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We will publish longer report: Life After Clarity, our executive primer on the US digital asset rulebook without a market structure law. Stay tuned!
What's happening: On Tuesday the Senate voted 49-50 on whether to even start debating the Clarity Act. It needed 60. No Democrat voted yes. Four Republicans voted no: Collins, Hawley, Moran and Tillis, who switched at the end so he could enter a motion to reconsider. That motion keeps the bill alive on paper. Coinbase closed down 10.1% at $172.11, Circle down 11.4%, bitcoin near $75,900. Then the Senate moved on to a college sports bill.
Why it matters: Everyone will call this "Congress fails crypto again." Wrong read. Congress settled the crypto part months ago. The House passed the bill 294-134 in July 2025. Republicans then took 126 Democratic changes into the final 635-page text. By Tuesday nobody in the room was still arguing about the SEC versus the CFTC.
The three fights that killed it were about the President's income, community-bank deposits and state prosecutors. Crypto had no vote in any of those rooms.
Who won, and who paid. 👇
