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{\n font-size: 0.97rem;\n }\n\n .table-scroll {\n margin: 0 -4px;\n }\n\n table {\n min-width: 560px;\n }\n\n .article-card,\n .quote-card,\n .table-card,\n .inline-cta {\n padding: 20px;\n }\n\n .reviewer-card {\n grid-template-columns: 1fr;\n text-align: left;\n }\n }\n <\/style>\n<\/head>\n<body>\n <div class=\"page-shell\">\n <main class=\"container\">\n <section class=\"hero\">\n <div class=\"mobile-toc-wrap\">\n <button class=\"button mobile-toc-button\" id=\"mobileTocButton\" type=\"button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"mobileTocPanel\">\n <span>On this page<\/span>\n <span>\u2630<\/span>\n <\/button>\n <div class=\"mobile-toc-panel\" id=\"mobileTocPanel\">\n <a class=\"toc-link\" href=\"#status\">Current status<\/a>\n <a class=\"toc-link\" href=\"#what-is\">What the CLARITY Act is<\/a>\n <a class=\"toc-link\" href=\"#split\">SEC vs CFTC<\/a>\n <a class=\"toc-link\" href=\"#impact\">How it could affect crypto<\/a>\n <a class=\"toc-link\" href=\"#businesses\">What it means for businesses<\/a>\n <a class=\"toc-link\" href=\"#timeline\">Path to law<\/a>\n <a class=\"toc-link\" href=\"#risks\">Risks and open questions<\/a>\n <a class=\"toc-link\" href=\"#faq\">FAQ<\/a>\n <a class=\"toc-link\" href=\"#reviewed-by\">Reviewed by<\/a>\n <a class=\"toc-link\" href=\"#sources\">Sources<\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"hero-grid\">\n <div class=\"hero-copy\">\n <div class=\"eyebrow\"><span class=\"eyebrow-dot\"><\/span> Research article<\/div>\n <div class=\"hero-copy-main\">\n <h1>U.S. Senators Prepare to Vote on the CLARITY Act<\/h1>\n <p>\n The CLARITY Act is one of the most important U.S. crypto market-structure bills in years.\n Its purpose is not to make crypto regulation disappear. It is to decide which rules apply,\n which regulator leads, and how digital assets stop living in a permanent lawsuit-shaped gray zone.\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"hero-side\">\n <div class=\"metrics-grid\">\n <article class=\"metric-card\">\n <span>House milestone<\/span>\n <strong>Passed July 17, 2025<\/strong>\n <p>The House approved H.R. 3633 in July 2025, giving market-structure legislation its first major chamber-level win. <a class=\"source-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/07\/17\/house-crpto-market-structure-clarity-passes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[Axios, July 17, 2025]<\/a><\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"metric-card\">\n <span>Senate milestone<\/span>\n <strong>15-9 committee vote<\/strong>\n <p>On May 14, 2026, the Senate Banking Committee advanced the Senate version to the full Senate with bipartisan support. <a class=\"source-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/livecoverage\/stock-market-today-sp500-nasdaq-eye-new-record-dow-up-trump-china-long-bond-5-percent-retail-sales\/card\/coinbase-shares-rally-after-senate-banking-committee-advances-crypto-market-structure-bill-Z6CB7VJXEY09wqMz41ou\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[MarketWatch, May 14, 2026]<\/a><\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"metric-card\">\n <span>Main policy question<\/span>\n <strong>SEC or CFTC?<\/strong>\n <p>The bill tries to draw a clearer line between securities oversight and digital-commodity oversight across crypto markets.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"metric-card\">\n <span>Status as of June 29, 2026<\/span>\n <strong>Not law yet<\/strong>\n <p>The bill still needs full Senate action, reconciliation work, and final enactment before the new framework actually applies.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n <div class=\"layout\">\n <div class=\"content\">\n <section class=\"section\" id=\"status\" data-section>\n <div class=\"section-head\">\n <div class=\"eyebrow\"><span class=\"eyebrow-dot\"><\/span> Current status<\/div>\n <h2>Where the CLARITY Act Stands Right Now<\/h2>\n <p>This is the part worth stating plainly: the CLARITY Act is moving, but it is not enacted law as of June 29, 2026.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <article class=\"article-card prose\">\n <p>The House version of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025 passed on <strong>July 17, 2025<\/strong>. That mattered because it showed there was enough political momentum to push a broad crypto market-structure bill through one chamber of Congress. <a class=\"source-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/07\/17\/house-crpto-market-structure-clarity-passes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[Axios]<\/a><\/p>\n <p>In the Senate, the Banking Committee later advanced its version of the CLARITY Act on <strong>May 14, 2026<\/strong>, by a <strong>15-9<\/strong> vote. Market coverage at the time described that vote as a significant step toward full Senate consideration, not the end of the legislative process. <a class=\"source-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/livecoverage\/stock-market-today-sp500-nasdaq-eye-new-record-dow-up-trump-china-long-bond-5-percent-retail-sales\/card\/coinbase-shares-rally-after-senate-banking-committee-advances-crypto-market-structure-bill-Z6CB7VJXEY09wqMz41ou\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[MarketWatch]<\/a><\/p>\n <p>That means the basic framing of the story is accurate: senators are preparing for the next voting stage. But the more precise version is this: the bill is still in the legislative pipeline, and the market is reacting to the possibility of a federal framework, not to a finished rulebook already in force.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n\n <article class=\"quote-card prose\">\n <blockquote>\n <p>The CLARITY Act is not a \u201ccrypto wins and regulation disappears\u201d bill. It is a \u201ccrypto gets rules, categories, supervisors, and paperwork\u201d bill.<\/p>\n <\/blockquote>\n <\/article>\n <\/section>\n\n <section class=\"section\" id=\"what-is\" data-section>\n <div class=\"section-head\">\n <div class=\"eyebrow\"><span class=\"eyebrow-dot\"><\/span> Bill overview<\/div>\n <h2>What the CLARITY Act Is Actually About<\/h2>\n <p>The bill tries to answer a problem that has haunted U.S. crypto for years: when is a digital asset a security, when is it a commodity, and who gets to regulate what?