The halls of power echo with whispers of ‘bipartisan traction’ – a phrase usually reserved for the truly improbable. But here we are, witnessing a rare alignment as politicians and those who traffic in digital scarcity attempt to forge some semblance of order. Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong, a man clearly with a stamina rivaling a Siberian train conductor, has been diligently deployed to the Capitol, dispensing clarity (or at least the promise of it) like so much digital confetti. His pronouncements on X are, naturally, full of ‘urgency’ and ‘momentum’-the language of anyone trying to convince themselves, and everyone else, that something is actually happening.