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SUMMARY: DIGITAL ASSETS TASK FORCE UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP — ROADMAP TO MAKE THE U.S. THE LEADING CRYPTO NATION
🔹 Objectives and Context
- Established under President Trump’s Executive Order 14178.
- Goal: Transform the U.S. into the “global crypto capital.”
- Task force comprises federal officials tasked with proposing policy and legislative reforms.
🔹 Overarching Vision
- End the “regulation by enforcement” model.
- Create a clear, innovation-friendly legal framework.
- Usher in a U.S.-led “Golden Era of Crypto.”
🔹 1. Building a Tailored Market Framework for Digital Assets
- Congress should pass laws like the CLARITY Act to:
➤ Empower the CFTC to oversee spot markets for non-security digital assets.
➤ Address existing regulatory gaps.
➤ Legalize and integrate DeFi into traditional finance.
- SEC and CFTC should:
➤ Provide clear guidance on registration, custody, trading, and data storage.
➤ Enable innovative financial products to reach users faster through tools like safe harbors and regulatory sandboxes.
🔹 2. Modernizing Banking Regulations for Digital Assets
- The Trump administration fully terminated Operation Choke Point 2.0.
- Goal: Allow banks to offer crypto services like custody, stablecoins, and tokenization.
- Regulators should:
➤ Restart crypto innovation efforts in banking.
➤ Ensure transparency in bank charter or Fed account application processes.
➤ Adjust capital requirements based on actual risks, without bias against blockchain.
🔹 3. Strengthening the USD’s Role via Stablecoins
- On July 18, 2025, President Trump signed the GENIOUS Act, the first federal framework for stablecoins.
- Aims to modernize payments and eliminate outdated infrastructure.
- Recommendations:
➤ Treasury and relevant agencies must swiftly implement the GENIOUS Act.
➤ Congress should pass the Anti-CBDC Surveillance Act to protect privacy and formally ban central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in the U.S.
🔹 4. Combating Illicit Finance While Protecting Innovation
- Update AML laws to suit the digital era.
- Balance national security with individual freedom.
- Recommendations:
➤ Clarify reporting obligations under the BSA.
➤ Affirm the right to self-custody digital assets.
➤ Define clear AML/CFT obligations for DeFi platforms.
➤ Prevent abuse of authority to suppress law-abiding citizens.
🔹 5. Reforming Digital Asset Taxation for Fairness and Clarity
- The tax system needs flexibility to accommodate crypto.
- Recommendations:
➤ Treasury and IRS should issue guidance on:
• Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax (CAMT).
• Wrapped token transactions.
• Receipt of low-value crypto.
➤ Review outdated guidance on mining and staking.
➤ Congress should:
• Recognize digital assets as a distinct asset class with tailored tax rules.
• Apply wash sale rules to crypto, similar to securities.
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Wall Street 3.0 replaces legacy systems and gatekeepers with tokenized equity, global inclusion and real-time trading, ushering in a new era of financial democratization and efficiency.
Opinion by: Koshiek Karan, founder of BankerX
A seismic shift is underway: suits are giving way to smart contracts, trading floors to token pools and bankers to builders.
Just as the internet democratized access to information, blockchain is set to decentralize ownership and redistribute financial power.
Wall Street is passing the torch to Web3.
This isn’t evolution; it’s a full-scale re-architecture of the global financial system.
Money never sleeps
Stock markets have existed for over 400 years. Smoke-filled coffee houses in Amsterdam evolved into handshake deals in New York. Handshake deals quickly formalized into paper contracts. Those paper contracts traded fiercely in open outcry pits as Wall Street boomed. Shouting traders disappeared into a melting frenzy of technology and electronic trading.
The new era of decentralization is a natural progression in the timeline of inevitable disruption.
The crypto market never closes, yet the stock market does. Restricted trading hours stack the deck against retail investors. The US stock market runs from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm (6.5 hours of trading). Yet institutions enjoy the luxury of accessing the market for 13.5 hours daily (4:00 am to 8:00 pm).
The appetite for inclusive market access is ravenous. Robinhood introduced extended trading hours in June 2023. Users benefit from an extra 6.5 hours of trading. After-hours trading volumes have doubled since the launch. Still, this isn’t bulletproof. Trades aren’t processed in real-time. Orders are queued for execution at the next session’s open.
