Trump's attacks on the Digital Asset Market Structure Act's sponsors threaten 60-vote threshold. Circle, Coinbase face delayed regulatory clarity as legislative window narrows.
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The digital asset industry has spent years building bipartisan support for a comprehensive market structure bill. That effort now faces an unexpected obstacle: its most powerful political ally, President Donald Trump.
Trump's recent public attacks on the legislation's key Senate sponsors have shifted the political calculus. The president called the bill's lead Republican author "weak" and "disloyal" on social media, directly undermining the coalition that crypto lobbyists had carefully assembled. The read-through is straightforward: when the White House turns on a bill's champions, floor votes become harder to secure.
The naive interpretation is that Trump's criticism only matters if he controls the party's agenda. The better market read is more specific. The bill in question, the Digital Asset Market Structure Act, requires at least 60 Senate votes to overcome a filibuster. Republican defections are fatal. Trump's attacks make it politically costly for GOP senators to co-sponsor or whip votes for the legislation, even if they privately support it. The liquidity risk here is legislative: the bill's path narrows as the window for a 2024 vote closes.
Circle, Coinbase, and other major crypto firms have spent heavily on lobbying for this bill. Their positioning assumed a neutral or supportive White House. Now they face a scenario where the president's base views the legislation as a betrayal. The valuation read-through for tokens tied to U.S. regulatory clarity – XRP, SOL, ADA – is negative. A delayed or dead bill means continued enforcement-driven regulation, which depresses institutional adoption timelines.
The confirmed peers affected are the crypto advocacy groups and lobbying firms that built the campaign around Trump's pro-crypto statements. The Blockchain Association and Coin Center now face a messaging crisis: how to defend a bill that the industry's champion has attacked. The supply-chain read-through is regulatory services firms and compliance consultancies that expected a surge in demand if the bill passed. That demand is now deferred.
SEC Chair Gary Gensler remains the primary enforcement threat. Without the bill's safe harbor provisions for token issuers, the SEC's Howey Test framework continues to govern. The execution risk for crypto companies planning U.S. listings or offerings has increased materially.
Confirmation of the bearish read would be a public statement from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that the bill lacks the votes. Weakening the setup would require Trump to walk back his comments or for a bipartisan group to reintroduce the bill with a new Republican lead sponsor. Neither is likely in the current political cycle.
The next concrete marker is the Senate Banking Committee's markup schedule. If the bill is not on the agenda by September, the legislative path effectively closes for the year. Crypto traders should watch committee calendars, not token prices, for the signal. The AlphaScala crypto market analysis page tracks these legislative milestones alongside on-chain data.
For now, the industry's biggest political win is hostage to its biggest political champion. That is not a contradiction; it is the reality of single-party risk in a bipartisan negotiation.
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