The US gets a Bitcoin Reserve and Digital Asset Stockpile

Digital assets continue to have a positive outlook in 2025 as the US regulatory and political environments aggressively shift to a pro-crypto stance. On March 6, President Trump signed an executive order establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and Digital Asset Stockpile.

Market Highlights

Bitcoin Strategic Reserve and crypto stockpile

The Bitcoin Reserve will be capitalized with BTC owned by the Department of Treasury, which could further increase via new budget-neutral acquisitions. The crypto stockpile will also include assets owned by the Treasury, without the possibility of future buys, with potential sells coming from strategic management of the stockpile.

This marks a major milestone for digital assets, with the US government starting to integrate major crypto assets, and continues the new administration’s work to lead the global crypto economy.

White house hosts first crypto summit

On March 7, the White House hosted the first Crypto Summit, bringing together key figures from the crypto industry and government officials to discuss the future of digital assets in the United States.

This underscores a shift towards a more collaborative approach to crypto regulation paving the way for more robust integration in the future.

SEC drops investigations on crypto companies

The SEC dropped investigations against Consensys and Yuga Labs, adding to recent dismissals against Coinbase, Kraken and Uniswap.

This highlights the new administration stance against regulation by enforcement of blockchain companies and investors.

Market Metrics

The NCITM faced challenges due to market uncertainty surrounding the escalation of a trade war, ending the week down 15% and underperforming other asset classes. Gold (+11%), in contrast, became the best-performing asset year-to-date, surpassing EWZ (+10.3%). Despite the recent negative momentum for the NCITM, crypto fundamentals continue to strengthen, as highlighted by Trump’s latest executive order, encouraging signs that could revert the negative trend of the past several weeks as we progress into 2025.