Trump’s $18M Crypto Boost: Ripple, Solana Fuel Wild Market Swings

During his second term President Donald Trump produced strong negative reactions within the cryptocurrency marketplace. Bitcoin reached its highest price point yet when it reached $109,000 yet quickly dropped to $70,000 after world trade relations became strained.

The market became more volatile after Trump announced his plan to reapply trade restrictions which created panic within investment communities. Major digital asset companies reacted promptly by demonstrating their backing for political actions despite market fluctuations.

According to filings from the Federal Election Commission, crypto companies and executives poured in close to $18 million to support Trump’s inauguration. The donations demonstrate a strengthening bond between presidential administration officials and major blockchain community members.

Ripple Labs provided the biggest support to crypto donors by giving approximately $5 million to the fund. Pilgrim’s Pride Corp donated more money than Ripple to the inauguration funds.

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Other major contributors included Solana Labs, which donated $1 million to the inauguration fund. Uniswap’s CEO Hayden Adams donated $245,000 as Consensys provided another $100,000 to the fund.

The political party of Trump accumulated approximately $239 million from its fund operations between the election win and the FEC disclosure report issued on April 20. The electronic payment businesses Coinbase alongside Kraken and Ondo Finance along with Robinhood participated in these donations.

Major tech and finance corporations participated as donors in the funding list. Among donors supporting the government were OpenAI CEO Sam Altman along with Meta Apple PayPal and FedEx and NVidia Meta and Apple.

The Trump administration has shown support for cryptocurrencies while being in office for a brief period. The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the dismissal of legal actions against Ripple, Coinbase and OpenSea which demonstrated a change in regulatory approach toward crypto space.

Through a fresh executive order Trump established the creation of a U.S. strategic crypto reserve. The proposed strategic crypto reserve has been planned to contain Bitcoin and Ether as well as XRP and Solana and Cardano assets.

XRP has not managed to leverage the positive market trends at hand. The market value of XRP stands at $2.10 which reflects a daily decrease of 0.9 percent yet it has experienced a 3 percent decline throughout this week.

The rising financial power of the crypto sector has initiated a transformed stage of political involvement. The pro-crypto developments in the market do not outweigh investor uncertainty stemming from worldwide market volatility.