Congressional panels grasp evolved nominations for regulators who will deal with crypto, nevertheless the plump Senate hasn’t confirmed them yet. We’re also working out of time for market structure.

PS: I will be in Washington, D.C. for the Blockchain Affiliation’s annual summit. I’d decide on to claim hello at the same time as you would also very successfully be there.

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Two weeks left

The account

Two weeks ago, this e-newsletter looked at how time used to be working out for the crypto alternate to lock in legislative wins in 2025. Now, with December in plump swing and the Dwelling and Senate every all of the contrivance down to their last two scheduled working weeks, it be time to take stock of what’s left to enact.

Why it matters

We now grasp viewed the regulatory agencies take steps since last month to additional attain crypto efforts. Congress, nonetheless, stays in an irregular narrate of limbo.

Breaking it down

The very finest quiz continues to be when Congress may perhaps well well possess additional progress on market structure legislation. Or no longer it’s certain by this point that this bill — no topic the closing text happens to be — may perhaps well well no longer change into legislation sooner than subsequent year on the soonest.

What’s less certain is whether or no longer the drafts now we grasp viewed may perhaps even secure to a markup listening to sooner than January. The Senate Banking Committee used to be taking a scrutinize at December 18 as a tentative date to encourage a markup on its model, nevertheless negotiations on bill text appear like ongoing. Ditto with the Senate Agriculture Committee; its participants grasp no longer made any public statements about their model of the market structure bill since releasing the first draft of the text weeks ago.

The Senate is making extra visible progress on advancing President Donald Trump’s nominees to elope the CFTC and FDIC. Each Mike Selig and Travis Hill are on a Senate Resolution intended to let that body of Congress verify nearly 100 nominees straight away. A vote used to be supposed to happen this week nevertheless that did no longer happen; the Senate is now anticipated to vote on this resolution subsequent week sometime.

This week

This week

• The Senate will vote on a resolution to substantiate, among others, CFTC Chair nominee Mike Selig and FDIC Chair nominee Travis Hill.

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