Blockchain Association Names Founder Kristin Smith Interim CEO as Mersinger Departs Days After Senate's 49-50 CLARITY Act Vote
Blockchain Association founder Kristin Smith returns as interim CEO on October 17, days after the CLARITY Act failed a 49-50 Senate cloture vote. For investors waiting on a market-structure law, the Senate count matters more to the timetable than the change at the top.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives40
- Confidence55
Hyperliquid's policy arm files to make perpetuals the CFTC's innovation centerpiece
Three HPC filings in four days argue perpetual contracts belong at the center of the CFTC's agenda, while CME's June suit asks a federal court to call the same product a swap rather than a future. Kalshi's approved contract sits between them.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption34
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives84
- Confidence42
Stablecoin KYC and the Line at the Point of Issuance
The Blockchain Association told five federal agencies that identity checks belong where issuers hold control. The agencies already conceded the alternative could cripple the industry, then asked anyway.
Reality
- Evidence46
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives79
- Confidence49
The Coinbase-funded group is rewarding a vote already cast, in the chamber that already said yes. The bill is stuck one floor over.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption40
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives82
- Confidence58
Hyperliquid and Pyth backers ask the SEC to swap the NBBO for an onchain reference price
A joint comment filed on the last day of the window argues Reg NMS Rule 611's national benchmark cannot govern trades that settle at a block boundary. The SEC now decides.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives84
- Confidence45