The US Department of Commerce will publish statistics "on the blockchain": reform or PR?

🇺🇸 US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick stated: key economic data, including GDP, will begin to be published "on the blockchain" as part of the Trump administration's crypto policy.

🗣 It is still unclear which network will be chosen and why this is necessary — after all, the Department of Commerce's statistics are already available. At first glance, this seems more like a PR move in the spirit of 2017, when "blockchain" was added for trendy effect.

⚡️ But in the context of Lutnick's persona (head of Cantor Fitzgerald, partner of Tether, and an active player in the BTC market), the picture looks different. This may not be about transparency, but about control and the creation of new infrastructure where the government directly interacts with crypto technologies.

If the initiative becomes real, the consequences will be serious: from the emergence of a government blockchain for macro data to the launch of parallel monitoring and regulation systems. For the crypto market, this is a signal — the US is starting to test the integration of blockchain not as an experiment, but as an element of the state apparatus. And the scale may turn out to be much greater than just the publication of GDP.