Coinbase CEO Says Clarity Act Is A Freight Train Leaving The Station

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says that essential laws to advance crypto within the US has “a superb likelihood of getting finished” after witnessing robust bipartisan assist for the crypto market construction invoice this week. 

The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act seeks to make clear the roles of the Securities and Trade Fee, the Commodity Futures Buying and selling Fee and different monetary companies that regulate the crypto market, particularly non-stablecoins similar to tokenized shares.

After assembly with lawmakers over the previous couple of days, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said: “That is how we make sure the crypto business will be constructed right here in America, driving innovation and defending shoppers, and ensuring we by no means have one other Gary Gensler making an attempt to take your rights.”

“The Senate is strongly supportive of getting this finished; the members I met with on each side of the aisle are able to get this laws handed,” Armstrong stated in a video posted to X, noting that the draft invoice is being exchanged forwards and backwards earlier than it heads to the business members for public enter.

“I feel this has a superb likelihood of getting finished, I’ve truly by no means been extra bullish in the marketplace construction [bill] getting handed, it’s a freight prepare leaving the station.”

I used to be in DC the previous couple of days working to get MARKET STRUCTURE laws handed for crypto. That is how we make sure the crypto business will be constructed right here in America, driving innovation and defending shoppers, and ensuring we by no means have one other Gary Gensler making an attempt to take your… pic.twitter.com/UqCH8jCNU8

— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) September 18, 2025

Senator Cynthia Lummis predicted earlier this month that the CLARITY Act would get to President Donald Trump’s desk to signal earlier than the tip of the 12 months.

Among the many different crypto representatives reportedly in attendance had been executives from Ripple, Kraken, Circle, Cardano and tech-focused enterprise capital companies a16z, Paradigm and Multicoin Capital.

Invoice ought to prioritize defending builders: Kraken boss

Kraken CEO Arjun Sethi said his contributions within the roundtable dialogue targeted on how the market construction invoice can assist crypto services and products in a approach that advantages its builders as a precedence. 

“Thanks to everybody in DC preventing for crypto’s future. However the actual struggle is larger: defending the proper to construct protocols, chains, memes, tokenized equities, commodities, utilities, and so on. and making certain incentives stick with the builders, not simply incumbents.”

Armstrong additionally added that lawmakers gained’t enable the banking business’s try to ban curiosity on stablecoins. In mid-August, a number of banking teams warned that yield-bearing stablecoins may threaten the traditional banking model, which is dependent upon attracting deposits with high-interest financial savings merchandise to fund loans.

The banking teams already tried to ban curiosity on stablecoins within the GENIUS Act, however weren’t profitable, Armstrong famous.

Bitcoin reserve invoice additionally gaining momentum

It seems to have been a productive week on Capitol Hill. 

US lawmakers additionally met on Monday with 18 Bitcoin leaders, together with Strategy chairman Michael Saylor, to debate how Congress can transfer ahead with the Trump administration’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.