The value of the global cryptocurrency market has reached $4tn for the first time after the passage of the US digital asset legislation – the so-called Genius Act. It marks “one of the most significant moves” towards mainstream adoption of crypto. It is a huge turnaround since 2022, when its value fell to about $800bn following the failure of crypto exchange FTX.
Trump who received hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign funding from crypto executives has been behind support for a renewed push which investors predict will pave the way for Wall Street banks, money managers and other companies to invest in digital assets or create their own tokens. He is also preparing to sign an executive order to open up the $9tn US retirement market to crypto and other alternative investments.
Critics warn that tying crypto closer to traditional finance poses grave risks in the event of another market crash. Democrat senator Elizabeth Warren said that the Genius Act “lacks the basic safeguards necessary to ensure that stablecoins don’t blow up our entire financial system”.
She also argued that the issuance of stablecoins by private companies risked “concentrating too much economic power in the hands of a few”.
The crypto industry — including groups such as Coinbase, Binance and Crypto.com — faced a series of lawsuits under former president Joe Biden’s administration. During the second Trump presidency, those cases have all been dropped.
The ‘Genius’ Act was signed into existence on 18 July 2025, which puts the Saturn Neptune conjunction in Aries in the 5th house of speculation in an over hopeful, stop-start square to Jupiter in the 8th house of business finances, along with Venus in Gemini. An ambitious Mars in Virgo sits beside the South Node which could suggests a tendency to build castles in the air rather than ensuring the foundations are well-established.
Alphard sits on the Midheaven which is in the Hydra constellation, the single star in the neck of the Water Snake. It has also been called the heart of the snake. On the positive side it can give wisdom, musical and artistic appreciation but in negative mode can lead to turbulence, lack of self-control, immorality, revolting deeds and self-destruction. ‘The danger is marked if either Sun, Moon, Mars, Neptune, Ascendant or MC are linked up with this star.’ (Astrology King.)
The Cancer Sun is also exactly conjunct Procyon bringing a promise of wealth, fame, and good fortune but with the warning that any enterprise created in haste will not last. There is a tendency to a hot temper and impudence. Rise and success are found with it, but a later fall from high position is also indicated. (Astrology King) Fixed star Scheat is also in the speculative 5th house close to Saturn Neptune which in its negative mode is associated with shipwrecks.
The Part of Fortune is also conjunct the Midheaven which promises luck and success. My sense would be (but don’t bet on it!) that some will do well and others will be ruined.
PS. I really cannot get my head round crypto so more knowledgeable types do feel free to comment.
PPS. I adore Scrat from the movie cartoon Ice Age who is endlessly hunting a runaway acorn. Seems fitting.
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