The White House has for the first time identified cryptocurrency and blockchain networks as systems requiring national protection in a newly released seven-page cybersecurity policy document.
The strategy, titled President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America, places crypto alongside artificial intelligence, quantum computing and post-quantum cryptography as technologies central to U.S. national security.
“President Trump’s Cyber Strategy for America makes it a national priority to secure crypto networks and protocols against cyber threats, which is critical as the CFTC modernises its rules and regulations for on-chain markets,”
Said CFTC chair, Mike Selig.
The policy outlines six pillars including deterring adversaries, modernising federal networks and strengthening U.S. leadership in emerging technologies.
The strategy also commits to dismantling criminal infrastructure and limiting financial exit routes for cybercrime, language analysts say could increase scrutiny of mixers and privacy-focused digital assets.
It represents a shift from earlier U.S. cybersecurity frameworks that largely framed crypto as a channel for illicit finance rather than infrastructure requiring federal protection.
The document also highlights the threat quantum computing poses to existing cryptographic systems and promotes post-quantum cryptography as a safeguard for blockchain networks and future digital asset markets.