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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, …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
An ordinary Friday vote requires a Wednesday filing, while a bipartisan petition or unanimous consent could move faster.
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 …
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 …
Section 20216 of the latest CLARITY draft states that a self-custodied digital asset cannot become abandoned, unclaimed, or forfeited. It also cannot become subject to adverse possession or finder's title solely because its owner has not moved it or otherwise shown continued interest. The language overrides state and local laws that treat years of wallet …
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 …
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 …
The White House pushed back against the Senate Democrats' rejection of the latest version of the CLARITY Act, with ethics remaining a major sticking point. The clash comes despite President Donald Trump’s decision this week to accept new ethics limits, reflecting how far apart negotiators remain as lawmakers try to advance sweeping crypto market legislation. …
Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart argued that the CLARITY Act should carry virtually no direct effect on Bitcoin's price. In his view, Bitcoin already holds the infrastructure the bill is trying to build for the rest of the industry: commodity treatment, regulated futures, spot ETF access, and institutional custody. That claim sits inside a wider …
Section 701 would place qualifying assets held for customers in Chapter 7 customer-property rules, while classification and title-transfer clauses still matter.
President Donald Trump has reportedly agreed to proposed ethics restrictions tied to sweeping US cryptocurrency legislation, addressing one of the biggest obstacles in months of negotiations and shifting the next decision to Senate Democrats who have demanded limits on how public officials can profit from digital assets. The agreement came after Trump met last week …
The White House is increasing pressure on the Senate to pass the CLARITY Act before lawmakers leave Washington for their August recess. On July 13, President Donald Trump urged the US Congress to approve the legislation and cast the measure as part of the United States’ competition with China over cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. He …
The agenda puts issuers, broker-dealers, and trading venues on separate NPRM tracks while the Senate races Aug. 7.
The bill's next test is whether Senate leaders can turn committee momentum into floor time before the August work period.
The CLARITY Act's two biggest obstacles are moving in opposite directions this week. Law enforcement opposition is softening, while the ethics fight over crypto conflicts of interest is sharpening. Before this week, forecasters and prediction markets already had CLARITY at a coin flip of becoming law in 2026. The core blockers were floor time, an …
