Atkins lays it out plainly this time.
SEC Chair Paul Atkins told CNBC that if Congress’s CLARITY Act can’t pass this year, the SEC will write crypto market rules itself. The exact wording was “ready, willing and able.” Translated, it means: don’t count on me just waiting around.
This isn’t idle talk. CLARITY already passed the House; it’s stuck in the Senate. But lately, the Senate has shifted its focus to sanctions targeting Russia and a slew of personnel confirmations. With only a few days left until the August 7 adjournment, there’s barely any floor time left for crypto legislation. The odds on betting sites that something will land this year have dropped from about 82% in February to 35%—the market has voted with money.
Atkins says he still prefers legislation, because laws are more durable than rules and can’t easily be reversed when a new chair takes over. But then the tone changes: if the SEC truly issues rules on its own, it will have to go through every regulatory angle—trading venues, token classification, custody, disclosures—according to the regulator’s framework.
I can read between the lines. For people trading crypto, stalling isn’t exactly a good thing, but it’s not purely bad either. The earlier the rules are set, the more confident big money will be to move in. Ironically, that could reduce volatility. But under current conditions, the situation is essentially hanging in the balance.
$BTC is currently hovering around the 64,000 level, while
$ETH is fluctuating around the mid-teens; it hasn’t surged because of this news, and it hasn’t crashed either. The market is waiting for a sure signal.
Don’t treat someone else’s legislative expectations as your own trading entry.
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