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CLARITY Act deadline: Senate crypto bill faces July 4 squeeze

CLARITY Act deadline pressure is building as Senate calendar math, ethics language and House differences cloud a July 4 crypto vote.

By Tomás Iglesias
Banking

Tokenized deposits: big banks race stablecoins in 2026

Tokenized deposits are becoming Wall Street's stablecoin defense as JPMorgan, Citi and Bank of America build shared rails for 2027.

By Naomi Voss
Regulation

CLARITY Act crypto yield rules could remake product design

CLARITY Act crypto yield rules would curb passive rewards, pushing exchanges and issuers toward structured, supervised products instead.

By Tomás Iglesias
Analysis

Stocks hit records while crypto stalls: what the divergence says about risk appetite in 2026

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq notched fresh records while bitcoin traded sideways near $81,500, a divergence that reflects a narrowing equity rally, matured ETF flows, and competing narratives for institutional capital.

By Sloane Carrington
Crypto

Bitcoin drops below $78,000 as 10-year yield rises to 4.58%

Bitcoin's slide under $78,000 looked less like a crypto-specific shock than a rates trade as Treasury yields climbed and ETF flows turned negative.

By Caleb Mwangi
Regulation

Republicans press Fairshake to turn crypto wins into midterm money

Republicans who helped move crypto policy in Washington are pressing Fairshake to spend its $165 million more directly in 2026 races. The clash says less about party loyalty than about how the industry's donors think power is preserved.

By Tomás Iglesias
Crypto

Bitcoin slips below $80,000 as $388 million in crypto longs unwind

A rapid liquidation of leveraged bullish positions pushed bitcoin below $80,000 and showed how quickly crypto still trades like a high-beta risk asset when broader appetite fades.

By Caleb Mwangi
Regulation

House panel presses Trump to fill CFTC as crypto agenda grows

House Agriculture leaders pressed Donald Trump to fill four empty CFTC seats as the agency's role in crypto market structure and prediction markets widens.

By Tomás Iglesias
Regulation

Senate panel advances CLARITY Act in bipartisan crypto vote

The Senate Banking Committee voted 15-9 to advance the CLARITY Act, sending a long-debated crypto market-structure bill to the floor and sharpening the fight over how the SEC and CFTC would divide oversight.

By Tomás Iglesias
Regulation

Senate Panel Gears Up for Clarity Act Markup as Amendment Count Tops 100

The Senate Banking Committee will begin marking up the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act on Thursday with more than 100 amendments filed to the 309-page bill, testing whether the bipartisan coalition that carried crypto legislation through the House can survive the Senate.

By Tomás Iglesias
Crypto

Crypto Funds Draw $858M on CLARITY Act Markup Optimism

Crypto investment products drew $857.9 million in net inflows for the week ending May 11, the sixth consecutive positive week, as the CLARITY Act's stablecoin compromise and a scheduled May 14 Senate Banking Committee markup shifted institutional conviction from price momentum to regulatory clarity.

By Caleb Mwangi
Regulation

HarrisX poll: 52% back CLARITY Act ahead of May 14 Senate markup

A HarrisX survey of 2,008 registered voters shows 52 per cent support the CLARITY Act, with 70 per cent saying the US should already have passed crypto legislation. The poll lands days before a Senate Banking Committee markup that could determine the bill's fate.

By Tomás Iglesias
Regulation

Senate Banking schedules May 14 CLARITY Act crypto markup

The Senate Banking Committee will mark up the CLARITY Act on 14 May, the first committee vote on crypto market-structure legislation in 10 months, though an ethics dispute over Trump family crypto holdings threatens the bipartisan coalition.

By Tomás Iglesias