRP and SOL futures ETFs by mistake<\/a>, which sank those tokens and weighed on the broader market<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Ross Ulbricht, who created Silk Road about 12 years ago, educating thousands on bitcoin for the first time, went free after serving ten years in prison. His freedom was a key promise of the Trump team on crypto. Sam Reynolds had the news.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

And the news kept on coming. In fact, it was hard to remember a week when more stuff of importance happened in crypto. Amid it all, the Ethereum community hotly debated its future (particularly that of the Ethereum Foundation<\/a>). Parikshit Mishra and Sam Kessler<\/a> followed the story.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Stay tuned for more big stuff happening next week.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a big week for crypto following the inauguration of Donald Trump to a second term Monday. The White House issued an executive order on digital assets, calling for a friendly approach to crypto across the administration and the creation of a “digital asset stockpile” (which may, or may not be, a Bitcoin Strategic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-9576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}