The US government on Thursday began distributing gross domestic product data on public blockchains, marking the latest Trump administration endorsement of the crypto industry. The move, as described by Commerce Department officials, will create another avenue — not a replacement — for publishing the economic data. The Department published what it described in a press release as the “official hash of its quarterly GDP data release for 2025—and, in some cases, the topline GDP number” to nine blockchains: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, TRON, Stellar, Avalanche, Arbitrum One, Polygon PoS, and Optimism. The Commerce ... (full story)