CoinTelegraph
Senator Cynthia Lummis confirmed that the CLARITY Act contains explicit protections for software developers alongside expanded enforcement tools for law enforcement agencies targeting digital asset violations. The dual-track design is a deliberate attempt to resolve one of crypto's longest-running legislative tensions: how to give regulators and prosecutors real teeth without chilling the open-source development that underpins most of the industry.
For developers, the protections matter because the absence of a clear legal safe harbor has been a persistent drag on US-based protocol and tooling work — teams have relocated or restructured specifically to avoid ambiguous liability. Lummis framing this as a feature of the bill, not a footnote, signals that the developer community's lobbying has landed in the final text.
The enforcement side is equally significant: stronger statutory tools…
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