<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <article class=\"article-card prose\">\n <p>The CLARITY Act, formally the <strong>Digital Asset Market Clarity Act<\/strong>, is a market-structure bill designed to create a federal framework for digital asset issuance, trading, and intermediary activity in the United States.<\/p>\n <p>Its main policy goal is to reduce the long-running uncertainty around jurisdiction between the <strong>Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)<\/strong> and the <strong>Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)<\/strong>. The bill’s backers argue that U.S. crypto has spent too much time being governed by enforcement actions, litigation, and contradictory interpretations rather than by predictable registration pathways.<\/p>\n <p>Reporting on the House introduction in 2025 highlighted a few notable features early on: clearer SEC\/CFTC lane-splitting, customer-fund segregation for dealers and brokers, conflict-of-interest disclosure requirements, and language that reflected the industry’s interest in how secondary-market token trading should be treated. <a class=\"source-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/05\/29\/house-regulation-cryptocurrency-clarity-act\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[Axios, May 29, 2025]<\/a><\/p>\n <p>By May 2026, the Senate Banking Committee version had broadened into a large market-structure package covering definitions, disclosures, anti-fraud treatment, illicit-finance concerns, cybersecurity studies, and the treatment of tokenized securities. <a class=\"source-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.investors.com\/news\/clarity-act-text-senate-banking-committee-markup-hearing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[Investor’s Business Daily, May 12, 2026]<\/a><\/p>\n <\/article>\n <\/section>\n\n <section class=\"section\" id=\"split\" data-section>\n <div class=\"section-head\">\n <div class=\"eyebrow\"><span class=\"eyebrow-dot\"><\/span> Regulator split<\/div>\n <h2>The Core Debate: SEC vs CFTC<\/h2>\n <p>This is the center of the bill. Everything else is basically downstream from this classification fight.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"split-grid\">\n <article class=\"split-card\">\n <span>SEC lane<\/span>\n <h3>Investment contracts and securities activity<\/h3>\n <p>Under the general logic described in bill coverage, the SEC would continue to matter where tokens are sold as securities, where investor disclosures are central, and where capital-raising activity still looks like securities issuance.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"split-card\">\n <span>CFTC lane<\/span>\n <h3>Digital commodities and more of the spot-market side<\/h3>\n <p>The industry sees the biggest shift here: if a token or network qualifies under the law’s framework as sufficiently decentralized or commodity-like, the CFTC’s role becomes much more important.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"split-card\">\n <span>What this changes<\/span>\n <h3>From \u201cwait for enforcement\u201d to \u201cfollow the lane\u201d<\/h3>\n <p>Instead of guessing which agency may object later, companies would have a more structured path for classification, registration, disclosure, and supervision.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"split-card\">\n <span>What it does not change<\/span>\n <h3>Crypto does not become unregulated<\/h3>\n <p>Even the friendliest reading of the bill still leads to compliance, supervision, reporting duties, and rulemaking. The gray zone gets smaller; the legal obligations get more specific.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n <section class=\"section\" id=\"impact\" data-section>\n <div class=\"section-head\">\n <div class=\"eyebrow\"><span class=\"eyebrow-dot\"><\/span> Market impact<\/div>\n <h2>How the CLARITY Act Could Affect Crypto Assets<\/h2>\n <p>The bill will not affect every asset class the same way. Some tokens may benefit from clearer treatment. Others may discover that clarity is much less fun when the answer is \u201cmore disclosure, more limits, more scrutiny.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"compare-grid\">\n <article class=\"compare-card\">\n <span>Bitcoin<\/span>\n <h3>Likely the cleanest beneficiary<\/h3>\n <p>Bitcoin is already broadly treated as commodity-like by markets and policymakers. A clearer federal market-structure framework mainly reduces overhang for platforms, custody, and institutional infrastructure around BTC.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"compare-card\">\n <span>Ethereum and major L1s<\/span>\n <h3>Helpful if decentralization standards are met<\/h3>\n <p>For ETH and other mature networks, the practical question is whether lawmakers and regulators view secondary-market trading as sufficiently removed from an original securities-style fundraising context.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"compare-card\">\n <span>Altcoins<\/span>\n <h3>Winners and losers become easier to separate<\/h3>\n <p>Projects with concentrated control, thin utility, aggressive investment marketing, or weak disclosures may find the framework less comfortable than established ecosystems do.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"compare-card\">\n <span>Stablecoins<\/span>\n <h3>Partly adjacent, but still affected<\/h3>\n <p>The CLARITY conversation is separate from stablecoin-only legislation, but Senate coverage of the bill shows how intertwined market-structure, rewards, disclosure, and consumer-protection debates have become. <a class=\"source-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.investors.com\/news\/clarity-act-text-senate-banking-committee-markup-hearing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[IBD]<\/a><\/p>\n <\/article>\n <\/div>\n\n <article class=\"table-card prose\">\n <h3>What the market is really pricing<\/h3>\n <div class=\"table-scroll\">\n <table>\n <thead>\n <tr>\n <th>Area<\/th>\n <th>Why CLARITY matters<\/th>\n <th>Main uncertainty<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n <tbody>\n <tr>\n <td>Token listings<\/td>\n <td>Exchanges may get clearer logic for what can trade under which regime.