White House crypto council’s Patrick Witt exits as last staffer departs

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.