FameEX Hot Topics | Trump National Security Strategy: Zero References to Bitcoin or Blockchain

The Trump administration unveiled its updated National Security Strategy on Friday, and the document is conspicuously silent on cryptocurrency and blockchain—two technologies the president has repeatedly championed. Despite Bitcoin’s rising geopolitical weight and Trump’s own pledge to make America the “crypto capital of the world,” the 40-page blueprint never once mentions digital assets, instead elevating artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and biotechnology as America’s “core, vital national interests” that must “drive the world forward.”

The omission is striking given Trump’s public rhetoric. Just last month on 60 Minutes, he insisted “all Bitcoin mining should be done in the United States.” The strategy offers only one vague olive branch: a commitment to maintain “America’s financial sector dominance” by leveraging “leadership in digital finance and innovation” to ensure market liquidity and security. Industry observers debate whether this single sentence constitutes a veiled acknowledgment of crypto’s strategic role or merely boilerplate language.

Actions, however, have spoken louder than the strategy paper. Throughout 2025, the administration has delivered a string of crypto-friendly measures: signing the GENIUS Act to regulate stablecoins, issuing executive orders that created a federal crypto task force and explicitly banned a U.S. central bank digital currency, and ordering agencies to halt most enforcement actions against the industry. It also formalized a strategic Bitcoin reserve from seized assets and is actively exploring “budget-neutral” acquisition methods—moves that place digital assets squarely within national economic policy despite their absence from the security doctrine.

Markets are currently looking past the document entirely, fixated instead on this week’s Federal Reserve decision. With CME FedWatch Tool pricing an 88.5% chance of a 25-basis-point rate cut at the Tuesday–Wednesday FOMC meeting, traders expect fresh liquidity to flow into risk assets, including cryptocurrencies. While the National Security Strategy ignores the sector, the combination of pro-crypto executive actions and anticipated monetary easing underscores that digital assets have already secured a place in America’s real-world strategic calculus.

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