Executive Order 14178: Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology

Executive Order 14178, Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology, is a United States federal executive order signed on January 23, 2025 and published in the Federal Register on January 31, 2025 as 90 FR 8647. As of June 4, 2026, it appears to remain active federal executive policy unless superseded by later official action. The order redirects U.S. digital asset policy, revokes Executive Order 14067, creates the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets, and directs federal agencies not to establish, issue, or promote central bank digital currencies except where required by law.

What Executive Order 14178 covers

The order frames digital assets and financial technology as areas of U.S. economic and innovation policy. It states support for lawful use of open public blockchain networks, including software development, mining and validating, transactions without unlawful censorship, and self-custody. It also prioritizes dollar-backed stablecoins, fair and open banking access, and technology-neutral regulatory clarity with defined jurisdictional boundaries.

Executive Order 14178 does not itself create a comprehensive crypto statute. Instead, it directs federal agencies and White House policy bodies to review existing digital asset rules, identify inconsistent guidance, and recommend changes that could be implemented through regulation, legislation, or later executive action.

Key provisions for U.S. crypto policy

• Revocation of prior policy: The order revokes Executive Order 14067 and directs the Treasury Secretary to revoke the July 2022 international digital assets framework issued under that earlier order.
• President’s Working Group: It establishes the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets within the National Economic Council, chaired by the Special Advisor for AI and Crypto.
• Agency review deadlines: Relevant agencies were directed to identify digital asset regulations, guidance, orders, and similar items within 30 days and recommend whether those items should be rescinded, modified, or codified within 60 days.
• Regulatory framework report: Within 180 days, the Working Group was directed to submit a report recommending regulatory and legislative proposals, including a proposed federal framework for digital assets, with attention to market structure, oversight, consumer protection, risk management, and stablecoins.
• CBDC limitation: Agencies are prohibited from taking action to establish, issue, or promote central bank digital currencies within the United States or abroad, except to the extent required by law.

Working Group report and implementation status

The White House announced on July 30, 2025 that the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets had released recommendations under Executive Order 14178. The recommendations covered market structure legislation, CFTC spot-market authority for non-security digital assets, SEC and CFTC rulemaking or guidance, banking policy, stablecoin implementation, anti-money laundering issues, decentralized finance, and tax topics.

Those recommendations are policy outputs rather than self-executing statutory amendments. Any binding obligations for private-sector actors generally would need to arise through separate legislation, agency rulemaking, supervision, enforcement, or other legally operative action.

Jurisdictional impact

Executive Order 14178 applies at the U.S. federal executive level and primarily directs federal agencies and executive-branch policy coordination. Its policy scope is relevant to exchanges, custodians, stablecoin issuers, wallet providers, miners, validators, digital asset developers, banking organizations, and consumers affected by federal digital asset policy.

The order also includes standard limitations: implementation must be consistent with applicable law and available appropriations, and the order does not create enforceable rights or benefits against the United States, its agencies, officers, employees, or agents.

Related U.S. digital asset policy

For Crypto Laws cross-linking, related profiles may include Executive Order 14067, which EO 14178 revokes; the March 2025 Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and United States Digital Asset Stockpile order, which addresses a stockpile concept evaluated under EO 14178; and later federal financial technology executive actions. These related items should be reviewed separately because each has its own legal status, scope, and implementation path.