The following is a guest post of Steven PU” Co-founder by Taraxa.
There is no doubt that President Trump’s inauguration is a turning point for American crypto -innovators. In just over a week we have seen a fast series of crypto-friendly initiatives that are helped by unambiguously pro-crypto leadership.
These initiatives are in stark contrast to the irrational prosecution position taken by supervisors of the previous administration. While speculation on goe-economic results is being processed, a transformed landscape will be more important in American developers. America is back on the right track to recover leadership in Crypto.
PerseCutory Supervisors have turned us from Crypto -Talent
Crypto is a fast -growing industry in which America can and must recover leadership. Since 2015, the Cryptomarkt annually grown with 107.7%From $ 5 billion to $ 3.68 trillion – despite unfriendly regulatory environments in every major economy worldwide. Much of this global growth was driven by rapid technical innovation, which mainly emerged from the United States, positioning the American market to catch the economic benefit.
But persecution of persecers have taken talent from America with great strength. The US had 38% of the crypto engineering talent in the world in 2015, but fell to only half at 19% by 2024. In a market that doubles every year, and the home base of the vast majority of infrastructure technical innovations, this was a huge brain drain. Given the decentralized and digital nature of Crypto, talent is very mobile and American supervisors have given them sufficient reasons to leave in the past.
Regulatory failure on a massive scale
Before 2025, supervisors tried to suppress the American crypto innovation and economic opportunities with the help of all necessary resources. Regulators were not only busy continuing compatible actors such as Coinbase, Kraken and Uniswap Manufacture evidence to prosecute startups such as debt box. In many such cases, supervisors Even De Banking used as leverage In his irrational crusade to destroy American crypto companies.
But American consumers have received little from such regulatory diligence, because the supervisors could not protect consumers against the most catastrophic crypto fraud in history. In 2022, FTX lost more than $ 8 billion to user depositswhile Terra Luna evaporated more than $ 40 billion in market rating“ causes a cascade of failures in companies such as Blockfi, Genesis, Voyager and Celsius -to name just a few. In any case, supervisors could not notice completely misconduct or noticed much too late.
There were no winners among this hostile and incompetent regime regime. Consumers lost, lost innovators and America lost valuable time to catch and promote this new and fast -growing sector.
Hope is on the horizon
American builders are resilient. Despite an active hostile regulatory environment, America leads the crypto industry on many fronts. The majority of the most important infrastructure that drives the crypto industry, including their precursor technologies in cryptography and distributed computing, were invented here in America.
We can see a lot of hope from just the first week of the new administration-a SEC sub-committee has been established to reform crypto regulations under Hester Pierce; And a senate sub -committee on digital assets will be formed under Cynthia Lumis. We see positive changes in both regulatory and legislative tracks. It is a good start in the direction of the short and long-term sustainability of a healthy American crypto industry.
There is undoubtedly much more to do. Much of the financial legislative and regulatory infrastructure still remains fundamentally incompatible with the decentralized nature of the crypto. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act from 2021 for example, for example, the definition of a “broker expanded“ To record possibly crypto portfolios and even network mineers and validators, making it impossible for everyone in Crypto to stay in accordance with.
We remain very hopeful. The new administration has indicated its intention strong and quickly to improve the regulating environment, making it more transparent, more rational and pro-growth. Discussions about a Bitcoin profit, or even geo -economic power shifts, can stimulate the common discussion, but what is really important in the crux is the potential reversal of blockchain brainthain.
Recovered the freedom to innovate in America – that is what is at stake. There is now every chance that it will occur in the Crypto -Rijk, which means that America is back on its way to reclaim its position at the helm of transformation.
