Any doubts that the new administration will take a light touch to upcoming cryptocurrency regulation vanished with President Donald Trump’s launch of his own stablecoin and his family’s growing investments in crypto businesses.

Previously wary of the industry, Trump has embraced crypto and now wants to “make America the crypto capital of the world,” a campaign promise he reiterated in a March 6 executive order creating a U.S. strategic cryptocurrency reserve.

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