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In focus: a new crypto market regulatory action from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, now before the White House for review days after the Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act.
The agency's decision to route its plan through the executive branch comes as congressional momentum behind crypto regulation has hit a wall. The sequence is worth reading carefully.
The Senate could not move the CLARITY Act forward. Rather than waiting on a legislative window that may not reopen, the CFTC handed the file to the White House instead.
What comes out of that review will tell markets whether the agency's plan carries enough authority to set binding rules or amounts to a policy framework that still needs Congress behind it to hold.
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