We do view this bill as kind of the crown jewel, the final piece here that we need.

Depending on who you're talking to in industry, kind of where they're seated in the overall

ecosystem, many would say that this bill is as important or perhaps more important, certainly

for their business models than genius.

So we've got a job to do here.

I'm committed to getting it done.

I'm encouraged by what I heard yesterday from the people around the table that they're also committed to getting this done.

We are now joined at the desk by the executive director of the president's Council of Advisors for Digital Assets at the White House.

Patrick Witt. Hey Patrick.

Hey, how you doing?

Yeah, we're doing good. How are you doing? You came off of a big meeting yesterday.

It was a big meeting, productive meeting, constructive.

Folks came forward, you know, aired their views. I think we exposed some new areas of agreement,

which was great, and really zeroed in on the areas of sharpest disagreement. And then from there,

we're kind of forming up teams to continue the discussions, get down to red lines and start

trading paper and hopefully see if we can solve this. Can you talk to us a little bit more about

where those areas of

agreement lay and where there is still disagreement? I think the main area of agreement is

folks understand they're not trying to deceive customers here. So disclosure, some of the

prohibited marketing practices, not being able to say that these are FDI insured, deposits, for example,

anything that would deceive someone

into thinking that these products are something that they're not. That's definitely an area of agreement.

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