Inside Washington’s Crypto Pivot: Senator Kyrsten Sinema in conversation with Global Digital Finance’s Elise Soucie Watts

In this special edition of The Influencers, recorded live at Hogan Lovells’ Digital Assets and Blockchain Summit, Elise Soucie Watts, Executive Director at Global Digital Finance, speaks with Senator Kyrsten Sinema about the dramatic shift in U.S. digital-asset policy under the new administration. Together they explore the transition from regulation-by-enforcement to a coordinated legislative and rulemaking framework anchored by the Genius and Clarity Acts—and what it means for market structure, bipartisan politics, and global alignment. For in-house counsel, this episode offers a rare insider’s view of how Washington is shaping the future of crypto, fintech, and financial-market regulation.

About the Digital Assets Summit:  Every Fall, we gather policymakers and industry leaders to attend our annual summit on digital assets and tokenization, held in partnership with Global Digital Finance, a non-profit whose mission is to promote and underpin the greater adoption of market standards for the use of crypto and digital assets.

About Hogan Lovells: Our Digital Transformation offering helps clients navigate the full breadth and depth of the seismic forces impacting their organizations – and today’s society. Leveraging team members across our 2800 lawyers on six continents, we provide integrated advice on the multifaceted regulatory, governance and enforcement issues and risks that arise across the many technologies and trends that comprise the new digital future.

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