Most Influential: Donald Trump

Without the turnaround of Donald Trump on crypto, the road toward a U.S. governmental embrace of the new technology would likely have been a steeper climb.
U.S. President Donald Trump didn't write crypto policy. He didn't negotiate legislation or craft regulatory guidance. But without his sweeping demands from the White House and the pressure he's applied on his political allies in Congress, it's hard to imagine the industry would have had the several major successes it's celebrated during his first year back in office.
This feature is a part of CoinDesk's Most Influential 2025 list.
Between his first and second administrations, Trump made an astounding reversal in his early suspicions of digital assets, not only leaping aboard the sector's train, but demanding a role as its new conductor. The same president whose Securities and Exchange Commission (then under the leadership of former Chair Jay Clayton) once sued Ripple, effectively kicking off the regulation-by-enforcement approach to the sector arrived for his second term on a wave of pro-crypto campaign promises.
Trump has largely delivered on those promises, signing multiple executive orders that set an agenda for his regulators and Congress, and appointing regulators who would put pro-crypto policy work very high on their priority lists. The president said he'd make the U.S. the global leader for crypto, and his digital assets team promised a "golden age" for crypto. Trump ordered a comprehensive U.S. regulatory regime for digital assets activity and for stablecoin issuers. He also called for two crypto stockpiles as long-term federal investments, the first such "strategic reserve" in bitcoin BTC$90,611.95 and the second in every other token.
So far, that ambitious agenda is incomplete.
Trump was able to throw one big White House celebration when Congress managed to thread a difficult needle to get its stablecoin bill through the once-recalcitrant Senate, with Trump demanding that the House of Representatives sign off on the legislation without additional edits. The Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act became the law of the land, with the president gabbing to a gathering of top crypto CEOs and his cabinet members in attendance.
It was clearly meant as an appetizer ahead of the main course: a bill that would clearly define how digital assets would be defined and how transactions with them would be overseen by the federal government.
That's where Trump's efforts have fallen short. While his allies managed to get a market structure bill to the floor of the House, where it passed with unusual cross-aisle support, it screeched to a halt in the Senate. Despite Trump's ambitious summer deadline, the Senate is where legislation has often gone to languish. The reasons are many, including its tighter access to floor time, that it usually demands a 60-vote, bipartisan majority to advance anything, and there's a greater ability for single members to throw wrenches into the works. It didn't help that Congress' failure to act on a budget slammed the doors on the federal government for weeks in the middle of the legislative talks.
Democrats have some significant complaints and points of worry in the draft bills unveiled in the Banking Committee and Agriculture Committee. Much of their attention is on consumer protection and the prevention of bad guys abusing the technology. But the most political and controversial pushback...
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