Trump Admin’s Security Strategy Drops Bitcoin, Prioritizes AI and Quantum Tech

The Trump administration released its 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) on Friday – an important document framed by the White House that lays out the President’s views on America’s technological advantages and what it intends to protect and advance. 

While the document mentions emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, biotech, and quantum computing, as keys to U.S. tech leadership, it crucially fails to acknowledge Bitcoin or blockchain.

White House 2025 Security Strategy Omits Bitcoin and Digital Assets

Donald Trump, who campaigned on becoming the “crypto president,” won last November’s election partly thanks to voters who took to heart his promises of a pro-crypto administration. 

So far, he has taken significant steps to deliver on that front, including signing an executive order rescinding Biden-era anti-crypto policies, establishing the President’s Working Group on Digital Assets, appointing a Crypto and AI Czar, prohibiting the development and distribution of CBDCs across the United States, pardoning key industry figures like Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao and Arthur Hayes, and dropping several enforcement cases against crypto firms.

In March, the President signed an EO declaring Bitcoin an asset of strategic importance to the country, elevating it to the level of gold and petroleum. He also ordered the creation of the National Digital Assets Stockpile, consisting of XRP, Ether (ETH), Solana (SOL), and Cardano (ADA). These reserves would contain digital assets seized as part of civil and criminal forfeitures, with the Treasury and Commerce Departments directed to develop “budget-neutral” strategies to add new coins without any incremental cost to taxpayers.

In July, he signed the GENIUS Act – the first comprehensive federal crypto law for stablecoin regulation – into law.

However, the omission of Bitcoin and blockchain in global economic policy discussions suggests that digital assets are currently outside the administration’s core security planning.

The National Security Strategy (NSS) is a legally mandated document that outlines the White House’s strategic vision for protecting and advancing U.S. national interests. It serves as the President’s most significant public declaration on defense and foreign policy, articulating the country’s core interests, threats, and objectives. It outlines how the President views global threats and opportunities, as well as the military, economic, technological, and diplomatic tools that America will use to protect its interests.

Trump Pushes US Tech Dominance, Warns of AI & Quantum Threats

“We want to ensure that U.S. technology and U.S. standards – particularly in AI, biotech, and quantum computing – drive the world forward,” the NSS statement released on Friday read.

The 76-page document states that the U.S. wants to remain as the “world’s most scientifically and technologically advanced and innovative country,” and to build on those strengths, while protecting its intellectual property from “foreign theft”.

It is notable that while the NSS acknowledges frontier technologies such as AI, biotech, and quantum computing, it does not include Bitcoin, digital assets, or blockchain despite Trump repeatedly framing them as a national strategic issue throughout 2024 and 2025.

During his speech at the Bitcoin 2024 Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, the President stressed that Bitcoin and digital asset innovation must remain onshore and not be driven overseas. Just weeks later, he hosted U.S.-based Bitcoin miners at his Mar-a-Lago beach club and residence in Palm Beach, Florida, where he praised the community for helping stabilize the energy grid and declared that he wanted all the remaining bitcoins to be mined in America. He framed crypto mining as both an energy and national security asset.

While signing the GENIUS Act, he emphasized that if Washington fails to adopt a pro-crypto policy approach, then that will position other global competitors as the beneficiaries.

Given Trump’s public cry for a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and his frequent warnings that the U.S. must not let China dictate global digital currency leadership, the absence of Bitcoin, blockchain technology, or digital assets in general in the NSS document was a surprise.

U.S. May Classify Fintech and Crypto Under ‘Digital Finance’

The strategy referred to “digital finance” in a broad, non-crypto terms, focusing on international economic systems, payment rails, and institutional resilience. It did not address decentralized networks, cryptocurrency markets, or global layer-1 competition.

When it comes to national security threats, the NSS argues that America’s adversaries and competitors are “racing to weaponize” AI and quantum computing technologies and embedding them in the global digital infrastructure. 

“The United States must ensure that American values and interests are baked into the standards, protocols, and architectures that will govern the next century of connectivity,” it read.

The omission could mean that the White House is maintaining Bitcoin and crypto within the economic and regulatory bucket rather than formally elevating the asset class to a national security issue. It could also be that the administration’s framing of “digital finance” covers both traditional fintech and tokenized systems without committing to specifics.

At the time of writing, Bitcoin (BTC) is trading at $91,387 – up 1.98% in the last 24 hours.

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