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More than 100 crypto firms and organizations led by the Digital Chamber, the Crypto Council for Innovation, and the Blockchain Association, have escalated their lobbying push on the U.S. Senate to advance the CLARITY Act, framing passage as the industry’s last realistic window to secure federal regulatory clarity before congressional momentum stalls.
The Senate Banking Committee cleared the bill in mid-May after months of bipartisan negotiations, but the floor fight has barely begun.
The stakes are concrete: for exchanges like Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini, the bill directly protects fiat on/off-ramps that informal banking pressure has been quietly strangling for years.
Crypto-exposed equities surged on the committee vote, but analysts are already flagging the procedural hurdles that remain before the bill reaches the President’s desk.
The coalition’s April 23 letter to Senate Banking named the core grievance directly, that federal regulators, including the Fed, FDIC, and OCC have been running what the industry calls Operation Choke Point 2.0: an informal campaign to pressure banks into dropping crypto clients without formal rulemaking, without due process, and without a paper trail that advocacy groups can challenge in court.
The CLARITY Act would force that behavior into the open by mandating formal rulemaking processes to replace the current system of supervisory letters and guidance documents.
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What the Coalition Is Actually Demanding – and Whether It Can Move Votes for the Clarity Act
The 100-plus signatories of the April letter include Coinbase, Circle, Kraken, Ripple, ConsenSys, Anchorage Digital, Galaxy Digital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Paradigm, a coalition spanning institutional infrastructure, VC capital, and retail-facing platforms.
Stand With Crypto university chapters also signed, signaling the campaign is running a constituent-pressure track alongside the institutional lobbying.
The Digital Chamber’s Crypto Banking campaign has zeroed in on swing-vote senators in both the Banking Committee and the broader Democratic caucus, where bipartisan support is viewed as a hard prerequisite for the 60-vote threshold needed to move the bill on the floor.
The Crypto Council’s CEO has warned that without passage, “the U.S. risks losing its edge in this global competition”, a line calibrated to the national competitiveness argument that has drawn the most traction with skeptical centrists.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent added institutional weight at a Senate hearing on the FY2027 budget, arguing the CLARITY Act is “critical to maintaining U.S. financial leadership and the dollar’s reserve status.”
That alignment between the administration and industry lobby is notable, but it hasn’t yet neutralized Democratic concerns that the bill could weaken enforcement in a sector where President Trump’s family holds business interests.
Prediction market odds on the CLARITY Act have already shown how quickly Senate sentiment can shift, with passage probabilities collapsing sharply on earlier procedural setbacks.
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