The blog comes as the Senate races to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act before lawmakers break for their August recess. While the bill cleared the Senate Banking Committee, negotiators are still trying to resolve several contentious issues, including ethics rules for senior government officials with crypto ties, liability protections for decentralized finance developers, stablecoin yield provisions and concerns from Senate Agriculture Committee Democrats.

Industry groups remain optimistic that the legislation can reach the Senate floor in July, but analysts have warned that failing to pass it before the August recess would sharply reduce its chances of becoming law this year.

In JPMorgan’s view, assets that function like…