<\/td>\n <td>The final classification tests and how agencies interpret them.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td>Institutional access<\/td>\n <td>Large firms usually prefer a defined federal framework to litigation risk.<\/td>\n <td>How fast rulemaking would actually follow passage.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td>DeFi<\/td>\n <td>The bill may shape how \u201cdecentralized\u201d protocols and interfaces are treated.<\/td>\n <td>Where lawmakers draw responsibility around front-ends, governance, and teams.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td>On-ramp support<\/td>\n <td>Supported asset lists may become more policy-driven and easier to justify.<\/td>\n <td>Whether smaller tokens stay economically viable under the new burden.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n <\/div>\n <\/article>\n <\/section>\n\n <section class=\"section\" id=\"businesses\" data-section>\n <div class=\"section-head\">\n <div class=\"eyebrow\"><span class=\"eyebrow-dot\"><\/span> Business effects<\/div>\n <h2>What It Means for Exchanges, On-Ramps, and Crypto Businesses<\/h2>\n <p>For businesses, \u201cclarity\u201d mostly means being able to map products to obligations earlier. It does not mean those obligations get lighter.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"signal-grid\">\n <article class=\"signal-card\">\n <span>Exchanges<\/span>\n <h3>Listing logic becomes more formal<\/h3>\n <p>Platforms may need clearer internal frameworks for asset classification, customer disclosures, conflict management, custody practices, and segregation of customer funds.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"signal-card\">\n <span>On-ramp and off-ramp providers<\/span>\n <h3>Supported assets face more scrutiny<\/h3>\n <p>Providers will need stronger reasoning for why an asset is supported, where it is offered, what user disclosures apply, and how compliance partners should evaluate the risk.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"signal-card\">\n <span>DeFi teams<\/span>\n <h3>\u201cDecentralized\u201d will need to mean something real<\/h3>\n <p>If a protocol still has a visible team, treasury, front-end, fee capture, and upgrade control, policymakers may ask whether it is truly decentralized or just styled that way.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"signal-card\">\n <span>Investors<\/span>\n <h3>Safer rails, fewer gray-zone listings<\/h3>\n <p>Users may benefit from stronger protections and more predictable platform behavior, but some tokens and product types may become harder to access in the U.S.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <\/div>\n\n <article class=\"inline-cta\">\n <span>Guardarian<\/span>\n <h3>What crypto businesses should prepare now<\/h3>\n <p>Even before final passage, businesses can review supported assets, disclosure standards, token-by-token risk logic, custody controls, U.S.-user exposure, and how marketing claims could read under a more formal regulatory regime.<\/p>\n <div class=\"inline-cta-actions\">\n <a class=\"button button-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/guardarian.com\/\">Open Guardarian<\/a>\n <a class=\"button button-secondary\" href=\"https:\/\/guardarian.com\/currencies\">Review supported assets<\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/article>\n <\/section>\n\n <section class=\"section\" id=\"timeline\" data-section>\n <div class=\"section-head\">\n <div class=\"eyebrow\"><span class=\"eyebrow-dot\"><\/span> Path to law<\/div>\n <h2>What Still Has to Happen Before the Rules Actually Change<\/h2>\n <p>The market often reacts to the headline before the process is complete. Congress, unfortunately for traders, still insists on process.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"timeline-grid\">\n <article class=\"timeline-card\">\n <span>Step 1<\/span>\n <h3>Full Senate action<\/h3>\n <p>The committee vote is important, but a committee markup is not the same as passage by the full Senate.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"timeline-card\">\n <span>Step 2<\/span>\n <h3>Reconciliation of House and Senate text<\/h3>\n <p>If the two chambers move different versions, lawmakers still have to align the final legislative language.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"timeline-card\">\n <span>Step 3<\/span>\n <h3>Final passage of the unified bill<\/h3>\n <p>Both chambers need to approve the final agreed text before the bill can go to the president.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"timeline-card\">\n <span>Step 4<\/span>\n <h3>Rulemaking and implementation<\/h3>\n <p>Even after enactment, agencies still need to interpret, write, implement, and enforce the detailed rules.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <\/div>\n\n <article class=\"article-card prose\">\n <p>That is why market participants should not treat the CLARITY Act as a switch that flips overnight. Even if Congress completes the legislative work, the practical regime would still arrive through follow-on guidance, implementation timelines, registration processes, and agency interpretation.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <\/section>\n\n <section class=\"section\" id=\"risks\" data-section>\n <div class=\"section-head\">\n <div class=\"eyebrow\"><span class=\"eyebrow-dot\"><\/span> Risks and open questions<\/div>\n <h2>Why the Bill Still Leaves Real Questions Open<\/h2>\n <p>The CLARITY Act could make the system clearer, but not magically simple.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <article class=\"article-card prose\">\n <h3>Politics can still slow or reshape it<\/h3>\n <p>Even with bipartisan movement, crypto legislation still sits inside a broader political environment that includes banking concerns, ethics disputes, consumer-protection questions, and election-year priorities.<\/p>\n\n <h3>The SEC\/CFTC line may still need interpretation<\/h3>\n <p>The bill can create a structure, but it cannot erase every future disagreement over decentralization, secondary-market treatment, mixed products, or tokenized securities.<\/p>\n\n <h3>Smaller projects may struggle more than larger firms<\/h3>\n <p>Large companies can absorb legal, compliance, and reporting costs more easily. Smaller issuers and platforms may find that \u201cclarity\u201d is economically easier for incumbents than for everyone else.