Washington’s Wet Hot Crypto Summer

Cynthia Lummis
It’s likely good news for Wyoming, though, which is among the reasons why Senator Lummis co-sponsored the bill. Photo: Liz Lynch/Getty Images
William D. Cohan
October 12, 2025

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Over the summer, Congress did something quite startling: It passed bipartisan legislation with the potential to disrupt the traditional system of global payments, long dominated by Wall Street banks. And yet, for some strange reason, very few people on Wall Street seem to be talking about the Genius Act—the backronym is for Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins—which President Trump signed into law on July 18.