US government wallets moved about $470 million of seized Bitfinex- and Alameda-linked crypto to likely Coinbase Prime addresses, Arkham said. Trump's reserve order lets officials repay victims from seized coins, so even a sale of this pool would say little about the pledge to keep reserve bitcoin.
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- Evidence55
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- Hype gap+15
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- Confidence55
Crypto's 635-page Clarity Act stalled in the Senate with no realistic path back before year-end, Cato's Ryan Chan-Wei wrote. He blames an ethics dispute over conflicts at the highest levels of government, and that dispute will meet whatever bill the next Congress writes.
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A bill that began as a security-or-commodity question now includes a standby power over stablecoin rewards if community banks start losing deposits. The Treasury secretary decides when it fires.
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Three federal agencies moved on crypto rules within 48 hours of the Senate's 49-50 vote that stalled the Clarity Act. Only the stablecoin rules sit on a statute, so businesses using the SEC and CFTC relief hold permissions a later administration can withdraw.
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- Evidence52
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- Incentives55
- Confidence55
Senate Republicans rewrite the CLARITY Act to move seven Democrats before Tuesday's vote
Senate Republicans rewrote the CLARITY Act on Sunday night and put their concessions into the text. Two of them add supervision over exchanges and stablecoin issuers, and one is relief for developers.
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- Evidence60
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- Hype gap+25
- Incentives60
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Michael Selig filed an early-stage crypto rulemaking with the White House budget office two days after the Senate stalled the CLARITY Act, and the filing's own schedule puts a binding rule in late 2027.
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One in ten Hill aides expects a crypto tax bill to clear Congress this year
Ten percent of Hill aides polled by Punchbowl News expect a digital-asset tax bill to pass before Dec. 31, 2026. Crypto firms and investors face year-end and 2027 under current rules while the House bill's $10 fee exemption and wash-sale extension wait on a crowded lame-duck Senate.
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- Evidence42
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Crypto's federal rulebook stalls 11 votes short of the Senate's 60-vote bar
The Senate voted 50-49 against the Clarity Act on September 15, so the federal digital-asset framework stays unwritten. The fight that sank it was over ethics language tied to the president's own crypto holdings.
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- Evidence64
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- Hype gap+18
- Incentives78
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The Clarity Act's 11-vote shortfall hands crypto's rulebook to the SEC and CFTC until 2027
Cloture failed with 49 of the 60 votes needed. The two-agency perimeter the industry spent hundreds of millions to buy now falls to whatever the SEC and CFTC write on their own. Atkins still wants a statute.
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- Evidence62
- Adoption66
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives74
- Confidence57
Circle and Coinbase fell more than twice as far as bitcoin after the Senate stalled CLARITY
The Senate left the Clarity Act 11 votes short of the 60 needed on Tuesday. Bitcoin fell 4.5%, while Coinbase and Circle, the two firms that would have gained a primary regulator, fell 10.10% and 11.4%.
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- Evidence56
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Eight trade groups told Senate leaders the bill's rewards carve-outs would let stablecoins pay interest by another name. The White House's own April study puts the lending at stake at $2.1 billion, or 0.02%.
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- Evidence62
- Adoption38
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives80
- Confidence65
Revised CLARITY Act delegates the DeFi control test to the SEC, CFTC and Treasury
The new text defines a non-decentralized trading protocol by who can alter it, then leaves registration, conduct and Bank Secrecy Act questions to rules three agencies have not written. A procedural vote is set for Sept. 15.
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- Evidence55
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- Hype gap+30
- Incentives72
- Confidence52
Stablecoin yield is the one clause that now decides the CLARITY Act
Banks want rewards on stablecoin balances restricted; the platforms behind USDC and USDT need them. A mid-September Senate procedural vote is the next read on who is winning.
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- Evidence44
- Adoption
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- Hype gap+33
- Incentives68
- Confidence41
Two crypto senators sign on to interchange reform, and the $100B routing mandate gets real
Moreno and Lummis have cosponsored the Credit Card Competition Act, joining Durbin, Marshall, Welch and King. The bill would make banks above $100B in assets run two unaffiliated networks on credit cards.
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- Evidence32
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- Hype gap+34
- Incentives78
- Confidence38