The summit came a day after Trump issued an Executive Order announcing the creation of a federal Bitcoin reserve.

President Donald Trump gathered leaders from the cryptocurrency industry in the White House Friday for a summit.

At a first-of-its-kind crypto summit at the White House, President Donald Trump pledged to make U.S. the global leader in Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and digital assets, signaling his administration's full embrace of the cryptocurrency industry.

By Suzanne McGee, Nandita Bose and Michelle Conlin (Reuters) -Cryptocurrency industry elite are set to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday to discuss how the government will enact Trump's vision of making the country the "crypto capital of the world.

The White House hosted its first-ever “crypto summit” Friday, convening top executives from various digital asset firms to discuss the Trump administration’s commitment to rolling back the aggressive regulatory posture the Biden administration took toward the industry.

Trump used the summit to push his vision of making the US “the crypto capital of the world”, but investors wanted more than just words.

President Trump hosted the first White House Crypto Summit today with industry leaders, bringing some of the biggest names in crypto to Washington to discuss plans to roll back many of the regulations put in place by the Biden administration.