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Trump concedes on crypto ethics rules as the Senate heads for a CLARITY Act vote

The revised draft hands Treasury a stablecoin circuit breaker and gives state attorneys general new enforcement powers.

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What happened

President Trump has agreed to a significant portion of a stringent ethics proposal that forms part of a broader cryptocurrency bill headed for the Senate, Republican senators said apnews.com. Senate Republicans released what The Block called a final Clarity Act draft as Trump accepted most of the ethics provisions theblock.co. That proposal could, in theory, force Trump to divest from ventures such as World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency venture his sons launched thehindu.com.

The draft also touches the USD1 stablecoin and the TRUMP memecoin theblock.cokucoin.com. Democrats want the ethics language stronger and aimed at the Trump family's World Liberty Financial holdings, with a bipartisan counterproposal having circulated in late July 247wallst.com.

Why it matters to investors

The revised text adds a circuit breaker to the stablecoin yield section and narrows BRCA protections binance.com. It would give the Treasury secretary authority to impose an 18-month circuit breaker on stablecoin rewards kucoin.com and hands Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent control over stablecoin regulation kucoin.com. The bill would also allow state attorneys general to enforce digital-asset bans kucoin.com.

Ethics rules were added while an anti-CBDC section was dropped, alongside changes to stablecoin issuer oversight under the GENIUS Act and new protection for developers kucoin.com. Legislation passed last year set up the legal framework giving a stablecoin a common value like dollar bills startribune.com.

What to watch

Banks are fighting the rewards provision hardest. 77 state banking associations have urged the Senate to amend the CLARITY Act, targeting stablecoin rewards programs such as Coinbase's USDC offerings cryptobriefing.comkucoin.com. The focus is on rewards tied to stablecoin balances, which mirror interest-rate products in traditional banking kucoin.com. Small banks, including those in Minnesota, are at the forefront of the battle against the bill startribune.com.

Prediction-market odds on passage rose above 32 percent after the concession, having reached about 82 percent in February before political disputes intervened cryptorank.io. Coindesk described the bill as suspended between life and death as the Senate returns, quoting Coinbase chief executive Brian Armstrong: 'If it passes, great, we've got legislation' coindesk.com. The vote is expected Tuesday 247wallst.com.

Two fights are therefore running at once inside the same text. One is about the President's own holdings and how far a divestment requirement should reach thehindu.com247wallst.comapnews.com. The other is about deposits, and whether balance-based rewards on stablecoins pull funds out of community banks kucoin.comcryptobriefing.comstartribune.com. The revised draft resolves neither outright; it routes the second to the Treasury secretary's discretion through the circuit breaker kucoin.comkucoin.combinance.com.

Sources

  1. apnews.com: Trump agrees to bipartisan ethics provision in crypto bill, GOP senators say - AP News (2026-09-14)
  2. theblock.co: Senate Republicans release 'final' Clarity Act draft as Trump accepts most ethics provisions (2026-09-14)
  3. thehindu.com: Donald Trump agrees to new ethics rules to advance crypto bill, but hurdles remain (2026-09-14)
  4. binance.com: U.S. Senate Republicans Release Revised CLARITY Act Text With Ethics and Stablecoin Changes (2026-09-14)
  5. kucoin.com: Senate Republicans Release Final Clarity Act Draft, Trump Accepts Most Ethics Rules (2026-09-14)
  6. 247wallst.com: Will the CLARITY Act Pass on Tuesday? Senate Democrats Meet Tonight and Republicans ... (2026-09-13)
  7. cryptobriefing.com: 77 state banking associations seek changes to CLARITY legislation to ban balance-based ... (2026-09-13)
  8. kucoin.com: 77 Banking Associations Push to Ban Balance-Based Stablecoin Rewards in CLARITY Act (2026-09-13)
  9. startribune.com: Small banks, including those in Minnesota, at forefront of battle against crypto bill - Star Tribune (2026-09-14)
  10. kucoin.com: Senate GOP Releases Revised Clarity Act with Ethics and Stablecoin Provisions - KuCoin (2026-09-14)
  11. cryptorank.io: Trump concession sends CLARITY Act odds above 32% before make-or-break Senate vote (2026-09-14)
  12. coindesk.com: Crypto's Clarity Act is a Schrödinger's cat in life-death limbo as U.S. Senate returns (2026-09-13)
  13. kucoin.com: CLARITY Act Revised: Ethics Rules Added, Anti-CBDC Section Dropped - KuCoin (2026-09-14)