Clarity from the @CFTC !
Software providers that build tools connecting users to registered FCMs/DCMs no longer have to register as brokers just for building the interface.
This removes a major regulatory ambiguity that's chilled software innovation in derivatives markets.
"The banks needed this bill ... this is a good bill for them ... it allows them to interact permissionless blockchains for the first time. I am shocked that they went all in on tanking this bill," @CodyCarboneDC .
The Clarity Act got 49 votes. It needed 60.
Digital Chamber CEO @codycarbonedc joins me to sort out who sank crypto's market structure bill (Senate Dems, Trump's crypto ventures, or the banks) and whether it gets a second life.
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Grateful to our member @avax for hosting our CEO, @CodyCarboneDC, on stage today at the Avalanche Summit alongside fellow DC advocacy leaders to discuss what went wrong — and what's next — for the Clarity Act.
Thanks to @nikhileshde of @CoinDesk for moderating!
Clear tax rules are key to U.S. leadership in digital assets. TDC applauds the House Ways and Means Committee for advancing the Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act, moving us closer to the framework the industry needs to keep building and innovating.
Disappointed, not defeated. Politics beat policy today, which is becoming all too common in DC.
We advocate for good policy and U.S. leadership for blockchain technology at the @DigitalChamber.
Nothing about today’s vote changes that.
Today's setback only reaffirms our determination to fight for comprehensive digital asset regulation. The Clarity Act is essential to American innovation and consumer protection. We remain fully committed to this cause until the bill passes and America leads globally.
Very excited to join @AradChen and @CodyCarboneDC in NYC tomorrow at @Solidus_Labs’s DACOM summit for a timely discussion on the Clarity Act and the path forward 🇺🇸
Data > False Narratives.
The claim that stablecoin yield hurts bank lending doesn't hold up. See the numbers for yourself, courtesy of the @WhiteHouse.
Disingenuous to its core. Bad faith from the start.
Banking trades now say they don't trust Sec. Bessent to protect the economy from deposit flight.
Let’s be honest now. It was never about deposit flight. It’s about killing competition.
Pass the CLARITY Act.
🚨NEW: Eight banking trade groups say the deposit flight “circuit breaker” added to the new Clarity Act text is “not a safeguard at all,” arguing it would only kick in after substantial deposit flight had already occurred.
In a letter to Senate leaders, the groups call for further tightening of the stablecoin rewards language to close what they describe as loopholes that could still allow interest-like payments on stablecoin balances. Their core ask remains essentially unchanged.
Let’s keep going.
“Cloture on the motion to proceed” = a vote to start debating Clarity.
Next: Senate returns Sept 14, votes to open debate, then debates/amends it, then holds a final passage vote.
Several steps still remain before it becomes law, but this is the first.