Bessent is pressing the Senate to vote on the CLARITY Act before August recess, warning that more delay could leave the U.S. behind on crypto policy. The bill has gained some law enforcement backing, but DeFi liability and enforcement powers remain the big fights.
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Bessent is pressing the Senate to vote on the CLARITY Act before recess, but the bill is still bogged down by ethics disputes, BRCA language, and the brutal 60-vote math. It’s a real push for crypto market structure — not a done deal.
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The Senate’s merged CLARITY Act text aims to finally set U.S. crypto market rules, splitting oversight between the SEC, CFTC, and stablecoin framework. But with ethics fights, state preemption concerns, and shaky votes ahead of recess, passage looks far from certain.
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South Korea has locked in a 22% crypto tax on gains above 2.5 million won, set to begin January 1, 2027. The move ends years of delay, but the real test will be whether the rules are clear enough to avoid driving traders offshore.
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South Korea is reportedly moving ahead with a 22% tax on crypto gains above 2.5 million won, targeted for 2027. The plan could hit active traders, tighten exchange reporting, and reignite the fight over whether taxing crypto helps the market or just drives activity offshore.
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The CLARITY Act is picking up police support after revisions eased law-enforcement concerns, but its path through the Senate is still messy. Stablecoin rewards, developer protections, and ethics fights could keep the crypto market structure bill stuck in Washington’s favorite pastime: gridlock.
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Big US banks are reportedly weighing a shared permissioned blockchain for tokenized deposits, aiming to speed up dollar settlement and cut reconciliation pain. The idea is promising, but it’s still exploratory — and governance, regulation, and bank politics may be the real bottlenecks.
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DTCC’s live tokenization rollout shows Wall Street isn’t getting replaced by crypto — it’s absorbing the useful parts and turning them into market infrastructure. The real fight now is legal rights and settlement, not flashy blockchain branding.
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Anthropic says Claude found a serious flaw in HAWK, a post-quantum signature candidate, trimming its security margin but not affecting Bitcoin or Ethereum. The bigger takeaway: AI is becoming a real cryptanalysis tool, and Bitcoin’s post-quantum migration is getting harder to ignore.
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SEC Chair Paul Atkins says the SEC is ready to write crypto rules itself if Congress delays the CLARITY Act, setting up a high-stakes fight over who gets to define U.S. crypto markets: lawmakers or regulators. Clear rules or more bureaucratic chaos — pick your poison.
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