According to 250 Digital Asset Management CEO Chris Perkins, the U.S. crypto industry’s momentum will not snail-paced down in the long term, even if the long-awaited CLARITY Act, aimed at providing greater regulatory transparency in the crypto industry, fails to pass Congress.
“If not, we’ll be fine” – Perkins he said on Friday on Cointelegraph’s Chain Reaction podcast, highlighting that the two main financial regulators are already creating a workable framework.
Perkins noted the continued efforts of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Paul Atkins and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Michael Selig following the agency’s joint interpretation of the application of federal securities laws to crypto assets released in March.
Being designated as a security was once a “death sentence” for cryptocurrencies
“These guys are creating policy and precedent every day, giving us what we have needed for a very long time: certainty, stability, and ultimately a taxonomy,” Perkins said.
“In the past, being a security guard was a death sentence; there was nowhere to go with it and you just couldn’t reconcile it… now being a security guard is amazing,” he said.
Under Joe Biden, under the leadership of former SEC Chairman Gary Gensler, crypto tokens classified as securities were typically subject to enforcement actions, removal from mainstream platforms and no clear path to compliance in the US market.
On Friday, Chris Perkins spoke to Cointelegraph journalist Ciaran Lyons about the chain reaction. Source: Cointelegraph
While Perkins said he’s not worried about the industry’s long-term prospects if the CLARITY Act doesn’t pass, he added that if it becomes law, it would be much more arduous for future administrations to roll back regulatory transparency.
“What you’ve done is you’ve essentially entrenched this policy for a very long time. While it’s hard to pass a law, it’s even harder to undo it,” Perkins said. “There’s a reason we say it takes an act of Congress to do something,” he added.
Hopes for CLARITY Act are growing
Many industry participants have raised expectations that the CLARITY Act could be passed soon after the modern one is published stablecoin yield provisions on Friday.
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“It’s time to do CLARITY,” said Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Faryar Shirzad he said in post
Most recently, US Senator Bernie Moreno he said that it anticipates that the CLARITY Act will be “implemented” by the end of May. April 11, US Senator Cynthia Lummis he said“It’s now or never.”
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