Here is what we’re in search of now that Congress is again from summer season recess and we enter the ultimate 4 months of 2025.
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The narrative
Welcome to the final 4 months of 2025. Here is what we’re in search of within the closing third of this yr.
Why it issues
Crypto already obtained one main invoice this yr — the GENIUS Act addressing stablecoins — however the greater market construction invoice stays a work-in-progress. Congress is again from summer season recess however there are different points it has to take care of, together with a funding invoice deadline on the finish of the month.
Breaking it down
Within the legislative department, all eyes are on market construction laws. Whereas the Home of Representatives handed the Digital Belongings Market Readability Act (Readability Act) with overwhelming bipartisan assist earlier this yr, the Senate has up to now gone its personal route, with the Senate Banking Committee publishing a number of drafts defining “ancillary property” and dealing towards creating tips for the broader crypto sector.
Whereas the Banking Committee has printed a number of drafts — together with one late Friday — the Senate Agriculture Committee has not but gone that far. Any laws will want assist from each committees, given the Banking Committee oversees the Securities and Change Fee and the Agriculture Committee oversees the Commodity Futures Buying and selling Fee.
Furthermore, this invoice will want bipartisan assist, given the 60-vote threshold it might want to advance out of the Senate. Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott set a Sept. 30 deadline for passage, however it’ll be a heavy elevate, given the myriad different considerations the Senate has proper now.
The federal regulators, for his or her half, are additionally shifting swiftly. On Tuesday, the Securities and Change Fee and Commodity Futures Buying and selling Fee printed a joint assertion on spot buying and selling of crypto by registered companies, saying these corporations ought to ask the regulators for steering however that sure property have been okay to commerce (although it didn’t identify these property).
On Thursday, the SEC printed a public agenda addressing its near-term priorities with plenty of crypto-related motion objects. The SEC goals to suggest a rule on promoting crypto property by April, in addition to presumably handle a protected harbor.
And on Friday, the SEC and CFTC printed a joint assertion saying they’d proceed working to “harmonize” their efforts round crypto regulation. To that finish, there shall be a joint roundtable on Sept. 29.
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