President Donald Trump announced plans to form the United States’ first strategic cryptocurrency reserve (SCR). Trump shared the news on his social media platform Truth Social, stating that the reserve will include Bitcoin,

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),

The rift over the president’s proposed grab-bag of tokens signals a rocky political road ahead for one of the administration’s most audacious tech proposals. Underlying the issue: His administration has yet to articulate how it intends to reconcile the president’s “America First” agenda with crypto networks that are intended to be decentralized and borderless by design.