Trump's Impact on Crypto Markets and the Search for a New Crypto Catalyst in 2026
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm your host, Jen Sanasi, and joining me now is Oroz, Hong Kong, managing director, Lushie Loh. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to the desk. |
| 0:14.0 | Hi, nice to meet you. |
| 0:16.0 | Nice to meet you too. |
| 0:17.0 | Well, I've been asking everyone how they've been experiencing the conference, so I got to start, I got to ask you the same question. |
| 0:22.6 | What's your experience been like? |
| 0:24.6 | Yeah, I think it's been great to see all the excitement and contrary to, you know, what some people might think about market sentiment. |
| 0:34.6 | I think this just goes to show that the builders keep building away |
| 0:38.3 | and life goes on. And, you know, in six or 12 months' time, you'll be hearing about a lot of the |
| 0:44.8 | current exciting projects that are currently being worked on, you know, that maybe we first saw here. |
| 0:52.1 | That's exactly it. Despite market volatility, there are still, I think, 10,000 people attending |
| 0:57.0 | the conference. I think that's the number I last saw. It's kind of crowded. Sometimes I go |
| 1:02.6 | to walk down a hallway and I have to kind of shimmy. And so it's great to see people here talking |
| 1:06.9 | about all the great products they're building, not getting down by market volatility. |
| 1:10.4 | But I do want to talk to you about markets. |
| 1:12.8 | How are you watching the markets this morning? |
| 1:15.8 | What macro factors are you watching? |
| 1:18.5 | And just connect the dots there. |
| 1:20.3 | So our audience at home knows how to make sense of what's going on. |
| 1:23.6 | Yeah, for sure. |
| 1:24.1 | So crypto historically has often had its own narratives around what is driving |
| 1:30.9 | the prices within the crypto sector, right? But increasingly what we've seen over the past six |
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