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Solana, XRP Jump as Trump Reportedly Mulls ‘America-First’ Strategic Crypto Reserve, but Experts Suggest Otherwise

A strategic bitcoin reserve has been a large part of the crypto discussion ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration, but does the incoming 47th president have other tokens on his mind?
Solana’s SOL, Ripple’s XRP and Hedera’s HBAR are among the altcoins outperforming on Thursday, in part thanks to a NYPost report that Trump was «receptive» to the idea of creating an «America-first strategic reserve» of tokens including SOL, XRP and Circle’s USDC stablecoin.
SOL jumped over 8% to $217 following the report, while XRP continued this week’s advance to hit $3.35, just shy of its 2018 record price, per data source CoinGecko. HBAR, the native token of the Hedera Hashgraph network founded by the pseudonymous Texas-based firm, wasn’t mentioned in the story, but rallied more than 10% to its strongest price since early December.
That’s led the CoinDesk 20 Index to a 5% gain over the past 24 hours, sharply outperforming bitcoin’s 0.5% rise to just shy of $100,000.
Anticipation among crypto investors is building for Trump’s inauguration next week, and the potential announcement of first-day executive orders focusing on the digital asset industry. Trump promised during the campaign to position the U.S. as a leader in the crypto space including creating a national stockpile of bitcoin. Senator Cynthia Lummis also introduced the BITCOIN Act in July proposing to acquire the 5% of bitcoin’s supply, while some U.S. states are also exploring or have put forward legislation to create a reserve for the asset.
Not so fast
While some token holders might be salivating over the idea of the government buying cryptos other than bitcoin, market observers raised concerns.
«This is a ridiculous idea and will never happen,» Quinn Thompson, founder of hedge fund Lekker Capital, said in an X post.
«It’s not the government’s place to be making venture capital bets on altcoins,» Thompson elaborated to CoinDesk. «This rumor of a strategic reserve for other, non-BTC coins is another example of where people are taking what otherwise is a bad idea and running with it as fact.»
Anthony Georgiades, general partner of investment firm Innovating Capital, said while it’s «extremely positive» to promote U.S.-based innovation, the potential «nationalization of digital assets» could weaken efforts to decentralize blockchain economies.
«As it stands today, there’s truly only one token that is sufficiently and purely decentralized and that is bitcoin,» he said in an interview on the CoinDesk Markets Daily show. «These other projects all have the foundational strengths and ability towards a path to that level of decentralized ethos. This nationalization of digital assets might potentially weaken those efforts over time.»
Read more: Why Litecoin Might Be the Next Crypto to Get Its ETF
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Coinbase Outpaces S&P 500 With 43% June Rise as Stablecoin Narrative Grows: CNBC

Shares of Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (COIN) rose 43% this month, making the firm the top performer in the S&P 500 since it joined the index at the end of last month.
June’s run is already the stock’s best since November and caps three straight monthly gains. Coinbase’s shares reached their highest level since their public debut.
COIN hit a $382 high this week before enduring a slight correction, ending the week at $353 and seeing a slight 0.7% drop in after-hours trading to $351.
The wider S&P 500 index rose roughly 5% in June as geopolitical tensions eased.
Washington’s progress on the GENIUS Act, Congress’s first rulebook for dollar-pegged stablecoins, helped shift investor focus from trading fees to stablecoin revenue.
The bill brightened the outlook for Circle, whose shares hit a record high and saw its market cap near that of Coinbase this week.
Coinbase keeps all yield on USDC balances held on its platform and nearly half of other USDC income, equal to about 99 percent of Circle’s revenue, giving shareholders indirect exposure at no added cost, CNBC reported Friday, citing analysts including Citizens’ head of financial technology research Devin Ryan.
Trading, however, remains subdued. Average daily volume on Coinbase has drifted lower since April.
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Robinhood Launches Micro Bitcoin, Solana and XRP Futures Contracts

Robinhood (HOOD) has introduced micro futures on bitcoin (BTC), solana (SOL) and XRP in the United States., expanding its existing crypto futures offering for its nearly 26 million funded accounts.
Micro contracts need far less collateral than full-size futures, letting traders take directional positions while committing a smaller slice of capital.
The contracts offer traders more flexibility to bet on a cryptocurrency’s future price direction or hedge current positions given their smaller size.
The launch rounds out a futures suite that began with BTC and ETH in January. It also comes weeks after the firm closed its $200 million purchase of Bitstamp and finalized a $179 million deal for Canada’s WonderFi.
Robinhood’s data shows that crypto notional volumes have exploded upward over time, reaching $11.7 billion in May. The figure marks a 36% rise month-over-month, and a 65% growth year-over-year.
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Why is XRP Up Today? Trio of Catalysts Sees Token Outperform Wider Crypto Market

XRP climbed 5.5% to $2.19 in the last 24 hours after a trio of catalysts converged to help the cryptocurrency outperform the wider cryptocurrency market.
One of the catalysts was launch of XRP micro futures on Robinhood. The contracts offer traders more flexibility to bet on the cryptocurrency’s future price direction or hedge current positions given their smaller size.
Regulatory fog also thinned. On Friday, Ripple withdrew its cross-appeal in its long-running U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit. The SEC sued Ripple back in 2020 over its XRP sales, alleging these violated securities laws. The SEC is expected to drop its own appeal, leaving last year’s ruling, ordering Ripple to pay a $125 million civil penalty to the SEC, intact. The move could lift a lid that had kept some investors on the sidelines.
On-chain data rounded out the bullish setup. The XRP Ledger logged over a 1.1 million active addresses over the past week according to crypto analyst Ali Martinez, who cited Glassnode data.
XRP’s rise saw it outperform the wider crypto market, with the broader CoinDesk 20 (CD20) index rising 1.7% in the last 24 hours.
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