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Story: Trump’s Crypto Fortune Puts Conflict-of-Interest Rules at Center of Market Structure…

By Evie Vavasseur

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Ethics Provisions Stall Bipartisan Support. Getting both sides on board is proving harder than it looks.

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What the Bill Still Needs to Resolve. Specific disclosure requirements are still missing from the draft. That's a big deal.

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Democrats are pushing hard on ethics. President Trump's crypto holdings — substantial by any measure — have become the flashpoint in negotiations over a new crypto market…

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The core tension isn't hard to see. Trump holds significant personal cryptocurrency investments.

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Getting both sides on board is proving harder than it looks. Republicans aren't exactly rushing to sign onto provisions that would, in practice, apply most visibly to their own…

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There's also a genuine philosophical argument underneath the politics. Some officials and their allies push back on the idea that holding crypto should trigger special…

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The broader concern — the one that keeps coming up — is public trust. If voters believe that a policymaker's personal portfolio is quietly shaping the legislation he's pushing,…

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Specific disclosure requirements are still missing from the draft. That's a big deal. Without clear rules on what officials must report, when, and to whom, any ethics framework…

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More context: 5 Senate Democrats Demand Hearings on Trumps UAE Crypto Ties

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The absence of a finalized agreement leaves things murky. Stakeholders across the crypto industry are watching closely — exchanges, token issuers, compliance teams, all of them…

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Democrats pushing for stricter rules frame it as part of something bigger. The crypto sector has expanded fast, and the old norms around public officials' personal finances…

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Whether that argument wins enough votes is unclear yet.

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The negotiations are ongoing. The bill's progression depends on reconciling genuinely different views on what transparency should look like and how much restriction is reasonable.

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Related: Grayscale Puts XRP in Global Payments Bracket, Separating It From Speculative Crypto

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Trump's holdings haven't gone away as a political issue, and they probably won't until the bill either passes with real ethics language or collapses under the weight of…

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