The U.S. is steering toward regulated private stablecoins as its digital dollar layer while blocking a retail Fed CBDC, a move that favors USDC and USDT but keeps privacy, control, and reserve-risk debates very much alive.
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Trump’s delay of a bipartisan housing bill has spilled into the crypto policy fight, potentially slowing anti-CBDC momentum and crowding out the Clarity Act before Congress leaves for recess. The move is as much political leverage as policy — and Washington’s usual mess, with extra paperwork.
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Trump’s delay on a bipartisan housing bill has thrown a CBDC ban into the spotlight, turning a housing measure into a broader fight over Federal Reserve digital money, crypto policy, and political leverage in Washington.
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CLARITY is still alive, but Washington is swamped with unresolved fights over crypto taxes, CBDC bans, prediction markets, and PAC money. Congress wants “clarity” while proving, once again, that nobody can stall quite like lawmakers.
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Kevin Warsh has landed at the top of the Federal Reserve, and Bitcoin traders now have something unusual to parse: a Fed chair who actually understands crypto. That does not mean the market should start printing moon-boy confetti. Warsh may be friendly to Bitcoin in principle, but his hardline view on inflation and interest rates […]
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The Senate’s return from recess puts the Digital Asset Clarity Act back in play, and the biggest prize may not be crypto market structure at all. The bill’s real knockout punch is the prohibition on a Federal Reserve retail CBDC — a move that would protect private stablecoins and keep the state out of the […]
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Scott Bessent just made the Trump administration’s position on a U.S. central bank digital currency crystal clear: no CBDC, and yes to bringing crypto business back onto American soil where regulators can see it, tax it, and stop pretending it doesn’t exist. CBDC is “off the table” CLARITY Act pushed as the fix for U.S. […]
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Scott Bessent is telling Congress to stop dragging its feet and give U.S. crypto rules some actual teeth. The Treasury Secretary says the CLARITY Act is the path to bringing digital assets back onshore, making the United States the “home” for crypto business, and ending the regulatory mess that has pushed too many firms offshore. […]
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The CLARITY Act is one of the most serious attempts yet to stop U.S. crypto regulation from being a total legal dumpster fire. It would draw a hard line between digital commodities and digital securities, shift many tokens under CFTC oversight, protect much of DeFi, and block a retail CBDC. It is also still imperfect, […]
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Tom Emmer calls CBDC the ultimate surveillance tool for America House Majority Whip Tom Emmer is back on the warpath against a U.S. central bank digital currency, warning that a CBDC could become the “ultimate surveillance tool” for America if Washington gets control over programmable money. Privacy alarm: Emmer says a digital dollar could let […]
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