US lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan bill to create a federal task force for cryptocurrency theft and related digital asset crimes. The Federal Cryptocurrency Theft Enforcement and Coordination Act would place the task force inside the Department of Justice, making it the main federal body for coordinating crypto theft investigations.
The proposed task force would be chaired by the US attorney general and include senior representatives from the Justice Department, Homeland Security, Treasury, and federal law enforcement agencies. Its job would be to help federal, state, and local investigators handle crypto theft cases through a common investigative framework.
The bill follows another high-loss year for US crypto victims, with the FBI's 2025 Internet Crime Report recording 181,565 complaints involving crypto, with reported losses of $11.366 billion. Investment fraud remained the largest crypto-linked category, with 61,559 complaints and $7.228 billion in losses.