The Trump administration’s new national cyber strategy places the security of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies within the broader framework of the United States’ efforts to maintain its leadership in emerging technologies.
In a section focused on maintaining “superiority in critical and emerging technologies,” the document says the government will support the security of “cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies.”
The statement appears in President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America, which outlines six policy pillars intended to guide federal cyber policy, including securing infrastructure, modernizing federal networks, and strengthening U.S. advantages in areas such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing.
“We will build secure technologies and supply chains that protect user privacy from design to deployment, including supporting the security of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. We will drive the adoption of post-quantum cryptography and secure quantum computing,” according to the document.
“And we will secure the AI technology stack, including our data centers, and promote innovation in AI security,” the document adds.
By placing blockchain security alongside AI and post-quantum cryptography, the strategy frames decentralized financial infrastructure within the country’s technological competition with foreign rivals.
The strategy does not introduce specific crypto regulations. Nonetheless, the language indicates that federal policymakers view securing blockchain systems as part of protecting economic and technological leadership.
Nonetheless, it further underscores the Trump administration’s commitment to cryptocurrencies (which has recently come under increased scrutiny), a commitment he has supported since his 2024 campaign.
In July of that year, Trump addressed the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, promising to make the United States the “crypto capital of the planet” and a “Bitcoin superpower.” He pledged to end what he described as an anti-crypto regulatory push and proposed creating a national Bitcoin stockpile.
In early 2025, he led the creation of a strategic Bitcoin reserve using seized bitcoin and launched a presidential task force on digital assets, while banning the use of a digital currency by the US central bank (even though a year has passed and there is still no reserve). Later that year, he promoted stablecoin legislation known as the GENIUS Act and continued to push for broader rules on market structure for the industry.
It also eliminated various anti-crypto policies from the Biden era and saw US lawmakers drop lawsuits against major cryptocurrency companies including Uniswap, Tron, Coinbase and Binance.
