- CLARITY Act passage odds fell to 44% amid delays.
- Senate scheduling constraints and disputes block legislative progress.
- Regulatory uncertainty continues suppressing institutional crypto investment decisions.
The CLARITY Act, a US Senate crypto market structure bill, is facing declining passage odds as legislative delays persist ahead of the Senate’s return from recess on July 13.
Prediction markets and research estimates now converge on lower probability outcomes. Polymarket currently prices passage at approximately 44%, down from 74% one month earlier.
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Galaxy Research, led by analyst Alex Thorn, has reduced its 2026 passage estimate to 50%, down from 60% in early June and 75% in May.
Legislative Timeline Shows Rapid Deterioration in Expectations
The CLARITY Act cleared the Senate Banking Committee (15–9 vote) on May 14, initially boosting market expectations of passage.
However, momentum weakened in June as unresolved disputes over ethics provisions and developer liability protections stalled progress.
Unresolved disputes over ethics provisions and developer protections pulled the estimate to 60% by early June. Now it sits at 44%, with no floor date set and no motion to proceed scheduled.
No merged legislative text between the Senate Banking Committee and Senate Agriculture Committee has been released.
Primary Constraint: Limited Senate Floor Time
Analysts cite Senate floor scheduling constraints as the main barrier.
Galaxy Research lead analyst notes that competition intensified after President Donald Trump tied his support for a bipartisan housing bill to passage of the SAVE Act, pushing crypto market structure further down the Senate’s priority list.
FISA legislation and the National Defense Authorization Act are competing for the same limited space.
“Floor time is the scarcest resource in the Senate right now, and crypto market structure is not first in line for it,” Thorn wrote.
What Would Change the Odds
Thorn outlined three conditions that could push estimates back toward 60%: a unified Banking-Agriculture bill text made public, resolution of the ethics provisions dispute, and a confirmed floor vote commitment from leadership before the end of July.
Continued silence into mid-July, he warned, would push odds lower.
Senator Cynthia Lummis has warned that failure to advance legislation in this window could delay comprehensive US crypto regulatory reform until 2030.
Why It Matters
Grayscale has cited CLARITY Act uncertainty as a direct factor weighing on Bitcoin’s price outlook. A survey by Coinbase and EY-Parthenon found that around 65% of institutional investors are holding back on significant digital asset deployment until federal regulatory clarity is in place.
The Senate’s return on July 13 is now seen as a critical inflection point for whether the CLARITY Act advances this year or is pushed into an extended delay.
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