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U.S. crypto market-structure bill that splits digital-asset oversight between the SEC and CFTC. It passed the House in 2025 and moved to the Senate.
Fairshake's affiliate Defend American Jobs has reported $46.7 million in Ohio Senate spending, 55.6% above its $30 million pledge. Added to $5.9 million from the Winklevoss-backed Digital Freedom Fund, the total is $52.6 million.
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Kalshi and its investor Paradigm sat with Coinbase, Ripple and Chainlink at the White House, one day before the CFTC's new advisory committee met. The seating chart is the substance.
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Pretty Good Policy for Zcash has registered Divij Pandya as its sole Washington lobbyist on a $750,000 first-year budget. The move takes Zcash's policy work out of developer lab ZODL and puts it in a separate group that looks to Zcash Community Grants for its money.
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SEC staff said on September 25 that token buybacks on functioning networks and staking receipts that only record ownership do not create investment contracts. Because they are staff views, live networks can plan repurchases around them while a future SEC or a private plaintiff could still contest them.
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Kristin Smith becomes the Blockchain Association's interim CEO on October 17 and keeps her job as president of the Solana Policy Institute. The industry-wide group will share its chief executive with one chain's lobby while the Clarity Act sits stalled in the Senate.
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Senator John Curtis wants the Judiciary Committee to compel testimony from Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden over their family business dealings. Durbin backed the request, though a subpoena still needs Grassley.
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The Senate blocked the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act 49-50 after a final draft absorbed 126 changes the Democratic caucus had asked for, and every Democrat and independent still voted against proceeding.
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Cloture on H.R. 3633 failed 49-50 on Sept. 15 with every yes vote Republican. Add the four Republican noes back to the yes column and the count reaches 53, still seven short of the 60 the Senate requires.
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The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act lost 49-50 on September 15. Coinbase fell 12% and Circle 13% the same day, at the end of an election-cycle lobbying effort cryptobriefing estimates at $100m to $225m.
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Polymarket took the Clarity Act from about 14% to nearly 30% and back to 18%, and bitcoin's $79,586 high on September 14 unwound below $78,000 by the next morning. The down leg values full passage near 14%.
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Senate Republicans put out a revised 635-page crypto bill, Polymarket's odds of 2026 passage roughly doubled to 30%, and Coinbase rose 8% on Monday. That move implies a number for what traders think the statute is worth.
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Chairman Michael Selig has told staff to work out what existing authority can carry. His innovation committee's first meeting produced no rule text and one candid caveat about enforcement.
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Roman Storm says the theory that convicted him would also reach Google and OpenAI. It is a post, not a brief, and the count he was convicted on is the one his analogy fits worst.
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