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Policy Share Share this article Copy link X icon X (Twitter) LinkedIn Facebook Email Most Influential: Bo Hines President Donald Trump tapped a former college football player to run offense on his digital assets agenda. By Jesse Hamilton | Edited by Cheyenne Ligon Dec 9, 2025, 3:00 p.m. It was a job that didn't exist before, occupied by a person who hadn't been in government before, but when U.S. President Donald Trump opened a new crypto adviser role in his White House, he brought in a former college football star and would-be politician to act as his first executive director of the Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Assets. Bo Hines, who had been known for his stint as a wide receiver at North Carolina State University and at Yale before a couple of unsuccessful runs for Congress, took on a very different role as a kind of cheerleader for Trump's pro-crypto policy efforts. He helped David Sacks, the president's crypto czar, advance various initiatives , including the crypto industry's biggest U.S. policy success to date: the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act to regulate U.S. stablecoin issuers. STORY CONTINUES BELOW Don't miss another story. Subscribe to the State of Crypto Newsletter today . See all newsletters Sign me up By signing up, you will receive emails about CoinDesk products and you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . Though he'd also worked on the not-yet-achieved federal bitcoin BTC $ 90,375.60 reserve and on the legislation to set regulations for the wider crypto industry that's still crawling through the U.S. Senate, the GENIUS Act was the high-water mark of his White House tenure. Hines and his allies managed a relatively rapid push through the Senate, drawing a massive bipartisan vote, and a quick, matching approval from the House of Representatives. He was able to celebrate with the president when Trump signed the bill into law , marking a major achievement for his administration. Following that win, Hines hung up his White House hat and took a job as the chief U.S. executive for Tether, the stablecoin giant that — in light of the GENIUS Act — had designs on breaking fully into the U.S. market. Hines was replaced by Patrick Witt, a former McKinsey & Co. executive and who also happened to have played for the same Yale Bulldogs as quarterback, and he's picked up the same agenda items Hines had worked on . Bo Hines Stablecoin legislation Tether Most Influential 2025 More For You Protocol Research: GoPlus Security By CoinDesk Research Nov 14, 2025 Commissioned by GoPlus What to know : As of October 2025, GoPlus has generated $4.7M in total revenue across its product lines. The GoPlus App is the primary revenue driver, contributing $2.5M (approx. 53%), followed by the SafeToken Protocol at $1.7M. GoPlus Intelligence's Token Security API averaged 717 million monthly calls year-to-date in 2025 , with a peak of nearly 1 billion calls in February 2025. Total blockchain-level requests, including transaction simulations, averaged an additional 350 million per month. Since its January 2025 launch , the $GPS token has registered over $5B in total spot volume and $10B in derivatives volume in 2025. Monthly spot volume peaked in March 2025 at over $1.1B , while derivatives volume peaked the same month at over $4B. View Full Report More For You Most Influential: Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss By Nikhilesh De | Edited by Cheyenne Ligon 2 minutes ago The U.S. President’s choice to run the CFTC seemed set to sail through Congress, until Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss stepped in. Read full story Latest Crypto News Ethereum’s P2P Layer Is Improving Just as Institutional ETH Buys Pick Up 1 hour ago Most Influential: Brandon and Howard Lutnick 2 minutes ago Most Influential: Paolo Ardoino 2 minutes ago Most Influential: Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss 2 minutes ago Regulatory Battle Over Tokenized U.S. Stocks Escalates, HSBC Says 11 minutes ago TON Token Yearly Loss Nears 72%, but Potential Reversal Signs Emerge 12 minutes ago Top Stories CoinDesk's Most Influential 2025 23 hours ago Standard Chartered Throws in the Towel on Bullish Bitcoin Forecast 1 hour ago No Direction: Crypto Daybook Americas 2 hours ago IREN Raises $2.3B, Repurchases Debt in Balance Sheet Overhaul 2 hours ago SGX's Crypto Futures Draw New Liquidity, Not Diverted Cash, Exchange's President Says 5 hours ago Crypto Markets Today: Bitcoin Slips Back Toward Danger Zone Ahead of Fed Decision 3 hours ago In this article BTC BTC $ 90,375.60 ◢ 0.55 %