Sacks first Press Conference focused on crypto, US Innovation, and Stablecoins. This AI and Crypto czar started the conversation that has been anticipated for some time.

David Sacks, the newly appointed White House Crypto Czar, walked into his highly anticipated press conference on Capitol Hill today and left many in the crypto community frustrated. His mission was to explain how President Trump’s administration plans to push the US into crypto dominance after years of chaos under Gary Gensler’s anti-crypto regime.

Late in the U.S. trading day, bitcoin was down 4.8% over the past 24 hours to $96,900 after having climbed up to the $101,000 level just two hours earlier. Much of the altcoin sector fared worse, with solana (SOL), (XRP), cardano (ADA) and chainlink (LINK) sporting declines of 6%-10%. Ether (ETH) was lower by 5.3%.