Stranger things
Fixed trading hours spawn strange distortions. Case in point: the “night effect.” This strategy involves buying US stocks at the market close (4:00 pm New York time) and selling them when the market opens (9:30 am). Over the past 30 years, this simple move would have delivered a staggering 1,100% return.
Now reverse the trade — buy at the open and sell at the close — and cumulative returns drop to under 100%.
Why? Plenty happens overnight. Companies release earnings results after the bell. Breaking macroeconomic news and global developments filter into asset prices. Retail investors are locked out of reacting — frozen on the sidelines while institutional capital moves the market.
The result? Traders are rewarded for taking on overnight risk.
Institutions benefit from exclusive access to financial markets. They don’t play by “regular market hours” rules. But that edge evaporates in a world without “overnight,” where tokenized and crypto-native markets trade fluidly 24/7.
Markets are supposed to be fair, but fixed hours, layered access and legacy infrastructure say otherwise.
Technically, global markets never close. Across Asia-Pacific, Europe and the US, at least one major stock exchange is open.
Money never sleeps.
Wall Street after dark
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) announced plans to extend trading hours to 22 hours on weekdays to satisfy the global demand for US equities. The NYSE is seeking approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch.
The tech-focused Nasdaq exchange is also moving quickly. The exchange is planning 24-hour trading on weekdays.
Global demand is clear. Over 56 products tracking the Nasdaq-100 were launched within five years — 98% of these products were introduced outside of the United States.
The response from traditional stock exchanges is clear: Either embrace or become a victim of disruption.
Tokenization is democratization
Naturally, there are some dissenting voices on Wall Street against fluid, always-on markets. The resistance stems from the way traditional markets are structured. You have multiple layers of compliance, trade approvals and (self-inflicted) bureaucracy. This means you need more people to handle more paperwork.
It’s much less of an issue when you consider that algorithms, not humans, drive up to 80% of trading volumes.
Crypto has an elegant solution: tokenized equity. Real-world stocks and ETFs are traded on the blockchain 24/7 and globally accessible to anyone, anywhere. This represents the apex of efficient markets, where prices react in real time to news events — a hyper-efficient market stripped of asymmetric information.
Kraken recently announced it will be offering tokenized stocks to its non-US clients. Tokens will be stored on the Solana blockchain and backed 1:1 by actual shares. The upside? Faster settlements, lower fees and global accessibility.
Tokenized equity is the entry point to a DeFi takeover. Tokenized equity can be easily integrated into decentralized applications (DApps) to revolutionize yield-bearing collateral and lending altogether. Simply put, it’s a disruptive ticket to borderless, permissionless markets.
BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, with roughly $11.6 trillion in assets under management, and its CEO, Larry Fink, had this to say about the future of finance in his annual chairman’s letter to investors this year:
“Tokenization is democratization. Every stock, every bond, every fund—every asset—can be tokenized. If they are, it will revolutionize investing. Markets wouldn’t need to close. Transactions that currently take days would clear in seconds. And billions of dollars currently immobilized by settlement delays could be reinvested immediately back into the economy, generating more growth.”
Four centuries ago, stock markets were founded by communities who created a system anchored on inclusion and pooling of resources and driven by opportunity — a shared promise of prosperity and wealth creation. Crypto’s new upgrade reaffirms these values.
Massive liquidity injections, frictionless market access and cross-border communities scale the ecosystem in unimaginable ways. A market unified through decentralization. This is the inflection point — the beginning of singularity in global capital markets.
We’re still early.
#USCryptoWeek

Bitcoin is at risk of a deeper correction to fill the CME futures gap down to $114,000, fueled by profit-taking from whales.
Key takeaways:
High whale activity on Binance and profit-taking by long-term holders may increase selling pressure and volatility.Bitcoin may drop to fill the CME gap below $115,000.
After starting the week with new all-time highs, Bitcoin
BTC$117,784
reverted to negative returns as its price dropped 5% to $116,850 on Tuesday. The price rejection occurred at $120,000, the highest daily-candle close ever, and now a key level for traders.
On the four-hour chart, BTC was trading below the 20-period simple moving average (SMA) at the time of writing, and a potential close below the key indicator might trigger further downside.
