[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"article-why-the-clarity-act-is-here-to-stay-en":3,"article-related-why-the-clarity-act-is-here-to-stay-en":30,"series-industry-3da4d7fa-158b-487f-855f-83b84e5b292e":84},{"id":4,"slug":5,"title":6,"content":7,"summary":8,"source":9,"source_url":10,"author":11,"image_url":12,"cover_image":12,"category":13,"language":14,"translated_content":11,"related_article_id":15,"keywords":16,"key_takeaways":22,"views":26,"created_at":27,"published_at":28,"topic_cluster_id":29},"3da4d7fa-158b-487f-855f-83b84e5b292e","why-the-clarity-act-is-here-to-stay-en","Why the CLARITY Act is here to stay","\u003Cp data-speakable=\"summary\">The CLARITY Act will survive bank opposition because the policy fight has already moved from ideology to market structure.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The CLARITY Act is here to stay, and the big banks do not get to decide the rules for digital assets anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Rep. Lisa McClain’s message on Fox Business was not subtle: the bill has momentum, Republican leadership wants it, and the political incentives now favor locking in a clearer framework for crypto markets. That matters because the old playbook, where large incumbents could slow-walk new rules through lobbying and ambiguity, is losing power. Once lawmakers frame a bill as a market-structure fix rather than a speculative favor to one industry, opposition from the biggest banks starts to look less like prudence and more like rent protection.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2>First, clarity is a market necessity, not a partisan luxury\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>Crypto markets do not function well under a fog of overlapping regulators and inconsistent enforcement. Firms cannot build compliant products when they do not know whether the SEC, the CFTC, or some future agency will claim jurisdiction after the fact. That uncertainty raises legal costs, pushes activity offshore, and rewards the largest players that can afford armies of lawyers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cfigure class=\"my-6\">\u003Cimg src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fxxdpdyhzhpamafnrdkyq.supabase.co\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Fcovers\u002Finline-1780561071989-nfyz.png\" alt=\"Why the CLARITY Act is here to stay\" class=\"rounded-xl w-full\" loading=\"lazy\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\u003Cp>We have already seen what this looks like in practice. The United States has spent years producing regulation by enforcement, and the result has been a patchwork that helps incumbents more than innovators. A serious market-structure bill like the CLARITY Act is the opposite of chaos. It sets boundaries, gives exchanges and \u003Ca href=\"\u002Ftag\u002Ftoken\">token\u003C\u002Fa> issuers a path to compliance, and makes it harder for powerful institutions to use uncertainty as a competitive weapon.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2>Second, big-bank resistance is predictable and politically weak\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>Large banks have every reason to dislike a framework that lowers barriers for new financial intermediaries. If digital asset platforms can operate inside a defined legal regime, they become more credible competitors in payments, custody, settlement, and brokerage. Banks can call that consumer protection all they want, but the economic incentive is obvious: keep the moat deep and the rules murky.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The political weakness of that position is that lawmakers now understand the public cost of preserving bank dominance. Americans do not benefit when a handful of institutions can block new rails simply because those rails threaten fee income. In the same way that past financial reforms opened up competition in telecom, airlines, and payments, crypto market structure will keep moving toward clarity because Congress can see who benefits from delay. The banks are not defending the public interest; they are defending their margins.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2>The counter-argument\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>Steelman the opposition: the banks are right that crypto still carries real risks. Fraud, custody failures, unstable tokens, and thinly capitalized platforms have hurt investors before, and a rushed bill could create loopholes that bad actors exploit. From that perspective, resisting the CLARITY Act is not anti-innovation at all. It is a demand for stronger guardrails before Congress writes a permanent rulebook.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cfigure class=\"my-6\">\u003Cimg src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fxxdpdyhzhpamafnrdkyq.supabase.co\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Fcovers\u002Finline-1780561072450-5480.png\" alt=\"Why the CLARITY Act is here to stay\" class=\"rounded-xl w-full\" loading=\"lazy\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\u003Cp>That is a serious concern, and it deserves a real answer. But it does not justify keeping the system vague. Vague rules do not stop fraud; they just make enforcement selective and incentives distorted. The better response is not to preserve uncertainty, but to write clear standards for disclosure, custody, and registration. If the CLARITY Act fails to do that, it should be fixed. If it does, then bank opposition is simply a bid to delay competition under the cover of caution.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2>What to do with this\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>If you are an engineer, PM, or founder building in crypto, plan as if the CLARITY Act will become the baseline, not the exception. Design for compliance now, document token economics, map custody and transfer risks, and assume your product will be judged on whether it can survive in a defined market structure. The winners will not be the teams waiting for perfect certainty. They will be the teams that build as if clarity is coming and use it to scale faster than the incumbents can block it.\u003C\u002Fp>","The CLARITY Act will survive bank opposition because the policy fight has already moved from ideology to market structure.","www.foxbusiness.com","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.foxbusiness.com\u002Fvideo\u002F6397427802112",null,"https:\u002F\u002Fxxdpdyhzhpamafnrdkyq.supabase.co\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Fcovers\u002Finline-1780561071989-nfyz.png","industry","en","76032ead-61f6-4f4f-a023-e20cb93a621b",[17,18,19,20,21],"CLARITY Act","Rep. 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