<\/p>\n\n <h3>DeFi remains one of the hardest edge cases<\/h3>\n <p>Coverage of the Senate text suggests the bill includes studies and policy attention around DeFi, cyber standards, and illicit-finance concerns. That alone tells you lawmakers do not view decentralized infrastructure as a settled classification problem. <a class=\"source-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.investors.com\/news\/clarity-act-text-senate-banking-committee-markup-hearing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[IBD]<\/a><\/p>\n <\/article>\n <\/section>\n\n <section class=\"section\" id=\"faq\" data-section>\n <div class=\"section-head\">\n <div class=\"eyebrow\"><span class=\"eyebrow-dot\"><\/span> FAQ<\/div>\n <h2>FAQ<\/h2>\n <p>Short answers to the questions most people ask when a \u201cregulatory clarity\u201d headline starts moving crypto stocks.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"faq-list\">\n <details class=\"faq-card\" open>\n <summary>Is the CLARITY Act law already?<\/summary>\n <p>No. As of June 29, 2026, the bill had moved through the House in 2025 and through the Senate Banking Committee in May 2026, but it had not yet completed the full federal legislative process.<\/p>\n <\/details>\n <details class=\"faq-card\">\n <summary>What is the main goal of the CLARITY Act?<\/summary>\n <p>Its central goal is to create a clearer market-structure framework for digital assets in the United States, especially around SEC vs CFTC jurisdiction and the treatment of different kinds of crypto activity.<\/p>\n <\/details>\n <details class=\"faq-card\">\n <summary>Does the bill remove the SEC from crypto?<\/summary>\n <p>No. The SEC would still matter for securities, investment contracts, disclosures, anti-fraud matters, and other securities-law questions.<\/p>\n <\/details>\n <details class=\"faq-card\">\n <summary>Why does the crypto industry care so much about the CFTC part?<\/summary>\n <p>Because many market participants believe a clearer CFTC lane for digital commodities and spot-market activity would be more workable than relying on ad hoc enforcement under securities-law theories.<\/p>\n <\/details>\n <details class=\"faq-card\">\n <summary>Would the CLARITY Act help Bitcoin and major tokens?<\/summary>\n <p>Potentially yes, especially by reducing classification uncertainty for infrastructure providers, exchanges, and institutional participants. But the actual impact depends on the final text and later rulemaking.<\/p>\n <\/details>\n <details class=\"faq-card\">\n <summary>What is the biggest practical takeaway for crypto businesses?<\/summary>\n <p>Start preparing for more formal asset-by-asset compliance logic, clearer disclosures, and a world where \u201cwe will deal with regulation later\u201d becomes a weaker operating strategy.<\/p>\n <\/details>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n <section class=\"section\" id=\"reviewed-by\" data-section>\n <div class=\"section-head\">\n <div class=\"eyebrow\"><span class=\"eyebrow-dot\"><\/span> Reviewed by<\/div>\n <h2>Who reviewed this article<\/h2>\n <p>A short reviewer note for editorial context.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"reviewer-card\">\n <div class=\"reviewer-avatar\">\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/guardarian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image.png\" alt=\"Agatha Willings\">\n <\/div>\n <div>\n <h3>Agatha Willings<\/h3>\n <div class=\"reviewer-role\">Crypto researcher<\/div>\n <p>\n Agatha Willings reviews crypto policy, market-structure, and exchange-access content with a focus on\n how regulatory changes affect real users, listing logic, compliance exposure, and the practical\n difference between good headlines and actual operational change.\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n <section class=\"section\" id=\"sources\" data-section>\n <div class=\"section-head\">\n <div class=\"eyebrow\"><span class=\"eyebrow-dot\"><\/span> Sources<\/div>\n <h2>Verified Sources<\/h2>\n <p>The claims in this article were aligned to reporting and bill-status references that explicitly described the House passage, the Senate Banking Committee vote, and the bill’s stated purpose.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"table-card prose\">\n <div class=\"table-scroll\">\n <table>\n <thead>\n <tr>\n <th>Source<\/th>\n <th>Why it is used<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n <tbody>\n <tr>\n <td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/05\/29\/house-regulation-cryptocurrency-clarity-act\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Axios, May 29, 2025<\/a><\/td>\n <td>Used for the House introduction framing, SEC\/CFTC lane-splitting, customer-fund segregation, conflict disclosures, and secondary-market-treatment references.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/07\/17\/house-crpto-market-structure-clarity-passes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Axios, July 17, 2025<\/a><\/td>\n <td>Used for the House passage milestone and timing.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/livecoverage\/stock-market-today-sp500-nasdaq-eye-new-record-dow-up-trump-china-long-bond-5-percent-retail-sales\/card\/coinbase-shares-rally-after-senate-banking-committee-advances-crypto-market-structure-bill-Z6CB7VJXEY09wqMz41ou\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MarketWatch, May 14, 2026<\/a><\/td>\n <td>Used for the Senate Banking Committee’s 15-9 vote to advance the bill to the full Senate.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investors.com\/news\/clarity-act-text-senate-banking-committee-markup-hearing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Investor’s Business Daily, May 12, 2026<\/a><\/td>\n <td>Used for the Senate text release context, key provisions, committee remarks, DeFi and cybersecurity studies, and the bill’s near-term procedural path.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investors.com\/news\/clarity-act-passes-senate-banking-committee-crypto-stocks-rally-stablecoins-regulation-vote\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Investor’s Business Daily, May 14, 2026<\/a><\/td>\n <td>Used for bipartisan committee-support context and notes on unresolved floor-stage negotiation risks.