Tyler Williams, a former regulatory lawyer at Galaxy Digital, is the top crypto advisor to President Donald Trump’s Treasury Department, putting him in line with a number of policy goals outlined by Trump earlier this year.
Williams — a man experienced in federal government circles, having worked in congressional offices and in a previous stint at Treasury — was named by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in February to lead the expanded slate of crypto efforts. The department was at the center of the president’s digital assets agenda, including his call for the creation of a federal bitcoin reserve.
As Congress embarked on a dual push for major crypto legislation – a broader effort to establish regulation for the entire crypto industry and a secondary bill to establish oversight of stablecoin issuers in the United States – Williams was on the front lines working with relevant congressional offices. It was the legislation on stablecoins that made its way first.
“If we can put a regulatory framework around this in a way that allows states, banking regulators and all ecosystems to live within the same rules to be an issuer, I think that’s a very good outcome for DC,” he said at an event in Washington, and a few months later, that goal came true. The Guiding and Setting National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act (GENIUS) has become the law of the land, with the Treasury Department among those working to implement it.
Williams had argued within weeks of taking office that his very existence within the department was a positive sign for the crypto industry, as its needs were now a priority. And he had a counterpart in the White House – a crypto official who was initially Bo Hines but is now Patrick Witt, working under crypto czar David Sacks.
These are the officials directly responsible for ushering in what Trump promised would be a “golden age” for digital assets.
