US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the Department of Commerce will begin publishing economic statistics, including gross domestic product (GDP) data, on the blockchain.
Lutnick made the announcement during a White House cabinet meeting on Tuesday, describing the effort as a move to expand blockchain-based data distribution across government agencies. Speaking to US President Donald Trump and other government officials, he said:
“The Department of Commerce is going to start issuing its statistics on the blockchain, because you are the crypto president, and we are going to put our GDP on the blockchain so people can use it for data and distribution.”
Lutnick said the initiative will begin with GDP figures and could expand across federal departments after the Commerce Department finishes “ironing out all of the details” for the implementation.
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Global adoption shows blockchain’s potential for governments
Other governments have already adopted the technology in public administration.
In 2016, Estonia’s government integrated Guardtime’s KSI blockchain into its e-Health system to secure over a million patient records. The same infrastructure now underpins parts of its digital ID network, making the Baltic nation an early pioneer.
In 2018, the European Commission and the European Blockchain Partnership launched the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI), a permissioned network built on Hyperledger Besu. Member states such as France, Slovenia and Denmark host validator nodes, giving it a decentralized structure designed to deliver cross-border public services that are verifiable and trustworthy.
In 2021, Singapore and Australia trialed a blockchain system to issue and verify cross-border trade documents, reducing paperwork and cutting costs. And in 2024, California’s Department of Motor Vehicles digitized 42 million car titles on a permissioned Avalanche blockchain to curb lien fraud and streamline vehicle transfers.
Before his fallout with US President Donald Trump, Elon Musk floated the idea of running parts of the US government on the blockchain, a proposal that drew comparisons to Europe’s EBSI project.
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