The Trump administration’s new national cyber strategy places the security of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies in the broader US push to maintain leadership in new technology.
In a section focused on maintaining “superiority in critical and emerging technologies,” the document states that 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 to guide federal cyber policy, including securing infrastructure, modernizing federal networks and strengthening American 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 promote 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 drive innovation in AI security,” the document added.
Placing blockchain security alongside AI and post-quantum cryptography, the strategy targets decentralized financial infrastructure as part of the nation’s technology competition with foreign rivals.
The strategy does not introduce specific crypto rules. Still, the language signals that federal policymakers see securing blockchain systems as part of protecting economic and technological leadership.
Still, it underscores the Trump administration’s commitment to the cryptocurrency space (which was recently scrutinized), a commitment he has supported since his 2024 campaign.
In July of that year, Trump addressed the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville and promised to make the United States the “crypto capital of the planet” and a “Bitcoin superpower.” He promised to end what he described as an anti-crypto regulatory push and proposed creating a national Bitcoin repository.
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 a digital currency from a US central bank (although 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 market structure regulations for the industry.
He has also eliminated various anti-crypto policies from the Biden era and has seen US lawmakers drop cases against major cryptocurrency firms including Uniswap, Tron, Coinbase and Binance.
