Congress Is No Longer the Trade A little over a month ago, the US Senate gave … · @LiaoMojo · TwKit

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Congress Is No Longer the Trade A little over a month ago, the US Senate gave the crypto market-structure bill a procedural burial. 49 to 50, well short of the 60 votes needed to advance. By the usual logic, regulation was supposed to stall for a while. Instead, Bitcoin rallied from $78,000 on Friday to a two-week peak above $81,000. The market did not wait for Congress. The mechanics are simple. The SEC public comment period on Regulation Crypto Assets closes today. The proposal, published August 18, runs 146 pages in the Federal Register and asks 149 numbered questions. The idea is to carve out compliance lanes for issuing crypto assets, including small-raise exemptions and a conditional safe harbor. The CFTC recently sent its crypto-market rules to the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs for review, starting the next stage of formal rulemaking, and gave certain software developers no-action relief from being treated as introducing brokers. Both chairs said before the vote what they would do. Atkins said the SEC would keep going under existing statutory authority. Selig said the CFTC would build the market-structure regime anyway, legislation or not. The market's response is more interesting than the news itself. A dead bill is usually read as bad news. Bitcoin went up. That gap says the market is pricing a different question now. Whether Congress can vote matters less than whether the agencies will move. Legislation offers long-term certainty. A statute survives administrations. Agency rules offer motion right now. They are faster, and more fragile. The next administration can rewrite them, and courts can challenge them. The market picked speed this time, and certainty took the hit. There is no free lunch here. It is a trade that looks good for now. The decision-making power in crypto regulation is moving from the Capitol to agency offices. The legislation is still being debated. The rules are already in motion. For the industry, that is good news and a warning at once. The road is not blocked. But its guardrails are thinner than statute. The next rally may be scheduled on the SEC and CFTC rulemaking calendar.

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