CLARITY Act Left Off Senate's Near-Term Agenda; Odds of Passage This Year Fall to 16%
AI Market Summary
The U.S. Senate's decision to move forward on other legislation while excluding the CLARITY/Crypto Market Structure Act, ahead of the August recess, reduces near-term odds of a federal market-structure framework. Ongoing partisan deadlock over enforcement authority and ethics provisions adds policy uncertainty for U.S. crypto intermediaries and issuers. A sharp drop in prediction-market passage odds reinforces expectations for delayed regulatory clarity, a near-term headwind for broad crypto risk appetite.
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ChainThink reported on Aug. 5, citing crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett, that Senate Majority Leader John Thune filed a motion to proceed on other legislation on Tuesday, leaving the Crypto Market Structure Act—known as the CLARITY Act—off the list. A discharge petition is viewed as a pivotal procedural step for moving a bill forward in the Senate. With lawmakers heading into the August recess, the remaining window to advance the CLARITY Act is tightening.
The measure has cleared the Senate Banking Committee, but negotiations remain stuck as Democrats and Republicans clash over who should enforce ethics provisions that would bar federal officials from issuing digital assets. Maryland Sen. Alsobrooks said she would oppose the bill if enforcement authority is assigned only to the Department of Justice instead of being kept at the state level.
On the prediction market Predict.fun, the probability of the CLARITY Act being signed into law by 2026 has slipped to 16%.
