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🚨 $2K for Every American?
PLUS: Tariff dividend talk sends Trump coins flying, XRP ETF floodgates open, banks race ISO 20022, and whales offload billions in BTC.
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November 11, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 9 minutes
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Donald Trump announced on Truth Social a plan to hand every American, including high-income earners, a $2,000 “tariff dividend” check: the funds, he claims, are from the tariffs his administration has imposed on imports.
The news immediately sent Trump-linked crypto projects skyrocketing, with WLFI, MELANIA, and TRUMP coins up over the week by 33%, 13%, and 12%, respectively, due to their association with Trump’s economic policies.
“People that are against Tariffs are FOOLS!” Trump wrote, insisting tariffs had made the U.S. “the richest, most respected country in the world, with almost no inflation, and a record stock market price.”
He further claimed that tariff revenue would help reduce the national debt, pay dividends soon, and set records in factory construction. No timeline or payout mechanism has been released.
Politics meets populism
Trump’s pledge to give Americans a $2,000 check comes as the U.S. Senate advanced a bipartisan deal to end the longest government shutdown, which left nearly 900,000 federal employees unpaid and key services on hold.
Hours after the Senate’s 60–40 vote, Trump said the end of the shutdown “proves” his economic program creates jobs instead of bureaucracy.
But not everyone is celebrating. Many small business owners denounce the tariffs as too expensive and too complicated to continue operating.
Eunice Byun, CEO of Material Kitchen, said the company “took it on the chin year-over-year” as supply chain costs rose.
Anjali Bhargava, founder of Anjali’s Cup, claimed the tariffs were now threatening her entire livelihood.
According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, 36 million small businesses, responsible for 43% of GDP, have felt the pressure of rising import costs.
Supreme court steps in
The U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing whether Trump’s broad use of the 1977 IEEPA to impose tariffs under emergency conditions is permissible.
A judgment against Trump could reduce the average U.S. tariff rate to 6.5%, wiping out many elements of his “Liberation Day” policy wave unveiled in April.
Despite this, Trump doubled down:
“Businesses in the United States are thriving now only because of tariffs. Are they not informing the Supreme Court of this? What is happening?”
The White House recently reached a temporary truce with China, agreeing to cut tariffs by 10% and freeze further hikes for a year, but trade tensions remain high.
Crypto markets react
Trump’s tariff talk has revived speculation on politically linked tokens:
WLFI (World Liberty Financial): Gained 33% in 24 hours, but still down 50% since launch.
TRUMP: Gained 15%
MELANIA: Gained 14%
Analysts say the lure of “tariff dividends” has attracted fresh fund inflows into Trump-themed projects, though Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent clarified that the payout might manifest as future tax relief, not actual checks.
Meanwhile, Trump’s crypto business empire is said to be worth over $1 billion, driven by token launches and overseas deals, such as a $2 billion partnership in the UAE and political NFTs.
Why it matters
The “tariff dividend” is an example of populist economics bleeding into blockchain markets.
It muddies the waters between policy, personality, and profit, demonstrating how political theater now moves crypto markets almost as much as ETF approvals.
As one analyst quipped: “Only in 2025 would a tariff speech pump a Solana memecoin.”
Poll: Do you think Trump’s $2,000 “tariff dividend” checks will actually happen? |
📊 Market Watch
🏦 ISO 20022 deadline nears — Banks race the clock
Global banks have until Nov. 22 to transition to the ISO 20022 financial messaging standard after years of setbacks.
The upgrade gives payments rich data, traceability and interoperability, linking banks, central banks and blockchain networks such as XRP, XLM, HBAR, ALGO, QNT and XDC.
💸 XRP ETFs incoming, floodgates about to open
The DTCC list is showing five XRP spot ETFs from CoinShares, Franklin Templeton, 21Shares, Canary Capital and Bitwise indicating that the approval is imminent.
Analysts anticipate launches by late November, the third wave of crypto ETFs since Bitcoin and Ethereum.
🐋 Bitcoin whales turn sellers — $45B offloaded in October
Data from CryptoQuant and 10x Research show large investors booking profits while institutions shift exposure into ETFs. Analysts call it a healthy correction, not a breakdown, but warn a deeper slide to $85,000 remains possible.
👀 Are You Watching?
A viral video of BlackRock’s Head of Digital Assets, Robert Mitchnick has caused a frenzy in the crypto space.
Here he talks Bitcoin ETFs, XRP going mainstream with institutions, and what’s behind BlackRock’s cautious “worthless coins” approach. Not too long after, analysts noted that uncommon inflows to Bitcoin and XRP began to materialize, with whales cooling $650 million worth of XRP outflows.
The video sparked online debate, some users said it was AI-generated, but Bloomberg’s Eric Balchunas confirmed that it was real.
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