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n <\/div>\n\n <aside class=\"rail\">\n <div class=\"toc\">\n <h2>On this page<\/h2>\n <nav 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aria-controls=\"mobileTocPanel\">\n <span>On this page<\/span>\n <span>\u2630<\/span>\n <\/button>\n <div class=\"mobile-toc-panel\" id=\"mobileTocPanel\">\n <a class=\"toc-link\" href=\"#status\">Current status<\/a>\n <a class=\"toc-link\" href=\"#what-is\">What the CLARITY Act is<\/a>\n <a class=\"toc-link\" href=\"#split\">SEC vs CFTC<\/a>\n <a class=\"toc-link\" href=\"#impact\">How it could affect crypto<\/a>\n <a class=\"toc-link\" href=\"#businesses\">What it means for businesses<\/a>\n <a class=\"toc-link\" href=\"#timeline\">Path to law<\/a>\n <a class=\"toc-link\" href=\"#risks\">Risks and open questions<\/a>\n <a class=\"toc-link\" href=\"#faq\">FAQ<\/a>\n <a class=\"toc-link\" href=\"#reviewed-by\">Reviewed by<\/a>\n <a class=\"toc-link\" href=\"#sources\">Sources<\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"hero-grid\">\n <div class=\"hero-copy\">\n <div class=\"eyebrow\"><span class=\"eyebrow-dot\"><\/span> Research article<\/div>\n <div class=\"hero-copy-main\">\n <h1>U.S. Senators Prepare to Vote on the CLARITY Act<\/h1>\n <p>\n The CLARITY Act is one of the most important U.S. crypto market-structure bills in years.\n Its purpose is not to make crypto regulation disappear. It is to decide which rules apply,\n which regulator leads, and how digital assets stop living in a permanent lawsuit-shaped gray zone.\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"hero-side\">\n <div class=\"metrics-grid\">\n <article class=\"metric-card\">\n <span>House milestone<\/span>\n <strong>Passed July 17, 2025<\/strong>\n <p>The House approved H.R. 3633 in July 2025, giving market-structure legislation its first major chamber-level win. <a class=\"source-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/07\/17\/house-crpto-market-structure-clarity-passes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[Axios, July 17, 2025]<\/a><\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"metric-card\">\n <span>Senate milestone<\/span>\n <strong>15-9 committee vote<\/strong>\n <p>On May 14, 2026, the Senate Banking Committee advanced the Senate version to the full Senate with bipartisan support. <a class=\"source-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/livecoverage\/stock-market-today-sp500-nasdaq-eye-new-record-dow-up-trump-china-long-bond-5-percent-retail-sales\/card\/coinbase-shares-rally-after-senate-banking-committee-advances-crypto-market-structure-bill-Z6CB7VJXEY09wqMz41ou\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[MarketWatch, May 14, 2026]<\/a><\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"metric-card\">\n <span>Main policy question<\/span>\n <strong>SEC or CFTC?<\/strong>\n <p>The bill tries to draw a clearer line between securities oversight and digital-commodity oversight across crypto markets.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"metric-card\">\n <span>Status as of June 29, 2026<\/span>\n <strong>Not law yet<\/strong>\n <p>The bill still needs full Senate action, reconciliation work, and final enactment before the new framework actually applies.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n <div class=\"layout\">\n <div class=\"content\">\n <section class=\"section\" id=\"status\" data-section>\n <div class=\"section-head\">\n <div class=\"eyebrow\"><span class=\"eyebrow-dot\"><\/span> Current status<\/div>\n <h2>Where the CLARITY Act Stands Right Now<\/h2>\n <p>This is the part worth stating plainly: the CLARITY Act is moving, but it is not enacted law as of June 29, 2026.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <article class=\"article-card prose\">\n <p>The House version of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025 passed on <strong>July 17, 2025<\/strong>. That mattered because it showed there was enough political momentum to push a broad crypto market-structure bill through one chamber of Congress. <a class=\"source-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/07\/17\/house-crpto-market-structure-clarity-passes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[Axios]<\/a><\/p>\n <p>In the Senate, the Banking Committee later advanced its version of the CLARITY Act on <strong>May 14, 2026<\/strong>, by a <strong>15-9<\/strong> vote. Market coverage at the time described that vote as a significant step toward full Senate consideration, not the end of the legislative process. <a class=\"source-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/livecoverage\/stock-market-today-sp500-nasdaq-eye-new-record-dow-up-trump-china-long-bond-5-percent-retail-sales\/card\/coinbase-shares-rally-after-senate-banking-committee-advances-crypto-market-structure-bill-Z6CB7VJXEY09wqMz41ou\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[MarketWatch]<\/a><\/p>\n <p>That means the basic framing of the story is accurate: senators are preparing for the next voting stage. But the more precise version is this: the bill is still in the legislative pipeline, and the market is reacting to the possibility of a federal framework, not to a finished rulebook already in force.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n\n <article class=\"quote-card prose\">\n <blockquote>\n <p>The CLARITY Act is not a \u201ccrypto wins and regulation disappears\u201d bill. It is a \u201ccrypto gets rules, categories, supervisors, and paperwork\u201d bill.<\/p>\n <\/blockquote>\n <\/article>\n <\/section>\n\n <section class=\"section\" id=\"what-is\" data-section>\n <div class=\"section-head\">\n <div class=\"eyebrow\"><span class=\"eyebrow-dot\"><\/span> Bill overview<\/div>\n <h2>What the CLARITY Act Is Actually About<\/h2>\n <p>The bill tries to answer a problem that has haunted U.S. crypto for years: when is a digital asset a security, when is it a commodity, and who gets to regulate what?<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <article class=\"article-card prose\">\n <p>The CLARITY Act, formally the <strong>Digital Asset Market Clarity Act<\/strong>, is a market-structure bill designed to create a federal framework for digital asset issuance, trading, and intermediary activity in the United States.