“Crypto Week” kicks off on Monday in the U.S. House, as announced by Republican leadership, and the cryptocurrency industry is looking ahead to seismic legislative wins after spending a fortune to help elect what they’re hailing as the most crypto-friendly Congress ever.
Speaker Mike Johnson said the House will be taking up “three landmark pieces of legislation,” establishing what supportive lawmakers are calling “light-touch guardrails” on digital assets. Each of the bills is championed by crypto industry lobbying groups.
One is the marquee CLARITY Act (H.R. 3633), also called a crypto market structure bill, sponsored by a powerful crypto cheerleader, Financial Services Committee Chair French Hill (R-Ark.)….
