Ritchie Torres (@RitchieTorres) — Twitter Score 147 out of 1000

Ritchie Torres is a U.S. Representative who serves on the United States House of Representatives and has become one of Congress's most active voices on digital-asset policy. Ritchie Torres's Twitter Score is 147 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #3,883 (top 1%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.

Ritchie Torres sits on the House Committee on Financial Services and the Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence, giving him a direct legislative role in shaping U.S. crypto regulation. He co-founded the Congressional Crypto Caucus alongside Tom Emmer as a nonpartisan House voting bloc supporting open, permissionless, and private digital-asset innovation. In December 2022, Torres introduced H.R. 9421, the Crypto Exchange Disclosure Act, which would require cryptocurrency exchanges holding customer assets to file proof-of-reserves disclosures with the SEC.

Ritchie Torres has used committee hearings to press for a workable but rigorous U.S. regulatory framework for crypto, including a viable SEC registration and compliance path for blockchain businesses. At a May 2023 hearing, he argued that stablecoins should be fully reserved with cash or cash equivalents, independently audited, redeemable one-to-one, and barred from lending, leverage, or commingling of customer funds. He has also contended that dollar-denominated stablecoins could reinforce the U.S. dollar's reserve-currency status while enabling faster and cheaper payments and remittances.

Ritchie Torres joined bipartisan efforts in November 2023 to urge Treasury and the IRS to revise proposed digital-asset broker reporting rules, including by excluding stablecoins and NFTs from the relevant definition. That same month, he joined a bipartisan letter challenging the enforceability of SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin 121 following a Government Accountability Office determination, seeking clarity for financial institutions providing digital-asset custody. In May 2025, Torres introduced the Stop Presidential Profiteering from Digital Assets Act, targeting financial gain by federal officials and their immediate families from digital assets tied to their names, images, or likenesses, with civil penalties of up to $250,000 per violation or the full amount of profits obtained, whichever is greater, enforced by the SEC. Ritchie Torres's account has 12,882 posts and has been mentioned by 211 accounts, with 397 total mentions, and has 218,543 followers as of August 2026.

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