New York magazine's Intelligencer profiles Kirsten Gillibrand as the Democratic Party's leading champion of crypto, tracing her path from securities lawyer to progressive star to lead sponsor of the 2025 GENIUS Act on stablecoins. The article describes her campaign coffers stuffed with crypto money, former aides rotating between her office and the industry, and an ethical morass extending to her son's crypto start-up and a former staffer's bitcoin trades a week before she announced crypto legislation.