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A procedural Senate vote to advance the Clarity Act, the digital asset market structure bill, failed on Tuesday, halting the industry's central legislative push before it reached floor debate. The immediate channel is regulatory overhang rather than spot supply: without statutory token classification and clear exchange rules, US listing decisions, DeFi launches, and institutional mandates keep pricing legal risk, which weighs most on exchange and issuer equities such as COIN and on altcoin beta versus BTC and ETH. The read changes only if Senate leadership schedules a fresh cloture attempt or attaches the framework to a must-pass vehicle; the longer the delay runs into the election calendar, the more likely agency rulemaking, not legislation, sets the near-term rules.
As a Policy signal, watch whether it changes price action, volatility, or flows around COIN, BTC, ETH.
Original Source: The Block
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