New details on what a U.S. government crypto reserve might look like.

From Marketplace, I'm Sabri Beneshore, in for David Brancaccio.

Hundreds of billions of dollars float into cryptocurrency markets in the past 24 hours or so.

That's after a Sunday morning post from President Donald Trump named five digital tokens to be included in a National Reserve.

Mr. Trump had already promised to build a so-called strategic government stockpile of cryptocurrencies.

In order, he said, to elevate the crypto industry.

But yesterday was the first time we got details of what exactly is going to go into it.

Marketplace's Nova Sappho has more.

The five cryptocurrencies President Trump

named are Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, Solana, and Cardano. It's unclear whether there might be others as

well. It's significant. It's the first time that he's talked about including more than Bitcoin

in the reserve. David Krause is Emeritus Professor of Finance at Marquette University and has written

extensively about cryptocurrencies.

He says the less familiar tokens, Trump mentioned, are designed for specific transactional

purposes and make sense to include in a reserve.

As for having a crypto reserve at the government level,

gold, oil, make more sense as strategic reserves. Their utility values is much greater.

Therefore, a strategic reserve of the size we're talking about here is more symbolic.

Trump has pledged to be a crypto-friendly president, and his family

holdings include a stake in World Liberty Financial, a crypto platform. I'm Nova Sopho for Marketplace.

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