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New White House Cyber Strategy Boosts Crypto and Blockchain New White House Cyber Strategy Boosts Crypto and Blockchain
The updated strategy highlights blockchain and crypto security among six pillars guiding cybersecurity policy to enhance U.S. leadership and resilience against quantum threats.
- Recently, the White House updated its national cyber strategy to make cryptocurrency and blockchain security an official emerging-technology priority, according to President Trump's Cyber Strategy for America.
- Officials say defending digital infrastructure prompted the change, framing blockchain security as key to sustaining economic growth and U.S. leadership in AI and quantum computing.
- The six-pillar framework specifies six priority pillars to guide cybersecurity policy and directs federal agencies to modernize infrastructure through cloud migration, zero-trust architectures, and advanced encryption while urging regulators to reduce compliance burdens and promote partnerships among industry and research institutions.
- It signals stronger federal support for crypto while not introducing specific crypto regulations, potentially benefiting companies developing blockchain infrastructure and accelerating AI-powered cybersecurity tools across federal networks.
- The move follows President Trump's public pro-crypto remarks, including his 2024 campaign stance and his address at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville.
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In the "Cyber Strategy for America," released on the 6th, the White House declared its intention to maintain the United States' edge in emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing, while also conducting more active operations in cyberspace to counter state-sponsored hacking by hostile nations. It clearly stated its intention to make attackers pay a real price by mobilizing all means of state power, including …
New White House Cyber Strategy Boosts Crypto and Blockchain New White House Cyber Strategy Boosts Crypto and Blockchain
President Trump's updated cyber strategy gave crypto and blockchain a policy lift by naming them part of America's emerging technology priorities.
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U.S. policymakers and White House are seeing the brighter future of cryptocurrency and blockchain in the coming days with crypto as a strategic infrastructure. In other words, the policymakers of the United States are taking it as a critical national infrastructure in cybersecurity and digital-economy planning. This identifies cryptocurrency, especially Bitcoin ($BTC) and blockchain, as strategic technologies for national security and the digita…
The Trump administration’s new cyber strategy incorporates the security of cryptocurrencies and blockchain into the U.S. race to maintain its technological leadership. The document does not present new rules for the sector, but it does reinforce the political message that crypto infrastructure is already seen as a national strategic issue, alongside artificial intelligence and quantum computing. *** Trump’s cyber strategy promises to support the…
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