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Trump's Impact on Crypto Markets and the Search for a New Crypto Catalyst in 2026

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4.7698 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Le Shi of Auros discusses how global macro factors and US political headlines are driving the current crypto market regime. Auros Hong Kong Managing Director, Le Shi, joins CoinDesk Live to discuss the tightening convergence between crypto and global macro factors. He breaks down how political headlines from Trump’s tariff threats to Fed chair nominations are now driving bitcoin. Shi suggests that as the US midterms approach, political incentives to cut rates and boost the economy could provide the necessary catalyst to pull the crypto market out of its current choppy regime. - This episode was hosted live by Jennifer Sanasie at Consensus Hong Kong 2026, presented by Hex Trust.

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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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