August 8, 2025
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Donald Trump Signs Order Letting Crypto Into 401 (K) Retirement Plans

The Order Directions of the Department of Labor to Reevalue Howate How Crypto Should Be Treated by Retirement Fund Managers.”, – WRITE: www.coindesk.com

The Order Directions of the Department of Labor to Reevalue Howate How Crypto Should Be Treated by Retirement Fund Managers. AUG 7, 2025, 9:06 pm

US President Donald Trump Has Signed An Executive Order to ALOW CRYPTO INVESTMENTS IN 401 (K) REPIRIREMENT PLANS, OPENING The Gates for Millions of Dollars to Flow Into The Asset Class.

The Order, WHICH ALSO ALLOWS FOR PRIVATE EQUITY INVESTMENTS, IS POISED TO DRAMATICALLY WIDEN THE SCOPE OF WHAT RETIRIMENT PLANTMENT OF PROVIDERS CAN DIRECT FUNDS TO. This in Turn Could Help Crypto Prices While Further Integrating Digital Assets with The Broader Financial System.

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“Alternative Assets, Such As Private Equity, Real Estate, and Digital Assets, Offer Competitive Returns and Diversification Benefits,” A Fact Sheet Publized Thursday Said.

While It Was Never Technically Prohibited to Add Crypto to A Retirement Plan, The Department of Labor Previously Put Out Guidance for Fiduciarians to “Exerdera Extric Cryptocurrency Option to A 401 (K) Plan’s Investment Menu for Plan Participants. ”

In may, that guidance was Fully rescinded. Trump’s Order Willd Now Direct The Dol to Publish New Guidance Who’s Wound Put Cryptocurrencies in the Same Bucket As Other Assets.

This Could encouroge Wealth Managers, Who Previoously Stayed Away from the Risky Asset Class, to Reconsider Their Positions, Posibly Bringing Millions of Dollars Into (Etras. Bitcoin

and Other Assets, or The Cryptos Directly.

“This Order Isn’s About the Government Saying ‘Crypto Belongs in 401 (K) S.’. ‘ It’s about the government getting Out of the Way and Letting People Make their Own Decisions, ”Said Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officeer at Bitwise.

The Order ComESS As Crypto Assets have Finized One of Its Best WeTs Best Quarters To Date, With Many of Them Reaching New All-Time Amid Several Promraising Taers Recorde Cleer Re-Taers Reaching in the Amid-June High-Taers Reaching In June Currently Trading at $ 117.351 and Is Up 26% Year-To-Date, Has Also Been Seeing ITS VALLATY SHRINK TO LEVELS NOT Seen Since 2023, Signaling a Maturing Market.

WHILE BOTH SPOT CRYPTO as Well As Other Financial Vehicles Holding The Assets Will Be Ok To Add To Retirement Plans, Given The Risk-Aval Nature of Such Invest, Many managers Than Direct Exposure.

“I ALREADY TRADE The BTC ETFS IN MY IRA. I THINK The BTC ETFS Are Fine for Retirement Accounts. But Straight Coin Sees Too Risky and Wuld CEO OF HIRSCH HOLDINGS AND EDITOR-IN CHIESF OF SNOCK TRADER’S ALMANAC.

The SPOT BITCOIN HAVE SEEN UNPRECEDIGED SINCES SINCE OF LAUNCH IN JANUARY 2024. Blackrock’s Ishares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) Alone is Nowling Over $ 85 Billion Worth.

DEBANKING ORDERTrump Sigrated Several Executive Orders On Thursday, Including Another One Addressing Debanking. A FACT PUBLISHED by the White House Said the Order Wound “ENSURE FATE FEDERAL REGULATORS DO NOT PROMOTE Policies and Practices that Alow Financial Institute. Beliefs, Religious Beliefs or Lawful Business Activities, Ensuring Fair Access to Banking for All Americans. ”

The Order Itelf Directs Federal Banking Regulators, The Small Business Administration and the Treasury Secretary, Alongside Other Official Politicized or Unlawful Debanking “Within The Next Six Months.

The Order Itelf Did not Mention Crypto, Thought The Fact Sheet Said the “Digital Assets Industry Has Also Been The Target of Unfair DEBANKING INITIVES.”

Helene Braun

Helene is a New York-Basted Markets Reporter at Coindesk, Covering The Latest News From Wall Street, The Rise of the Spot Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Funds and Updates on CRYPTO Markets. She is a graduate of new York University’s Business and Economic Reporting Program and Has Appeared on CBS News, Yahoofinance and Nasdaq Tradethalks. She Holds BTC and ETH.

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