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According to an official social media announcement, HTX will host a live-streaming event titled “The Most Crypto-Savvy Fed Chair Has Arrived: Can Bitcoin Enter a Policy Honeymoon Period?” at 8:00 PM today (UTC+8). This event will take the form of a debate, with participants 0xpink, Amber, Zizhong, and Maomaojie facing off against Xiao Nezha, Dalin, Dabiaoge, and 0xmoon to engage in an in-depth discussion on expectations for Federal Reserve policy shifts, macro-level liquidity trends, and Bitcoin’s outlook.
Chloe (@ChloeTalk1), a columnist for HTX DeepThink and researcher at HTX Research, analyzed that Kevin Warsh’s formal confirmation as Federal Reserve Chair on May 14—by an extremely narrow Senate vote—marks the completion of the most contentious leadership transition at the Fed in decades. Global risk assets, especially the crypto market, are now entering a new phase characterized by “high volatility + high uncertainty.” The biggest current market contradiction lies in the head-on clash between “political pressure for rate cuts” and “real-world inflationary pressures.” Trump continues to demand rapid rate cuts to stabilize the financial environment ahead of the midterm elections. Yet the latest U.S. PPI year-on-year reading stands at 6%, with core PPI at 5.2%—both significantly exceeding market expectations—indicating that energy price increases driven by the Iran war have begun spreading across broader goods and services. Warsh’s stance proves more complex than market expectations. Though viewed by the Trump camp as a candidate “more willing to cut rates,” his long-standing intellectual framework is fundamentally hawkish: he has repeatedly criticized the Fed for excessive market intervention and long opposed unlimited balance-sheet expansion. What he truly advocates is not traditional large-scale monetary easing, but rather a “low-interest-rate environment without QE”: shrinking the balance sheet, reducing market intervention, and simultaneously curbing inflation via AI-driven productivity gains and regulatory relaxation. This implies that the future U.S. dollar liquidity environment will likely differ sharply from the era of unlimited QE seen in 2020–2021.
According to the HTX (formerly Huobi) announcement, HTX has enabled deposits for TWT and BILL tokens as of May 7 at 16:00 (GMT+8). Spot trading and grid trading for TWT/USDT and BILL/USDT will go live on May 7 at 18:00 and 19:00 (GMT+8), respectively. Withdrawals for TWT and BILL will be available on May 8 at 18:00 and 19:00 (GMT+8), respectively. Trust Wallet is a popular cryptocurrency hot wallet that allows users to retain full control over their funds. Its core feature is an integrated DApp browser offering a curated selection of decentralized applications, enabling direct staking and token trading. Billions Network is a universal “human-and-AI” collaboration network. It enables anyone to prove, in seconds, that they are a real and unique individual on-chain—without revealing any underlying personal data—providing humanity with a way to rebuild trust in every digital interaction and securely leverage AI agents.
Chloe (@ChloeTalk1), a columnist for HTX DeepThink and researcher at HTX Research, analyzes that the current macro framework for the crypto market has shifted from “liquidity trades awaiting rate cuts” to a constraining environment characterized by “higher-for-longer interest rates + sticky inflation + war-related shocks.” According to the latest Reuters survey, most economists have pushed back their expectations for rate cuts to after September, with nearly one-third believing no cuts will occur this year. The primary reason is that the Middle East conflict has driven up energy prices, pushing inflation trajectories higher once again and thereby constraining the Federal Reserve’s policy space. This shift directly undermines the two key narratives previously supporting crypto assets: expectations of liquidity easing and a declining interest-rate path. Elevated oil prices, coupled with consecutive upward revisions to PCE inflation expectations, increase the likelihood that interest rates will remain high—or even extend their elevated period—leading to a higher discount rate and shrinking risk budgets. As a result, marginal capital inflows into the crypto market are diminishing, and high-volatility assets broadly face mounting pressure.