A procedural vote scheduled for September 15 will determine whether the CLARITY Act, the most consequential piece of cryptocurrency market-structure legislation to reach the Senate floor, has any realistic path to becoming law before the current Congress expires. The stakes, according to Senator Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, extend well beyond the immediate legislative calendar.

In a September 6 post on X, the Republican lawmaker warned that if the bill does not clear the Senate during this session, the next viable window for comprehensive digital asset oversight could be 2030. “If the Clarity Act doesn’t pass this Congress, the next real opportunity to bring market structure legislation back up is 2030,” she wrote. “That’s years of jobs,…