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“The grand unification of AI and crypto is what's about to happen now”
"I think AI is the crypto killer app"
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"For every 3 miserable, horrific, terrible, painful, insufferable years you get 1 of the most euphoric, unreal, hard to even fathom its happening, years of your life"
With the GENIUS Act (the first major U.S. stablecoin framework) already signed into law and set to ramp up early next year, and the CLARITY Act potentially adding broader market structure rules soon,
$CRCL is uniquely positioned. If regulatory tailwinds hit as expected, this could be one of the stocks with the strongest setup to push toward new all time highs.
Friendly reminder also $CRCL (Circle) just became the first company to receive final OCC approval for a federally chartered national trust bank focused on digital assets Circle National Trust.
Good morning, new aths are near.
If the Whitehouse ethics agreement is accepted and the Clarity Act is passed this month… We’ll see the biggest bullrun in crypto as we merge now into utility and the DTCC goes full speed ahead this October!
Ethics is the biggest issue with CLARITY right now.
There's nothing else stopping this bill really at this point...August 10th is the deadline. Let the political games begin (and end, hopefully, so we can continue on our mission as an industry).
The unlocks post-CLARITY are massive for institutional capital onchain, new entrants in the market, and a wide variety of new possibilities with the convergence of DeFi and finance.
Let's get this done.
One major issue delaying the CLARITY Act was the ethics package.
Democratic senators raised concerns that President Trump and his family could personally benefit from the legislation due to their crypto business interests.
President Trump has now agreed to the ethics provisions, which include stronger conflict-of-interest rules, disclosures, and investor protections.
This resolves the main roadblock and clears the path for updated bill text.
Republicans are ready, many Democrats are supportive, and America is ready for regulatory clarity.
It’s time to pass the CLARITY Act.
Agree with @scottmelker here. For many months, the market was overestimating the odds that CLARITY would pass. Now, it's underestimating those odds.
If this thing passes, winter is over.
🇺🇸 Senator Kevin Cramer says the main delay on the CLARITY Act is giving Democrats time to review the latest ethics-related amendments.
He made it clear he wants the bill passed before Congress breaks for the August recess.
Coinbase says the CLARITY Act is close
"Tremendous momentum." That's how @coinbase's vice chair Ryan VanGrack (@RVanGrack), a former SEC official, described the CLARITY Act on CNBC, ahead of a possible Senate floor vote this week.
He says Democrats won concessions on consumer protections, from insider-trading safeguards to closing what he calls an FTX loophole. However, a merged draft last week dropped the ethics provision that the Democrats demanded, and several came out against it.
If you're wondering why the market is green today:
The ethics clause on the CLARITY Act appears to be resolved.
That single provision, the conflict-of-interest rule around government officials' crypto holdings, is what held this entire bill hostage for months. Democrats pushed hard for it while Trump kept filling his bags with one crypto scheme after another and dumping on retail.
But it now seems like real progress has finally been made, with the White House reportedly conceding to language described as "more aggressive than anything seen before."
Next up: a Senate floor vote before Congress leaves for August recess on Aug 7th.
Why this is arguably the single biggest catalyst crypto and especially alts have right now (and maybe ever had):
CLARITY ends the decade-long jurisdictional war between the SEC and CFTC and permanently codifies which assets are commodities into federal law. No future administration can undo it with a memo. It replaces a decade of "regulation by enforcement" with actual written rules.
What that unlocks:
Institutional capital that has been stuck on the sidelines. Pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and the largest asset managers can't hold unclassified assets for compliance reasons. Remove that barrier and they can finally allocate using the exact same frameworks they use for equities and bonds.
JPMorgan itself literally called this the trigger that opens the floodgates.
On top of that, we get real developer protection, which means more innovation from talent that finally isn't scared away anymore.
And real user protection, with rules that would have made any FTX-like collapse structurally impossible. The same kind of collapse we're still suffering from reputationally to this day.
And here's the tell: look how much the market moved on just a small procedural win like this. Now imagine what happens when the whole thing actually passes.
For reference, when the GENIUS Act was signed last July, total crypto market cap crossed $4 trillion for the first time.
CLARITY is bigger. Much bigger.
The market is wildly underestimating the odds of the CLARITY Act passing.
On top of that, people don't even realize that while the GENIUS Act was signed into law, it only becomes effective in January 2027.
The floodgates for crypto's biggest killer use case aka stablecoins are opening in less than 6 months.
And the biggest catalyst for onchain businesses aka alts is now within reach too.
Looking at the market, these haven't been priced in yet. But hey, they're only the biggest catalysts our industry has ever had.