Can existing laws and guidelines around crypto, insider trading and conflicts of interest keep up when the most powerful person in the world is dropping memecoins and promoting DeFi projects?



President Donald Trump’s memecoin launches before his Jan. 20 inauguration and his ties to crypto firm World Liberty Financial are so outside of the bounds of normal presidential behavior as to be completely unprecedented.

Since taking office on Jan. 20, Trump has signed a flurry of executive orders, reshaping global policy within days. Some have direct implications for crypto, including his decision to set up a crypto working group to examine a strategic digital assets reserve and his pardon of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht.

Magazine spoke with legal experts Yuriy Brisov of Digital & Analogue Partners in Europe, Joshua Chu of the Hong Kong Web3 Association and Charlyn Ho of Rikka in the US to unpack their professional reactions to how Trump’s first days in office have impacted the cryptocurrency world. This discussion has been edited for clarity and length.
DEFI1,62%
TRUMP5,18%
MEME11,81%
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