U.S. senators continue to wheel, deal, and appeal to advance their digital asset market structure legislation, while federal regulators are asking crypto operators if they just wanna write their own rules already.

On Tuesday, Senate Banking Committee chair Tim Scott (R-SC) was a guest on Day 1 of the Blockchain Summit 2026 in the District of Columbia, where he offered an update on efforts to restart the digital asset market structure legislative process that has been stalled for…