Trump Becomes First Major Party Candidate to Accept Crypto Donations.

Donald J. Trump's presidential campaign on Tuesday began accepting crypto donations, making good on the presumptive Republican nominee's promise to be the first major party candidate to embrace bitcoin, ether and other digital currencies.

The move comes weeks after the former president declared himself the crypto candidate at a Mar-a-Lago gala pushing crypto into the 2024 campaign.

The Trump campaign said in a statement that it “will build a crypto army” to combat the notorious “anti-crypto army” that Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has campaigned on.

While Trump has not proposed any concrete crypto policy, supporters of his position received enough positive votes. That's largely because Joe Biden's administration has taken a sharp anti-crypto stance in the past.

Crypto's emergence as a bon-fide campaign issue may be changing Democrats' calculations, as evidenced in the House Democratic leadership's decision in the last 24 hours not to push its members against an upcoming bill on crypto policy.