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Politicians in the White House and capitalists on Wall Street are reconstructing power dynamics on-chain. Under the guise of decentralization, they have built a more covert and ruthless system of exploitation.

When Trump’s tweets become part of a political insider trading playbook, we must confront a bitter irony: the decentralization of blockchain has provided centralized power with an ideal and opaque space for manipulation.

1. The Colonial Experiment of Power: Trump’s Path to Chief Crypto Market Maker

As you stay up late tracking Trump’s tweets, you may believe you are participating in a financial revolution led by the former president. But the harsh reality is that you might just be contributing to a crowdfunding campaign—for the electricity bill of Mar-a-Lago.

Yes, Trump’s presidency is bullish for crypto. But just as there’s no such thing as unconditional love in this world, the cost of political power driving a market rally may be this: the beginning of power’s colonial expansion into the decentralized realm.

Two recent news events substantiate this point:

1. A few days ago, on-chain data revealed that those behind LIBRA and MELANIA tokens were engaged in wash trading to launder money.
2. Last night, a whale used 50x leverage to long BTC and ETH. Given this leverage, their liquidation price was only a few hundred dollars away from the spot price. Just as the market struggled to decipher this move, Trump tweeted about a national strategic reserve for digital currencies. Within half an hour, the address pocketed $50 million.

Any financially literate observer would draw a glaringly obvious conclusion: if this isn’t insider trading, what is? The grand conspiracy of top-tier politics and capital is as straightforward as it gets.

Trump has mastered decentralization. When power and decentralization merge, making money becomes as effortless as breathing, with zero legal consequences—at least for now.

Satoshi Nakamoto envisioned crypto as a path beyond national sovereignty and capital hegemony. However, Trump’s maneuvers prove that power, through both explicit and implicit signals, coupled with compelling narratives and capital leverage, is executing a digital expropriation of blockchain. Insider information is now just another tradable derivative within elite circles.

From meme coins to political fundraising implied in tweets, Trump is turbocharging the revolving door of the White House with a blockchain engine. The market’s euphoria over Trump’s policies is nothing more than a new colonial marketing scheme.

Some claim Trump is leading an American political revolution. But as blockchain professionals, we must acknowledge a grim reality: Trump’s monopoly on market-making through information privilege is driving Satoshi’s anarchist ideals to their grave. To be fair, Trump is at least giving them a high-profile state funeral.

Make America Great Again, Let Anarchism Die—Epitaph personally inscribed by Trump.

2. The Logic of Political Capitalization: A Three-Step Harvesting and Profit Allocation

Political capitalization has always been part of modern politics. In traditional finance, legal frameworks and execution delays help smooth out the volatility of power monetization.

Trump has pioneered a new paradigm: the fusion of political power and crypto for high-level extraction. His strategy revolves around volatility arbitrage, with tweets and information asymmetry forming the core of his market-moving tactics.

The revolving-door chain of “policy leaks—market manipulation—lobbying legislation” is taking shape in Washington. Even the SEC declared that MEME tokens are not securities. It shifts the risk onto investors.

When “code is law” meets “power is law,” the former collapses instantly.

At a deeper level, the SEC and Gary Gensler are merely part of the game. Creating an obvious “enemy” amplifies emotional engagement in token marketing and on-chain colonialism, which enables further exploitation through information manipulation and capital leverage.

Many believe Trump is erratic. In reality, he is a master of social psychology and attention economics.

This three-step extraction model is far from new. It eerily resembles religious institutions’ historical strategies: manufacture guilt—sell redemption—monetize power. The mechanics of atonement economics have remained unchanged, from medieval religious indulgences to modern financial market cycles.

The brilliance of power lies not in forcing submission through violence but in making people willingly pay for an illusion of security and wealth.

Disregarding personal gain or loss, this game has no real winners. The “meme wash trading” and “leverage insider manipulation” behind the Trump phenomenon are not merely abuses of technology but a fundamental restructuring of blockchain itself.

Traditional money laundering and political corruption relied on centralized intermediaries and legal loopholes. With blockchain’s so-called technological neutrality, these barriers have been shattered. While it has, in some ways, improved the industry’s regulatory standing, it has also irreversibly altered its essence.

Politicians in the White House and capitalists on Wall Street are reconstructing power dynamics on-chain. Under the guise of decentralization, they have built a more covert and ruthless exploitation system.

You believe you are pursuing financial freedom. But in the eyes of those in power, you are merely fuel for a more efficient wealth-extraction machine. To them, you are just another disposable number on a ledger.

We despise capital and detest authoritarianism, yet we depend on them to survive and are exploited in return. Retail investors oscillate between submission and resistance, while only the shrinking balance in their wallets reminds them of reality: It’s time to wake up.

3. The Paradox: The More Decentralized It Becomes, the More Absolute Power’s Control

Perhaps we must admit that crypto was never truly detached from politics. Now that power’s conquest of the crypto world is happening openly, everything surprises us. Only wealth extraction continues unabated.

From a conspiratorial standpoint, we could even argue that so-called technological neutrality simply means that the middlemen have finally been cut out of the equation.

Recent events have unveiled a brutal truth: blockchain has not overthrown traditional power structures but has provided an enhanced reality for political manipulation. Or, in an even starker reality—blockchain has armed those in power with an even sharper weapon of control.

When trust is governed by algorithms, power no longer requires traditional, convoluted means of monetization. Every transaction can be shaped by overarching political forces. It shatters the myth of technological liberation. The endless cycle of insider trading does not reflect Satoshi Nakamoto’s vision of freedom but rather a cybernetic mirroring of humanity’s millennia-old power struggles.

We are all mere chess pieces in this game. Yet, I still hope we understand the rules and refuse to be cannon fodder. After all, life must go on.

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