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“You were right if you thought the smashing success of $TRUMP would make Trump greedy,” Bianco Research president Jim Bianco said on Jan. 19, following the launch of Mrs. Trump’s token.
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Just a day after Trump’s self-branded Official Trump (TRUMP) token launched and soared to a $15 billion market cap, Trump’s wife Melania launched a self-titled memecoin of her own — which led commentators to accuse the family of unseemly behavior.
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Donald Trump and his team have been accused of running a “pump and dump scheme” after back-to-back memecoin launches added billions of dollars to the net worths of the incoming US president and first lady.
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Phillips foresees Bitcoin’s maturing DeFi ecosystem eventually helping cement its status as the world’s reserve currency.
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Soon, “novel DeFi strategies will emerge across the risk curve with Bitcoin as a collateral asset, from simple buy-and-hold strategies with yield-bearing Bitcoin assets to basis trades and options strategies,” Jacob Phillips, Bitcoin staking protocol Lombard’s co-founder and head of strategy, told Cointelegraph.
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Some Bitcoin L2s — including RSK, Merlin and Stacks — already host Bitcoin-native DeFi ecosystems, including decentralized exchanges, lending protocols and all-in-one platforms such as Sovryn. Merlin even touts a Bitcoin-native derivatives protocol, Surf.
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Liquid staking tokens (LSTs) representing claims on staked BTC are proliferating, enabling more complex DeFi use cases. As of Dec. 30, Bitcoin LSTs command upward of $2.5 billion in total TVL, according to Staking Rewards.
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“Whether [staked BTC] makes it into an ETF structure in the United States, I’m not sure, but in Europe, definitely,” Hougan said.
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In November, asset manager Valour launched a Bitcoin-staking ETF in Europe. It stakes to Core, a Bitcoin L2, and pays upward of 5.65% APR as of Dec. 30, according to Valour’s website. Staking is not yet permitted for Bitcoin ETFs in the United States.
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Additionally, staked BTC ETFs could catalyze institutional interest in 2025, Hougan said.
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Staking Bitcoin involves locking BTC as collateral to secure Bitcoin L2s in exchange for rewards. Restaking involves taking a token that has already been staked and using it to secure other protocols simultaneously.
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As of Dec. 30, Babylon’s and Eigenlayer’s TVLs exceed $5 billion and $15 billion, respectively, according to data from DefiLlama.
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“The tech seems reasonable, even from a high-level perspective,” Hougan noted.
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In July 2023, leaked documents revealed United Kingdom politician Nigel Farage was debanked due to his political views. This caused UK politicians to propose stripping banks of their licenses if the banks violated freedom of speech.
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According to the former regional manager of Binance Australia, Ben Rose, the exchange received only 12 hours' notice before being debanked. Rose claimed that the reasons for the abrupt debanking, which occurred in the middle of the night, were unclear.
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Many Operation 2.0 debanking stories came from the United States and US-based entities. However, debanking remains a global problem with implications for business, technological innovation, and freedom of speech.
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Lau said the traditional financial world is heavily based on trust and that relationship-building with banking institutions, financial regulators, and other stakeholders was key to maintaining solid partnerships. Lau told Cointelegraph in an interview:
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The entire crypto industry faced threats of debanking under Operation Chokepoint 2.0. Jason Lau — the chief innovation officer at crypto exchange and self-custody wallet provider OKX — told Cointelegraph that fostering relationships with banks and keyholders was a hedge against debanking.
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Some of the targets of Wright’s lawsuits have fought back. In July, a UK high court froze Wright’s assets in an effort to help podcaster Peter McCormack recoup $1.9 million in legal expenses from one of the defamation lawsuits.
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