Binance Earns Massive Favors From Trump After 20% Yield Promo (Boosting USD1 MC By $150M)

Happy “You Scratch My Back, I’ll Scratch Your Back” Day for Those Who Celebrate… 

Nothing says “coincidence? I think not” like Binance announcing a bigly 20% APY while promoting Donnie Powers backed USD1 just weeks after what many (read: me) thought was the most random pardon in American history. 

Live look at Donnie Politics after the announcement: 

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In short, World Liberty Financial’s USD1 (a.k.a., the Trump-adjacent, family-linked, Truth Social–coded dollar token) just caught a turbo boost after Binance decided to turn it into a holiday slot machine. More specifically, USD1’s market cap ballooned by about $150 million in a single day, jumping from $2.74B to $$2.9B. All because Binance rolled out a limited-time promo offering up to 20% yield for anyone willing to park their digital dollars and not ask too many questions. Ho ho ho, MF’ers. 

Side note: In case you didn’t know, stablecoins are supposed to be the boring part of crypto. The “I just want my dollar to stay a dollar” corner. And yet, USD1 just showed up drenched in crypto mouth breathing “pheromones”,  promising passive income and whispering “trust me”. How so? Because the new USD1 boost program… which runs from late December through January… allows users to earn real-time APR plus a bonus tiered reward that posts daily. 

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That said, there is a cap, of course. Bonus yield only applies up to 50,000 USD1 per user. Anything above that earns the normal rate, which is still higher than what your savings account has paid you since Obama was in office. Regardless though, someone is absolutely lighting money on fire to make this happen. Case in point: Stablecoins generally earn around 3–4% by sitting in boring, safe assets. So a 20% yield means either Binance, World Liberty Financial, or both are subsidizing the hell out of this thing to juice adoption. Which brings us to the obvious question: 

Why now? 

Good question. At the moment, USD1 is still the new kid at the stablecoin lunch table. Most of its growth so far came from one very specific unfair advantage… and that’s Abu Dhabi’s MGX using it to move $2 billion into Binance earlier this year. Which means, this promo is the next step of flooding retail wallets, grabbing attention by the balls, and daring people to rotate out once the yield disappears. Translation: Binance knows exactly what it’s doing. High APY doesn’t need to last forever… it just needs to last long enough to get people comfortable holding the token. After that, inertia does the rest. 

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Naturally, critics are already foaming. The U.S. Karen and Chief, Elizabeth Warren, is among some of the most unhappy about it. Even X is unhappy as someone this minute is presumably going full keyboard warrior with a think piece titled: “This Is Why Crypto Is Broken.” Meanwhile, Donald Trump Jr. hopped on X to declare that “nothing says Christmas like real-world adoption,” which is objectively hilarious and spiritually accurate. However, people can chant and shout all they want… but the real test comes after January.

When the promo ends, does USD1 hold its ground… or does liquidity sprint back to USDT, USDC, and whatever BlackRock is quietly cooking up next? Until then, USD1 is doing what crypto does best: turning politics, yield, and aura into a very expensive (and risky) experiment… and daring the market to blink first. And right now… at 20% APY, a lot of people are blinking. Meaning, keep your eyes on this story and please… for the love of SBF, place your bets accordingly. Until next time, friends… 

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