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State of Crypto Policy Post-Election
Key Insights
- As of April 2025, legislators in 26 U.S. states have introduced bills proposing state-level Bitcoin or digital asset reserves, while 44 states have proposed broader legislation addressing digital asset regulation, consumer protection, taxation, legal recognition, and blockchain integration in government services.
- On Jan. 23, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order revoking Biden-era crypto policies and establishing a 24-member Crypto Council to propose regulations. The order also prohibited federal agencies from promoting or issuing central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).
- On March 6, 2025, President Trump ordered the creation of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve using ~198,100 seized BTC and a separate U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile containing other seized cryptocurrencies such as ETH, XRP, SOL, and ADA.
- The SEC established a Crypto Task Force, dismissed major crypto lawsuits, rescinded SAB 121, and clarified that Proof-of-Work mining and certain stablecoins are not securities. Concurrently, the OCC and FDIC eliminated reputation risk from bank oversight, and the Treasury lifted sanctions on Tornado Cash.
- Congress advanced two stablecoin bills (Senate’s GENIUS Act and House’s STABLE Act), repealed the IRS’s DeFi broker rule, introduced a CBDC ban, and proposed restrictions on government officials’ crypto activities.
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Jake is a Research Analyst on the Protocol Research team. He previously worked as an Investment Analyst at an AI-driven crypto research platform and as a Venture Analyst at a digital assets venture fund. He advised multiple RWA tokenization projects on tokenomics. Jake graduated from the University of Southern California, where he studied Philosophy and Finance.
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