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Add preferred source CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said the agency will advance crypto market-structure rules using existing statutory authority after the Senate blocked the CLARITY Act on a 49-50 cloture vote, 11 short of the 60 required. The failed procedural vote on Sept. 15 shifted regulatory momentum toward the CFTC and SEC, which have both…

SEC Chairman Paul Atkins thanked everyone involved in pushing the CLARITY Act forward, across the administration, Congress, investors and innovators, while confirming the SEC will move ahead regardless of the bill’s outcome. “I have been unequivocal: with or without legislation, we will act decisively within the SEC’s statutory authority to deliver certainty for American investors…

Add preferred source The U.S. Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act, a bill that would have created the first federal regulatory framework for digital assets, falling short of the 60 votes needed on a procedural motion. Former CFTC Chairman Christopher Giancarlo said the setback would not stop the “march of innovation,” emphasizing that SEC…