Crypto: Latest: White House crypto adviser Witt says other Clarity Act hurdles being cleared

Crypto: Latest: White House crypto adviser Witt says other Clarity Act hurdles being cleared

The White House's main crypto adviser, Patrick Witt, said that work is still being done to lock in the compromise that he thinks will move the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act forward in the U.S. Senate, though he said several other points are also being worked out behind the scenes. In an interview on CoinDesk TV Monday, the executive director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets suggested Monday that the common ground that key senators from both parties said they'd secured on stablecoin yield seems to be intact."We're hopeful that the compromise that has been reached will be durable and will hold," Witt said. "Solving that was a must-have before we could get onto the other outstanding issues," which he said he's now pivoted to, though some of the issues have already been resolved. Apart from the question of yield on stablecoins, over which bankers had successfully convinced some in the Senate that their deposit base could be in peril, the Clarity Act had a number of other potential hangups. Among those have been the illicit financial protections in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space, and a request from Democrats that senior government officials (most pointedly, President Donald Trump) be barred from profiting off of the crypto sector. Though Witt wouldn't identify the topics that have been settled in the ongoing talks, he said that the negotiations "made considerable progress in the background" while the yield argument between banks and crypto firms got most of the attention. "We're very close to closing them out," he said. "All of these issues felt intractable and unsolvable at one point in time. So the fact that we've been able to close out a lot of them gives me confidence that we can close out these other ones, too." The Clarity Act would need a markup hearing in the Senate Banking Committee before it can be advanced toward a final Senate vote. It had been close to such a hearing at the beginning of the year, but the bank lobbyist

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