Profit-taking by Bitcoin whales pushes down price
Bitcoin could see increased market volatility due to increased whale activity on Binance, according to a recent analysis by CryptoQuant.
According to the firm, the Binance Whale Activity Score has seen a sharp rise following Bitcoin’s all-time highs of $122,000.The Binance Whales Activity Score tracks the behavior of large Bitcoin holders (whales) on Binance, the world’s largest exchange. A high score indicates that whales are driving a substantial portion of activity on Binance.
Data shows that whales deposited about 1,800 BTC onto Binance on Monday. The Exchange Inflow by Value Bands reveals the scale of these transfers, with transactions over $1 million accounting for more than 35% of the total Bitcoin inflows to the exchange.
“This indicates a concentrated and deliberate move by major players to position assets on the world’s most liquid platform,” said CryproQuant analyst Crazzyblockk in a QuickTake analysis on Monday.
This surge in deposits suggests that large-scale investors are either preparing to secure gains after the historic run to $122,000 or are planning to utilize Binance’s deep liquidity to hedge or open new positions amid peak volatility, the analyst explained, adding:
“Either way, the presence of this much ‘sell-side’ pressure on the market’s primary trading venue increases the risk of sharp price swings.”
Meanwhile, André Dragosch, European head of research at Bitwise, observed a significant spike in long-term holder realized profits, explaining the ongoing correction.
This magnitude of profit-taking, coupled with 98% supply in profit, is often a precursor to significant price corrections.
BTC price may “fill” sub-$115,000 futures gap
Bitcoin’s recent rally created a CME futures gap between $114,380 and $115,630. Futures gaps get “filled” most of the time, and traders approach these levels from the point of resistance or support, depending on the market structure.
If history is a guide, BTC price should eventually drop to fill the CME gap down to $114,400 as shown in the chart above.
Bitcoin will “probably fill up the CME gap during the CPI release and continue the rally up,” crypto analyst Mikybull Crypto said in an X post on Tuesday.
However, MN Capital founder Michael van de Pope pointed out the possibility of a deeper correction toward $108,000.
“Staying above $108K and the trend remains upward. The bull market is here.”
#USCryptoWeek

A rush of inflows into spot Bitcoin ETFs on July 10 and 11 has given way to fading demand.
Bitcoin ETFs saw a dramatic two-day surge in inflows on July 10 and 11, followed by a steep cooldown heading into July 14. Data shows inflows of $1.18 billion on July 10 and $1.03 billion on July 11, totaling over $2.2 billion.
These were among the strongest single-day performances since ETFs launched in January 2024, as the market saw only seven trading sessions with inflows surpassing $1 billion.
The spike was driven primarily by BlackRock’s IBIT, which attracted $448.5 million and $953.5 million on those days. Fidelity’s FBTC and Ark’s ARKB also posted sizeable inflows, while minor contributions came from VanEck and Grayscale’s BTCW.
The inflows followed a sharp upward movement in Bitcoin’s spot price. BTC opened July 10 at $119,071 and surged to a high of $123,220, its highest daily wick since the start of July. On July 11, it closed just below $117,600 after intraday gains nearing $119,000. This rally also drove volume, which peaked at 43,113 BTC traded on July 10, well above the seven-day average.
However, by July 14, inflows had cooled substantially. At the beginning of the week, ETFs brought in only $297 million in new funds, with notable outflows from FBTC ($26.1 million) and ARKB ($99.6 million).
IBIT remained the only ETF to post inflows above $100 million as demand softened amid Bitcoin’s pullback from its ATH, dropping from an opening of $119,071 on July 14 to a close of $117,175 by July 15.
The sharp contrast between the July 10 and July 11 buying and the July 14 cooldown shows that ETF flows have become increasingly correlated with short-term price movements. Institutional flows into IBIT appear to front-run or amplify price rallies, but there is little follow-through when price momentum weakens.
The pattern also suggests that while ETFs continue to play a key role in absorbing supply during bullish swings, they are still subject to rapid sentiment reversals.
The sharp drop in ETF demand on July 14, despite Bitcoin staying above $117,000, could indicate investor hesitation at current valuations or rotation away from high-beta exposure after a quick rally.
Unless ETF demand stabilizes at higher levels, short bursts of inflows may continue to produce uneven support for Bitcoin’s price.
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