Overview

• Dennis Dioukarev and David Perez of the Sweden Democrats filed Motion 2025/26:793 on Oct. 1–2 to examine creating a strategic Bitcoin reserve.
• The plan would transfer forfeited BTC to the Riksbank or another authority instead of auctioning it, and Sweden currently reports no sovereign holdings despite a 2024 law that has yielded over $8.3 million in seizures.
• The motion also asks the government to state it will neither change legal‑tender definitions nor pursue a central bank digital currency.
• Lawmakers want the review to determine sizing, custody and governance, with the Riksdag Finance Committee scheduled to take up the motion on Oct. 15.
• The move aligns with broader experiments abroad, including U.S. federal signals and state reserves, UK and Finland seizure-based holdings, and Kazakhstan’s new state crypto reserve.