This is consolidating. It seems they can't really voice it when still holding political portfolio, so as to serve their masters and the banking industry Mafias. Well, we all know the politicians love cryptocurrencies, but their only problem is just how to control it, which is out of their reach.
It is consolidating but I wouldn't trust them a little, look at what china is doing, they have supported cryptocurrency but they are creating their own, which we all know that it can never be a decentralized coins, it would be purely built on centralized system which has totally defeated the objective of satoshi for creating bitcoin.
So, seeing them kind of supporting cryptocurrency now Is because they have seen that they can also create one for themselves without having to depend on bitcoin. If he had told us that there is future for bitcoin, then I would have said they mean business and they are ready to accept cryptocurrency, but if they are thinking towards following what chain is doing, I am not sure that will be good for crypto space at all.