American elected officials are relaunching the strategic Bitcoin reserve project.

The US Congress is putting Bitcoin back at the center of the political game. With the ARMA project, elected officials want to transform bitcoins already held by the State into a real strategic reserve, regulated by law.

Washington wants to give official status to Bitcoin

The American Congress is relaunching the battle over the United States' strategic Bitcoin reserve with the American Reserve Modernization Act of 2026. The text, supported in particular by Nick Begich and Jared Golden, wants to create a federal bitcoin reserve managed by the American Treasury.

The idea is not just to store digital assets. It mainly consists of bringing bitcoin into the language of national reserves. In other words, consider it as a strategic asset, in the same way as a stock that the State does not resell according to political cycles.

The ARMA project takes up the spirit of the BITCOIN Actbut with a more institutional ambition. He wants to lock the subject into law. This is where the matter becomes sensitive. A Bitcoin reserve passed by Congress would have more weight than a simple presidential decree.

A reserve designed to last twenty years

The strongest point of the text remains its logic of long conservation. Bitcoins placed in the reserve should be kept for at least twenty years. However, there is an exception: they could be sold to reduce the American national debt.

This choice sends a clear message to the market. The United States does not just want to accumulate. They want to avoid the hasty sales that have sometimes marked the management of bitcoins seized in legal proceedings. It's a way of saying: the stock becomes political, almost patrimonial.

ARMA also aims to acquire one million bitcoins over five years using so-called budget-neutral strategies. Clearly, the project seeks to avoid direct money from taxpayers. This clarification is crucial, because it attempts to defuse the opponents' most obvious argument: why buy such a volatile asset with public funds?

The debate goes well beyond the price of bitcoin. ARMA also wants to impose regular proof of reserve reports and independent audits. In a sector often criticized for its opacity, this promise of transparency is not decorative. It serves to make the idea more acceptable to the general public.

The text also emphasizes digital property rights. He says the federal government should not infringe on the rights of individuals to own or maintain their own digital assets. This detail speaks directly to crypto culture, which is very attached to self-custody.

It is also a fine political maneuver. The promoters of the text are not only selling a national reserve. They associate bitcoin with financial sovereignty, individual freedom and state modernization. The vocabulary is chosen. It targets investors, but also voters suspicious of Washington.

A battle far from won

The path remains complicated. In March 2025, Donald Trump had already signed a decree establishing a strategic reserve of bitcoins fueled by assets seized by the state. But a decree does not have the same solidity as a law. This is precisely the void that ARMA wants to fill.

Jared Golden summed it up simply: The United States already holds bitcoin, but Congress has never set clear federal policy to manage the asset. The ARMA project therefore attempts to transform an existing accumulation into an assumed national strategy.

This battle is part of a broader sequence, opened by the decree which transformed bitcoin into a state asset. ARMA does not guarantee an immediate revolution. But it shows one thing: Bitcoin is no longer treated as a fringe curiosity in Washington. It becomes an object of public strategy.