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By Pankaj K
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Warren Pushes Back Hard. Senator Elizabeth Warren has come out swinging against the legislation.
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Lummis Flags the Bankruptcy Problem. Senator Cynthia Lummis zeroed in on a different angle — consumer protection.
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Stablecoins, Liquidity, and What's Still Murky. On the market side, things get speculative fast. U.S.
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The CLARITY Act just cleared the Senate Banking Committee on a 15-9 vote. It's heading to the Senate floor, and the fight over what it actually does — and doesn't do — is getting…
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The bill tries to draw a cleaner line between two federal regulators that have spent years arguing over digital assets.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren has come out swinging against the legislation. Her core argument: it's already too easy for bad actors to exploit crypto for large-scale money laundering…
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That's a serious charge. And it's not coming from a fringe voice — Warren has spent years pressing crypto firms on compliance failures, and she's got a track record of forcing…
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The bill's supporters push back on that framing. They point out that the CLARITY Act explicitly preserves Bank Secrecy Act compliance. FinCEN keeps its authority.
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Unclear, though, whether that reassurance will satisfy Warren or the seven senators who voted against the bill in committee.
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Senator Cynthia Lummis zeroed in on a different angle — consumer protection. Her argument is pretty straightforward: right now, if a digital asset exchange goes under, customers…
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Related: CFTC Greenlights Crypto Perpetual Futures While Warning Other Markets Off 24/7 Trading
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That's not a hypothetical. It's basically what happened when major crypto platforms collapsed in recent years, leaving customers waiting months or years to recover fractions of…
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She's probably right that the current legal structure creates a messy situation for customers when exchanges fail.
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On the market side, things get speculative fast. U.S.-regulated stablecoins like USDC already carry compliance advantages — transparent issuer frameworks, clear reserve…
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The foreign adversary provisions add another layer of uncertainty. Prohibitions tied to infrastructure connected to China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea could reshape which…
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