Trump sparks crypto rally by saying more coins to be in reserve
The cryptocurrency market roared into March with a rally, recouping some of the losses from the asset class’s worst month since 2022, after United States President Donald Trump once again talked up his plan for a strategic crypto reserve.
The inclusion of XRP and ADA tokens in Trump’s announcement were surprising, according to Andrew Tu, head of sales at crypto market maker Efficient Frontier. Both tokens had huge rallies on Sunday, leading gains across most digital assets. Trump also said Bitcoin, Ether and Solana would be included in the reserve, helping those coins recover some of last month’s steep declines.
The announcements from Trump, which were made in posts on Truth Social, reconfirmed his loyalty to an industry that had showered him with donations and praise during his campaign following a crackdown on crypto companies under President Joe Biden’s administration.
Still, many of the details of Trump’s plan are unknown, including how much the government will actually buy and how the purchases would be funded.
“If expectations don’t meet reality, then markets can potentially retreat again,” Tu said. “For now, all the bearishness of the past week has been forgotten by markets,” he said, while adding that macroeconomic concerns are still an overhang that could cause crypto prices to retreat again should equities do the same.
The tokens Trump said would be included in the reserve are all among the top eight cryptocurrencies by market value, according to tracker CoinMarketCap.com. The only ones among the top eight that weren’t included were Tether and USDC, stablecoins that track the U.S. dollar, and the Binance exchange’s token Binance Coin, known as BNB.
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