[Crypto World] Back in March this year, the US government issued an executive order—to build a strategic Bitcoin reserve and digital asset reserves, even mentioning coins like ETH, XRP, SOL, and ADA. It sounded pretty impressive, but now it looks like the whole thing has basically fizzled out.
So, what’s the issue? The order never actually authorized the government to buy crypto, didn’t allocate any budget, and didn’t set up any regulatory framework. The so-called funding source was just seized assets, plus some vague “budget-neutral strategies”—in plain terms, it was all talk with no real action.
The data from Polymarket drives the point home. Early last year, over 60% of people believed there would be a decent BTC reserve by the end of the year, but by December that confidence had plummeted to just 2%. Expectations for XRP and ETH reserves tanked the same way.
Analysts’ doubts are legitimate: without Congressional backing or supporting infrastructure, how could this ever get off the ground? Now the market has already