Key Takeaways U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to establish U.S. dominance in digital assets and financial technology.While partly delivering on a campaign promise to create a bitcoin stockpile,

President Donald Trump took another step toward his promise to make the U.S. the “crypto capital of the planet” on Thursday, signing an executive order aimed at promoting the domestic cryptocurrency sector and exploring the possibility of a new national digital asset stockpile.

We’re tracking the executive orders Trump signed on his first day in office, just hours after being inaugurated as president.

Newly sworn-in President Donald Trump has tapped Mark Uyeda, a Republican member of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, to be acting chair of the agency, the White House said on Monday.

The lawmakers sent the letter to the Office of Government Ethics, the Department of the Treasury, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

How can the U.S. administration be expected to regulate cryptocurrencies effectively when so many of its bigwigs, including the president, have stakes in the industry?

Circle chief executive Jeremy Allaire thinks President Donald Trump will enable banks to trade crypto assets. In a new interview with Reuters, Allaire predicts Trump will sign a flurry of executive orders (EOs) enabling banks to hold digital assets in portfolios, trade them and offer crypto services to wealthy customers.

Democratic lawmakers are asking federal regulators to look into legal and ethical questions around the meme cryptocurrency coins launched by Donald Trump.

Donald and Melania Trump launched new cryptocurrencies over the weekend. Some experts are advising investors to be cautious.

US President Donald Trump’s inaugural address on Jan. 20 didn’t mention cryptocurrency or Bitcoin, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t big things in store for the sector this year. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said the Trump administration will place renewed emphasis on sensible stablecoin regulations.

President Donald Trump named Mark Uyeda, a Republican member of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), acting chair of the agency. What Happened: The White House confirmed Uyedas’s role as acting chair of the agency.