In 83 days, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency under Trump-appointed Comptroller Jonathan Gould has granted conditional national bank charters to 11 crypto and fintech firms, including Ripple, Crypto.com, Circle, BitGo, Paxos, and Fidelity Digital Assets. On March 4, Kraken Financial became the first digital asset bank in US history to receive a Federal Reserve master account, giving it direct access to Fedwire payment rails without relying on an intermediary bank. And on the same day, Trump posted on Truth Social that “Banks should not be trying to undercut The Genius Act,” directly accusing traditional lenders of sabotaging his crypto legislative agenda.

This is not incremental policy adjustment, and it is not an accident….