TREE NEWS update: Patrick Witt, executive director of the White House President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, left on Oct. 14 when his secondment expired, with no successor named. Witt was the council’s last remaining staffer, following the departures of Bo Hines in August 2025, David Sacks in March 2026 and Harry Jung in July 2026. The CLARITY Act, which Witt championed, failed a Senate procedural vote 49-50 on Sept. 15.
White House crypto council’s Patrick Witt exits as last staffer departs
AI take
The council's complete hollowing-out is the real signal, not Witt's individual exit: an advisory body with no staff and no named successor cannot shape policy, and the CLARITY Act's failed procedural vote already showed its champion's legislative channel closing. This matters most for market-structure legislation, where the White House's crypto voice now sits dormant while the Senate remains the decisive venue. Whether the administration restaffs the council, or lets it lapse quietly, is the open question worth tracking.
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