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US Clarity Act stalls in Senate as Trump crypto ties and bank opposition mount

7/29/2026

The path to US regulatory clarity for digital assets has narrowed faster than markets priced in.

The Clarity Act, a cryptocurrency bill whose progress through Senate committees in May was credited with lifting bitcoin's price, is now facing resistance in the full Senate from two separate directions: complications arising from President Trump's own crypto ventures, and formal objections from the banking industry.

How the May advance moved bitcoin The committee-stage progress in May functioned as a price catalyst across the digital-asset sector.

Traders read the advance as evidence that the US was closing in on a defined legal framework for digital-asset market structure, one that could resolve the jurisdictional ambiguity between securities and commodities regulators that has kept institutional capital cautious.

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