The Trump administration's new Nationwide Cyber Technique locations the safety of cryptocurrencies and blockchain expertise inside the US' broader efforts to take care of management in rising applied sciences.
The doc says the federal government will help the safety of “cryptocurrency and blockchain expertise,” in a bit centered on sustaining “benefits in key rising applied sciences.”
The assertion is included in President Trump's U.S. Cyber Technique, which outlines six coverage pillars to information federal cyber coverage, together with securing infrastructure, modernizing federal networks, and strengthening U.S. dominance in areas corresponding to synthetic intelligence and quantum computing.
“Construct safe applied sciences and provide chains that shield consumer privateness from design to deployment, together with help for the safety of cryptocurrencies and blockchain expertise. Speed up the adoption of post-quantum cryptography and safe quantum computing,” in keeping with the doc.
“And shield the AI expertise stack, together with knowledge facilities, and foster innovation in AI safety,” the doc added.
The technique locations blockchain safety alongside AI and post-quantum cryptography to border decentralized monetary infrastructure as a part of a home expertise race in opposition to overseas rivals.
This technique doesn’t introduce any particular cryptocurrency laws. Nonetheless, this language signifies that federal policymakers view the safety of blockchain methods as a part of defending financial and technological management.
Nonetheless, it additional highlights the Trump administration's dedication to the crypto house (which has just lately come beneath intense scrutiny), which he has supported since his 2024 marketing campaign.
In July of the identical yr, President Trump spoke on the Bitcoin 2024 convention in Nashville, pledging to make the US the “crypto capital of the planet” and a “Bitcoin superpower.” He pledged to finish what he referred to as the push for anti-cryptocurrency laws and proposed the creation of a nationwide stockpile of Bitcoin.
In early 2025, he ordered the creation of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve utilizing seized Bitcoin, launched a Presidential Activity Power on Digital Property, and banned using U.S. central financial institution digital currencies (although a yr later, there may be nonetheless no reserve). Later that yr, he pushed for the Stablecoin Act, referred to as the GENIUS Act, and continued to push for broader market construction guidelines for the business.
He has additionally repealed varied Biden-era anti-crypto insurance policies and seen US lawmakers drop lawsuits in opposition to massive crypto corporations corresponding to Uniswap, Tron, Coinbase, and Binance.
