知情人士告诉 ,立法者最早可能会在下周放弃新版本的《澄清法案》。 新版本的法案将结合参议院银行和农业委员会的努力,尽管仍有一些悬而未决的问题需要解决,包括道德规范,这是参议院民主党人的一个关键要求。 民主党仍需接受新草案,该草案需要 60 票才能在参议院获得通过。
美国参议院监管加密货币行业的立法正在摇摆不定,这可能是 2026 年可行努力的最后几天,支持者预计最快下周就会出现新的草案,以便参议院在本月晚些时候采取行动。 《数字资产市场清晰度法案》距离参议院审议只剩下几周时间,参议院的议程和更广泛的国会政治使其成功的机会接近于零,但了解谈判情况的人士表示,他们已经看到了一些进展,其中包括银行业和农业两个相关参议院委员会的努力合并后形成的新文本。 然而,立法工作人员表示,尽管大部分最新材料代表了对他们担忧的回应,但这一努力尚未获得所需的民主党支持。
据称,《澄清法案》的统一版本增加了 70 多页的文本,但尚未在主要症结上巩固立场:民主党要求的限制措施阻止高级政府官员(包括总统)与加密货币行业保持业务联系。如果不对此类道德限制做出妥协,几位立法者表示他们不会对最终法案投赞成票。 这些会谈提出了一些具体想法,例如让州检察长就违反道德行为提起诉讼。然而,据一些知情人士透露,谈判进展缓慢。 下周可能发布的合并文本不会代表各自委员会今年早些时候投票通过的两项法案的简单组合。两个委员会的成员就悬而未决的问题进行了谈判——农业委员会更是如此,因为该法案是严格按照党派路线被委员会否决的——据说更新后的法案反映了这一过程的结果,更加强调消费者保护。
该法案的支持者预计该法案最早将在 7 月 20 日这一周提交参议院审议,尽管立法者还有很多工作要做。 除了道德之外,悬而未决的问题还包括联邦优先权,谈判者仍需要就填补美国证券交易委员会和商品期货交易委员会的席位达成最终协议。周四早些时候,白宫致信参议员约翰·图恩和查克·舒默,他们分别是参议院多数党和少数党领袖,称民主党尚未提出这些委员会中少数派角色的任何人选。 上个月,一封来自民主党参议员的信批评特朗普和多数党领袖约翰·图恩“在确定民主党提名人以填补独立机构空缺的正常程序中,几乎在所有情况下都拒绝与参议院民主党领导层接触。相反,白宫似乎打算无限期地保留这些关键职位中的绝大多数。”
《澄清法案》需要大量民主党人的支持才能通过参议院 60 票的门槛。到目前为止,即使是投票支持银行委员会版本的两位民主党人也警告说,如果最终版本不能解决他们悬而未决的问题,包括道德条款,他们可能不会批准最终版本。白宫还没有签署合并文本,也没有参与最近的谈判。 但在其他地方,另一个希望的迹象出现在周三参议员 Ron Wyden 写给参议院领导层的信中,俄勒冈州民主党人支持早期立法处理开发商法律保护的方式,特别是 Clarity 中被称为“区块链监管确定性法案”的部分,该法案将确保加密货币开发商如果不处理客户资产,就不会被联邦法规视为货币传输者。去中心化金融(DeFi)领域已将保留 BRCA 作为 Clarity 谈判的首要目标。
尽管一些加密货币行业的 DC 内部人士已经开始对《澄清法案》的生存表示私下的不确定性,但这项努力尚未达到在夏季国会休会和注意力转向秋季中期选举之前完成的致命期限。 参议院日历包括七月剩余的三周和八月的第一周。然而,推进立法的过程可能需要几天时间,这意味着 2026 年起飞的跑道所剩无几。有人担心国防开支法案也可能使商会的带宽变得复杂。 此外,美国众议院需要批准参议院版本的《澄清》才能成为法律,因此这一进程将等待因共和党内讧而几乎瘫痪的众议院采取行动。然后它将前往唐纳德·特朗普总统的办公桌上签名以使其成为法律,尽管总统拒绝签署另一项受欢迎的立法——
Lawmakers may drop a new version of the Clarity Act as soon as next week, people following the effort told .
