Is the Jackson Hole central bank retreat now a crypto conference?

- Jackson Hole used to be where central bankers whispered about interest rates while pretending agriculture still mattered. Now 500 crypto people packed the Four Seasons for the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium, and the Kansas City Fed's own agenda lists crypto and stablecoins alongside instant payments. The Fed basically invited the thing it spent years side-eyeing to its own mountain retreat. Meanwhile, 23 of 40 pending bank charter applications involve digital assets — more than half. That's not disruption, that's attention redistribution. Stablecoins sit at the intersection of Treasury demand, bank deposits, and dollar dominance, with the GENIUS Act now shaping reserve and redemption rules. BIS pegs stablecoin market cap near $320 billion with $28 trillion in gross 2025 transaction value — inflated by wallet-to-wallet shuffling but still loud enough to make every central banker's stack-eye twitch. The distance between the crypto lodge and the Fed lodge is 35 miles and shrinking. Where's my cut?