America’s crypto game plan is here

PLUS: The White House reveals crypto playbook, Base overtakes Solana, JPMorgan eats its words, and Robinhood doubles revenue.

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Cryptopolitan News
July 31, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes

Welcome back, friends —

The White House just dropped the most bullish crypto playbook we’ve seen. No fud, just 166 pages of “let’s go.”

Base flipped Solana. JPMorgan joined the chat. Robinhood wants to tokenize everything. Feels like crypto’s entering its main character arc.

Let’s break it down.

🇺🇸 The White House just dropped the crypto playbook

And it reads like a bullish manifesto

While the rest of us were watching charts and ETF filings, the White House quietly published its most comprehensive crypto strategy ever.

In a first-of-its-kind 166-page report, the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets laid out how the U.S. government plans to handle Bitcoin, Ethereum, DeFi, and everything in between. From taxes to tokenization.

This isn’t just another policy paper. It’s the first time multiple agencies—SEC, CFTC, IRS, Treasury, Fed all appear aligned on a single goal: making America “the crypto capital of the world.”

The report, created under Trump’s Executive Order 14178, reads like a roadmap. Not just for fixing regulation but for unleashing innovation.

The big ideas inside:

  • Give the CFTC more power to oversee non-security tokens like BTC and ETH

  • Stop slow-walking DeFi — embrace it as part of modern finance

  • End “Operation Choke Point 2.0” and let banks work with crypto freely

  • Implement the GENIUS Act to fast-track stablecoin rules

  • Ban the Fed from launching a CBDC (via the “Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act”)

  • Rewrite crypto tax rules—everything from staking and wrapping to small transactions

  • Clarify AML laws without killing privacy or going after self-custody wallets

Why it matters:

This is the first time Washington has put its full weight behind crypto without hedging. The tone? Forward-looking. Pro-innovation. Even urgent.
It positions the U.S. to lead in tokenization, decentralized finance, and stablecoins, all while giving clear marching orders to regulators: Move faster. Stop stalling. Embrace the future.

🧾 TL;DR: What you’d tell a friend who just asked “So what?”

– The White House dropped its first full crypto game plan under Trump
– It says: give power to the CFTC, let banks work with crypto, and stop dragging on DeFi
– CBDCs are out, stablecoins are in (hello, GENIUS Act)
– Big tax revamp coming: new rules for staking, small transactions, and how crypto is classified
– For the first time, all U.S. agencies seem to be on the same page—and it’s a bullish one

🧬 Base says hi to memecoins. Overtakes Solana.

Memecoins just found a new home and it’s not Solana anymore.

This week, Coinbase’s Ethereum L2 Base took the crown as the top chain for launching tokens, thanks to a platform you might not have heard of yet: Zora.

So, what happened?

  • Over 52,000 tokens were launched in a single day on Base

  • Zora alone was responsible for 44.6% of them (23,419 tokens)

  • That’s more than Pump.fun and LetsBonk combined

  • First time since 2023 that Solana wasn’t #1 for token launches

Wait... what is Zora?

Zora is a creator-first protocol built on Base. It lets anyone launch a token instantly, think of it like the Substack of memecoins.
Originally launched in 2020 as an NFT marketplace, it pivoted in 2024 to focus on onchain creator economies.

Now? It’s blowing up.

  • 2M+ users in July

  • $63M in weekend volume

  • $ZORA token is up 37% in 7 days

But is this real value or just vibes?

  • Coinbase’s Jesse Pollak says creator tokens are like digital art. Value comes from identity, not utility

  • Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko disagrees: without real-world rights or revenue, they’re “just speculation”

TL;DR: What this means in plain English

Base is rising as the new memecoin capital, powered by Zora’s no-code launchpad for creators.
Speculative? Maybe.
But one thing’s clear: Base isn’t Ethereum’s little brother anymore.
It is becoming a retail first culture driven chain. (Challenging Solana’s status quo)

🧠 Signal vs Noise

Remember when Jamie Dimon called Bitcoin “stupid”?


Well, now JPMorgan is in the group chat.

This week, JPMorgan and Coinbase announced a data-sharing partnership that will let users link their Chase bank accounts directly to Coinbase wallets. That’s right, the same bank that once said “you’ll pay the price” for touching BTC is now helping move fiat into it.

Is it hypocrisy?
Nah. Just banks doing what banks do — chase fees once the dust settles.

So while Jamie might not be stacking sats himself, the empire he runs definitely wants your on-chain flow.

🫥 Noise: Bitcoin is “dumb.”
📈 Signal: Wall Street’s quietly building a moat around it.

👀 Stock that caught our finance team’s eye

Robinhood is quietly becoming a crypto powerhouse

Crypto revenue? Doubled to $160M in Q2.
New chain? Launched and already live in Europe.
Global expansion? Bitstamp acquired, unlocking 50+ licenses.

Robinhood Chain is now active across 30 European countries, allowing users to trade tokenized versions of US stocks.

CEO Vlad Tenev is placing tokenization at the heart of the company’s future. From real estate to private equity, Robinhood wants to make once-exclusive assets tradable for all.

It’s not just a trading app anymore. It’s building the rails for on-chain finance.

Top 5 builders to follow right now on X

Here are Cryptopolitan’s top picks:

@jessepollak – Memecoin rails? Creator tokens? Base going parabolic? Jesse’s building it — and tweeting it in real time.

@AntonioMJuliano – Founder of dYdX. Still calls out regulators with a smirk. Always worth the scroll.

@gluk64 – zkSync mastermind. Speaks in long threads and longer visions. If you like rollups and revolution, follow him.

@rleshner – DeFi grandpa with a VC hat now. Built Compound, still dropping wisdom like it’s 2019.

@thegrifft – ETH veteran, Giveth co-founder, regen wizard. If it’s onchain and impact-driven, Griff’s already there.

Intern picks: Read these to make him happy

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