Highlights

• Patrick Witt’s tenure as executive director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets has ended, a White House official confirmed.
• The Clarity Act, the market structure bill Witt helped steer, remains stalled in the Senate after a failed procedural vote in September.
• Witt is the third senior White House crypto figure to leave in 2026, following David Sacks and Harry Jung.

Crypto policy leadership in Washington shifted again on 14 October 2026, when a White House official confirmed that Patrick Witt’s time as the administration’s top digital asset adviser had ended. In an email to The Block, the official said Witt’s detail had…