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Story: CLARITY Act Stalls in Senate as Over 1 Million Crypto Supporters Push for Vote

By Bruce Buterin

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Senate Calendar Squeezing the Bill. Midterm cycles are brutal for complex legislation. As campaigns heat up and lawmakers redirect…

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What Fragmented Regulation Actually Means. Stand With Crypto has been specific about what happens if the CLARITY Act dies in this session.

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The Bipartisan Angle Is the Whole Game. Here's what makes the timing especially frustrating for the bill's backers: bipartisan support for…

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The clock is ticking. With midterm elections bearing down on the Senate, the CLARITY Act — a bill designed to set clear federal rules for digital assets — is running out of road,…

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The organization, which counts more than one million supporters, says the window for a Senate vote is closing fast. No vote has been scheduled. No clear timeline exists.

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Midterm cycles are brutal for complex legislation. As campaigns heat up and lawmakers redirect energy toward electoral priorities, bills that require careful negotiation and…

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The organization has been actively engaging with lawmakers, pushing them to carve out space on the legislative calendar before it's too late.

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But the Senate's schedule doesn't care about urgency. It cares about votes, and right now, there's no vote lined up.

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Stand With Crypto has been specific about what happens if the CLARITY Act dies in this session. Without federal guidelines, individual states fill the void. Some already have.

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See also: Poland Arrests 4 Suspects in SIM-Swap Crypto Theft Tied to Merry

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The organization's concern isn't hypothetical. The digital asset market has been operating in a gray zone for years, with businesses, investors, and developers all hungry for the…

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Stand With Crypto keeps stressing that the collaborative groundwork laid so far — across party lines, across chambers — shouldn't be thrown away because of a scheduling failure.

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Here's what makes the timing especially frustrating for the bill's backers: bipartisan support for digital asset regulation isn't something that happens automatically.

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The midterms complicate things further. Lawmakers who might otherwise spend time on the CLARITY Act are now focused on their own races, their party's broader messaging, and the…

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