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Pro-crypto Clarity Act awaits consideration by the Senate Life Image: Rdne Stock project

If you have seen headlines suggesting the President personally sat down with senators to get the CLARITY Act over the line, that reporting was accurate, and then the story moved on without it. Trump did intervene directly. He did approve the ethics language that had blocked the bill for months. And within roughly a week,…

Coinbase began offering US perpetual-style futures on its CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange, starting with nano Bitcoin and Ethereum contracts that track spot prices, carry embedded leverage, and trade around the clock.

The House Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence held a field hearingin New York to examine the Clarity Act, which would replace regulatory enforcement with clear statutory rules for digital assets. The hearing on  Friday, July 17, underscored industry consensus that ambiguity between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has stalled innovation and driven capital offshore.

The National AI Initiative Act became law on 1 January 2021. Five years later, the companies at the centre of the AI trade are worth tens of trillions of dollars. The entire crypto market, meanwhile, is worth about $2.2 trillion. The implied conclusion: pass the CLARITY Act, and crypto re-rates the same way.

Two regulatory experiments are running in parallel on either side of the Atlantic. The United States passed the GENIUS Act on July 18, 2025, a law that regulates exactly one thing: payment stablecoins. The European Union went the other way with MiCA, a single rulebook covering nearly every crypto asset, issuer, and service provider in…

Three weeks. That is roughly what remains between today, July 24, and August 10, the date the Senate scatters for its state work period and the CLARITY Act’s window for 2026 passage effectively closes. The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act has already cleared the House, survived a contentious committee markup, and picked up a fresh…

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The Senate Republican crypto bill is the latest version of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, a market structure bill designed to create a federal regulatory framework for digital assets in the United States.

The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) announced today new regulations aimed at codifying its leading stablecoin framework under the $GENIUS Act. This move is intended to align state regulations with federal requirements, enhancing oversight in this evolving sector. The public comment period for these proposed regulations is now underway, allowing stakeholders to provide…