Executive Order 14178, Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology, 90 FR 8647, FR Doc 2025-02123
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Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 20 / Friday, January 31, 2025 / Presidential Documents 8647
Presidential Documents
Executive Order 14178 of January 23, 2025
Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial
Technology
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the
laws of the United States of America, and in order to promote United
States leadership in digital assets and financial technology while protecting
economic liberty, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1. Purpose and Policies. (a) The digital asset industry plays a crucial
role in innovation and economic development in the United States, as well
as our Nation’s international leadership. It is therefore the policy of my
Administration to support the responsible growth and use of digital assets,
blockchain technology, and related technologies across all sectors of the
economy, including by:
(i) protecting and promoting the ability of individual citizens and private-
sector entities alike to access and use for lawful purposes open public
blockchain networks without persecution, including the ability to develop
and deploy software, to participate in mining and validating, to transact
with other persons without unlawful censorship, and to maintain self-
custody of digital assets;
(ii) promoting and protecting the sovereignty of the United States dollar,
including through actions to promote the development and growth of
lawful and legitimate dollar-backed stablecoins worldwide;
(iii) protecting and promoting fair and open access to banking services
for all law-abiding individual citizens and private-sector entities alike;
(iv) providing regulatory clarity and certainty built on technology-neutral
regulations, frameworks that account for emerging technologies, transparent
decision making, and well-defined jurisdictional regulatory boundaries,
all of which are essential to supporting a vibrant and inclusive digital
economy and innovation in digital assets, permissionless blockchains, and
distributed ledger technologies; and
(v) taking measures to protect Americans from the risks of Central Bank
Digital Currencies (CBDCs), which threaten the stability of the financial
system, individual privacy, and the sovereignty of the United States, in-
cluding by prohibiting the establishment, issuance, circulation, and use
of a CBDC within the jurisdiction of the United States.
Sec. 2. Definitions. (a) For the purpose of this order, the term ‘‘digital
asset’’ refers to any digital representation of value that is recorded on a
distributed ledger, including cryptocurrencies, digital tokens, and stablecoins.
(b) The term ‘‘blockchain’’ means any technology where data is:
(i) shared across a network to create a public ledger of verified transactions
or information among network participants;
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(ii) linked using cryptography to maintain the integrity of the public
ledger and to execute other functions;
(iii) distributed among network participants in an automated fashion to
concurrently update network participants on the state of the public ledger
and any other functions; and
(iv) composed of source code that is publicly available.
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(c) ‘‘Central Bank Digital Currency’’ means a form of digital money or
monetary value, denominated in the national unit of account, that is a
direct liability of the central bank.
Sec. 3. Revocation of Executive Order 14067 and Department of the Treasury
Framework of July 7, 2022. (a) Executive Order 14067 of March 9, 2022
(Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets) is hereby revoked.
(b) The Secretary of the Treasury is directed to immediately revoke the
Department of the Treasury’s ‘‘Framework for International Engagement on
Digital Assets,’’ issued on July 7, 2022.
(c) All policies, directives, and guidance issued pursuant to Executive
Order 14067 and the Department of the Treasury’s Framework for Inter-
national Engagement on Digital Assets are hereby rescinded or shall be
rescinded by the Secretary of the Treasury, as appropriate, to the extent
they are inconsistent with the provisions of this order.
(d) The Secretary of the Treasury shall take all appropriate measures
to ensure compliance with the policies set forth in this order.
Sec. 4. Establishment of the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset
Markets. (a) There is hereby established within the National Economic Coun-
cil the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets (Working Group).
The Working Group shall be chaired by the Special Advisor for AI and
Crypto (Chair). In addition to the Chair, the Working Group shall include
the following officials, or their designees:
(i) the Secretary of the Treasury;
(ii) the Attorney General;
(iii) the Secretary of Commerce;
(iv) the Secretary of Homeland Security;
(v) the Director of the Office of Management and Budget;
(vi) the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs;
(vii) the Assistant to the President for National Economic Policy (APEP);
(viii) the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology;
(ix) the Homeland Security Advisor;
(x) the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission; and
(xi) the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
(xii) As appropriate and consistent with applicable law, the Chair may
invite the heads of other executive departments and agencies (agencies),
or other senior officials within the Executive Office of the President,
to attend meetings of the Working Group, based on the relevance of
their expertise and responsibilities.
(b) Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Department of the
Treasury, the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission,
and other relevant agencies, the heads of which are included in the Working
Group, shall identify all regulations, guidance documents, orders, or other
items that affect the digital asset sector. Within 60 days of the date of
this order, each agency shall submit to the Chair recommendations with
respect to whether each identified regulation, guidance document, order,
or other item should be rescinded or modified, or, for items other than
regulations, adopted in a regulation.
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(c) Within 180 days of the date of this order, the Working Group shall
submit a report to the President, through the APEP, which shall recommend
regulatory and legislative proposals that advance the policies established
in this order. In particular, the report shall focus on the following:
(i) The Working Group shall propose a Federal regulatory framework gov-
erning the issuance and operation of digital assets, including stablecoins,
in the United States. The Working Group’s report shall consider provisions
for market structure, oversight, consumer protection, and risk management.
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(ii) The Working Group shall evaluate the potential creation and mainte-
nance of a national digital asset stockpile and propose criteria for estab-
lishing such a stockpile, potentially derived from cryptocurrencies lawfully
seized by the Federal Government through its law enforcement efforts.
(d) The Chair shall designate an Executive Director of the Working Group,
who shall be responsible for coordinating its day-to-day functions. On issues
affecting the national security, the Working Group shall consult with the
National Security Council.
(e) As appropriate and consistent with law, the Working Group shall
hold public hearings and receive individual expertise from leaders in digital
assets and digital markets.
Sec. 5. Prohibition of Central Bank Digital Currencies.
(a) Except to the extent required by law, agencies are hereby prohibited
from undertaking any action to establish, issue, or promote CBDCs within
the jurisdiction of the United States or abroad.
(b) Except to the extent required by law, any ongoing plans or initiatives
at any agency related to the creation of a CBDC within the jurisdiction
of the United States shall be immediately terminated, and no further actions
may be taken to develop or implement such plans or initiatives.
Sec. 6. Severability. (a) If any provision of this order, or the application
of any provision to any person or circumstance, is held to be invalid,
the remainder of this order and the application of its provisions to any
other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Sec. 7. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed
to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or
the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and
subject to the availability of appropriations.
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(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit,
substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party
against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers,
employees, or agents, or any other person.
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 23, 2025.
[FR Doc. 2025–02123
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