US Senator Cynthia Lummis Confirmed as Bitcoin 2026 Speaker

US Senator Cynthia Lummis has been officially confirmed as a speaker at Bitcoin 2026. A Republican Senator from Wyoming, Lummis currently serves as the Chair of the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Digital Assets – a role she was appointed to in January 2025 to lead the Banking Committee’s efforts on digital asset legislation. She has publicly owned Bitcoin since 2013 and has spent her tenure in the Senate focusing on establishing a regulatory and legislative framework for digital assets in the United States.

Her primary legislative effort has been the BITCOIN Act, formally titled the Boosting Innovation, Technology, and Competitiveness through Optimized Investment Nationwide Act, which she introduced in the US Senate as Chair of the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Digital Assets. The bill authorizes the US Treasury Department to acquire up to one million Bitcoins over a five-year period to store a strategic reserve with a mandatory 20-year holding period and includes a proof of reserve requirement for quarterly public reporting of total holdings. Alongside the BITCOIN Act, Lummis co-sponsored the 2025 GENIUS Act to regulate stablecoins and introduced legislation for a tax exemption for small Bitcoin transactions. Recently, she predicted that the crypto market structure bill would move out of the Senate Banking Committee by the end of April 2026, saying that negotiations have reached the necessary compromises to advance the legislation.

Lummis announced in December 2025 that she will not seek re-election in 2026. Her appearance at Bitcoin 2026 comes during the latter part of her Senate term, when several pieces of legislation she championed are still working their way through Congress. As recently as February 2026, Lummis Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was pushing digital asset taxation, including a potential de minimis exemption for small transactions, with Bessent offering to have the Treasury’s Office of Tax Policy work with his team on guidance.

Now that her Senate chapter is coming to a close, Bitcoin 2026 offers a meaningful stage for Lummis to address the community that has seen her carry the Bitcoin political torch in Washington for years. Few legislators have shown up to the conference year after year with active legislation in hand — and with the BITCOIN Act, the CLARITY Act and stablecoin regulation in motion at the same time, her appearance in Las Vegas this April promises to be one of the event’s most substantive policy conversations.