US cyber strategy includes ‘protection of virtual assets and blockchain’… industry interpretations split

Uk Jin

Summary

It said the US President Donald Trump’s national cyber strategy specifies virtual assets and blockchain technology as technologies subject to protection.
It added that the report includes support for the security of virtual assets and blockchain technology, along with building secure technologies and supply chains to protect users’ personal information.
It explained that the industry is raising the possibility of intensified enforcement against mixer services and privacy coins, citing language about cutting off criminal infrastructure.

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Virtual assets and blockchain technology were mentioned in the US National Cyber Strategy of President Donald Trump, who has stressed a pro-virtual asset (cryptocurrency) stance since before taking office.

According to Cointelegraph, a virtual-asset news outlet, on the 7th (Korea time), Alex Thorn, head of research at Galaxy Digital, shared the US cyber strategy report via X (formerly Twitter) and said that “the US cyber strategy specifies virtual assets and blockchain as technologies that must be protected and secured.”

The shared US cyber strategy report includes language about “building secure technologies and supply chains that protect users’ personal information from the design stage through deployment, and supporting the security of virtual assets and blockchain technology.”

Some in the industry, however, interpret this as groundwork for tighter regulation. Thorn explained that “the phrase about strengthening the fight against criminal infrastructure and cutting off financial off-ramps and safe havens suggests the potential for intensified enforcement against mixer services, privacy coins, and the like.”