Self-proclaimed ‘crypto president’ Donald Trump made big promises to the crypto community. He built a strong alliance with crypto investors, taking millions in campaign donations and vowing to make the US the “crypto capital of the planet.

President Donald Trump's announced a US crypto reserve of bitcoin, ether, XRP, sol, and ada. This is what they could achieve and how it might work.

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.