🇺🇸💰 INTELLIGENCE INSIGHT: Crypto’s Resurgence Under Trump Raises Global Alarm Over Terror Financing Risks
Ujasusi Blog’s Terrorism Monitoring Desk | 🗓️12 July 2025 | 🕜0115 BST
🔍 Executive Summary
The recent resurgence of cryptocurrency under the second-term presidency of Donald J. Trump has reignited global interest in digital assets—but alongside this revival lies a growing undercurrent of concern within the intelligence and counterterrorism communities. Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Monero, and Tether are increasingly being exploited by transnational terrorist organisations as anonymous, decentralised instruments to bypass traditional financial surveillance. With Trump's administration openly backing the expansion of crypto as part of a broader “anti-globalist economic freedom” platform, analysts fear this permissive climate could empower jihadist, separatist, and far-right actors to escalate funding networks that are harder to trace and disrupt.