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The average Bitcoin retail investor who recently discovered crypto might never have considered a stablecoin that pays yield on an idle balance. That fight, buried inside Senate negotiations over the CLARITY Act, is about to matter to them anyway. Politico reported this week that senators and White House advisers have reached an agreement in principle on stablecoin-yield language, which was the main reason why the bill had stalled. The reported agreement moves CLARITY from frozen to potentially alive again, which connects directly to Bitcoin’s institutional demand story. A timeline graphic traces the CLARITY Act’s stall over stablecoin-yield language from January 2026 through this week’s reported agreement in principle. Why this particular fight was the blockage The CLARITY Act would do something no agency interpretation can: write permanent federal rules governing how crypto exchanges, brokers, dealers, and custodians operate, and hand the CFTC formal spot-market authority. SEC Chair Paul Atkins has repeatedly said on Mar. 17 that no Commission action can future-proof the crypto rulebook the way legislation can. The message embedded in both moments was that the agency guidance is a bridge, and the statute is the destination. The stablecoin-yield clause became the bridge’s weak point. Banks warned that crypto firms offering rewards on stablecoin balances could pull deposits away from the traditional banking system. Standard Chartered estimated stablecoins could drain roughly $500 billion from US bank deposits by the end of 2028. That framing gave Senate opponents a credible systemic-risk argument, and the bill stalled through February and into March despite bipartisan interest in the broader market structure framework. Senate Banking Chairman Tim Scott said as recently as Mar. 17 that negotiations were advancing, specifically crediting Senators Angela Alsobrooks, Thom Tillis, and White House adviser Patrick Witt on yield. Tillis said lawmakers were “very close” to a deal on…

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