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CLARITY Stumble Spurs Armstrong To Stop Lingering On Congress 🕯️🖤

Ugh the US Senate just couldn’t get the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act moving forward rn 😭 The procedural vote missed that 60 threshold it needed by a bit fr.

Armstrong Drops The Tea On Next Steps 🖤

Coinbase co-founder Brian Armstrong called it disappointing but hinted bipartisan chats might keep going and the bill could pop up again later. Still he straight up admitted the industry can’t sit around waiting on Congress anymore 💀. He pointed out the SEC and CFTC already hold enough power to drop clear rules and expects them to hustle on that soon 👀. Clarity is on the way for crypto no matter the bill’s fate he added. Some concessions on it were tough to swallow so this setback feels a tad easier while the space can’t be unmade anyway 🌑.

Garlinghouse Feels The Sting But Stays Hopeful 🔪

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said this one stings and the crew poured everything into getting it over the line 😂. He noted it was a shot bigger than any single firm for the whole industry consumers and locking in the US as crypto capital of the world. In the end folks and competitiveness got sidelined he claimed. Garlinghouse wants a full post mortem blaming some Democratic plays for boosting the anti crypto crew over solid policy yet sees bright spots ahead 🕯️. He thinks the new SEC chair Atkins and CFTC chair Selig will push rules to fill the gap.

Who Voted No And Why Tho? 🚀

Tuesday’s vote came after rushed talks between Republicans and crypto friendly Democrats trying to seal a deal but around a dozen possible Dem supporters held back once ethics rule chats fell apart. Worries about President Trump and his fam’s crypto ties lingered too. Three Republicans Susan Collins Josh Hawley and Jerry Moran opposed along with Delaware Democrat Chris Coons who skipped the vote. Thom Tillis voted against for procedural reasons to maybe reopen it later. Lawmakers like Ruben Gallego urged closer GOP Dem work for stronger ethics and Catherine Cortez Masto pushed till the end but key issues stayed unresolved.
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XRP Took the Cruelest Hit When Senate Killed the CLARITY Act 🕸️🦇

XRP tanked about 8% over the last 24 hours, making it one of the worst performers among top coins rn, all because the Senate couldn’t advance the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act on Tuesday. 🦇 The token slid more than 10% for the week, lagging far behind Bitcoin and the rest, proving how tied its fate still is to whatever chaos goes down in Washington legislation. 🖤

XRP’s Dump Was Aggressive AF 🕸️

Price crashed from around $1.46 down to near $1.27 per CoinGecko vibes, and analyst Xaif Crypto pointed out the cumulative volume delta cratered to negative 10.5 million during the selloff. Sellers went full villain mode with this move, not just cashing out profits. 😈 The selloff mirrored the Senate vote timing perfectly, where cloture needed 60 votes but only hit 49, all yes votes from Republicans with four flipping against it. 🔮 Senators like Gillibrand, Warner, Booker and others voted no after all those talks, leaving zero Democrat support crossing over. 💀 The CLARITY Act aims to split digital asset oversight between the SEC and CFTC while setting up new federal rules for exchanges and brokers, stuff the market was already pricing in before the vote. 🌑 Right now XRP sits around $1.28, down over 8% in 24 hours and more than 10% in seven days, yet it’s still up nearly 29% over the past 30 days even after this dip, tho it remains down more than 56% over one year and about 65% below its all-time high of $3.65 from July 2025. 👻

Whole Market Slipped But XRP Got Hit Hardest 😼

Bitcoin eased around 2.0% in the same period to near $75,000 with its dominance still above 56%, while Ethereum fell close to 4% trading just under $2,400. 🩸 Stellar dropped nearly 9%, BNB barely moved with under 1% loss, Zcash actually gained about 3% but Hyperliquid slid more than 2%, Dogecoin eased 3.7% and Solana lost over 4% in the broad retreat. 💕 For XRP the short-term pain changes nothing on the legal side, as Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse noted his company has never been stronger despite the setback. 🌙
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This Defi Realm Has Surged 213% Since Bitcoin’s 2025 Peak With One Token Leading The Charge 🖤🦇

Privacy coins have been popping off with a solid 213% climb since Bitcoin hit its October 2025 high, even tho BTC is still chilling way below that mark. This lil corner of the market is lowkey carrying the vibe for privacy plays rn while the rest of crypto digs outta the dumps.

