U.S. President Donald Trump, riding the wave of a crypto-friendly campaign, promised a government that would embrace digital assets—and so far, he hasn’t disappointed crypto enthusiasts. Since taking office earlier this year, the Trump administration has rolled out several pro-crypto moves: repealing Biden-era restrictions through executive orders, creating a Presidential Working Group on Digital Asset Markets, banning U.S. Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), and even backing the GENIUS Act, the first major federal law to regulate stablecoins. On top of that, Trump’s team dropped several enforcement cases targeting crypto companies and established a Bitcoin Strategic Reserve—though funding it with seized Bitcoin rather than new purchases left some investors wanting more.
But where’s the strategy?
Despite all these moves, the Trump administration’s latest national security strategy completely skips over digital assets and blockchain technology. Instead, the plan spotlights artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and quantum computing as the pillars of U.S. technological leadership.
“We want to ensure that American technology and American standards, especially in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and quantum computing, move the world forward,” the National Security Strategy statement read in Friday’s release.
This glaring omission suggests that President Trump—and much of the American establishment—still sees cryptocurrencies merely as financial assets, rather than tools that could give the U.S. a strategic advantage on the global stage.