Blockchain Association founder Kristin Smith returns as interim CEO on October 17, days after the CLARITY Act failed a 49-50 Senate cloture vote. For investors waiting on a market-structure law, the Senate count matters more to the timetable than the change at the top.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives40
- Confidence55
Three HPC filings in four days argue perpetual contracts belong at the center of the CFTC's agenda, while CME's June suit asks a federal court to call the same product a swap rather than a future. Kalshi's approved contract sits between them.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption34
- Hype gap+32
- Incentives84
- Confidence42
The Blockchain Association told five federal agencies that identity checks belong where issuers hold control. The agencies already conceded the alternative could cripple the industry, then asked anyway.
Reality
- Evidence46
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives79
- Confidence49
The Coinbase-funded group is rewarding a vote already cast, in the chamber that already said yes. The bill is stuck one floor over.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption40
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives82
- Confidence58
A joint comment filed on the last day of the window argues Reg NMS Rule 611's national benchmark cannot govern trades that settle at a block boundary. The SEC now decides.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives84
- Confidence45