The Russian authorities should analyze the prospects for the use of cryptocurrencies after the proposal of US President Donald Trump on the formation of national crypto -reserve, said Alexander Shokhin, head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP).

The head of the RSPP recalled that digital assets have become one of the tools for cross -border payments in international financial sanctions.

“Trump said that now the United States will become a cryptostostolic in the world and already accumulate reserves in the crypt, so to speak, at least on the air and bitcoins. We also need to somehow look-how, on the one hand, carefully approaches, so as not to really create several emission centers. And on the other hand, conduct the same cross -border calculations, plus the use of digital financial assets … ”

Shokhin said that the idea of ​​developing a payment system using stablecoins was previously discussed. It can become an alternative to the US dollar, on the basis of which national currencies are able to function.

Earlier, a member of the Commission of the Public Chamber of Russia on the examination of bills, Yevgeny Masharov, proposed to send a cryptocurrency confiscated by the state to the balance of a special fund to finance social projects.