Regulations
By Bruce Buterin
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Tax Bill Moves, Market Rules Don't. Here's the part that's kind of wild. While the Clarity Act stalled in the Senate, the House Ways…
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Post-Midterms, Back to Market Structure. O'Leary expects the conversation to shift again after the midterm elections, regardless of which…
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Kevin O'Leary thinks the Clarity Act is coming back. Not now — but probably early 2027, and he's pretty confident about it.
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The Shark Tank investor made the call at the Avalanche Summit in New York earlier this week, walking through his read on where crypto legislation actually stands.
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Here's the part that's kind of wild. While the Clarity Act stalled in the Senate, the House Ways and Means Committee pushed forward the Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act.
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It's a strange sequence. Tax first, regulate later. But O'Leary's argument is that it might actually work in the industry's favor — that the revenue angle gives lawmakers a real…
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And that's basically his thesis for why 2027 matters.
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He's not naive about the timeline. The Senate vote came up short by 11 votes, and that's not a minor miss. Getting from 49 to 60 requires real movement, not just goodwill.
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More context: Bitcoin Dips Below $77,000 as Senate Stalls Clarity Act Discussions
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No comment from lawmakers on when or whether they'd bring the bill back.
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The broader context here is real. Crypto regulation has been a slow, messy process for years — jurisdictional fights between the SEC and CFTC, court cases, enforcement actions,…
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O'Leary also touched on stablecoins, pointing to the Asia-Pacific region as a place where that side of crypto is moving faster than U.S. legislation.
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It's unclear exactly how the Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act moves from here. The committee advanced it, but the full legislative path isn't spelled out in what O'Leary shared at…
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Read also: CLARITY Act Faces Uncertain Future After Senate Cloture Vote Fails to Advance
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What's clear is his overall logic: taxation and regulation can't stay out of sync forever. The House moving on the tax side creates pressure on the Senate to eventually move on…
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