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The CLARITY Act: What It Is, Where It Stands, and What Happens This Week A bill is currently working its way through the United States Senate that, if passed, would fundamentally change how digital assets are regulated in the country . It is called the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025, and it has been in various stages of becoming law for nearly a year . This week, it hits one of the most consequential checkpoints yet. The core problem the CLARITY Act aims to address is a longstanding turf war that has been ongoing for years. Both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have claimed authority over digital assets, and they have rarely agreed on where one agency's reach ends and the other's begins. The result has been what regulators and industry lawyers both describe as regulation by enforcement — meaning the rules get written after the lawsuit, not before . The CLARITY Act would draw a clear line: the CFTC gets ...