SEC Chair Paul Atkins says the SEC is ready to write crypto rules itself if Congress delays the CLARITY Act, setting up a high-stakes fight over who gets to define U.S. crypto markets: lawmakers or regulators. Clear rules or more bureaucratic chaos — pick your poison.
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The Senate’s CLARITY Act is sliding into September as lawmakers clash over crypto oversight, ethics rules, stablecoin yield, and AML gaps. Support is building, but with Democrats still unconvinced and the SEC/CFTC turf war unresolved, clarity is proving messy.
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The Senate has confirmed former SEC chair Jay Clayton as Director of National Intelligence, reviving attention on the Ripple crackdown he oversaw — though the XRP case itself is over. His new role changes nothing for crypto policy, but the baggage follows him to Washington.
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The CLARITY Act could change crypto law, but not overnight. Some protections and classifications would kick in fast, while the real market framework would still depend on months or years of SEC and CFTC rulemaking. In other words: progress, yes — instant certainty, no.
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The SEC is under pressure to draw a hard line between issuer-approved tokenized stocks and third-party knockoffs that only mimic price exposure. The fight is really about ownership rights, custody, dividends, and voting — not just slapping a blockchain on a ticker.
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Injective is touting $6.8B in RWA volume on its own site, but the “settled” wording and SEC filing claim aren’t verified in the available material. It’s a potentially meaningful signal for tokenized finance — just not one to swallow whole without receipts.
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Coinbase has settled its FOIA fight with the SEC for $150,000 after the agency lost nearly 11 months of former Chair Gary Gensler’s text messages. Beyond the cash, the case spotlights a sloppy records failure tied to crypto oversight and a dent to the SEC’s credibility.
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Coinbase secured a $150,000 FOIA settlement from the SEC after missing Gensler text messages exposed shaky recordkeeping at the agency. Beyond the cash, the deal forces retention reforms — a bad look for a regulator that loves compliance lectures but tripped over its own paperwork.
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Senate negotiators are reportedly closing in on a bipartisan CLARITY Act vote after stronger customer protections and an ethics deal eased major sticking points. The final text is still unpublished, but the bill is edging closer to a real U.S. crypto market framework.
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The SEC says Mining Automatic and owner Zan Shaikh ran a crypto mining investment scheme that raised about $22 million from more than 380 investors, while most of the money allegedly went to marketing, personal spending, and unrelated expenses instead of mining.
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