White House to Reveal Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Plan Within Weeks, Bybit Report Says

• The Trump administration is reportedly preparing to release a formal Strategic Bitcoin Reserve strategy within the next two months.
• White House digital asset adviser Patrick Witt said a major announcement is expected in the coming weeks as legal and legislative work continues.

The White House appears to be moving closer to formalizing one of the more closely watched ideas in U.S. crypto policy: a national Bitcoin reserve.

According to a weekly report from Bybit, the Trump administration plans to publish its Strategic Bitcoin Reserve strategy within the next two months.

The framework is expected to rely on roughly 200,000 BTC already seized in government enforcement actions, turning previously confiscated holdings into a state reserve asset rather than liquidating them back into the market.

Washington is shifting from concept to execution

The stronger signal came from Patrick Witt, the White House’s digital asset adviser, who said at the Bitcoin 2026 conference that a major announcement tied to the reserve is expected in the coming weeks.

That matters because the conversation is no longer framed as a campaign-era talking point or an ideological gesture toward the crypto industry. It is starting to sound more procedural.

Legal review is under way. Legislative preparation is under way. The next step, assuming the administration stays on its current timeline, is the release of formal documents spelling out how the reserve would actually function.

For the market, that distinction is important. Ideas can move prices for a day. Official execution frameworks tend to matter longer.

The reserve would be built from seized Bitcoin, not open-market buying

At least based on the details circulating so far, the reserve would not begin with new Treasury purchases of Bitcoin in the market. Instead, it would be built from BTC already under U.S. government control through prior enforcement seizures.

That makes the proposal more politically workable, or at least less immediately controversial from a budget standpoint. It avoids the question of whether taxpayer money should be used to acquire Bitcoin directly, while still establishing the asset as something the state is prepared to hold strategically.

Execution details remain unsettled, and those will matter a great deal. Custody, legal authority, accounting treatment and whether Congress needs to sign off on parts of the plan are all still live questions.

But the direction of travel now looks clearer than it did a few weeks ago. The administration appears to want a Bitcoin reserve policy on paper soon, and then to decide how far it can push it from there.

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