Patrick Witt, executive director of the White House Crypto Council, is now in direct three-party negotiations with Senate Republicans and Democrats over the ethics provisions of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY Act), the single unresolved issue separating the crypto market structure bill from a Senate floor vote, with $2.3 billion in Trump-family crypto interests sitting at the center of the dispute, according to reporting by journalist Pete Rizzo citing Politico.

This is not simply a late-stage legislative negotiation. It is a structural test of whether Congress can pass crypto legislation 2026 when the president most directly affected by the bill’s conflict-of-interest rules is also the one whose administration is…