Ahead of Thursday’s landmark vote in the Senate Banking Committee, the crypto industry is expressing cautious optimism that months of negotiations may have finally produced a workable version of market structure legislation. Following the release of the latest 309-page draft of the Clarity Act in the early hours of Tuesday morning, industry players and policy leaders have taken to social media to voice approval that the bill is, at the very least, in a better place than it was in January, when key advocates like Coinbase withdrew support. At a high level, the latest draft attempts to strike a middle ground between ... (full story)