The U.S. government has created a Digital Asset Stockpile to hold its cryptocurrencies

As outlined in the March 6 executive order signed by President Trump, the U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile will essentially become a central

The U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile is a central repository for all cryptocurrencies held by the U.S. government, with the exception of Bitcoin, which will be held in a separate Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. The stockpile will be managed by the U.S. Treasury, and the crypto assets will be transferred to the Treasury from other government agencies.

Only crypto assets that have been seized by the government as the result of criminal or civil asset forfeiture proceedings can be included in the stockpile.

According to a recent report by Chainalysis, the U.S. government appears to have four large altcoin (i.e., non-Bitcoin) holdings: Ethereum, Tether, Binance Coin, and USDC. Each of these holdings is valued at more than $10 billion, with Ethereum and Tether having the greatest value at $133 billion and $122 billion, respectively.

The government also has holdings of six other cryptocurrencies, each holding valued at anywhere from $1 billion to $10 billion. These are Dai, Tron, Uniswap, Chainlink, Render, and The Sandbox.

The creation of the Digital Asset Stockpile is likely to have little to no impact on crypto prices over the next 12 months. This is because the U.S. government currently has no intention to buy more of any cryptocurrency.

With the creation of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, the Trump White House left open the option to buy new Bitcoin in the future, as long as it could find what it calls a budget-neutral way to do it. But it included no such stipulation about the Digital Asset Stockpile.

If you take a closer look at the stockpile’s primary holdings, two of them — Tether and USDC — are stablecoins pegged 1:1 to the U.S. dollar. So it doesn't matter how much the government buys; they will always be valued at $1.

The third primary holding — Binance Coin — is not even tradable on some U.S. cryptocurrency exchanges, due to an ongoing SEC lawsuit. That leaves Ethereum as the primary beneficiary of the U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile.

I believe XRP, Chainlink, and Tron are the likeliest of the cryptos in the stockpile to get a bounce due to favorable treatment by the government. All appear to have the attention of President Trump or his crypto-affiliated company, World Liberty Financial.

A number of questions are swirling around the Digital Asset Stockpile. Most crypto watchers aren't very enthusiastic about it. One hedge fund manager called it "a pig in lipstick" while another crypto insider said it sets "a horrible precedent."

The U.S. government doesn't invest in tech stocks, so why should it be in the business of investing in speculative cryptocurrencies that might go to zero? Moreover, there are many potential conflicts of interest, as well as opportunities for wrongdoing by government insiders.

Additionally, there are no clear criteria for which cryptos to include or why. With the possible exception of Ethereum, there is nothing particularly "strategic" about any altcoin held by the U.S. government (and certainly not a metaverse coin like The Sandbox).

At the end of the day, the U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile is likely good for crypto, in that it helps to cement U.S. government support for the crypto industry. It will also help the U.S. government figure out what crypto assets it actually owns and then provide a way to transfer them to what crypto czar David Sacks calls "a Digital Fort Knox" for safekeeping.

But if you're expecting insane portfolio gains from little-known cryptos suddenly going parabolic, you might need to reset your expectations. For now, the only crypto that might get a boost from being part of this stockpile is Ethereum, and even that's open to debate, given that it's down nearly 30% over the past month.

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