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The cryptocurrency regulation game is cracking on Capitol Hill. For years, the rise of an unregulated cryptocurrency exchange has resulted in little comprehensive regulation. Despite Americans’ concerns, the inability to pass necessary crypto regulation without corporate influence subverts voters’ political power in Ohio and across the country. 

A setback in the U.S. Senate for the Clarity Act, a digital-asset market structure bill, has put expectations for a Bitcoin rebound to the test. But some analysts say passage of the measure should not be viewed as the decisive condition for further gains. Bitcoin already has the infrastructure for institutional investment, and its price…

Two days after the CLARITY Act stalled in a Senate cloture vote, the SEC issued its “Innovation Exemption,” letting qualifying venues trade tokenized stocks on-chain without registering as exchanges or dealers. Industry experts say the move keeps momentum alive, but warn that agency action can’t replace the durability of statute.

Interestingly, that’s the type of conversation that erupted on social media after the Senate’s failed attempt to pass the act on the 15th of September. From a technical perspective, however, it’s too early to jump to any conclusions about the CLARITY Act’s irrelevance to the crypto market. Following the failed vote, the total crypto market…

The U.S. crypto industry faces prolonged regulatory uncertainty after the Senate failed to advance the Clarity Act, leaving digital asset companies without a comprehensive federal market structure framework and keeping the division of authority between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) unclear.