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Fri, Aug 21

CFTC Commissions Its Wing of the Building

CLARITY Act Senate fight

The CLARITY Act is moving through an increasingly narrow Senate window toward a floor vote as ethics disputes, opposition coalitions, and shifting passage odds keep the bill's fate uncertain.

Latest: CFTC Chair Selig puts staff on notice to draft crypto market-structure rules if CLARITY stalls — "rules one way or another" — while Trump and Armstrong campaign to restore a Sept 15 vote (Armstrong: 60+ votes); the bill's fate and the agency framework now race each other openly

Swift Ledger: settlement still runs the old rails

Read past the word "blockchain" and here's what actually happened. Swift's new ledger matched and netted the two banks' obligations. Then the money moved through the same payment pipes it always has.

Grayscale Files to Convert Its Zcash Trust

Grayscale's fourth S-3/A would list the Zcash Trust on NYSE Arca as ZCSH — potentially the first US spot privacy-coin ETF — while disclosing non-binding talks for a DCG subsidiary to seed it with ~200,000 ZEC (~$110M)

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