Update (March 2 16:48:31 UTC): This article has been updated to add President Trump’s newest message about BTC and ETH being included in the reserve
United States President Donald Trump recently announced that the President’s Working Group on Digital Assets has been directed to include XRP (XRP), Solana (SOL), and Cardano’s ADA (ADA) in the crypto strategic reserve.
The President later added Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) to the list of cryptocurrencies to be included in the reserve in an appended post, stating that they would be at the “heart of the reserve.”
Source: Donald J. Trump
Trump previously promised to establish a “strategic national Bitcoin stockpile” at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Trump told the audience during his keynote speech:
“If I am elected, it will be the policy of my Administration — the United States of America — to keep 100% of all the Bitcoin the government currently holds or…
