{"id":25199,"date":"2026-02-25T22:31:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=25199"},"modified":"2026-02-25T22:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:31:17","slug":"welcome-to-the-post-hype-crypto-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=25199","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the post-hype crypto market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Crypto is creeping back into the startup conversation, but at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ethdenver.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ETHDenver<\/a>\u00a0last week, the buzz was as much about Washington as it was about tokens. Policy shifts are rippling through the market as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/01\/why-tethers-ceo-is-everywhere-right-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tether<\/a>\u00a0and stablecoins face scrutiny,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/02\/01\/why-tethers-ceo-is-everywhere-right-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">players like Stripe<\/a>\u00a0re-enter the\u00a0conversation, and startups either find traction or flame out. The hype cycle is\u00a0over, or\u00a0at least taking a\u00a0break.\u00a0So\u00a0what\u00a0comes next?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On this episode of TechCrunch\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/podcasts\/equity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Equity<\/a>\u00a0podcast, Rebecca Bellan sits down with Jacquelyn Melinek, CEO of Token Relations and host of the Talking Tokens and Crypto in America podcasts, to make sense of how the market has changed and\u00a0what\u00a0in the world\u00a0of crypto\u00a0is\u00a0built\u00a0to last.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subscribe to Equity on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TechCrunch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">YouTube<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/id1215439780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Apple Podcasts<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/overcast.fm\/itunes1215439780\/equity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Overcast<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5IEYLip3eDppcOmy5DmphC?si=rZDFHv2sQUul_g94iCRgpQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and all the casts. You\u00a0also can\u00a0follow Equity on<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EquityPod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0X<\/a>\u00a0and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@equitypod\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0Threads<\/a>, at @EquityPod.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/video\/welcome-to-the-post-hype-crypto-market\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto is creeping back into t&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249],"tags":[1227,14486,14487,2405,2961,8175,11232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}