CLARITY Act Passes Senate Banking Committee 15-9: What It Means for Crypto's Legal Future
The Senate Banking Committee's 15-9 vote to advance the CLARITY Act marks the first time a comprehensive U.S. crypto market structure bill has cleared a Senate committee — resolving SEC/CFTC jurisdiction, reshaping DeFi's legal standing, and setting up a make-or-break floor vote before August recess.
CLARITY Act Clears Senate Banking Committee in Historic 15-9 Vote — What Happens Next
The Senate Banking Committee advanced the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act in a historic 15-9 bipartisan vote on May 14, 2026 — the first comprehensive crypto market structure bill to clear a Senate committee. Here's what the bill does, why the vote matters, and what the 60-vote Senate floor challenge means for crypto's regulatory future.
Russia Just Made Crypto Wallets Behave Like Foreign Bank Accounts
Russia's July 2026 mandate forces residents to declare every foreign crypto wallet to the Federal Tax Service within 30 days — the first time a major economy has treated self-custody like an offshore bank account, and a template other tax regimes are quietly studying.
Brazil's 8-Year Prison Threat: How Bill 4.308/2024 Could Erase Ethena's USDe From Latin America
Brazil's Bill 4.308/2024 would ban Ethena's USDe and Frax with up to eight years in prison for issuers — the harshest stablecoin regime among major jurisdictions, in a country where 90% of crypto trading is stablecoins.
Fairshake's $10M Illinois Defeat Ends Crypto's 91% Election Win Streak
Crypto super PAC Fairshake spent nearly $10M opposing Juliana Stratton in the Illinois Senate primary and lost. The defeat ends a 91% win streak and reshapes the lobbying calculus for the CLARITY Act and 2026 midterms.
GENIUS Act Gets Real: April 2026 NPRMs Redraw the US Stablecoin Map
April 2026's Treasury, FDIC, and OCC rulemakings turn the GENIUS Act into binding US stablecoin law — here is what the $10B threshold, yield prohibition, and July 18 deadline mean for Circle, Tether, and every issuer still racing to register.
California's DFAL Is Crypto's New BitLicense — But This Time, the Fifth-Largest Economy in the World Is Setting the Standard
California's Digital Financial Assets Law (DFAL) takes effect July 1, 2026, requiring every crypto company serving the state's 39 million residents to obtain a license. Here's how the world's fifth-largest economy is setting a de facto national standard for crypto regulation.
The CFTC Just Sued Three States Over Prediction Markets — Here's Why It Could Reshape a $44 Billion Industry
The CFTC sued Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois to defend its exclusive jurisdiction over prediction markets. With Kalshi valued at $22B, Polymarket back in the US, and DraftKings entering the space, the federal-state battle will decide the fate of a $44B industry — and whether on-chain prediction platforms can operate under one national framework.
The Mined in America Act Wants to Build a Domestic Bitcoin Mining Supply Chain — Can It Work?
Senators Cassidy and Lummis introduced the Mined in America Act to end U.S. dependence on Chinese mining hardware, create a voluntary certification program, and codify the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. We break down the bill's provisions, the tariff squeeze driving its urgency, and whether domestic ASIC manufacturing can realistically scale.