Galaxy Digital Says CLARITY Act Has Now A 50-50 Shot This Year
Galaxy Digital has trimmed its odds on the CLARITY Act becoming law this year. Alex Thorn, the firm’s Head of Research, disclosed in a Friday post on X that Galaxy is cutting its probability estimate for the bill’s passage in 2026 to 50-50, down from 60% on June.Β
Why The CLARITY Act’s Window Is Closing FastΒ
The Senate recess is scheduled to begin at the end of July. For a bill that still needs a merged text combining the Banking and Agriculture committee versions, a motion to proceed, floor debate, an amendment process, and then House action on whatever the Senate ultimately produces, the available runway has shrunk to a matter of weeks.Β
In Galaxy’s view, Senate Majority Leader Thune needs to announce floor time by early July at the latest β possibly during the July 4 recess β with the vote itself taking place before the August break.Β
Without a scheduling commitment on that timeline, the path slips to September, which runs directly into the midterm elections that the firm has flagged as a major obstacle.
The reason the CLARITY Act window keeps narrowing, according to Thorn, is competition for floor time. Every week that other legislative priorities consume Senate leadership attention is another week the legislation does not get called to the floor.Β
The housing bill has already passed both chambers with veto-proof majorities but has become a live political fight again, and the SAVE Act attached to it is precisely the kind of unrelated, contentious priority that crowds out everything else in a compressed pre-recess window.Β Floor time, Thorn wrote, is the scarcest resource in the Senate right now.Β
With no merged text, no floor date, the ethics question still unresolved, and law enforcement continuing to push back on developer protections inside the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act, Galaxy said it could no longer justify holding its estimate above even odds while the clock keeps running.
Why The Next Two Weeks Matter MostΒ
The firm laid out clearly what would change its view. A public agreement on a combined Banking-Agriculture text would move the needle. Credible signs that the ethics issue or the developer protection dispute has been resolved in a way that secures a durable bloc of Democratic votes would help.
Most importantly, a floor commitment from leadership before the end of July would likely push Galaxy’s CLARITY Act estimate back toward 60% or higher. Continued silence into mid-July, by contrast, would push it lower.
Thorn closed on a note that was measured rather than pessimistic. For a bill of this magnitude and complexity, he wrote, 50-50 are pretty good odds. But the CLARITY Act still needs floor time it has not been promised.
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