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CLARITY Act Senate Delay Could Threaten Crypto Custody Safety, Says Senator Cynthia Lummis
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Fusion42 · 20 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
The CLARITY Act, stalled in the Senate with no floor vote scheduled, would ring-fence customer crypto assets from bankruptcy estates—a structural protection modelled on Celsius and Voyager's 2022 collapses. The bill faces a narrow window: negotiations deadlocked on ethics provisions and law-enforcement concerns, with Democratic swing votes (Warner, Cortez Masto) holding the 60-vote threshold, and only 14 working days before August recess.
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If you hold customer crypto or build on stablecoins, this bill's failure kills a market-structure floor you were counting on—and its passage may not happen before recess. The real risk is not the rule itself; it's that a narrowing Senate window and unresolved ethics language could kick this into 2027, leaving custody as a competitive liability for another year.
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