White House Crypto Advisor: Clarity Act Would Give the Industry 90% of What It Needs!

Patrick Witt, the White House's crypto advisor, said publicly that passing the Clarity Act would deliver roughly 90% of what the crypto industry needs from a regulatory framework — a striking endorsement from inside the executive branch that signals the administration is treating the bill as the primary legislative vehicle for digital-asset market structure.

The Clarity Act has drawn broad industry support for its approach to delineating jurisdiction between the SEC and CFTC over digital assets, a long-standing ambiguity that has kept institutional capital on the sidelines and forced projects into costly legal uncertainty. A White House advisor putting a specific figure on the bill's coverage is a meaningful step beyond general support — it sets a political benchmark that legislators and lobbyists will now have to work around.

For markets, the signal is structural: if the…