2025 began with a bang and a meme. Only weeks to the Recent Year, the madness of politically powered Memecoins sent Crypto Twitter to Overdrive, while legislators on both sides of the Atlantic emphasized the heat on Stablecoin, regulations regarding securities and toxhenized assets, usually with different approaches.
It was the first quarter, shaped by the dominance of Bitcoin on the cryptographic market and the American political climate, which put down digital resources in the spotlight. Q1 There was no shortage of history.
Who is better to break it all than journalists who follow it in real time? In the latest episode Decentralize with CointelegrapH, members of the editorial team are sitting on an unrefined round table.
Gareth Jenkinson, head of multimedia, joins Savannah Fortis, head of podcasts and EU reporter; Zoltan Vardai, Breaking News reporter in the EU information team; and Vince Quill, an American reporter News to think about the biggest stories of Q1 and what they signal for the coming months.
Memecoins, power and perception
As Memecoins increases at the beginning of 2025. The questions about their ID and political entanglement intensified. For the Cointelegraph editorial team, madness was not just market quirks, it revealed deep tensions between innovations, opportunism and influence.
Jenkinson first commented on what the influence of US President Donald Trump and larger political Frenzies in the long term may in the long term, saying: “I try to trust what the Trump administration and his advisers do when they start such things as Memecoins …”
“Yes, we saw a much more favorable approach to a wider cryptocurrency industry and it was really great. But many lobbyes, from Ripple, Circle and others, it was about making sure that their cryptocurrencies were included in this package of assets in which the United States wanted to keep.”
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The team admitted that although regulatory transparency and institutional support have created a more stable environment for cryptocurrency companies since the recent administration, the risk of progress is overshadowed by the spectacle.
More memes …
Trump’s great movements seem to be dominated in other political figures, namely the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, to involve Memecoin’s thunderous controversy, which is far beyond national policy.
For the industry looking for an ID card, this kind of involvement of world leaders sends a mixed message. “It’s terrible for the industry,” added Jenkinson. “Milei was supposed to be a savior for Argentina after years of hyperinflation. And now he introduces memecoin with a well -known rug.”
Despite this, the round table remained full of hope. “I am an eternal optimist,” he continued. “At least we have obtained Bitcoin confirmation. People understand what it is, governments begin to keep it. The basics are so good.”
Stablecouins and Fallout Altcoin
While many attention was focused on the institutional glow of Bitcoin and the Memecoin performance, several members of the Cointelegraph team expressed deeper concerns regarding the emerging regulations of Stablecoin and peace behind him.
“I think that one thing that flew at the radar is that the World Liberty Forum associated with Trump introduced Stablecoin in March supported by the American dollar,” Vardai said.
“These stablecoin would be completely in line with both the requirements in the genius and stable Act … but this can really be interpreted as a Trump trying to adopt Stablecoin legislation, at the same time with interest. His World Liberty Financial introduces many products related to cryptocurrencies.”
The rainfall from politically even memecoins was also found in wider cryptographic markets, especially Altcoins. “Altcoins does not win in this quarter at all,” Vardai also noted.
“Memecoins had this premature rally and gather independently of other cryptocurrencies. Many people are afraid of whether the growth of Bitcoins will occur before the ether and before the Altcoins’ growth.”
So what defined Q1 from 2025? Getting up to the full episode to hear all observations!
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