Claire Jones and Sam Fleming

Aug 24, 2025 – 1.55pm

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As Jerome Powell stood up to deliver what will almost certainly be his final address to the global economic-policymaking elite at Jackson Hole, a rival conference had just wrapped up in the same Grand Tetons mountain resort.

Headlined by Eric Trump, the speakers at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium touted what they believed to be the new frontier of money. Their number included senior officials in the Trump administration, tech entrepreneurs and influential Republican senator Tim Scott.

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