U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said he doesn’t expect the upper house to start working on the CLARITY Act before April.
Will the CLARITY Act topic return only in April?
When asked about the CLARITY Act, he admitted that work on regulating the cryptocurrency market would start again in April.
I hope that the Market Structure (Cryptocurrencies) Bill will be passed by the Banking Commission soon, probably no earlier than April
Thune said.
However, his words are contrary to what was said by Ohio senator Bernie Moreno, who in February expressed hope that the CLARITY Act would be passed by Congress by April, i.e. in March. This was evidenced by the fact that the Senate Agriculture Committee approved its version of the bill. The problem remains that the Senate Banking Committee postponed its work on the document.
We say “no” to CBDC!
However, it is not as if the Senate is not dealing with digital assets at all right now. On Thursday, it passed amendments to a housing bill, the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, that would prohibit the U.S. Federal Reserve from issuing central bank digital currency (CBDC). If the bill is signed by the president, the CBDC ban will apply until December 2030.
However, the entire market is waiting for the CLARITY Act, which was passed by the House of Representatives in July 2025, to be passed. If the Senate does the same and Donald Trump signs the bill, the US market will be largely regulated.
At issue is the issue of paying interest to stablecoin holders. Banks want to block cryptocurrency exchanges from offering such a service.
