Let's just get this out of the way: There is absolutely zero evidence that the Trump campaign is launching an official cryptocurrency. Welcome to what is guaranteed to be, at the very least, the most annoying, and potentially financially ruinous, presidential campaign of all time. And that's all because of crypto.
For those living under a rock, former President Donald Trump slowly realized that he could turn blockchain into yet another wedge issue, going through the standard crypto metamorphosis of launching an NFT one day and inviting Ryan Selkis to speak at your event the next. Panicked (or more likely, largely nonplussed), the Biden campaign has slowly dipped its toes into the waters of digital assets, with the New York Times reporting on Monday that officials have been reaching out to Coinbase and Ripple to discuss crypto policy.
