The Ongoing Lack of Clarity
Clarity Act fails 49-50: What the Senate vote means for stablecoin rewards and bank deposits
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Clarity Act fails 49-50: What the Senate vote means for stablecoin rewards and bank deposits
In eleven days, two regulators said in writing that a shared ledger can be the legally authoritative record of who owns what.
Forty of the world's largest payment and technology companies joined a foundation this summer for a market whose only public number comes from an unstamped counter that has not moved since March.
Four US stocks went onto a public blockchain this week in self-custodied wallets, issued by an Abu Dhabi special purpose vehicle whose prospectus reserves the power to freeze and confiscate them.
Bitcoin gained 23% in seven days after a Treasury decision about the long bond, and the supply of dollars on public blockchains grew 0.26%. The open money read: price has stopped being a scoreboard for open infrastructure, and this is the week you can watch the two come apart.
KPMG issued an unqualified opinion on Tether's 2025 financials, confirming $6.814 billion in excess reserves, in the same year more than 100 crypto projects folded. The open money read: the industry is being graded now, and the tests are revenue, reserves, and redemption.