Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2025 turned Bitcoin into a US national priority. This saw the launch of the US strategic cryptocurrency reserve, the regulation of stablecoins, and a huge step forward in institutional adoption. The president laid the foundations for a favorable crypto ecosystem that spread to other countries, including France.
2025, the year Bitcoin became mainstream
Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025, was a game changer for the crypto sector. And not just in America! As soon as the president was sworn in, Bitcoin climbed to $109,000, buoyed by Trump’s promises to make cryptocurrencies a “national priority.” In twelve months, the Trump administration transformed the regulatory landscape, launching a series of pro-crypto measures.
It started quickly after his return to the White House: remember, Donald Trump signed a historic executive order in March 2025 establishing Bitcoin as a strategic reserve for the United States. He also selected Ethereum, Solana, XRP, and Cardano for his reserve. At the local level, states such as Texas have passed their own laws to establish strategic reserves in Bitcoin. Gradually, other countries such as the Philippines and Taiwan announced within the year that they would follow suit and launch their own strategic reserves.
In July of this year, President Trump also signed the GENIUS Act, creating the first federal regulatory framework for stablecoins. This law imposes strict rules on reserves with regular audits. As a result, the adoption of cryptocurrencies has accelerated: the number of companies buying and holding Bitcoin (Bitcoin Treasury Companies) has grown from around 70 at the beginning of the year to more than 130 in mid-2025, and the trend is set to continue.
Once again, the president himself has gotten involved: Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), the parent company of Truth Social, invested heavily by acquiring $2 billion in BTC via Bitcoin ETFs for its treasury in May. This strategy has positioned TMTG among the largest publicly traded institutional holders of the cryptocurrency.
And it’s not just the US president, but his entire family that has jumped on the crypto bandwagon: World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a DeFi project launched in late 2024 by the Trump family, continued to grow this year, launching the USD1 stablecoin in March 2025. The eldest sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr. co-founded American Bitcoin (ABTC) in March 2025 with Hut 8, a BTC mining giant. A mining company that was listed on the Nasdaq.
Democratization… and above all politicization of cryptos
Huge advances this year have meant that Bitcoin has never been so democratized. In 2025, institutional investors invested more and more thanks to Bitcoin ETFs, as Hubert de Vaplane, partner at Morgan Lewis, pointed out on BFM Business.
2025 was a pivotal year in terms of price movements and the institutionalization of the market.
But it goes beyond simple democratization. The crypto sector clearly became politicized in 2025, as Alexandre Stachtchenko, Director of Strategy at Bitstack, affirms:
From the moment Donald Trump talked about Bitcoin and won the election, most other political parties decided they had to talk about it to win.
The debate on Bitcoin has also taken a political turn in France: Sarah Knafo, a Reconquête MP, was the first to publicly defend the creation of strategic Bitcoin reserves for Europe in December, quickly joined by the National Rally, which incorporated the crypto issue into its discourse.
In October, Eric Ciotti’s group tabled a largely pro-crypto bill, providing for a national strategic reserve, cryptos in the PEA (personal equity plan), the payment of taxes in BTC, and the development of French mining. Alexandre Stachtchenko sums it up, again on BFM:
In 2024, talking about Bitcoin was radioactive. By the end of 2025, almost the entire political spectrum had taken a position on Bitcoin.
This is a complete break with previous years. Will 2026 continue this momentum? However, all these positive institutional developments were not enough to keep Bitcoin close to its highs at the end of the year. After an ATH of $126,000 in early October, Bitcoin suffered a 15% flash crash on October 10. The correction continued in November with a low of $80,600, the lowest of the year. Today, the price of Bitcoin remains around $87,000, down 4-5% over the year despite the October peak.