<\/p>\n <p>Its main policy goal is to reduce the long-running uncertainty around jurisdiction between the <strong>Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)<\/strong> and the <strong>Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)<\/strong>. The bill’s backers argue that U.S. crypto has spent too much time being governed by enforcement actions, litigation, and contradictory interpretations rather than by predictable registration pathways.<\/p>\n <p>Reporting on the House introduction in 2025 highlighted a few notable features early on: clearer SEC\/CFTC lane-splitting, customer-fund segregation for dealers and brokers, conflict-of-interest disclosure requirements, and language that reflected the industry’s interest in how secondary-market token trading should be treated. <a class=\"source-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/05\/29\/house-regulation-cryptocurrency-clarity-act\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[Axios, May 29, 2025]<\/a><\/p>\n <p>By May 2026, the Senate Banking Committee version had broadened into a large market-structure package covering definitions, disclosures, anti-fraud treatment, illicit-finance concerns, cybersecurity studies, and the treatment of tokenized securities. <a class=\"source-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.investors.com\/news\/clarity-act-text-senate-banking-committee-markup-hearing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[Investor’s Business Daily, May 12, 2026]<\/a><\/p>\n <\/article>\n <\/section>\n\n <section class=\"section\" id=\"split\" data-section>\n <div class=\"section-head\">\n <div class=\"eyebrow\"><span class=\"eyebrow-dot\"><\/span> Regulator split<\/div>\n <h2>The Core Debate: SEC vs CFTC<\/h2>\n <p>This is the center of the bill. Everything else is basically downstream from this classification fight.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"split-grid\">\n <article class=\"split-card\">\n <span>SEC lane<\/span>\n <h3>Investment contracts and securities activity<\/h3>\n <p>Under the general logic described in bill coverage, the SEC would continue to matter where tokens are sold as securities, where investor disclosures are central, and where capital-raising activity still looks like securities issuance.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"split-card\">\n <span>CFTC lane<\/span>\n <h3>Digital commodities and more of the spot-market side<\/h3>\n <p>The industry sees the biggest shift here: if a token or network qualifies under the law’s framework as sufficiently decentralized or commodity-like, the CFTC’s role becomes much more important.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"split-card\">\n <span>What this changes<\/span>\n <h3>From \u201cwait for enforcement\u201d to \u201cfollow the lane\u201d<\/h3>\n <p>Instead of guessing which agency may object later, companies would have a more structured path for classification, registration, disclosure, and supervision.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"split-card\">\n <span>What it does not change<\/span>\n <h3>Crypto does not become unregulated<\/h3>\n <p>Even the friendliest reading of the bill still leads to compliance, supervision, reporting duties, and rulemaking. The gray zone gets smaller; the legal obligations get more specific.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n <section class=\"section\" id=\"impact\" data-section>\n <div class=\"section-head\">\n <div class=\"eyebrow\"><span class=\"eyebrow-dot\"><\/span> Market impact<\/div>\n <h2>How the CLARITY Act Could Affect Crypto Assets<\/h2>\n <p>The bill will not affect every asset class the same way. Some tokens may benefit from clearer treatment. Others may discover that clarity is much less fun when the answer is \u201cmore disclosure, more limits, more scrutiny.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"compare-grid\">\n <article class=\"compare-card\">\n <span>Bitcoin<\/span>\n <h3>Likely the cleanest beneficiary<\/h3>\n <p>Bitcoin is already broadly treated as commodity-like by markets and policymakers. A clearer federal market-structure framework mainly reduces overhang for platforms, custody, and institutional infrastructure around BTC.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"compare-card\">\n <span>Ethereum and major L1s<\/span>\n <h3>Helpful if decentralization standards are met<\/h3>\n <p>For ETH and other mature networks, the practical question is whether lawmakers and regulators view secondary-market trading as sufficiently removed from an original securities-style fundraising context.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"compare-card\">\n <span>Altcoins<\/span>\n <h3>Winners and losers become easier to separate<\/h3>\n <p>Projects with concentrated control, thin utility, aggressive investment marketing, or weak disclosures may find the framework less comfortable than established ecosystems do.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"compare-card\">\n <span>Stablecoins<\/span>\n <h3>Partly adjacent, but still affected<\/h3>\n <p>The CLARITY conversation is separate from stablecoin-only legislation, but Senate coverage of the bill shows how intertwined market-structure, rewards, disclosure, and consumer-protection debates have become. <a class=\"source-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.investors.com\/news\/clarity-act-text-senate-banking-committee-markup-hearing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[IBD]<\/a><\/p>\n <\/article>\n <\/div>\n\n <article class=\"table-card prose\">\n <h3>What the market is really pricing<\/h3>\n <div class=\"table-scroll\">\n <table>\n <thead>\n <tr>\n <th>Area<\/th>\n <th>Why CLARITY matters<\/th>\n <th>Main uncertainty<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n <tbody>\n <tr>\n <td>Token listings<\/td>\n <td>Exchanges may get clearer logic for what can trade under which regime.<\/td>\n <td>The final classification tests and how agencies interpret them.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td>Institutional access<\/td>\n <td>Large firms usually prefer a defined federal framework to litigation risk.<\/td>\n <td>How fast rulemaking would actually follow passage.