US Digital Asset Clarity Act Stalls in Senate Over Three Key Disputes
Jul 10, 2026
According to Yahoo Finance on July 10, 2026 (19 Tir 1405), the US Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, known as the CLARITY Act, which had earlier advanced out of the Senate Banking Committee in a bipartisan vote, remains on the Senate calendar with no floor vote scheduled and no cloture motion filed, still short of the seven to nine Democratic votes needed to clear the Senate's sixty vote filibuster threshold. The report identifies three interlocking disputes blocking progress: crypto insider trading disclosure and ethics rules, law enforcement concerns that Section 604 of the bill would impair criminal investigations involving cryptocurrency, and questions over whether the bill's stablecoin yield language could let digital asset platforms offer interest equivalent returns. The Senate returns from recess on July 13, 2026 (22 Tir), leaving roughly twenty working days before the chamber breaks for its August recess on August 7.
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