The Senate's published floor schedule has not set a CLARITY Act vote before the August break, leaving the U.S. crypto market-structure bill without a completed floor step as Bitcoin trades near $64,300.
Decentralized exchanges handled monthly spot volume equal to a record 24% of centralized-exchange volume, a shift that still leaves CEXs with most crypto spot trading.
SEC Chair Paul Atkins' 2026 agenda puts crypto asset offerings, broker-dealer custody and exchange trading rules on a July proposal track.
SEC's FY26-FY30 draft strategic plan names digital assets, DLT, custody, trading and staking as priorities, with comments due July 2.
A White House reporter says the Bitcoin and crypto market structure bill final text is nearly finalized, with a Senate Banking Committee markup eyed for mid-to-late March 2026.
White House negotiators set a March 1, 2026 drafting deadline for the CLARITY Act as Senate talks stall on stablecoin rewards and bitcoin rallies.
Trump-backed crypto market structure legislation is still stuck in Senate talks over stablecoin yield, after the House passed the CLARITY Act and negotiators postponed the next markup.
Sen. Mark Warner urged negotiators to keep moving the CLARITY Act as SEC Chair Paul Atkins warned only a statute can lock in durable SEC-CFTC rules.
Senate Agriculture released updated crypto market structure bill text expanding CFTC authority and set a Jan. 27 markup, after bipartisan talks stalled.
Senate Banking GOP delays US crypto market structure bill to late Feb or March, Bloomberg says, as housing takes priority under Trump’s affordability push.
Senate Banking delayed the Jan. 15 CLARITY Act markup on H.R. 3633, keeping U.S. crypto market-structure legislation in limbo—what happens next.