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td>DeFi<\/td>\n <td>The bill may shape how \u201cdecentralized\u201d protocols and interfaces are treated.<\/td>\n <td>Where lawmakers draw responsibility around front-ends, governance, and teams.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td>On-ramp support<\/td>\n <td>Supported asset lists may become more policy-driven and easier to justify.<\/td>\n <td>Whether smaller tokens stay economically viable under the new burden.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n <\/div>\n <\/article>\n <\/section>\n\n <section class=\"section\" id=\"businesses\" data-section>\n <div class=\"section-head\">\n <div class=\"eyebrow\"><span class=\"eyebrow-dot\"><\/span> Business effects<\/div>\n <h2>What It Means for Exchanges, On-Ramps, and Crypto Businesses<\/h2>\n <p>For businesses, \u201cclarity\u201d mostly means being able to map products to obligations earlier. It does not mean those obligations get lighter.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"signal-grid\">\n <article class=\"signal-card\">\n <span>Exchanges<\/span>\n <h3>Listing logic becomes more formal<\/h3>\n <p>Platforms may need clearer internal frameworks for asset classification, customer disclosures, conflict management, custody practices, and segregation of customer funds.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"signal-card\">\n <span>On-ramp and off-ramp providers<\/span>\n <h3>Supported assets face more scrutiny<\/h3>\n <p>Providers will need stronger reasoning for why an asset is supported, where it is offered, what user disclosures apply, and how compliance partners should evaluate the risk.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"signal-card\">\n <span>DeFi teams<\/span>\n <h3>\u201cDecentralized\u201d will need to mean something real<\/h3>\n <p>If a protocol still has a visible team, treasury, front-end, fee capture, and upgrade control, policymakers may ask whether it is truly decentralized or just styled that way.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"signal-card\">\n <span>Investors<\/span>\n <h3>Safer rails, fewer gray-zone listings<\/h3>\n <p>Users may benefit from stronger protections and more predictable platform behavior, but some tokens and product types may become harder to access in the U.S.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <\/div>\n\n <article class=\"inline-cta\">\n <span>Guardarian<\/span>\n <h3>What crypto businesses should prepare now<\/h3>\n <p>Even before final passage, businesses can review supported assets, disclosure standards, token-by-token risk logic, custody controls, U.S.-user exposure, and how marketing claims could read under a more formal regulatory regime.<\/p>\n <div class=\"inline-cta-actions\">\n <a class=\"button button-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/guardarian.com\/\">Open Guardarian<\/a>\n <a class=\"button button-secondary\" href=\"https:\/\/guardarian.com\/currencies\">Review supported assets<\/a>\n <\/div>\n <\/article>\n <\/section>\n\n <section class=\"section\" id=\"timeline\" data-section>\n <div class=\"section-head\">\n <div class=\"eyebrow\"><span class=\"eyebrow-dot\"><\/span> Path to law<\/div>\n <h2>What Still Has to Happen Before the Rules Actually Change<\/h2>\n <p>The market often reacts to the headline before the process is complete. Congress, unfortunately for traders, still insists on process.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"timeline-grid\">\n <article class=\"timeline-card\">\n <span>Step 1<\/span>\n <h3>Full Senate action<\/h3>\n <p>The committee vote is important, but a committee markup is not the same as passage by the full Senate.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"timeline-card\">\n <span>Step 2<\/span>\n <h3>Reconciliation of House and Senate text<\/h3>\n <p>If the two chambers move different versions, lawmakers still have to align the final legislative language.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"timeline-card\">\n <span>Step 3<\/span>\n <h3>Final passage of the unified bill<\/h3>\n <p>Both chambers need to approve the final agreed text before the bill can go to the president.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <article class=\"timeline-card\">\n <span>Step 4<\/span>\n <h3>Rulemaking and implementation<\/h3>\n <p>Even after enactment, agencies still need to interpret, write, implement, and enforce the detailed rules.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <\/div>\n\n <article class=\"article-card prose\">\n <p>That is why market participants should not treat the CLARITY Act as a switch that flips overnight. Even if Congress completes the legislative work, the practical regime would still arrive through follow-on guidance, implementation timelines, registration processes, and agency interpretation.<\/p>\n <\/article>\n <\/section>\n\n <section class=\"section\" id=\"risks\" data-section>\n <div class=\"section-head\">\n <div class=\"eyebrow\"><span class=\"eyebrow-dot\"><\/span> Risks and open questions<\/div>\n <h2>Why the Bill Still Leaves Real Questions Open<\/h2>\n <p>The CLARITY Act could make the system clearer, but not magically simple.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <article class=\"article-card prose\">\n <h3>Politics can still slow or reshape it<\/h3>\n <p>Even with bipartisan movement, crypto legislation still sits inside a broader political environment that includes banking concerns, ethics disputes, consumer-protection questions, and election-year priorities.<\/p>\n\n <h3>The SEC\/CFTC line may still need interpretation<\/h3>\n <p>The bill can create a structure, but it cannot erase every future disagreement over decentralization, secondary-market treatment, mixed products, or tokenized securities.<\/p>\n\n <h3>Smaller projects may struggle more than larger firms<\/h3>\n <p>Large companies can absorb legal, compliance, and reporting costs more easily. Smaller issuers and platforms may find that \u201cclarity\u201d is economically easier for incumbents than for everyone else.