Privacy Scene Riding Mostly On One Dark Horse 🖤

Numbers from Wise Crypto show the whole privacy sector’s market cap jumping from 7.1 billion a year back to 33.6 billion now. Zcash alone is snagging about 62% of that bag, mooning 25x over the year and rocketing its rank from 82 up to 7 at peak tho it’s sitting at 9 on CoinGecko right now. Glassnode data also dropped a similar tea last week that privacy is the only sector above its October peak while everything else is still drowning in double digit reds. Grayscale’s Zcash ETF $ZCSH blasted past 500 million in assets just two weeks after launch and Monero the second biggest in this crew has roughly doubled despite some exchange drama. Among the top 25 crypto assets only four are trading above their October levels ZEC HYPE XMR and WBT. Investor Dan Tapiero spilled that these ZEC and HYPE moves prove crypto ain’t just a BTC ETH Solana tale anymore. Egor from Infinex called privacy one of the last areas not fully cloned everywhere and labeled ZEC the final 100x that ain’t some random meme coin.

Rally Justification Still Getting Side Eye 😈

Some analysts like filbfilb are pushing back on how long this ZEC pump can hold tho. His models comparing ZEC activity to Bitcoin at similar issuance stages point to around 944 as a fairer price which is below current levels but convergence could push it higher if things keep heating up. Right now the asset is swapping hands near 1140 flat today yet up 32% in two weeks and over 2100% this year even if it’s miles from the 2016 high near 3190. BTC meanwhile sits near 77000 down just over 1% in 24 hours and 34% yearly placing it 39% under its own October 2025 peak.
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Ripple CEO Shatters Silence After CLARITY Act Vote Tanks Leaving XRP Legal Ground Firm 🕷️🖤

The US Senate just totally flopped trying to push the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act forward on Tuesday 📉 needing a solid 60 votes to make it happen but coming up short fr.

Garlinghouse Calls the Vote a Missed Opportunity 🖤

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says the whole setback totally stings rn but it ain’t shifting what his crew is grinding on at all. Writing on X shortly after everything went down he dropped this take. His team poured it all out trying to get that CLARITY Act over the line and he framed it as this big fight that stretched way past just Ripple 😈. Consumers and American edge in digital finance ended up taking the hit and he hinted a full review on the mess is incoming. In his eyes Democratic politics won out over solid policy this time. Still he didn’t paint the failed vote as some final dead end for US crypto vibes. Garlinghouse expects the SEC and CFTC to keep pushing their own rules to patch the gap Congress left behind. Ripple will stay right in that mix too ✨. His words hit different when he noted Ripple’s business has never been stronger with fresh demand pouring in from traditional finance and digital assets alike. A Washington miss changes nothing about the momentum our global reach or our customers.

XRP Stays Strong On Legal Ground 🌙

The firm’s Chief Legal Officer Stuart Alderoty jumped in with his own post right after. Ripple and XRP stand on settled ground he stressed while pointing to that key 2023 court win where XRP got ruled out as a security. Plus the March joint move from SEC and CFTC tagging XRP as a digital commodity. He expects the agencies to keep sharpening those rules ahead 💀. Industry reactions split hard on this one. CryptoLaw saw it as a pivot not a finish agreeing the rule push shifts to those agencies now. Yet analyst ChartNerd stayed cautious noting that agency moves beat total uncertainty but they fall short of real laws since rules can flip anytime 🕸️.

CLARITY Act Aimed To Split Oversight ✨

Tuesday’s vote wasn’t even about passing the full CLARITY Act outright. It served as just one procedural step to edge the bill closer to a final showdown. Its flop means the debate drags on instead of wrapping up. The bill planned to divide digital asset oversight between the CFTC and SEC while adding this fresh idea of ancillary assets where network tokens tied to company efforts still count as commodities with their own disclosure rules. It also zeroed in on DeFi platforms that look decentralized on paper but stay run by real people forcing them into CFTC registration for spot trading. Exchanges brokers and dealers the spots most folks actually use for crypto buys and sells would hit a whole new federal registration setup too 🦇.
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