# Executive Order 14178 sets a federal digital-asset policy and creates a presidential working group

> The President revoked the prior digital-assets executive order, barred agencies from taking action to establish or promote a U.S.

- URL: https://riadefi.com/regulation/2025-01-23-executive-order-14178-digital-financial-technology/
- Posture: Official signal · nonbinding
- Authorities: President of the United States; President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets
- Event date: 2025-01-23
- Version: 1, published 2026-08-07 (first published 2026-08-07)
- Advisor-relevant: no

This entry records an official signal, such as a speech or a statement. It does not change the law.

## What changed

The President revoked the prior digital-assets executive order, barred agencies from taking action to establish or promote a U.S. central bank digital currency, and created a working group to recommend a federal digital-asset framework. The order directs executive-branch policy but does not itself authorize an adviser product or override statutes and independent-agency rules.

## Who it affects

- Federal financial regulators and executive departments
- Advisers, clients, issuers, custodians, and trading venues monitoring policy direction

## What is still open

- Which recommendations will be implemented by rule, order, guidance, or legislation
- How independent agencies will act within their statutory mandates

## What it means for an advisor

- Treat the order as a policy and timing signal
- Map later agency actions back to the order without assuming immediate workflow permission

## Previous interpretation

Executive Order 14067 supplied the prior government-wide digital-assets policy framework.

## Sources

1. [Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/strengthening-american-leadership-in-digital-financial-technology/) · President of the United States · 2025-01-23


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