<\/p>\n\n <h3>DeFi remains one of the hardest edge cases<\/h3>\n <p>Coverage of the Senate text suggests the bill includes studies and policy attention around DeFi, cyber standards, and illicit-finance concerns. That alone tells you lawmakers do not view decentralized infrastructure as a settled classification problem. <a class=\"source-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.investors.com\/news\/clarity-act-text-senate-banking-committee-markup-hearing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[IBD]<\/a><\/p>\n <\/article>\n <\/section>\n\n <section class=\"section\" id=\"faq\" data-section>\n <div class=\"section-head\">\n <div class=\"eyebrow\"><span class=\"eyebrow-dot\"><\/span> FAQ<\/div>\n <h2>FAQ<\/h2>\n <p>Short answers to the questions most people ask when a \u201cregulatory clarity\u201d headline starts moving crypto stocks.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"faq-list\">\n <details class=\"faq-card\" open>\n <summary>Is the CLARITY Act law already?<\/summary>\n <p>No. As of June 29, 2026, the bill had moved through the House in 2025 and through the Senate Banking Committee in May 2026, but it had not yet completed the full federal legislative process.<\/p>\n <\/details>\n <details class=\"faq-card\">\n <summary>What is the main goal of the CLARITY Act?<\/summary>\n <p>Its central goal is to create a clearer market-structure framework for digital assets in the United States, especially around SEC vs CFTC jurisdiction and the treatment of different kinds of crypto activity.<\/p>\n <\/details>\n <details class=\"faq-card\">\n <summary>Does the bill remove the SEC from crypto?<\/summary>\n <p>No. The SEC would still matter for securities, investment contracts, disclosures, anti-fraud matters, and other securities-law questions.<\/p>\n <\/details>\n <details class=\"faq-card\">\n <summary>Why does the crypto industry care so much about the CFTC part?<\/summary>\n <p>Because many market participants believe a clearer CFTC lane for digital commodities and spot-market activity would be more workable than relying on ad hoc enforcement under securities-law theories.<\/p>\n <\/details>\n <details class=\"faq-card\">\n <summary>Would the CLARITY Act help Bitcoin and major tokens?<\/summary>\n <p>Potentially yes, especially by reducing classification uncertainty for infrastructure providers, exchanges, and institutional participants. But the actual impact depends on the final text and later rulemaking.<\/p>\n <\/details>\n <details class=\"faq-card\">\n <summary>What is the biggest practical takeaway for crypto businesses?<\/summary>\n <p>Start preparing for more formal asset-by-asset compliance logic, clearer disclosures, and a world where \u201cwe will deal with regulation later\u201d becomes a weaker operating strategy.<\/p>\n <\/details>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n <section class=\"section\" id=\"reviewed-by\" data-section>\n <div class=\"section-head\">\n <div class=\"eyebrow\"><span class=\"eyebrow-dot\"><\/span> Reviewed by<\/div>\n <h2>Who reviewed this article<\/h2>\n <p>A short reviewer note for editorial context.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"reviewer-card\">\n <div class=\"reviewer-avatar\">\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/guardarian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image.png\" alt=\"Agatha Willings\">\n <\/div>\n <div>\n <h3>Agatha Willings<\/h3>\n <div class=\"reviewer-role\">Crypto researcher<\/div>\n <p>\n Agatha Willings reviews crypto policy, market-structure, and exchange-access content with a focus on\n how regulatory changes affect real users, listing logic, compliance exposure, and the practical\n difference between good headlines and actual operational change.\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n\n <section class=\"section\" id=\"sources\" data-section>\n <div class=\"section-head\">\n <div class=\"eyebrow\"><span class=\"eyebrow-dot\"><\/span> Sources<\/div>\n <h2>Verified Sources<\/h2>\n <p>The claims in this article were aligned to reporting and bill-status references that explicitly described the House passage, the Senate Banking Committee vote, and the bill’s stated purpose.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <div class=\"table-card prose\">\n <div class=\"table-scroll\">\n <table>\n <thead>\n <tr>\n <th>Source<\/th>\n <th>Why it is used<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n <tbody>\n <tr>\n <td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/05\/29\/house-regulation-cryptocurrency-clarity-act\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Axios, May 29, 2025<\/a><\/td>\n <td>Used for the House introduction framing, SEC\/CFTC lane-splitting, customer-fund segregation, conflict disclosures, and secondary-market-treatment references.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/07\/17\/house-crpto-market-structure-clarity-passes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Axios, July 17, 2025<\/a><\/td>\n <td>Used for the House passage milestone and timing.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/livecoverage\/stock-market-today-sp500-nasdaq-eye-new-record-dow-up-trump-china-long-bond-5-percent-retail-sales\/card\/coinbase-shares-rally-after-senate-banking-committee-advances-crypto-market-structure-bill-Z6CB7VJXEY09wqMz41ou\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MarketWatch, May 14, 2026<\/a><\/td>\n <td>Used for the Senate Banking Committee’s 15-9 vote to advance the bill to the full Senate.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investors.com\/news\/clarity-act-text-senate-banking-committee-markup-hearing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Investor’s Business Daily, May 12, 2026<\/a><\/td>\n <td>Used for the Senate text release context, key provisions, committee remarks, DeFi and cybersecurity studies, and the bill’s near-term procedural path.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <tr>\n <td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investors.com\/news\/clarity-act-passes-senate-banking-committee-crypto-stocks-rally-stablecoins-regulation-vote\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Investor’s Business Daily, May 14, 2026<\/a><\/td>\n <td>Used for bipartisan committee-support context and notes on unresolved floor-stage negotiation risks.<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n <\/div>\n\n <aside class=\"rail\">\n <div class=\"toc\">\n <h2>On this page<\/h2>\n <nav 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