Animoca's Yat Siu says crypto's Trump moment is over

2026-01-18 21:20:11

Source: CryptoNewsNet Original Title: Animoca’s Yat Siu says crypto’s Trump moment is over Original Link: https://cryptonews.net/news/analytics/32296639/ For much of 2025, crypto traded as if U.S. President Donald Trump was its inevitable savior. Prices ran ahead of policy, altcoins priced in political permissions, and the industry waited for a regulatory green light that never quite arrived. But as the year wound down, and Trump’s reinauguration faded into memory, the market did not follow.

For Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, the fading Trump trade marked a turning point. The moment clarified that crypto’s next phase would not be driven by politics, but by structure, he said. Institutional capital, he argued, is changing how markets behave, pushing bitcoin into a reserve role while forcing altcoins to prove real utility.

At the same time, crypto is converging with AI as the infrastructure layer for autonomous systems and digital commodities. With industry events returning to major financial hubs, Siu sees the region as uniquely positioned to sit at the crossroads of global finance and emerging technology as that shift accelerates.

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