▼Crypto Market-Structure Bill Stalls in the Senate

Score history

Daily conviction score, 0 to 100. Higher means the thesis is more strongly corroborated.

Now 98 · -2 since Oct 9 · ranged 98 to 100

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Why the conviction moved

• Oct 9
  Strengthened +2

  Senator Blumenthal, the top Democrat on the Senate's main investigations subcommittee, opened an inquiry into Cantor Fitzgerald's ties to Tether, as Democrats improve their chances of retaking the Senate. More conflict-of-interest scrutiny of administration-linked crypto relationships keeps ethics, not statute, at the center of the Senate's crypto agenda.

• Oct 8
  Strengthened +3

  CFTC chair Michael Selig is writing crypto rules under the agency's existing authority because the market-structure bill is stuck in the Senate. Digital-asset rules end up depending on whoever runs the agency, not on statute.

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Source trail

• Supporting · October 9, 2026

  Senator Blumenthal Opens Inquiry Into Cantor Fitzgerald's Ties to Tether

  Senator Blumenthal, the top Democrat on the Senate's main investigations subcommittee, opened an inquiry into Cantor Fitzgerald's ties to Tether, as Democrats improve their chances of retaking the Senate. More conflict-of-interest scrutiny of administration-linked crypto relationships keeps ethics, not statute, at the center of the Senate's crypto agenda.

  CoinDesk

• Supporting · October 8, 2026

  CFTC chair Michael Selig says new crypto rules will prevent another FTX-style collapse

  CFTC chair Michael Selig is writing crypto rules under the agency's existing authority because the market-structure bill is stuck in the Senate. Digital-asset rules end up depending on whoever runs the agency, not on statute.

  Bitcoin Magazine