The new version of the bill will combine the efforts from the Senate Banking and Agriculture Committees, though there are still outstanding issues to resolve, including ethics, a key ask for Senate Democrats.
Democrats will still need to buy into the new draft, which would need 60 votes to advance out of the Senate.
The U.S. Senate legislation that would regulate the crypto industry is wobbling forward in what are likely its final days as a viable effort for 2026, and advocates expect a new draft could emerge as soon as next week for potential Senate action later in the month.
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act has just a few weeks left to advance in the Senate before the chamber's calendar and wider congressional politics leave its chances close to zero, but those briefed on the negotiations say they've seen some headway, including a new text that's come together in the merger of the efforts from the two relevant Senate committees: Banking and Agriculture.
However, legislative staffers signaled that the effort hasn't yet secured Democratic buy-in it'll need, despite much of the latest material representing a response to their concerns.
The unified version of the Clarity Act — which is said by one person to have had more than 70 pages of text added — hasn't yet solidified a position on the major sticking point: A Democrat-demanded restriction keeping senior government officials (including the president) from maintaining business ties with the crypto sector. Without a compromise on such ethics limits, several lawmakers have said they won't vote yes on a final bill.
These talks have raised some specific ideas, such as letting state attorneys general sue for ethic violations. However, progress has slowed to a crawl, according to some familiar with the negotiation.
The merged text that may be released next week will not represent a simple combination of the two bills the respective committees voted to approve earlier this year. Both committees' members negotiated on outstanding issues — the Agriculture Committee more so, given that bill was voted out of committee on strictly partisan lines — and the updated bill is said to reflect the results of that process, putting more emphasis on consumer protections.
The bill's advocates expect it to reach the Senate floor as soon as the week of July 20, though the lawmakers have a lot of work left.
Beyond ethics, outstanding issues include federal preemption, and negotiators still need to come to a final agreement on filling the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Earlier Thursday, the White House sent a letter to Senators John Thune and Chuck Schumer, respectively the majority and minority heads in the Senate, saying Democrats had not put forward any names for the minority roles on these commissions.
Last month, a letter from Democratic senators had criticized Trump and Majority Leader John Thune for refusing "in almost every instance to engage with Senate Democratic leadership in the normal process of identifying Democratic nominees to fill vacancies on independent agencies. Instead, the White House appears set on leaving the vast majority of these critical positions open indefinitely."
The Clarity Act will need a significant number of Democrats to get on board before it can clear the 60-vote threshold in the Senate. So far, even the two Democrats who voted to advance the Banking Committee's version warned that they may not approve the final version if it doesn't answer their outstanding concerns, including the ethics provision. The White House also hasn't signed off on the merged text, or engaged in the most recent negotiations.
But elsewhere, another sign of hope appeared in a Wednesday letter from Senator Ron Wyden to Senate leadership that the Oregon Democrat supported the way the earlier legislation handled the legal protections for developers — specifically the section of Clarity known as the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act, which would ensure crypto developers wouldn't be treated under federal regulations as money transmitters if they're not handling customer assets. The decentralized finance (DeFi) sector has made preserving the BRCA a top aim in the Clarity negotiations.
Though some of the crypto industry's DC insiders had begun to express private uncertainty about the Clarity Act's survival, the effort hasn't yet reached its fatal deadline for getting done before the summer congressional break and the shift of attention to the fall midterm elections.
The Senate calendar includes three remaining weeks in July and the first week of August. However, the process to advance the legislation could take a few days of that time, meaning there's scant runway left for a 2026 takeoff. And there's some concern a defense spending bill may also complicate the chamber's bandwidth.
Also, the U.S. House of Representatives would need to approve the Senate's version of Clarity before it could become law, so the process would await the action of a House that's been nearly paralyzed by Republican infighting. And it would then head to the desk of President Donald Trump for a signature to make it law, though the president has refused to sign another popular piece of legislation — the Senate's bipartisan housing bill — as he insists that Congress needs to prioritize his demands for new voting rules.
UPDATE (July 9, 2026, 19:53 UTC): Adds details of the expected Clarity Act draft.
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