President Trump regaled a group of high-rollers visiting Mar-a-Lago about all his administration was doing for the cryptocurrency industry. Then he turned to all the crypto money he is making as president.

Instead, Trump began yesterday’s meeting, formally known as the White House Digital Assets Summit, by bringing out a soccer trophy.

The first five currencies that will be included in a U.S. strategic crypto reserve are Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Solana, and Cardano.

Donald Trump on Friday hosted top cryptocurrency players at the White House, a political boost for an industry that has struggled to gain legitimacy.

President Donald Trump said Friday that he’s committed to making the U.S. a world leader in cryptocurrencies as industry leaders heaped praise on him for reversing what they said had been unfair attacks on digital assets by the previous administration.

President Trump’s first White House Crypto Summit is underway, featuring top industry leaders including Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, Kraken CEO Arjun Sethi, MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor, and Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev.

(Reuters) -Cryptocurrency industry elite are set to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday to discuss how the government will enact Trump's vision of making the country the "crypto capital of the world.

A simmering tension in the crypto industry resurfaced after President Donald Trump signed a long-awaited order creating a strategic Bitcoin reserve and an additional stockpile of other digital assets.