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- 16, 2026 at 4:56 pm UTC Share Cover art/illustration via CryptoSlate.
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- The US crypto industry believed it stood on the precipice of securing the regulatory legitimacy it has pursued for a decade, but the political ground has suddenly shifted beneath it. On Jan.
- 14, Sen.
- Tim Scott, the chair of the Senate Banking Committee, postponed a vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. This delay effectively halted Washington’s most advanced attempt yet to establish comprehensive “rules of the road” for the $3 trillion digital asset market. While Chair Scott characterized the postponement as a tactical pause to keep stakeholders “at the table working in good faith,” the sudden brake-pumping reveals a fractured coalition within the emerging industry.
