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# CLARITY Act Tracker — Entry #1
*A running log on the crypto industry's top legislative priority*
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**Where things stand (as of late June 2026):**
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act cleared its biggest hurdle yet on May 14, advancing through the Senate Banking Committee 15-9, with two Democrats crossing the aisle. That's a real signal — but not a green light. Both senators who voted yes were explicit that their committee vote doesn't guarantee floor support without further movement on outstanding issues.
**The core mechanics, in plain terms:**
The bill would split crypto oversight between two regulators instead of leaving it ambiguous:
- CFTC gets exclusive jurisdiction over "digital commodity" spot markets
- SEC keeps jurisdiction over assets that function as investment contracts
For exchanges and trading platforms, this isn't abstract — it determines which regulator you register with, what disclosure regime applies, and how your DeFi-adjacent products get classified going forward.
**Why it's stuck:**
Two things are slowing this down:
1. An ethics provision aimed at limiting government officials' crypto holdings — genuinely complicated by the fact that the current administration has extensive personal crypto interests. Democrats say no bill passes without it; the White House says it won't accept anything that singles out specific officials.
2. A brutally tight Senate calendar — roughly eight weeks of floor time left before midterm politics take over, and Clarity is competing with several other priority bills for that time.
**My read:**
The White House wanted this signed by July 4. Senator Gillibrand's own estimate is closer to early August. Either way, the bill needs 60 votes on the floor — meaning a real bipartisan coalition, not just a party-line committee win. The ethics provision is the actual bottleneck here, not the technical market-structure provisions, which seem to have broad industry support already (Coinbase's Brian Armstrong has publicly backed the bill).
Worth watching: if the ethics language gets resolved, this could move fast. If it doesn't, the bill risks running out of Senate floor time before the summer recess.
*Will keep tracking as this develops.*
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