CLARITY Act stalls: Lummis blames Democrats
The setback keeps U.S. crypto rules unsettled and leaves the balance between consumer protection and American crypto leadership unresolved.
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The setback keeps U.S. crypto rules unsettled and leaves the balance between consumer protection and American crypto leadership unresolved.
The vote signals that a clearer US crypto framework lacks broad cross-party backing, raising political risk around the bill's next steps.
The procedural defeat freezes the SEC-CFTC jurisdictional split institutions have been waiting on, pushing any structural clarity deep into the next legislative cycle.
Falling short of the 60-vote cloture threshold, the defeat exposes how Trump's $1.4B crypto empire has become a hard ceiling on federal market-structure reform, regardless of how much bipartisan work…
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The failed cloture vote leaves a proposed U.S. crypto market-structure framework unresolved, extending regulatory uncertainty for digital-asset businesses and institutional participants.
Today the Senate tests the Clarity Act's 60-vote threshold, while the House floats a 1M BTC strategic reserve under a 20-year lockup. ETF flows already turned positive at $159.9M.
Industry read the vote as a setback to momentum, not to the rulebook. The SEC and CFTC are moving on parallel rails. What fails is the statutory durability banks were waiting for.
The bill's collapse leaves the US crypto industry without a federal digital-asset framework, prolonging the regulatory limbo that has kept institutional capital on the sidelines.
A yes vote from one of the Senate's most senior Republicans signals the bill has cross-aisle momentum, raising the odds of the first comprehensive US crypto market-structure law clearing the chamber.
Warren's opposition puts one of crypto's most consequential regulatory bills in jeopardy, reigniting the long-running battle over whether digital assets should be governed by the SEC or the CFTC.
Warren's opposition raises the political stakes for the Crypto Clarity Act at a pivotal moment, signaling that the bill faces a serious Senate fight before any regulatory framework for digital assets…
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The 635-page bill represents a rare bipartisan construction, with Democrats credited for writing more than half its text, raising the odds of a floor vote.
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With 60 votes needed to advance, the outcome hinges on whether any Democrats cross over after Republicans declared their latest text, which already incorporates 126 Democratic changes, a final offer.