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The weirdness around Trump’s “US Crypto Reserve” announcement, briefly explained

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03.03.2025
Trump speaks at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville. | Brett Carlsen/Bloomberg via Getty Images

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he’d include select cryptocurrency tokens in a “U.S. Crypto Reserve” — but what that actually means, and whether it will actually happen, is just about as clear as mud.

In a TruthSocial post, Trump said he’d directed his advisers to “move forward” on creating a “Crypto Strategic Reserve,” and that it would include the cryptocurrencies XRP, Solana, and Cardano. In a follow-up post, he added that Bitcoin, Ethereum, and “other valuable Cryptocurrencies will be at the heart of the Reserve.”

Naturally, the announcement sent crypto prices — which had been trending downward since Trump’s inaugurationshooting higher on Sunday, particularly among the specific tokens Trump named. But some of the market enthusiasm wore off on Monday as........

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