Trump’s Rare Compromise! The 60-Vote Survival Threshold: Can the CLARITY Act Survive Its “Hell-Level” Gauntlet?
If U.S. crypto regulation were a massive multiplayer online role-playing game, September 15 would be the day when every crypto player faces an extremely critical “pre-Boss battle.” The protagonist of this battle is the CLARITY Act (Digital Asset Market Clarity Act), a bill that has the entire crypto industry on edge. At 2:15 p.m. ET on September 15 (Tuesday) — 2:15 a.m. Beijing Time on September 16 — the U.S. Senate will hold a procedural vote. This is not the final showdown for the bill, but rather a life-or-death battle for the “entry ticket” to the next stage. The voting result will usually be announced fairly quickly after the vote, although formal confirmation may take several hours. So, where does the drama stand right now？ Lets strip away the dry legal language and look at this crypto “Game of Thrones” from the simplest possible perspective.Act One: A Shocking Twist! Trumps “Compromise” Just before the vote, the plot reached a dramatic climax. Trump, who had previously opposed the ethics provisions, suddenly “voluntarily agreed” to some of the strictest ethical restrictions ever proposed — including requirements for relevant individuals to sell “substantial” crypto interests or place them into blind trusts, while even allowing state attorneys general to participate
