US President Donald Trump took office early this year, with at least part of his 2024 election victory thanks to voters buying into campaign promises of a crypto-friendly administration.
So far, the Trump administration has actually taken decisive pro-crypto steps, including signing an executive order repealing Biden-era policies, creating the presidential task force on digital asset markets, and banning a US CBDC. The administration also helped push the GENIUS Act – the first major federal crypto law for stablecoin regulation and dropped several enforcement cases tied to crypto firms.
Trump also established a strategic bitcoin reserve, although he disappointed some by deciding that the reserve will be funded by seized bitcoin, rather than new purchases.
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However, digital assets and blockchain technology received no mention in Trump’s latest national security strategy. Instead, artificial intelligence, biotechnology and quantum computers are highlighted as keys to American technological leadership.
“We want to ensure that American technology and American standards — especially in artificial intelligence, biotechnology and quantum computing — drive the world forward,” the national security strategy statement released Friday said.
The omission could mean that President Trump and the US establishment as a whole remain reluctant to see crypto as anything more than just another financial asset rather than something that could give America a strategic advantage.
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