We have a Trump meme coin almost at $50 billion.

There was a crypto ball in Washington, D.C, and there's already movement out of the SEC and CFTC.

To help me cover through all of this news is Alex Thorne, who is the head of firm-wide research at Galaxy Digital.

He's a proud Bitcoin-flavored patriot, a New Yorker, and a regular patron

at Pubke, the beloved Bitcoin Pub, located in Manhattan. Alex, welcome back to Bankless.

Yeah, David, great to be here, a lot to talk about. What a weekend. Yeah, dude, I have never,

like every once in a while, something happens where there's just so much news consolidated into

just a few days.

And Alex, you've kind of been at the center of all of it.

You are down in Washington, D.C. at the crypto, the crypto ball.

Also just kind of watching all the shenanigans going on down there.

I know you've been commenting on the Ross Ulbric pardon.

Overall, kind of just give me a vibe, a summary of your

sentiments and thoughts over the last like four days of activity out of the Trump administration

in crypto. Yeah, it's been a whirlwind. We were a sponsor of the crypto ball and we were there

in four. So that was a celebration, I would say, of buy crypto, for crypto, for Bitcoin and

crypto, right? It was put on by David Bailey and David Sacks and with a bunch of industry sponsors like

Galaxy and Metamask and Sween and Coinbase and Exodus wallet, Anchorage, I think,

and others, micro strategy, others that I mean, I think in the end, it was many sponsors.

That just started the weekend, right?

Because the entire weekend was filled with events related to the inaugural.

Some of them official.

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