The Trump administration’s new national cyber strategy places the security of cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies within the United States’ broader push to maintain leadership in the emerging 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 intended to guide federal cyber policy, including securing infrastructure, modernizing federal networks, and strengthening America’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 implementation, including supporting the security of cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies. We will promote the adoption of post-quantum cryptography and secure quantum computing,” according to the document.
“And we will protect AI technology, including our data centers, and promote innovation in AI security,” the document adds.
By placing blockchain security alongside artificial intelligence and post-quantum cryptography, the strategy frames decentralized financial infrastructure as part of the country’s technological competition with foreign rivals.
The strategy does not introduce specific crypto regulations. Still, the language indicates that federal policymakers consider protecting blockchain systems to be part of protecting economic and technological leadership.
Still, it further underscores the Trump administration’s commitment to the cryptocurrency space (which came under scrutiny recently), a commitment it has supported since its 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 reserve.
In early 2025, he led the creation of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve using seized bitcoins and launched a presidential task force on digital assets, while also banning a US central bank digital currency (although it’s been a year 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 rules for the industry.
It also removed several Biden-era anti-crypto policies and saw US lawmakers drop cases against major cryptocurrency companies including Uniswap, Tron, Coinbase and Binance.
