Bits to Bricks with Amira Valliani
Jun 11, 2026 · 48 min · 12 segments
This episode explores the evolving landscape of crypto regulation in the US, focusing on the recent progress of the Clarity Act, its implications for the industry, and what it means for projects like…
Miller Whitehouse-LevineGuestKristen SmithGuestAmira VallianiHostNo regulators, no charters, no committee markups, just code and the freedom to route around the institutions that had failed in 2008.
A decade and a half later, the single most important thing happening to crypto in America is... a bill, a long-negotiated 200-ish page federal statute fought over line by line in the Senate, shaped by lobbyists and law enforcement coalitions and bank trade groups and a White House with its own deadline.
The movement was supposed to make Washington irrelevant, and it's become one of the most sophisticated forces operating inside it.
Last summer, the Genus Act gave stablecoins their first real federal framework.
And between them, they've spent years doing the unglamorous work of turning a movement into a position.
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No regulators, no charters, no committee markups, just code and the freedom to route around the institutions that had failed in 2008.
A decade and a half later, the single most important thing happening to crypto in America is... a bill, a long-negotiated 200-ish page federal statute fought over line by line in the Senate, shaped by lobbyists and law enforcement coalitions and bank trade groups and a White House with its own deadline.
The movement was supposed to make Washington irrelevant, and it's become one of the most sophisticated forces operating inside it.
Last summer, the Genus Act gave stablecoins their first real federal framework.
And between them, they've spent years doing the unglamorous work of turning a movement into a position.