Senate Banking Committee chairman Tim Scott announced on Thursday that the markup of the digital asset market legislation, originally scheduled for today, has been postponed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve spoken with leaders across the crypto industry, the financial sector, and my Democratic and Republican colleagues, and everyone remains at the table working in good faith,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe goal is to deliver clear rules of the road that protect consumers, strengthen our national security, and ensure the future of finance is built in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n
Senator Cynthia Lummis told Bloomberg on Wednesday that the markup for the controversial legislation was likely to be delayed.\u00a0There was no date specified for the markup of the CLARITY Act, but industry observers think it will happen before the end of the month.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve spoken with leaders across the crypto industry, the financial sector, and my Democratic and Republican colleagues, and everyone remains at the table working in good faith.<\/p>\n
As we take a brief pause before moving to a markup, this market structure bill reflects months of\u2026<\/p>\n
\u2014 Senator Tim Scott (@SenatorTimScott) January 15, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n Many observers were blaming the banks for intervening and pushing for changes that prevent or limit users from earning yields on stablecoins.<\/p>\n This has become a huge point of contention for companies such as Coinbase, which pulled support for the bill this week.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter reviewing the Senate Banking draft text over the last 48 hours, Coinbase unfortunately can\u2019t support the bill as written,\u201d said<\/a> Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on Wednesday.<\/p>\n \u201cRegulatory clarity that shrinks investor upside isn\u2019t progress,\u201d commented<\/a> macroeconomics outlet Milk Road.<\/p>\n \u201cBrian is pointing out the cost embedded in this draft. Yes, it clarifies who regulates crypto. But it does so by banning stablecoin yield, narrowing tokenized asset pathways, and expanding surveillance in DeFi.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe are at the table and will continue to move forward with fair debate. I remain optimistic that issues can be resolved through the markup process,\u201d commented<\/a> Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse.<\/p>\n Bitcoin hit<\/a> a two-month high of $97,700 in late trading on Thursday before beating a retreat as the news of the delayed legislation markup broke.<\/p>\n The asset had slid to $96,500 at the time of writing but was still up marginally on the day and up over 5.5% on the week.<\/p>\n The post Senate Banking Committee Postpones Crypto Market Structure Bill<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Senate Banking Committee chairman Tim Scott announced on Thursday that the markup of the digital asset market legislation, originally scheduled for today, has been postponed. \u201cI\u2019ve spoken with leaders across the crypto industry, the financial sector, and my Democratic and Republican colleagues, and everyone remains at the table working in good faith,\u201d he said. \u201cThe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":127258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Coinbase Pulls Support<\/h2>\n
Bitcoin Beats a Minor Retreat<\/h2>\n