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A year after Trump signed the first federal stablecoin law, the OCC, FDIC and Treasury have proposals out for comment but no final rules, and the broader Clarity Act remains stalled over ethics.
The model frames the call less on hype and more on policy plumbing: GENIUS already passed, CLARITY could clear SEC/CFTC jurisdiction, and post-halving supply meets institutional bid that is no longer…
Industry lobbyists say updated legislative text now won't land until next week, and the version Republican staff circulated already lacks Democratic backing ahead of a floor vote that needs 60 votes.
Parallel activity in the House and Senate is a constructive signal for institutions awaiting clearer US crypto market rules.
The unresolved ethics fight and a shrinking Senate calendar are deepening doubts that Congress can deliver durable SEC-CFTC rules by year-end.
Predict-market pricing now gives the bill less than 10% odds of landing this session, a slippage that pulls legislative certainty back out of the 2026 crypto narrative.
The structural market bill needs 60 Senate votes and now has none from Democrats after a last-minute ethics rewrite. Two July windows remain before midterm recess pulls it off the floor.
Ripple's CLO is pressing lawmakers directly, framing a no-vote as a vote to preserve the regulatory gaps the industry has blamed for years of enforcement whiplash.
The bill has White House momentum but no bipartisan path: Senate Democrats are publicly withholding support, putting the market-structure legislation in a holding pattern on Capitol Hill.
Five catalysts stack into the second half of 2026: post-halving expansion, Fed cuts, CLARITY, fresh use cases, and institutional adoption, while Polymarket prices the legislation at just 42% odds.
The President's sit-down with Senate Republicans failed to break the impasse: the bill's still-stuck definitions of digital asset securities keep it parked in committee past the 2025 window.
Four years after FTX, the bill would force U.S. crypto exchanges, brokers, dealers and custodians to register under federal rules covering custody, segregation and disclosure.
The House Financial Services field hearing on July 17 will be the first legislative read on the CLARITY Act, a bill that could finally split SEC and CFTC authority over digital assets.
Lummis is pushing to move the digital asset market structure bill straight to the President's desk, but ethics provisions targeting presidential crypto holdings have put the brakes on floor time.
Direct executive-branch engagement with the bill's drafters signals the administration is treating crypto market-structure legislation as a near-term priority, not a talking point.
The market structure bill's hardest remaining fight is the ethics provision aimed at Trump's crypto ties, and only a few Senate weeks remain before the August recess.
Senator Lummis told Fox Business bill text drops within days and a floor vote could come as soon as next week, with an August 7 recess deadline that makes the window unusually tight.
Three Senate Democrats hardened their opposition on Tuesday, putting the ethics provision on senior officials at the center of whether any market-structure bill can reach 60 votes.
The bill pulls crypto fully under the Bank Secrecy Act, codifies real-time exchange-to-cop information sharing, and gives Treasury source-level authority to cut off illicit jurisdictions.
The deadline matters less than the math: DeFi protocols that already generate real revenue stand to inherit the first wave of institutional flow once the rulebook lands.
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