According to the Hong Kong media Ta Kung Pao, the Trump team is reviewing candidates for positions dedicated to cryptocurrency policy. Although it is still unclear whether this is a senior White House staff-level position, the "cryptocurrency czar" (who oversees policies and regulations within the federal government), the cryptocurrency industry is striving for this opportunity to directly contact Trump. It is reported that many people have traveled to Mar-a-Lago for "interviews" in recent days, including Brooks, a former executive of cryptocurrency trading platform Binance, who is also considered a potential candidate for the chairpersonship of the Securities Exchange Commission. In addition, Armstrong, the CEO of US cryptocurrency exchange
Coinbase, also met with Trump this week.