SEC's $75 Million Annual Token Path Takes Final Comments Tuesday
The SEC's Regulation Crypto Assets closes October 20, letting firms raise $75M yearly selling tokens without equity dilution. Comments due Tuesday.
The SEC's Regulation Crypto Assets closes October 20, letting firms raise $75M yearly selling tokens without equity dilution. Comments due Tuesday.
The SEC's October 1 proposal allows investment advisers to hold client crypto but requires 90-day custodian checks, dual approvals, and annual audits.
Crypto firms spent $8 million lobbying for the Clarity Act. It failed 49-50 on September 15. Ethics provisions and banking rules killed it, not crypto law.
The CLARITY Act failed 49-50, but regulators moved ahead with crypto rules. Without Congressional backing, they can be reversed after the next election.
Hester Peirce leaves Oct 2, reducing the SEC to two commissioners. The agency published new crypto guidance the same day she announced her departure.
The Senate killed the Clarity Act on Sept 15. Within 48 hours, SEC and CFTC issued three regulatory frameworks, moving faster than Congress ever did.
Bitcoin's three-month winning streak happened once before in 2012. The sample size is one, the market structure has changed, and the comparison misleads.
The SEC and CFTC issued crypto-friendly relief on September 17, marking the first time both agencies moved toward regulatory exemptions on the same day.
Bitcoin ETFs shed $450M from Iran fighting Sept 8-10, recovered in one day, then lost another $450M on the Clarity Act vote failure September 15.
The Senate voted 46-43 on the crypto bill September 15, falling 14 short. Republicans incorporated 126 Democratic amendments over 15 months.
OSFI says tokenized deposits are not a new legal product, just bank liabilities under existing rules. Canadian banks get a green light, no on-chain break.
The revised CLARITY Act splits DeFi into two legal classes and aims CFTC registration at protocols that only look decentralized, days before a Senate vote.
Polymarket gives the CLARITY Act a 14.5% chance of becoming law in 2026 even as the Senate schedules a September 15 cloture vote and whales bet against it.
The SEC scrapped its own crypto vote and the Senate punted the CLARITY Act to a September cloture clock. Polymarket now prices 2026 passage near 21%.
Regulators blew the GENIUS Act deadline and CLARITY odds fell to a record 31%. Both halves of crypto's Washington trade slipped in one week.
Bitcoin clung to $62,500 in extreme fear, but the day's real moves were elsewhere: the CLARITY Act hit political risk, Wall Street pushed into prediction markets, and Binance faced a June 30 EU deadline.
The CLARITY Act is the flagship US crypto market-structure bill, designed to divide oversight of digital assets between the SEC and CFTC and finally define when a token is a security versus a commodity. This tag tracks the bill’s progress through Congress, the amendments and lobbying that reshape it, the SEC–CFTC jurisdiction split it proposes, and the implications for exchanges, token issuers, and DeFi developers who have operated for years without clear rules. Coinliva covers the votes, the committee markups, the industry response, and what the framework would actually change for companies building in the US.