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#CLARITYActStalls The CLARITY Act Is Stalling at the Worst Possible Time
The bill passed the Banking Committee 15-9 and had the kind of bipartisan momentum you rarely see in Washington right now. Then it hit a wall.
With only 31 legislative days left before August recess, the CLARITY Act is stuck in a standoff that looks less like a policy disagreement and more like a negotiation over trust. Democrats want ethics guardrails over reported crypto-related family gains estimated at $2.3B tied to the current administration. Republicans and the White House, who agreed to an earlier framework, have since walked it back.
The specific flashpoint is Section 604, which would shield non-custodial developers from liability. Senators Warner and Cortez Masto called it out directly as a money laundering risk. That's not an easy objection to dismiss, and it signals the remaining opposition has specific, technical concerns rather than blanket resistance to crypto legislation.
Prediction markets put passage odds at 48%. Basically a coin flip, which is sobering given how close this got.
Here's what keeps coming back to me: the longer this drags, the more the default state of US crypto regulation becomes enforcement-driven rather than rules-based. That has real consequences for builders, protocols, and anyone operating in this space.
Whether the bill passes or not, the debate around Section 604 is worth following closely. That liability question doesn't disappear with the next vote.
Share your thoughts in the comments 👇
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The bill passed the Banking Committee 15-9 and had the kind of bipartisan momentum you rarely see in Washington right now. Then it hit a wall.
With only 31 legislative days left before August recess, the CLARITY Act is stuck in a standoff that looks less like a policy disagreement and more like a negotiation over trust. Democrats want ethics guardrails over reported crypto-related family gains estimated at $2.3B tied to the current administration. Republicans and the White House, who agreed to an earlier framework, have since walked it back.
The specific flashpoint is Section 604, which would shield non-custodial developers from liability. Senators Warner and Cortez Masto called it out directly as a money laundering risk. That's not an easy objection to dismiss, and it signals the remaining opposition has specific, technical concerns rather than blanket resistance to crypto legislation.
Prediction markets put passage odds at 48%. Basically a coin flip, which is sobering given how close this got.
Here's what keeps coming back to me: the longer this drags, the more the default state of US crypto regulation becomes enforcement-driven rather than rules-based. That has real consequences for builders, protocols, and anyone operating in this space.
Whether the bill passes or not, the debate around Section 604 is worth following closely. That liability question doesn't disappear with the next vote.
Share your thoughts in the comments 👇
$BTC $HYPE
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𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝑰𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑫𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑱𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝑯𝒊𝒕 𝑰𝒕𝒔 𝑳𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑷𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝑺𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 2020
May CPI landed exactly at the 4.2% headline consensus but delivered a genuine surprise on core — 0.2% monthly against a 0.3% forecast — suggesting energy is driving the surge while the broader economy holds. Bitcoin stabilized near $61,000, with the worst-case scenario of broadening inflation now off the table heading into Warsh's first FOMC meeting June 17.
But the institutional picture beneath the price action is the most sobering of the cycle: net institutional buying across ETFs, treasuries, and miners just hit a record low of -464% — a level not seen since 2020.
CoinShares says it's a sentiment shock, not a structural break. GRAM officially replaces TON on June 15, and Russia's Duma is advancing crypto tax reform that could formalize one of the world's largest mining economies.
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#CLARITYActStalls
𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝑰𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑫𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑱𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝑯𝒊𝒕 𝑰𝒕𝒔 𝑳𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑷𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝑺𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 2020
May CPI landed exactly at the 4.2% headline consensus but delivered a genuine surprise on core — 0.2% monthly against a 0.3% forecast — suggesting energy is driving the surge while the broader economy holds. Bitcoin stabilized near $61,000, with the worst-case scenario of broadening inflation now off the table heading into Warsh's first FOMC meeting June 17.
But the institutional picture beneath the price action is the most sobering of the cycle: net institutional buying across ETFs, treasuries, and miners just hit a record low of -464% — a level not seen since 2020.
CoinShares says it's a sentiment shock, not a structural break. GRAM officially replaces TON on June 15, and Russia's Duma is advancing crypto tax reform that could formalize one of the world's largest mining economies.
$BTC $ETH $SOL
#CLARITYActStalls
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