Bitcoin Jumps Above $91K After Trump’s U.S. Crypto Reserve News Brings Bulls Back

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By Aoyon Ashraf

Mar 2, 2025, 5:27 p.m. UTC

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What to know:

  • Bitcoin’s price surged past $91,000 after U.S. President Donald Trump established cryptocurrency strategic reserves.
  • XRP, Solana, Cardano, Bitcoin, and Ether saw significant price increases following the announcement.
  • Crypto-linked stocks such as MSTR, COIN, HOOD, MARA, and RIOT would also likely see bullish bids.
  • The move is expected to bring bullish sentiment back into the digital assets space, with a crypto summit scheduled for March 7.

Bitcoin’s (BTC) price surged past $91,000 on Sunday after U.S. President Donald Trump announced crypto strategic reserves for the world’s biggest economy.

In his initial announcement, Trump announced XRP, Solana (SOL), and Cardano (ADA) as cryptocurrencies to be included in the reserve and later said BTC and ether (ETH) would also be part of it.

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Read more: Donald Trump Names XRP, SOL, ADA, BTC and ETH as Part of U.S. Crypto Reserve

XRP jumped 31% in the last 24 hours to trade around $2.80, while ADA price crossed above $1 and SOL above $160, both rising more than 20% on Sunday.

Meanwhile, BTC was up 6% in the last 24 hours, finally trading above $91,000 after prices stuck near the 80,000 to the $84,000 range. ETH was above $2,400, rising nearly 10% in the same time period. The broader CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20) rose a whopping 17% in the last 24 hours.

CoinDesk20 Index price chart (CoinDesk Indices)

The news would also help the prices of crypto-linked stocks such as Strategy (MSTR), Coinbase (COIN), Robinhood (HOOD), and bitcoin miners such as MARA Holdings (MARA), Riot Platforms (RIOT), and CleanSpark (CLSK).

Trump’s move will likely bring bullish sentiment back into the digital assets space, which had been languishing for a week.

The crypto prices started to show signs of life on Friday when the white house said Trump would host a crypto summit on March 7. Summit attendees are set to include “prominent founders, CEOs, and investors from the crypto industry.

Read more: Crypto Prices Show Signs of Recovery With Bitcoin Above $84k Amid Trump’s Summit Plans

Aoyon Ashraf is CoinDesk’s managing editor for Breaking News. He spent almost a decade at Bloomberg covering equities, commodities and tech. Prior to that, he spent several years on the sellside, financing small-cap companies. Aoyon graduated from University of Toronto with a degree in mining engineering. He holds ETH and BTC, as well as ALGO, ADA, SOL, OP and some other altcoins which are below CoinDesk’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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