The regulator overseeing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Wednesday ordered the housing giants to consider cryptocurrency as an asset for single-family mortgage loan risk assessments, a move that could potentially open the door to borrowers using crypto investments to qualify for home loans. William Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, said in a social media post that he had ordered Fannie and Freddie to “prepare their businesses to count cryptocurrency as an asset for mortgage,” which he said would be in line with President Donald Trump’s vision of making the U.S. “the crypto capital of the ... (full story)