The Sept. 15 cloture vote would open negotiations while ethics, stablecoin rewards and Tribal demands remain unresolved.
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The crypto industry is launching a seven-figure national advertising campaign to rescue the CLARITY Act ahead of a crucial Senate vote next week. The Senate is scheduled to vote Sept. 15 on whether to invoke cloture on a motion to proceed to the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, a procedural hurdle requiring 60 votes. The […]
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The Sept. 4 vote leaves domestic applicants waiting for a legal authorization route while qualifying EU providers retain access to Polish customers.
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A Federal Reserve staff paper shows how congestion and weak network effects can push holders toward redemptions or chain migration even with safe backing.
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The Senate’s procedural step lands Sept. 15, just two days before the House’s newly scheduled departure.
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Most provisions took effect Sept. 1, but draft rules and a July 2027 transition limit what can operate now.
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An anonymous trader on Polymarket holds a No position on the CLARITY Act worth about $414,895, roughly 2.6 times larger than the $160,200 in liquidity currently available on the market where it sits. CryptoSlate's live market data puts CLARITY Act odds near 20% Yes, a number now widely read as Washington's probability estimate for the […]
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President Donald Trump and the heads of the SEC and CFTC are expected to meet crypto and prediction-market executives at the White House next week as the industry’s biggest legislative priority faces dwindling odds of becoming law this year. According to reports, the Aug. 19 gathering is expected to include executives from Coinbase, Andreessen Horowitz, […]
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March guidance separates tokens from investment contracts, but capital raising still depends on general securities exemptions.
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CFTC Chair Michael Selig said on Aug. 4 that the agency has crypto rule proposals ready and plans to finalize them before the current administration ends, regardless of whether Congress passes the CLARITY Act. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has separately said the SEC can keep pursuing meaningful crypto rulemaking even if Congress fails to act. […]
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The law names “HTX (HUOBI GLOBAL SA),” while HTX previously said in a UK case that the company is separate from its online platform.
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The White House is raising pressure on Senate Democrats ahead of a Sept. 15 vote on the CLARITY Act, arguing that lawmakers have already had enough time to reach a deal on crypto market structure. On Aug. 8, Patrick Witt, executive director of the Presidential Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, accused Senate Minority Leader […]
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune has formally started the process to force a vote on whether the Senate will take up the CLARITY Act, giving the stalled crypto market-structure bill an immediate path to the floor when lawmakers return in September. Thune filed cloture early Saturday on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633, the […]
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Trump Media & Technology Group and Crypto.com scrapped plans for a $6.42 billion digital-asset treasury venture. The move unwinds one of the largest crypto projects connected to President Donald Trump as scrutiny of his family’s digital-asset businesses intensifies in Washington. On Aug. 7, Trump Media, Crypto.com, and Yorkville Acquisition Corp. said they had mutually agreed […]
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The US Senate has abandoned plans to vote on the landmark CLARITY Act legislation before its August break. On Aug. 6, Senate Majority Leader John Thune confirmed that the legislation will have to wait until lawmakers return Sept. 14, reversing his earlier expectation that the Senate would act before leaving Washington. A spokesperson for the […]
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The US Senate is running out of time to advance the CLARITY Act, but Bitwise says a decisive failure could eventually remove an obstacle weighing on crypto markets. Senate leaders face a narrowing window on Wednesday to file for cloture if they want to preserve a chance of voting on the digital asset market structure […]
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Tyler Williams served as Secretary Scott Bessent's principal adviser on blockchain and digital asset policy, making him one of Treasury's top voices on US crypto regulation. He is returning to the private sector after leaving his post on July 31. His exit is the fourth senior crypto departure from a position of federal power this […]
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The CLARITY Act enters the Senate's final scheduled week before the August recess. Monday's floor schedule opens with H.R. 6500, a government funding vehicle, and CLARITY has yet to appear on the schedule. Negotiators are still working through disputes over government ethics and stablecoin rewards, and prediction markets price the odds of the bill becoming […]
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An ordinary Friday vote requires a Wednesday filing, while a bipartisan petition or unanimous consent could move faster.
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Act 482 takes effect Aug. 1, while clearly disclosed document requests can reset the 90-day payment clock.
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Senate negotiations over the landmark CLARITY Act are producing fresh concessions, but little evidence that the parties are moving closer to a deal. Democrats are moving on regulatory appointments and ethics, while law-enforcement groups have proposed new language for one of the CLARITY Act’s most contentious provisions. The White House and crypto advocates, however, have […]
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Senate negotiators on the CLARITY Act have run into a condition several Democrats are treating as essential: they want ethics language limiting how much senior officials, including the president and vice president, can profit from digital asset ventures. That condition traces back to a warning crypto figures made before the 2024 election, when they argued […]
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KalshiEX and Polymarket US can keep serving Minnesota users while the merits and contract boundary remain unsettled.
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The five-year trigger is clear, but the first applicable report cycle and transition treatment are not.
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Bitcoin has largely shrugged off the deteriorating outlook for the CLARITY Act, raising the possibility that traders have already priced another legislative failure into the market. Data from CryptoSlate shows the largest cryptocurrency trading around $63,500 as of press time, above the roughly $61,900 level seen on June 5, when Galaxy Digital put the bill’s […]
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Galaxy Digital said the Senate has four working days to save the CLARITY Act, as it cut passage odds to 30%. In a July 24 note to clients, the crypto investment firm lowered its estimate for CLARITY Act chances this year from 50%, saying lawmakers need a deal by July 30 to leave enough time […]
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The revised CLARITY Act is exposing unusual divisions across Wall Street, Washington and the crypto industry as lawmakers struggle to build support for a Senate vote. Senate Republicans this week released a new draft that would bar the president and other federal officials from issuing or sponsoring digital assets. The changes have drawn sharply different […]
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On July 22, US Senate Republicans released an updated version of the CLARITY Act, moving one of Washington’s most consequential cryptocurrency bills back toward a potential floor vote. The updated text follows weeks of negotiations and seeks to establish a broad federal market-structure framework for digital assets in the United States. The proposal addresses several […]
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Section 701 would place qualifying assets held for customers in Chapter 7 customer-property rules, while classification and title-transfer clauses still matter.
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