Currencies

Vice President JD Vance, speaking at the Bitcoin 2025 conference, said the Trump administration would never try to 'handicap' the cryptocurrency community. Photo: Roger Kisby for WSJ

Crypto entrepreneurs from across the world traveled to the Washington, D.C. area earlier this month to attend an exclusive dinner with President Trump. WSJ pulls back the curtain on the high-profile affair. Photo Illustration: Annie Zhao

Harvard economist Ken Rogoff joins WSJ’s Take On the Week Podcast to talk about why he thinks the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar is in decline, what this could mean for consumers and investors, and his new book “Our Dollar, Your Problem.” Photo: WSJ

From hidden magnetic fields to the way ink bleeds across the paper, WSJ sits down with a leading currency expert to explore the techniques used to prevent counterfeiting and forgery. Illustration: George Downs/The Wall Street Journal

President Trump hosted the first White House Crypto Summit in March, a day after he signed an executive order to establish a government reserve for bitcoin. Photo: Chris Kleponis/Press Pool