The Trump administration’s new national cyber strategy places the security of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology within a broader push by the United States to maintain leadership in emerging technologies.
In a section focused on maintaining the “advantage of critical and emerging technologies,” the document states that the government will support the security of “cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.”
The announcement appears in President Trump’s U.S. Cyber Strategy, which outlines six policy pillars designed to guide federal cyber policy, including protecting 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 promote the adoption of post-quantum cryptography and secure quantum computing,” the document states.
“We will ensure the security of our AI technology stack, 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 cryptocurrency regulations. Still, this language suggests that federal policymakers view securing blockchain systems as part of protecting economic and technological leadership.
Nonetheless, this further underscores the Trump administration’s commitment to the cryptocurrency space (which has come under recent scrutiny), something he has supported since his 2024 campaign.
In July of that year, Trump spoke at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, promising to make the United States the “crypto capital of the earth” and a “Bitcoin superpower.” He pledged to end what he called anti-cryptocurrency regulatory initiatives and proposed the creation of a national Bitcoin stockpile.
In early 2025, he directed the creation of a strategic Bitcoin reserve using seized Bitcoin and the establishment of a Presidential Working Group on Digital Assets, while banning U.S. central bank digital currencies (although a year later, there is still no reserve). Later that year, he pushed for stablecoin legislation called the Genius Act and continued to push for broader market structure rules for the industry.
He has also rolled back various Biden-era anti-crypto policies and seen U.S. lawmakers drop cases against major cryptocurrency companies such as Uniswap, Tron, Coinbase, and Binance.
